Oh look! Another week of beguiling and sarcasm-inducing film news! Let’s do this! In this week’s “Awesome” story, AMC has renewed Preacher for a second season! YAY! In this week’s “Pot calling the kettle black” story, regarding The Force Awakens, James Cameron has said of that “JJ Abrams’s reboot lacked the “innovative visual imagination” of…
DetailsNicolas Winding Refn is a unique director. His films vary pretty drastically in subject matter, and they don’t always resonate with the audience, me included. But they are all pretty fascinating to watch, even if it’s just for the visual style. Thankfully, Refn’s new film, The Neon Demon, is both visually arresting as well as…
DetailsWe have come to another week of Film News which will enlighten, sadden, or just plain piss you off. Onward! I know it’s been almost a week, but let’s take another moment to reflect on the wonderful Anton Yelchin, who died last weekend of bizarre circumstances that involved being run over by his own SUV.…
DetailsThe first Independence Day movie back in 1996 pretty much set a new bar for the epic disaster film while mixing it in with sci-fi. Director Roland Emmerich and Producer Dean Devlin not only created a genre (or at least expanded upon it) but more or less dug a film well that they would dip…
DetailsIf you prefer Wagner to Mozart, dark chocolate to milk, or even Lennon to McCartney, you may prefer Duncan Jones’ epic fantasy Warcraft to anything coming out involving people who can fly, mutate, avenge or be super. I certainly did. It’s an astonishingly designed vision of an alternate universe that is brutal and savage and yet often…
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