Ok, more fascinating tidbits from the world of film this week. Some jewels, and maybe a few inexplicable brow-furrowers. 10 Cloverfield Lane is quite good! And it stands to make a pretty penny this weekend, though Zootopia is looking to stay in the # 1 spot for the second week in a row. In this…
DetailsJJ Abrams is good at keeping secrets. This movie was under the radar until the trailers a few weeks ago. I don’t think they even revealed the title until about the same time. 10 Cloverfield Lane is clearly a nod to the film Cloverfield, which led everyone to speculate about whether this is a sequel,…
DetailsNot to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen from 2013, – oh wait – it’s the same writers and premise just in London. With much of the same cast and horrible jingoistic dialogue. Flag wavin’ shenanigans. So, yeah, it IS to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen. THIS is a sequel and almost the same…
DetailsSundance Best Director Winner Robert Eggers’ carefully modulated, highly original 1630s-set “New-England Folktale” is precisely that, and the Friday night gore-cravers and retro-slasher freaks should look elsewhere for their bloody thrills. If not, ten minutes of authentic (literally taken from journals of the period) 1630s Puritan parlance will quickly convince them they’ve picked the wrong…
DetailsLászló Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son of Saul is as experimental as mainstream narrative cinema gets, and as bold. Set in Auschwitz in 1944 during the planning of a prisoner uprising, the film – and, very specifically here, the camera – follows Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian Jewish prisoner and Sonderkommando, as he tries to do one…
DetailsThe Coen Brothers’ 1950s-set Hollywood Studio comedy is an endlessly, effortlessly entertaining flight of fancy. If they only created it to delight themselves – which is how it possibly comes off – I have no beef with that. Structured as the day in the life of the fictional Capitol Studios’ Head of Physical Production Eddie…
DetailsDakota Johnson has such a fresh, engaging, likeable screen presence that she single-handedly manages to sublimate the impulse to rip your cinema seat out of the floor and hurl it through the screen while watching the horribly named How To Be Single, a Friday-Night-Girls-Night-Out Warner Brothers / New Line / MGM by-product that is impressively…
DetailsThis is one of those films that ends up being different than the expectations. There is much to like about The Witch, with it’s beautiful cinematography, production design, and an excellent, committed cast, but the end result is somehow not as satisfying as I would have hoped. But then, expectation can make or break one’s…
DetailsNot so much a superhero movie as a super-anti-hero movie, Deadpool follows a low-rent fixer / mercenary / goon named Wade (Ryan Reynolds) who, after being transformed into an extremely pussy, pimply, putrid version of himself (but with endlessly regenerative healing powers) by a grim British villain named Ajax (the creepily named Ed Skrein), decides his hot…
DetailsLadies and gentlemen, welcome to one of the few surprise movie releases of February. I was most certainly apprehensive about Deadpool, as the trailers seemed to be hit and miss with the humor. But, as it turns out, Deadpool is actually quite fun – and funny – which is really at the core of this…
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