Bunch of stuff happening this week – including the Oscar nominations! Aah! In this week’s “FINALLY” story, Greta Gerwig becomes the fifth woman ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar. The Lady Bird helmer was the only woman nominated in the otherwise all-male field made up of Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Guillermo del Toro…
January continues! Stuff keeps happening! in this week’s “Son of Drago!” story, Apollo Creed’s son gets a new opponent in Creed 2. German-Romanian boxer Florian Munteanu will square off against Michael B. Jordan in Creed 2, MGM and Warner Bros.’ sequel to the 2015 hit that updated Rocky for a new generation, The Hollywood Reporter…
Liam Neeson returns in what I previously read was to be the last of his series action/thriller movies that began with Taken. The Commuter might as well be Taken on a train. With a lesser script. Liam Neeson is ex-cop Michael MacCauley, who, while riding the train home one day, is approached by a mysterious…
‘Tis the season for junk moives in the theater! It’s a new year! In this week’s “Weird, random reboot idea” story, remember that interesting film directed by Bong Joon Ho in 2013 called Snowpiecer? The one with Chris Evans on the big train in the snow that was an analogy of human class system? Well,…
Welcome to the new year! Here we go, 2018! In this week’s “Gunn responds thoughtfully” story, with all the worry and negative opinions about big budget Hollywood blockbusters – superhero movies in particular – director/actor Jodie Foster has added her two cents to the criticizing of these films. In an interview with Radio Times (via…
L.A.M.F. Live At The Bowery Electric is a document of three live 2016 performances of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers’ classic album, rather than a documentary. Walter Lure is the Jerry Lee Lewis of his generation; the last man standing. Most of his various band mates and peers are dead, and although Lure swam in the same strong…