Strange may be a good description of this particular Marvel film for many viewers that aren’t familiar with this hero of the comic book universe, however, it is strange in the best way. Doctor Stephen Strange is a brilliant, and egocentric, surgeon. When he gets in a car crash, his hands are crushed and, after…
Denis Villeneuve has a pacing problem. The last act of the otherwise excellent Sicario (2015) slowed to a crawl; Prisoners (2013) dragged; and now Arrival, his dour, monotonal emo-sci-fi extravaganza, starring Amy Adams as a cunning linguist trying to talk to the aliens, spends its long second act in a kind of suspended animation almost…
Oh snap! We got some crazy stories this week in the film news! Look out – this one’s a doozy! In this week’s ” This ain’t no Oliver and Company” story, Disney is making a contemporary retelling of Oliver Twist, and they have just cast Ice Cube as Fagin. The film will be directed by…
Ok, I’m going to say it. Rob Zombie’s films seem to be mostly just for his die hard fans. I don’t know, after his fist couple films, this one doesn’t seem like he’s straying from his main bread and butter. I admit, I haven’t seen his two Halloween remakes, but I have to say, 31…
I like Jack Reacher. I liked him as a book series hero, created by Lee Childs. I liked him in his first movie, released in 2012, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. I liked it enough to forgive the casting of Tom Cruise, who looks nothing like the book Reacher, but acted very much like…
Way back in the 1950s, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock explained otherwise inexplicable sequences in his hit films Vertigo and North by Northwest by terming them “icebox” scenes – in that the illogic of them only “hits you after you’ve gone home and start pulling cold chicken out of the icebox.” An argument could be made…
Oh Em Gee, it’s yet another week of film news! There are some revelations, some shocks, and some head-shaking, eye-rolling nonsense this time around. Let’s find out which is which! In this week’s “Delusions of Grandeur” story, Vin Diesel thinks Fast And Furious 8 will win some Oscars! Yes, that’s plural. Vin Diesel believes that…
Another Halloween is almost upon us! October is the spookiest month of the year, and the best. And with October comes the annual Shriekfest Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival! One of my favorite things! And this year was its’ Sweet 16 birthday. I ask festival creator and director, Denise Gossett, every year how many more…
Taking the concept of “low-key” to new heights, Kelly Reichardt’s new film is not for my student who commented, after watching Jason Reitman’s Young Adult (which I consider rapidly paced), “It’s like the stuff they cut out of normal films”. Slow to the point of being provocative (“Can you take it? Can you sit still?”)…
Welcome to another week of important, world-altering stories form the film industry! These are sure to astound, Vex, and defy all logic! In this week’s “dissing Disney” story, Disney is aggressively seeking great talent to make their upcoming live-action version of Mulan. they’re looking for a director and asked Ang Lee to step in. Well,…