Ep 445 – Bumblebee – Sam Tripoli
Graham and Chris welcome Sam Tripoli to talk about Bumblebee, John
Coltrane and more!
László 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…
DetailsI have not been looking forward to this for quite some time. The Weinstein Company’s inexplicable campaign to marginalize Asian action films, and minimize its effect on American cinema, has been going on for decades now (http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/dg-op-ed-ric-meyers-history-disrespect-weinstein-company-kung-fu/). Even as far as two years ago I spoke to several crew members of what has become known…
DetailsWelcome to this weeks’ round up of collection of random updates in film stuff and the like. Here’s a surprise (but not): The movie Gods of Egypt had a lack-luster opening last night! Only about $800, 000, so a projected 11 to 15 million for the weekend. Yeah, this is gonna bomb. Alex Proyas directed…
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…
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