Bunch of stuff happening this week – including the Oscar nominations! Aah! In this week’s “FINALLY” story, Greta Gerwig becomes the fifth woman ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar. The Lady Bird helmer was the only woman nominated in the otherwise all-male field made up of Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Guillermo del Toro…
January continues! Stuff keeps happening! in this week’s “Son of Drago!” story, Apollo Creed’s son gets a new opponent in Creed 2. German-Romanian boxer Florian Munteanu will square off against Michael B. Jordan in Creed 2, MGM and Warner Bros.’ sequel to the 2015 hit that updated Rocky for a new generation, The Hollywood Reporter…
Liam Neeson returns in what I previously read was to be the last of his series action/thriller movies that began with Taken. The Commuter might as well be Taken on a train. With a lesser script. Liam Neeson is ex-cop Michael MacCauley, who, while riding the train home one day, is approached by a mysterious…
‘Tis the season for junk moives in the theater! It’s a new year! In this week’s “Weird, random reboot idea” story, remember that interesting film directed by Bong Joon Ho in 2013 called Snowpiecer? The one with Chris Evans on the big train in the snow that was an analogy of human class system? Well,…
Welcome to the new year! Here we go, 2018! In this week’s “Gunn responds thoughtfully” story, with all the worry and negative opinions about big budget Hollywood blockbusters – superhero movies in particular – director/actor Jodie Foster has added her two cents to the criticizing of these films. In an interview with Radio Times (via…
We are well into December, and I haven’t watched a holiday movie yet. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? (Don’t answer that.) In this week’s “Woody joining Venom?” story, Woody Harrelson is in talks for an undisclosed role in Venom, the Tom Hardy-led Spider-Man offshoot from Sony. Hardy is starring as the popular Marvel Comics antihero…
Well, we’re already a week into December. Where does the time go? Movie news keeps on coming! In this week’s “Will there be any phaser stand-offs?” story, in one of the more bizarre turns of events, Quentin Tarantino has come up with an idea for a Star Trek movie. Yes, that’s right, Mr. Pulp Fiction…
I would like a vacation even though we just had a vacation. Well, the film world didn’t take a vacation! Welcome to December! In this week’s “Incredible team” story, prepare yourself for some awesome. Ridley Scott’s company Scott Free London, and Tom Hardy and his company, Hardy Son & Baker are teaming up to produce…
Hey, it’s Turkey Day week and yet there’s still stuff happeing in the film bubble! In this week’s “Kill Your Idols” story, Charlie Rose has been accused of sexual misconduct by eight women. In light of that, he has been fired by CBS News AND PBS. They are removing his shows, cutting ties completely. He…
So it’s never a good sign when a company puts an embargo on critics being able to review a film. Warner Bros. only recently lift that embargo for Justice League, Zack Snyder’s latest directorial offering i the DC Universe. Frankly, they should have enacted an embargo on the film itself. So, following the ‘death’ of…