If, like me, you’ve been already pissed about having Spider-man rebooted so quickly, resulting in too many films about him in a short span of years, then having yet another Spider-man film might make you a bit skeptical. However, the deal Sony made with Marvel to make this film has made ALL the difference, in…
As June comes to a close, we gots some more news for ya! In this week’s “I thought he retired?” story, the Oscar-nominated film Toni Erdmann is getting a U.S. remake already. And it’s going to star Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig. AND Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner are in talks to write it. They…
Music. It can enhance, accentuate, or transform. Writer/director Edgar Wright uses it to his advantage in Baby Driver. He’s made a film where music permeates every nook and cranny of his stylish, fun, and thoroughly entertaining new action/thriller. Baby is a getaway driver, but not exactly by choice. After he thinks he’s done, he discovers…
This film is not what I expected, so perhaps that affected my initial opinions. But even after thinking about it for a while, I’m still not sure where I land on this one. It’s a tough film to talk about too much without giving spoilers, so I’ll tell you what I can without saying too…
So many things happening, I hardly know where to start. I guess I’ll start s of chronologically. In this week’s “Weird, but I would have watched it for sure” story, Apparently the Will Ferrell film Anchorman had a VERY different plot before it was rewritten to the film we now know. Will Ferrell explained, while…
Oh look, it’s another week already. More stuff! More happenings! More! In this week’s “Surprise casting” story, actress Glenn Close will return to television in Amazon’s Sea Oak, a half-hour comedy pilot described as a zombie drama and family revenge comedy. Sea Oak revolves around Aunt Bernie (Close), a meek, unmarried woman with no children…
Has it been a week already? Well, stuff keeps happening, so here we go! In this week’s “Too many losses” story, actress Glenn Headly has passed away at the age of 62. The Emmy-winning actress was a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and was in production on the Hulu series Future Man, and…
Petty Jenkins used Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) as her model for Wonder Woman, her first feature film since Monster (2003), and the influence is clear and astute. Like Donner’s film, Jenkins’ take on the Amazonian warrior is fuelled by goodness, romance, gentle humour and, well, wonder – specifically the wonder a 5,000 year old Amazonian finds when experiencing the “world of…
Here comes June already! And with it a bunch of new stuff is happening! In this week’s “Universal Monsters” story, Universal has made some interesting announcements regarding their Dark Universe of films – those that will be their rebooted classic Universal Monsters films. It seems that now Dwayne Johnson and Angelina Jolie will be involved…
Ok, I had zero interest in Split when it came out because, well, it’s written and directed by M. Night Shymalan, and he really hasn’t had a good film since Unbreakable. Some don’t even include that in the good ones. But I couldn’t even tolerate some of his later films, like The Village or The…