Nothing says “Holiday Season” like horror movies. Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, but I just saw a couple and since we’re well past the Halloween season, I just thought I’d talk about them here. i’ll do two separate reviews, and the first one is The Eyes of My Mother. I heard a lot of…
DetailsAfter a stressful week or so, I’m back with another roller-coaster of film news! It’s all over the place with shocking and brain-debilitating information! In this week’s”Get off my set!” story, director Gareth Edwards says that George Lucas showed up on set while he was shooting Rogue One and bestowed some words of wisdom. Lucas…
DetailsSomebody at Disney knows kung-fu. Or, at least, somebody at Disney is tired of the way most action movies end, with protagonist and antagonist getting mad, making faces and fists, then uselessly and endlessly slugging it out until the script tells them who wins (or, as we joked at Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: “whoever shouts…
DetailsTom Ford’s second feature after A Single Man (2009) is a seriously mature work, a terrifying thriller for adults that has staggering resonance in the wake of the US election results. At its heart, it is about two things: how choices we make can devastatingly affect the rest of our lives, and how violently divided the city…
DetailsIt’s no surprise that director David Yates floated the idea of doing a Doctor Who movie after finishing the last four Harry Potter films. A Doctor Who-ish tone is all over Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as well as, of course, gobs of Harry Potter – not to mention the X-Men and, probably…
DetailsOk, so it’s another week of finding film facts to amaze and amuse! Shenanigans Edition! In this week’s “Weird Project Central” story, Warner Bros. bought the rights to make a film adaptation of the video game Mincraft back in early 2014. After some changes along the way, Steve Carell is now in talks to star,…
DetailsElle, based on a novel called O by Philippe Dijan, who also wrote Betty Blue, is Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s first French film, and features Isabelle Huppert in a performance already being touted as an Oscar contender. It is a mesmerizing, frenzied abomination, a thrilling, propulsively lurid provocation that is simultaneously classy and grotesque, refined and coarse, arthouse and grindhouse.…
DetailsTrust Mel Gibson, that maestro of the sadomasochistic, to create a movie that is one part Norman Rockwell-esque love letter to 1940s rural America, one part military courtroom drama, and two parts a war-is-hell mugging that seems to be attempting to mash Hieronymus Bosch into the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan. Despite his…
DetailsHaving served as a consultant on the original Kung Fu Panda, I’ve been able to observe the rise and fall of DreamWorks SKG Animation from both sides. It’s done remarkably well, considering that it started with an ax to grind. Jeffrey Katzenberg (the “K” in SKG), having felt underappreciated during his time at Walt Disney…
DetailsWelcome to another week of updates in the world of film – and maybe a television story – you never know. I’ll try to keep it as absurd as possible to offset the sorrow of this week’s election results. Ugh. In this week’s “Planning ahead” story, 20th Century Fox is already looking ahead to Deadpool…
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