The Coen Brothers’ 1950s-set Hollywood Studio comedy is an endlessly, effortlessly entertaining flight of fancy. If they only created it to delight themselves – which is how it possibly comes off – I have no beef with that. Structured as the day in the life of the fictional Capitol Studios’ Head of Physical Production Eddie…
DetailsI have not been looking forward to this for quite some time. The Weinstein Company’s inexplicable campaign to marginalize Asian action films, and minimize its effect on American cinema, has been going on for decades now (http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/dg-op-ed-ric-meyers-history-disrespect-weinstein-company-kung-fu/). Even as far as two years ago I spoke to several crew members of what has become known…
DetailsWelcome to this weeks’ round up of collection of random updates in film stuff and the like. Here’s a surprise (but not): The movie Gods of Egypt had a lack-luster opening last night! Only about $800, 000, so a projected 11 to 15 million for the weekend. Yeah, this is gonna bomb. Alex Proyas directed…
DetailsDakota Johnson has such a fresh, engaging, likeable screen presence that she single-handedly manages to sublimate the impulse to rip your cinema seat out of the floor and hurl it through the screen while watching the horribly named How To Be Single, a Friday-Night-Girls-Night-Out Warner Brothers / New Line / MGM by-product that is impressively…
DetailsIt’s another fun-filled week of interesting or infuriating film news! So, I’ll start with some interesting news: Newsflash!: Deadpool still making money! It’s made about 172 million or so now. Giddy up! Looks like the Blade Runner sequel has a release date, and it’s disconcerting. Blade Runner 2 is to be released on January 12,…
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