Ok, we’re back with some more wonderful and vexing news in film. Some really notable things going on this time around. Get this: As if any of us with any sense would care, Transformers 5 is happening, and they’re calling it Transformers: The Last Knight. Of course, Michael Bay returns to direct this monstrosity, written…
DetailsAfter seeing The Nice Guys, I feel like the trailers for the film made it really difficult to decide whether it was going to be good. The trailer gives you non-connected moments before and after what feel like the jokes, so you can’t really tell if the movie is going to be funny or not.…
DetailsWriter / Director Jeremy Saulnier made a huge impression on the cineaste circuit in 2013 with Blue Ruin, a meditative and highly original take on the revenge thriller. It won him the FIPRESCI Director’s Fortnight Prize at Cannes. His follow-up, Green Room, joins the cannon of “under siege” movies – Rio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13, Night of the Living Dead, The…
DetailsIf you’re looking for complete counter programming to the usual big summer blockbuster movies, then look no further than The Lobster, a weird, dark, funny, look at love and whether we have a human need to be in a relationship. It’s not for everyone, however; there’s nothing mainstream about The Lobster. If you’re looking for…
DetailsWelcome to the Friday the 13th installment of the Weakley Film News! Let’s see if we can find a good horror story here just for the hell of it. In this week’s “Is he going to do action movies forever, now?” story, Liam Neeson has signed on to star in a remake of the hit…
DetailsThere is a moment early on in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising when Dave Franco’s character Pete, a frat brother a few years out of college, is proposed to by his boyfriend at a poker game with his other frat bros, and accepts. As the two young lovers embrace, their three other bros jump up and down in…
DetailsOk, we’re back for another installment of wild and wacky stories in film! Behold! Captain America: Civil War made $ 25 million on it’s Thursday preview night screenings. Everybody is projecting it to make $ 200 million over the opening weekend. The Marvel/Disney train keeps on a’rolling. Bruce Willis is starring in a Death Wish…
DetailsThe summer movie season has begun! And with a huge BANG, I might add. Yep, Captain America: Civil War sets the bar really high already and everybody else is going to have to do some serious catch up because this is one big, fun movie. Some people see the Avengers as heroes, others see them…
DetailsI don’t read superhero comics but I did as a kid, and this latest Marvel Studios offering comes closest to the feeling I remember emanating from those books: fun, colorful, loud, off-beat, and full of quips. Those books had the benefit of brevity, however; this thing is long. Two and a half hours long, which is half…
DetailsI always look forward to this time of year because I know the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival is coming. It’s surely among my very favorite festivals to attend and if I ever have to give it up I’ll be made very sad. TCM always does a great job of organizing and choosing great films…
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