László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son of Saul is as experimental as mainstream narrative cinema gets, and as bold. Set in Auschwitz in 1944 during the planning of a prisoner uprising, the film – and, very specifically here, the camera – follows Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian Jewish prisoner and Sonderkommando, as he tries to do one…
The Coen Brothers’ 1950s-set Hollywood Studio comedy is an endlessly, effortlessly entertaining flight of fancy. If they only created it to delight themselves – which is how it possibly comes off – I have no beef with that. Structured as the day in the life of the fictional Capitol Studios’ Head of Physical Production Eddie…
I have not been looking forward to this for quite some time. The Weinstein Company’s inexplicable campaign to marginalize Asian action films, and minimize its effect on American cinema, has been going on for decades now (http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/dg-op-ed-ric-meyers-history-disrespect-weinstein-company-kung-fu/). Even as far as two years ago I spoke to several crew members of what has become known…
Welcome to this weeks’ round up of collection of random updates in film stuff and the like. Here’s a surprise (but not): The movie Gods of Egypt had a lack-luster opening last night! Only about $800, 000, so a projected 11 to 15 million for the weekend. Yeah, this is gonna bomb. Alex Proyas directed…
Dakota Johnson has such a fresh, engaging, likeable screen presence that she single-handedly manages to sublimate the impulse to rip your cinema seat out of the floor and hurl it through the screen while watching the horribly named How To Be Single, a Friday-Night-Girls-Night-Out Warner Brothers / New Line / MGM by-product that is impressively…
It’s another fun-filled week of interesting or infuriating film news! So, I’ll start with some interesting news: Newsflash!: Deadpool still making money! It’s made about 172 million or so now. Giddy up! Looks like the Blade Runner sequel has a release date, and it’s disconcerting. Blade Runner 2 is to be released on January 12,…
This is one of those films that ends up being different than the expectations. There is much to like about The Witch, with it’s beautiful cinematography, production design, and an excellent, committed cast, but the end result is somehow not as satisfying as I would have hoped. But then, expectation can make or break one’s…
Not so much a superhero movie as a super-anti-hero movie, Deadpool follows a low-rent fixer / mercenary / goon named Wade (Ryan Reynolds) who, after being transformed into an extremely pussy, pimply, putrid version of himself (but with endlessly regenerative healing powers) by a grim British villain named Ajax (the creepily named Ed Skrein), decides his hot…
Hi-dee-ho, kids! Another week of random stuff going on! If you hadn’t heard yet, Deadpool is pretty darn good! And it made a bunch of money already – almost 13 million dollars last night alone! Early estimates are at about 80 or 90 million in the U.S. for the weekend! That’s a lot of movie-going…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to one of the few surprise movie releases of February. I was most certainly apprehensive about Deadpool, as the trailers seemed to be hit and miss with the humor. But, as it turns out, Deadpool is actually quite fun – and funny – which is really at the core of this…