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…
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