I’d given up on RomComs because it felt like RomComs had given up. Formulaic, uninspired, derivative, implausible and lacking in able and likeable talent (with the possible exception of Mila Kunis), RomComs for at least a decade (since Knocked Up) have been almost entirely crappy. But The Big Sick wins on every level. It has…
DetailsWoody Harrelson – a great American screen actor – obviously has a bee in his bonnet about wishing he’d played Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. In The Duel (2016) he applied smatterings of cool water to his bald pate a la Brando as he portrayed The Preacher, a philosophical sociopath and the cult leader of…
DetailsBack in April, Their Finest depicted the British Ministry of Information backing a feature film about the civilian nautical craft evacuation of Dunkirk during World War Two. Now, Warner Brothers has spent a hundred and fifty million bucks on the same subject, and Britain gets a very expensive bonus slice of inspirational propaganda. Reserved, dignified,…
DetailsIt’s Comicon week! Huzzah! Let’s see if I can squeeze some news in this week! In this week’s “Memorial” story, the man who essentially created the zombie genre as we know it, has died. George Romero, director of such classics Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, and others,…
DetailsComicon is getting closer! But tings are still happening in the world of film so let’s have a look! In this week’s “Will it be Liam Neeson vs Suicide Squad?” story, Warner Bros. seems to have a frontrunner for directing Suicide Squad 2. Director Jaume Collet-Serra is the one to beat for the job at…
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