The movie is hilarious and it’s busting more than ghosts. First of all, is it a remake? I was a little afraid of seeing funny women doing Ramis-Murray-Aykroyd impressions. But they didn’t. Then again, if they didn’t call it a remake, people would definitely notice similarities and call it stealing. It’s about scientists bustin’ ghosts…
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,…
Has 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…
If, 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…
Oh, 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…
Oh 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…
Nicolas Winding Refn is a unique director. His films vary pretty drastically in subject matter, and they don’t always resonate with the audience, me included. But they are all pretty fascinating to watch, even if it’s just for the visual style. Thankfully, Refn’s new film, The Neon Demon, is both visually arresting as well as…
We have come to another week of Film News which will enlighten, sadden, or just plain piss you off. Onward! I know it’s been almost a week, but let’s take another moment to reflect on the wonderful Anton Yelchin, who died last weekend of bizarre circumstances that involved being run over by his own SUV.…
The first Independence Day movie back in 1996 pretty much set a new bar for the epic disaster film while mixing it in with sci-fi. Director Roland Emmerich and Producer Dean Devlin not only created a genre (or at least expanded upon it) but more or less dug a film well that they would dip…
If you prefer Wagner to Mozart, dark chocolate to milk, or even Lennon to McCartney, you may prefer Duncan Jones’ epic fantasy Warcraft to anything coming out involving people who can fly, mutate, avenge or be super. I certainly did. It’s an astonishingly designed vision of an alternate universe that is brutal and savage and yet often…