Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is an odd experiment that doesn’t quite come off. It’s absolutely entertaining and I completely recommend it, but, dare I say it, I was hoping for more – perhaps too much. I’ve been expecting too much from Wheatley ever since I saw Kill List (2011), a wild, incredibly satisfying work of auteurist cinema. Terrifying, supremely…
When the higher ups at Comedy Film Nerds asked me if I’d review a documentary about The Refreshments, I balked. I try not to write about things that I don’t like because there’s so much stuff that I do. And, while I couldn’t remember their music, I remembered that I didn’t like it. I wound up reviewing Here’s…
Another week, another bunch of news and events in film! Funny how that happens. Holy crap, the new teaser tailer for The Last Jedi is online! It’s awesome! In this week’s “Who’s the Cable guy?” story, Deadpool 2 has found its’ Cable, and he’ll be played by actor Josh Brolin. I’d say it’s an excellent…
Aaaaaw, HELL NAH! You just gone and put Dominic Torretto up against the whole rest of his own team – his family! It’s OOOON! Boom. That’s the simple version of the plot. Not that The Fate of the Furious needs much more complicated machinations to surge this logic/physics/reality defying movie forward. I mean, let’s face…
Lone Scherfig loves to fetishise Britishness. In her masterpiece, An Education (2009) she presents a fabulous and slightly fantastic 60s London; in The Riot Club (2014) she gets right into the taffy and the toffee at the snootiest club within Oxford University. Now she gives us a dreamily romanticised London under the blitz. It’s suitable for a romantic and…
Kristen Stewart is now Olivier Assayas’ muse, and he is now her most important director. They collaborated for the first time on 2014’s excellent Clouds of Sils Maria; Stewart took home the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the personal assistant to a film star played by Juliette Binoche. Now Stewart plays the…
I heard about The Void from someone I know that loves horror movies. I believe she described it as “banaaaannnaasssss!” Yeah, that’s a quote. And you know what? I’m not going to argue with that assessment. The Void is like some crazy 80’s throwback horror film with practical effects galore and atmosphere of dread. A…
It seems pretty obvious to anyone that really knows me that a movie that involves a giant monster (kaiju) will likely be on my “must see” list. And writer/director Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal has the interesting twist of having that monster’s movements decided by a woman half way across the world just adds to the intrigue.…
We’re back with another eventful week of happenings and tidbits in the film world. Onward! In this week’s “Listen up, ya hockey pucks”, story, legendary insult comic Don Rickles has passed away of kidney failure. He was 90. Wow. He was awesome. In this week’s “Whola lotta flop” story, Ghost in the Shell is tanking…
I was expecting a fairly paint-by-numbers Alien wanna-be with Life, the new sci-fi horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money, Safe House, Child 44). But writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool) actually manage to give Life a few notable differences that keep the film from being a waste of time and film stock.…