Way back in the 1950s, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock explained otherwise inexplicable sequences in his hit films Vertigo and North by Northwest by terming them “icebox” scenes – in that the illogic of them only “hits you after you’ve gone home and start pulling cold chicken out of the icebox.” An argument could be made…
Oh Em Gee, it’s yet another week of film news! There are some revelations, some shocks, and some head-shaking, eye-rolling nonsense this time around. Let’s find out which is which! In this week’s “Delusions of Grandeur” story, Vin Diesel thinks Fast And Furious 8 will win some Oscars! Yes, that’s plural. Vin Diesel believes that…
Another Halloween is almost upon us! October is the spookiest month of the year, and the best. And with October comes the annual Shriekfest Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival! One of my favorite things! And this year was its’ Sweet 16 birthday. I ask festival creator and director, Denise Gossett, every year how many more…
Taking the concept of “low-key” to new heights, Kelly Reichardt’s new film is not for my student who commented, after watching Jason Reitman’s Young Adult (which I consider rapidly paced), “It’s like the stuff they cut out of normal films”. Slow to the point of being provocative (“Can you take it? Can you sit still?”)…
Welcome to another week of important, world-altering stories form the film industry! These are sure to astound, Vex, and defy all logic! In this week’s “dissing Disney” story, Disney is aggressively seeking great talent to make their upcoming live-action version of Mulan. they’re looking for a director and asked Ang Lee to step in. Well,…
Ben Affleck gets to play Will Hunting and Jason Bourne in this superhero origin story for adults. He’s Christian Wolff (doesn’t that sound like it’s been someone already?), a math savant on the spectrum who’s also, thanks to some brutal – but prettily sunlit – Asian training rather handy with his fists and other bits.…
Godzilla and I go way back. He/she/it was on the cover of my 1980 book The World of Fantasy Films. I also wrote about him/her/it extensively in my 1984 book S-F 2: The Great Science Fiction Films, and either moderated or served on panels about him/her/it at the San Diego Comic Con and The World…
It’s already time for another reporting of insane film news update-y things! What is going on!?! In this week’s ‘AAAAH, STOP IT!” story, Numerous companies, including Frenesy Film and Mythology Entertainment, are producing yet another remake of a classic film. Yes, Chloe Grace Moretz has joined Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton and Mia Goth in a…
As you may already know, I love animation, but even I have to admit that there are too many coming out right now — which can result is unworthy ones getting a shake, and worthy ones getting lost in the mix. Such is the case, I think, with Storks, whose uninspiring title and publicity campaign…
It seemed like a match made in movie heaven. Take a beloved series of magical, best-selling, books about weird ‘n’ wondrous kids and hand off the movie version to the master of the weird ‘n’ wonderful, Tim Burton. What could possibly wrong? Well, based on the evidence of the finished film, pretty much everything except…