Great googly-moogly! Another week of things happening has happened! Onward! In this week’s” Big numbers game” story, New Line’s IT opened to an enormous $ 13.5 million for a Thursday night. The North American preview number for IT is the third-largest for 2017, trailing only Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, at $17 million,…
DetailsDarren Aronofsky’s phantasmagoric fantasia on art, fame, success, religion, politics and the cult of celebrity erupts relentlessly and furiously. It is the angriest, most dynamic film I’ve seen this year, and probably the best film hailing from the US (although it seems to have been shot in Quebec). A fable or parable rather than a…
DetailsContrary to the brilliant trailer-cutting department at Warner Bros., It is not a scary movie. What It is, is a young-teens-on-bikes small-town-USA ‘80s-set adventure yarn, like Netflix’s Stranger Things, with which It shares much in common. Stranger Things, as an intellectual exercise, imagines a Stephen King-like story as directed by Steven Spielberg. It is based on a Stephen King novel and is directed in the style of…
DetailsHoly crap, it’s September! Labor Day weekend! The end of the summer movie season! Let’s see what shenanigans are going on this week! In this week’s “But what does it really mean?” story, Joss Whedon is getting a writer’s credit on the Justice League movie. I suppose that’s the least they could do seeing as…
DetailsThe more you know about the connections between cocaine, the CIA and Central America in the early 1980s, the less fascinating American Made, Doug Liman’s contribution to the Coke-Dealer-In-Peril sub-genre, will be to you. If you know very little, the true subject matter alone will blow your mind. But even if you’ve hoovered up Cocaine…
DetailsSome movies have a great cast and they seem wasted in the given material. Welcome to The Hitman’s Bodyguard. The world’s top professional bodyguard gets a new client: a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. The two of them must put their differences aside and work together to get to…
DetailsIn this week’s “More Dolph Lundgren!” story, Creed 2 is happening and yes, it will include the return of Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. After weeks of teasing on social media, Sylvester Stallone recently confirmed that Dolph Lundgren will be back as Ivan Drago in the upcoming sequel. While Creed 2‘s release date…
DetailsAnother hectic week in celluloid news! In this week’s “Well, his brother said so…” story, looks like Casey Affleck thinks his brother Ben is not doing any more Batman movies. In an interview with WEEI sports radio, the Academy award winner opens up about the rumors plaguing his brother. Host Rich Keefe asked about the…
DetailsOh crap, stuff happened this week! In this week’s “Can you imagine?” story, early on in his career, David Lynch was obviously seen as a talented young director. But what to do with him? Even George Lucas approached him to direct Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. He was even considered to direct Fast…
DetailsOnce more into the celluloid informational highway! Yeah, just more film news. In this week’s “Mancini called it” story, it looks like Joss Whedon will be taking a larger role in the DC Cinematic Universe, and Zack Snyder a smaller one. The reshoots for Justice League are coming in at about $ 25 million dollars.…
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