Here we are in another week of weird and fascinating events in the world of film AND STUFF! In this week’s “Yay, more Neil Gaiman!” story, Amazon Studios is going to adapt Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet’s novel Good Omens and turn it into a six-episode limited series. Yay! And what even better is that…
Kick some ass. Get the girl. And try to look dope while doing it. Those are the words Samuel L. Jackson as Augustus Gibbons says to Xander Cage as played by the less than loquacious Vin Diesel. And it sums up the movie pretty succinctly. But that doesn’t really tell you anything about all the horrifyingly…
Welcome to the Weakley Film News for… Friday the 13th! Oh yeah! Let’s see what kind of happenings there are this week in film and entertainment! In this week’s “Whoa whoa whoa – say that again?” story, Disney’s planned live-action Dumbo film, directed by Tim Burton, may have a star attached. Will Smith is in…
Talk about anticipation and expectations for a film – I’ve been wanting to see this ever since I wrote about it in a previous Weakley Film News column. I really like horror films but the genre is so played out. I need more unique films in this genre. What hasn’t been done? Who’s going to…
The new installment of the Underworld movies, Underworld: Blood Wars, is mostly just like all the other Underworld movies: super-stylized, slow-motion action scenes, too many English and /or indistinguishable accents by many leather-clad, BDSM dressed goths, that pervasive blueish tone to the film, and at least a few scenes of gore. Blood Wars, however, has…
It’s been a tragic end to 2016, so as we contemplate the sorrowful loss of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, among others, let’s try to look forward to 2017. In this week’s “So what happens to Princess Leia?” story, director Colin Trevorrow and producer Kathleen Kennedy have had a sit-down to discuss what is to…
A Monster Calls, and you should answer. This is a really wonderful film about how a young boy deals with his mother battling a terminal illness. And in retrospect, maybe it reminded me a little of how I dealt with my parents divorce. I definitely found certain parallels between myself and Conor, played by a…
Hey, it’s an abbreviated holiday edition of random film type news! Short and sweet, shall we say? In this week’s “Oh crap” story, actress Carrie Fisher had a significant heart attack while flying from London to Los Angeles. She is currently in critical condition in an L.A. hospital, and is on a ventilator for assisted…
La La Land arrives with a lot of hype. If you’re in the business of Oscar prognostication, it’s in a 50/50 race for Best Picture with the very different kettle of fish Moonlight. (Neither of these, of course, might come to pass; momentum could easily arise for such bigger fare as Sully, Arrival, Fences, Live By Night or the tiny…
Office Christmas Party is about an office Christmas Party. It’s the Chicago branch, part of a larger corporation with headquarters in New York. The founder of the company is dead; his daughter Carol (Jennifer Aniston) is now the CEO while son (and younger brother) Clay (T.J. Miller from Silicon Valley) runs Chicago. She’s uptight and awful and not…