Contrary to the brilliant trailer-cutting department at Warner Bros., It is not a scary movie. What It is, is a young-teens-on-bikes small-town-USA ‘80s-set adventure yarn, like Netflix’s Stranger Things, with which It shares much in common. Stranger Things, as an intellectual exercise, imagines a Stephen King-like story as directed by Steven Spielberg. It is based on a Stephen King novel and is directed in the style of…
Holy crap, it’s September! Labor Day weekend! The end of the summer movie season! Let’s see what shenanigans are going on this week! In this week’s “But what does it really mean?” story, Joss Whedon is getting a writer’s credit on the Justice League movie. I suppose that’s the least they could do seeing as…
Some movies have a great cast and they seem wasted in the given material. Welcome to The Hitman’s Bodyguard. The world’s top professional bodyguard gets a new client: a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. The two of them must put their differences aside and work together to get to…
In this week’s “More Dolph Lundgren!” story, Creed 2 is happening and yes, it will include the return of Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. After weeks of teasing on social media, Sylvester Stallone recently confirmed that Dolph Lundgren will be back as Ivan Drago in the upcoming sequel. While Creed 2‘s release date…
Another hectic week in celluloid news! In this week’s “Well, his brother said so…” story, looks like Casey Affleck thinks his brother Ben is not doing any more Batman movies. In an interview with WEEI sports radio, the Academy award winner opens up about the rumors plaguing his brother. Host Rich Keefe asked about the…
Oh crap, stuff happened this week! In this week’s “Can you imagine?” story, early on in his career, David Lynch was obviously seen as a talented young director. But what to do with him? Even George Lucas approached him to direct Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. He was even considered to direct Fast…
Once more into the celluloid informational highway! Yeah, just more film news. In this week’s “Mancini called it” story, it looks like Joss Whedon will be taking a larger role in the DC Cinematic Universe, and Zack Snyder a smaller one. The reshoots for Justice League are coming in at about $ 25 million dollars.…
I hate to jump on the comparative band-wagon, but Charlize Theron is indeed like the female James Bond in Atomic Blonde. Making these kind of comparisons can often, as in this case, over-simplify things a bit. But, if you are looking for a bad-ass spy film with a female lead, then I suppose it’s a…
I’d given up on RomComs because it felt like RomComs had given up. Formulaic, uninspired, derivative, implausible and lacking in able and likeable talent (with the possible exception of Mila Kunis), RomComs for at least a decade (since Knocked Up) have been almost entirely crappy. But The Big Sick wins on every level. It has…
Back in April, Their Finest depicted the British Ministry of Information backing a feature film about the civilian nautical craft evacuation of Dunkirk during World War Two. Now, Warner Brothers has spent a hundred and fifty million bucks on the same subject, and Britain gets a very expensive bonus slice of inspirational propaganda. Reserved, dignified,…