I ain’t afraid of no girls. Ironically, the women in the rebooted Ghostbusters are not the problem. The problem is with the script, editing, and, most tellingly, the direction. Film comedy has changed since the premiere of the original film in 1984, resulting in television comedy (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Veep, Broad City, Louie, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Bob’s Burgers,…
DetailsHas it been a week already? We haven’t explored cool or flabbergasting stories of film and movie stars (or not movie stars) in a whole week? Well, it’s time to remedy that! Here we go! In this week’s first “flabbergasting” story, it turns out Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the highest paid actor of the…
DetailsIf, like me, you are looking for a respite from all of the big, vacuous, summer movie dreck, then I can’t recommend a movie more than this one. Hunt For The Wilderpeople is lots of refreshing fun that should offer a kind of reset button for the rest of the summer that will surely have…
DetailsOh, Hell yeah, it’s another week of potentially informative and “and I can’t believe it!” film news! Let the disbelief commence! In this week’s “Well, it was just a matter of time” story, it looks like Season 7 of Game Of Thrones will be delayed. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say that they want…
DetailsOh look! Another week of beguiling and sarcasm-inducing film news! Let’s do this! In this week’s “Awesome” story, AMC has renewed Preacher for a second season! YAY! In this week’s “Pot calling the kettle black” story, regarding The Force Awakens, James Cameron has said of that “JJ Abrams’s reboot lacked the “innovative visual imagination” of…
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