This film is not what I expected, so perhaps that affected my initial opinions. But even after thinking about it for a while, I’m still not sure where I land on this one. It’s a tough film to talk about too much without giving spoilers, so I’ll tell you what I can without saying too…
So many things happening, I hardly know where to start. I guess I’ll start s of chronologically. In this week’s “Weird, but I would have watched it for sure” story, Apparently the Will Ferrell film Anchorman had a VERY different plot before it was rewritten to the film we now know. Will Ferrell explained, while…
Oh look, it’s another week already. More stuff! More happenings! More! In this week’s “Surprise casting” story, actress Glenn Close will return to television in Amazon’s Sea Oak, a half-hour comedy pilot described as a zombie drama and family revenge comedy. Sea Oak revolves around Aunt Bernie (Close), a meek, unmarried woman with no children…
Has it been a week already? Well, stuff keeps happening, so here we go! In this week’s “Too many losses” story, actress Glenn Headly has passed away at the age of 62. The Emmy-winning actress was a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and was in production on the Hulu series Future Man, and…
Petty Jenkins used Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) as her model for Wonder Woman, her first feature film since Monster (2003), and the influence is clear and astute. Like Donner’s film, Jenkins’ take on the Amazonian warrior is fuelled by goodness, romance, gentle humour and, well, wonder – specifically the wonder a 5,000 year old Amazonian finds when experiencing the “world of…
Here comes June already! And with it a bunch of new stuff is happening! In this week’s “Universal Monsters” story, Universal has made some interesting announcements regarding their Dark Universe of films – those that will be their rebooted classic Universal Monsters films. It seems that now Dwayne Johnson and Angelina Jolie will be involved…
Ok, I had zero interest in Split when it came out because, well, it’s written and directed by M. Night Shymalan, and he really hasn’t had a good film since Unbreakable. Some don’t even include that in the good ones. But I couldn’t even tolerate some of his later films, like The Village or The…
How did we get to another full week of happenings in film news? Oh yeah, the passage of time. That happens. In this week’s “A bummer with a twist” story,The Hollywood Reporter reports that director Zack Snyder and his wife and producer Deborah Snyder are taking a break from the post-production process of Justice League…
If you’re like me and have had pretty much all you can take of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow then you will likely have the same reaction I did to this marginally distracting film that was either eye-rolling or simply boring. Yep, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is too long…
Wow, another big week of film news, and we have some juicy bits this time around. Gather round! In this week’s “If it ain’t broke…Wait” story, Jimmy Kimmel will be reprising the role of host for next years Oscar show, and so will producers Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Scott. This is all the same people…