Sometimes a movie comes along that challenges me to figure out what’s wrong with it. I KNOW The Founder is imperfect, but it was hard to put my finger on why, initially. It’s certainly not a bad film, but it’s key fault left me feeling, well, NOT feeling. The Founder is the story of how…
Welcome to the next installment of culled infotainment from the world of movies and stuff! There’s bound to be some great, some bad, and some weird, news to peruse! Let’s mush! In this week’s “Feed me, Seymour!” story, Warner Bros. is moving forward with its’ updated version of The Little Shop of Horrors. Greg Berlanti…
The other horror movie I saw was one simply called The Monster. But the film isn’t so simple as its’ title. This is one of those horror movies that isn’t about what you think. The Monster is really a drama dressed as a horror film. Kathy is a mom that can’t get herself back on track after…
Nothing says “Holiday Season” like horror movies. Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, but I just saw a couple and since we’re well past the Halloween season, I just thought I’d talk about them here. i’ll do two separate reviews, and the first one is The Eyes of My Mother. I heard a lot of…
After a stressful week or so, I’m back with another roller-coaster of film news! It’s all over the place with shocking and brain-debilitating information! In this week’s”Get off my set!” story, director Gareth Edwards says that George Lucas showed up on set while he was shooting Rogue One and bestowed some words of wisdom. Lucas…
Somebody at Disney knows kung-fu. Or, at least, somebody at Disney is tired of the way most action movies end, with protagonist and antagonist getting mad, making faces and fists, then uselessly and endlessly slugging it out until the script tells them who wins (or, as we joked at Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: “whoever shouts…
Tom Ford’s second feature after A Single Man (2009) is a seriously mature work, a terrifying thriller for adults that has staggering resonance in the wake of the US election results. At its heart, it is about two things: how choices we make can devastatingly affect the rest of our lives, and how violently divided the city…
It’s no surprise that director David Yates floated the idea of doing a Doctor Who movie after finishing the last four Harry Potter films. A Doctor Who-ish tone is all over Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as well as, of course, gobs of Harry Potter – not to mention the X-Men and, probably…
Ok, so it’s another week of finding film facts to amaze and amuse! Shenanigans Edition! In this week’s “Weird Project Central” story, Warner Bros. bought the rights to make a film adaptation of the video game Mincraft back in early 2014. After some changes along the way, Steve Carell is now in talks to star,…
Elle, based on a novel called O by Philippe Dijan, who also wrote Betty Blue, is Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s first French film, and features Isabelle Huppert in a performance already being touted as an Oscar contender. It is a mesmerizing, frenzied abomination, a thrilling, propulsively lurid provocation that is simultaneously classy and grotesque, refined and coarse, arthouse and grindhouse.…