Once more into the celluloid informational highway! Yeah, just more film news. In this week’s “Mancini called it” story, it looks like Joss Whedon will be taking a larger role in the DC Cinematic Universe, and Zack Snyder a smaller one. The reshoots for Justice League are coming in at about $ 25 million dollars.…
DetailsI hate to jump on the comparative band-wagon, but Charlize Theron is indeed like the female James Bond in Atomic Blonde. Making these kind of comparisons can often, as in this case, over-simplify things a bit. But, if you are looking for a bad-ass spy film with a female lead, then I suppose it’s a…
DetailsI’d given up on RomComs because it felt like RomComs had given up. Formulaic, uninspired, derivative, implausible and lacking in able and likeable talent (with the possible exception of Mila Kunis), RomComs for at least a decade (since Knocked Up) have been almost entirely crappy. But The Big Sick wins on every level. It has…
DetailsWoody Harrelson – a great American screen actor – obviously has a bee in his bonnet about wishing he’d played Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. In The Duel (2016) he applied smatterings of cool water to his bald pate a la Brando as he portrayed The Preacher, a philosophical sociopath and the cult leader of…
DetailsBack in April, Their Finest depicted the British Ministry of Information backing a feature film about the civilian nautical craft evacuation of Dunkirk during World War Two. Now, Warner Brothers has spent a hundred and fifty million bucks on the same subject, and Britain gets a very expensive bonus slice of inspirational propaganda. Reserved, dignified,…
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