After a decidedly long and stressful time away, I’m back with some mind-occupying and fascinating stories of goings-on in the film arena! In this week’s “Tetsuo returns” story, Get Out director, Jordan Peele, i son the list of directors being eyed for the long-in-planning Akira remake. Warner Bros. is courting Peele for the job aggressively,…
DetailsRupert Sanders’ adaptation of the manga/anime/TV/web series franchise Ghost In the Shell is almost shockingly strange, disquieting, melancholic, creepy, and sad. For a big-studio, extremely expensive, bus-stop-and-billboard-advertised piece of mainstream entertainment, it feels astonishingly personal, authentic, and artsy; it doesn’t smell mainstream at all. Sanders has gotten away with sneaking personality into Hollywood product before, with 2012’s Snow White and…
DetailsPerhaps trying to be edgy, alternative, hip, cool – anything other than Oscar-winning for singing a brutally beautiful song in Les Miserables – Anne Hathaway has made a spectacularly misguided career decision in agreeing to star in Colossal, a rampaging misfire of a movie. What may have seemed like a deliriously different project on paper, emerges on screen as…
DetailsTalk about getting the band back together! T2: Trainspotting (the title, according to director Danny Boyle, evolved out of speculation about what the characters themselves would want the film to be called) is a thoroughly justifiable “late” sequel that honours the original impeccably. I got way more than I was expecting; indeed, half a day…
DetailsPound for pound, minute for minute, per capita, or however you want to say it, I’d suggest the French are making the best horror films in the world at the moment and have been (on and off) for at least a decade. The US and Australian output, while sometimes great, is marred by an enormous…
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