Welcome 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…
DetailsIt’s another fun-filled week of interesting or infuriating film news! So, I’ll start with some interesting news: Newsflash!: Deadpool still making money! It’s made about 172 million or so now. Giddy up! Looks like the Blade Runner sequel has a release date, and it’s disconcerting. Blade Runner 2 is to be released on January 12,…
DetailsThis is one of those films that ends up being different than the expectations. There is much to like about The Witch, with it’s beautiful cinematography, production design, and an excellent, committed cast, but the end result is somehow not as satisfying as I would have hoped. But then, expectation can make or break one’s…
DetailsNot so much a superhero movie as a super-anti-hero movie, Deadpool follows a low-rent fixer / mercenary / goon named Wade (Ryan Reynolds) who, after being transformed into an extremely pussy, pimply, putrid version of himself (but with endlessly regenerative healing powers) by a grim British villain named Ajax (the creepily named Ed Skrein), decides his hot…
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