Oh hello, kids! Let’s see what random things are happening this week. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is expected to pass the 900 million dollar mark this weekend. This will put it over 2 billion dollars worldwide. I suppose that’s hardly news, though, huh? Looks like Lionsgate is going to be making a reboot of…
DetailsHoly shit, this is a sweet movie! Not since Once did some Irish jerks get to me like this. I love it and I resent it. I mean, why should I have to feel all sad when I watch a movie? Or walk around after, like, “Will I ever know love, truly?” Brooklyn takes place…
DetailsAndrew Haigh’s third feature follows his second, Weekend (2011) in depicting an intimate portrait of two people in a relationship. In Weekend, that relationship was just beginning; here, it’s deep – forty-five years deep. That’s the anniversary looming at the end of the week for Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtney) and Kate’s planning a big party with…
DetailsCarol is the latest successful adaptation of the incredibly cinema-friendly fiction of Patricia Highsmith, although here her source novel, The Price of Salt, is semi-autobiography. The material has found a perfect executor in director Todd Haynes, who combines his exquisite sense of period with a very personal subversive streak, and actors Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who both…
DetailsRomantic, moving, embracing and thoroughly old-fashioned, Brooklyn is a gorgeous film centred by a major performance by Saoirse Ronan, who is making no mistakes in fulfilling the promise she showed when she received her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for Atonement, in 2007, when she was thirteen years old. Now she’s nominated for Best Actress for Brooklyn, and, were…
DetailsBrie Larson won the Golden Globe for her lead performance in Room, an audacious and inspiring film, a coherent, complex and confident blend of arthouse experimentalism, mainstream thriller and serious drama. It’s one of the best films, easily, of this “Awards Season”. Larson and Jacob Tremblay play a mother and her son living in extreme…
DetailsHello again, kids! I’m back with some more interesting – or infuriating – tidbits in entertainment news. For instance; it turns out Chris Carter, creator of the X-Files, says he actually wrote a third X-Files movie before the show cam back last week for it’s six episode run. Carter and Fox have talked about it,…
DetailsConcussion is a well-made film that might be the final straw, or the first bell, to get many Football fans to wake up to the reality that 22 people slamming into each other every 25 seconds for 60 minutes is a perfect plan to destroy the human brain. The film shows Will Smith playing Dr.…
DetailsHey, this is the first of what should be our weekly update on what’s going on in the Film/TV/entertainment stuff each week. I’ll be as thorough as I can with the space I have, or maybe just the big stories, or hey, maybe just the stories that pique my particular interest. I guess you’ll just…
DetailsQuentin Tarantino’s eighth feature film is his sixth best. I know this is cool by him because when I interviewed him (link below) he asked me whether I had a favorite film of his, when I told him I had a list he asked to hear it, and when I read it out he proclaimed…
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