Kong: Skull Island comes from a coalition of companies with a focus on large-scale, easy-to-digest big-screen entertainment designed to sell loads of cinema tickets in both China and The Rest Of The World. Legendary Entertainment, the primary company involved (who recently gave us The Great Wall), is a based in Burbank, is a subsidiary of Chinese mega-corp Wanda…
Details50 Shades Darker: A Feminist Perspective I went toe-to-toe with Chris Mancini re: “50 Shades” on the CFN podcast yesterday. I disagreed here and there, but held back as I had yet to see this film specifically. Though I felt I could speak to it generally since I’d seen the first movie, read the books,…
DetailsOh, here we are again! I wonder what sort of happenings there are to discover this week? Let’s find out! In this week’s “Sadly inescapable” story, we have lost yet another icon, legend, uber talent. The incredible Mary Tyler Moore died this week at the age of 80. Sadly, this seems like it will be…
DetailsHere 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…
DetailsKick 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…
DetailsWelcome 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…
DetailsTalk 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsIt’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…
DetailsA 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…
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