Ok folks, I am back from the delights of Sin City’s hosting of the Creation Entertainment Star Trek Con! I will surely regale you with the fun, but first, on to another week of information of the celluloid kind! In this week’s “Bad Boys, Bad Boys!” news, Sony’s next installment of the Bad Boys franchise,…
DetailsGuns guns guns, blah blah blah… Mel Gibson may have been a little hungry for roles of late, and his character in Jean-Farançois Richet’s Blood Father may fit him like a glove, but the glove is ugly and old-fashioned, unsuited for these times. It is a movie no-one needs, a redundant, obsolete thing. Mel plays an ex-con…
DetailsI haven’t seen Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli’s film, still in cinemas, which tells a more fictionalised version of the same story, so I’m not sure how it plays, but screenwriter Nicholas Martin and veteran director Stephen Frears have pulled off a neat trick with the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins: they’ve made it the story of her husband. Hugh…
DetailsIn the spirit of full disclosure, let me admit, at the very top, that I’m not a fan of villains. Having experienced some villainy in my up-bringing, I don’t relish wallowing in it at the cinema. While I’ll fantasize about villainy, I never side with it. I’m much more hero-oriented (always the Doctor over Daleks,…
DetailsSalutations, my little droogies! Let’s get ready for another edition of “What the Hell are you talking about?!” Film News this week! Might be some extra stuff this week because next week, yours truly is off the Las Vegas for the 5th Anniversary Star Trek Convention! I’ll be pretty bust doing Trek-type stuff that involves…
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