A busy week this time around, folks! (Yes, I used the word ‘folks’. Deal with it.) Friday is a packed day, so here’s your essential information a wee bit early. Wouldn’t want you to get impatient, right? Let’s go! In this week’s “At this rate, no problem!” story, Netflix would like to see 50 %…
British TV documentarian Louis Theroux is a very clever chap. He obviously realised that the Alex Gibney documentary Going Clear was going to be the Big Boy of Scientology feature docos for quite awhile. Hence the title My Scientology Movie, which is tongue in cheek, certainly, but also implies a different tack and a different take – both…
Ron Howard’s documentary unfortunately contains little that was not done better in the epic television documentary The Beatles Anthology (1995) and nothing that will be revelatory to Beatles fans of any level. What’s being touted is new footage, and there is that. I’d never seen, for example, footage from concerts in Manilla and Tokyo, and that stuff…
The original film, The Blair Witch Project, back in 1999, was quite the phenomenon. There was so much secrecy and seemingly well-timed leaks of info that it became mythological in scope before it ever hit theaters. I remember a friend of mine telling me about it, meeting me at a friends place, and telling me…
Here we are at another week of kooky new form the world of film! And maybe some other stuff if I deem it worthy! In this week’s “Speculate much?” story, will Blair Witch knock Sully from the top box office spot this weekend? I don’t fucking know. Why don’t you all decide to see one…
The 35th feature film directed by Clint Eastwood, Sully, like much of his latest work, is a highly proficient, professional, refreshingly unsentimental procedural about men. (It hasn’t always been this way; Changeling (2008) , Million Dollar Baby (2004) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995) are examples of his helmsmanship of solid female-led dramas.) The workplace in this case is not…
Everything about Captain Fantastic is fantastic. Thematically massive, tonally bold, determinedly non-formulaic and featuring a preternaturally perfectly cast leading man at the top of his game, Matt Ross’ second feature film as writer/director is one of the best of the year thus far, up there with Sing Street. Viggo Mortensen – and, once you’ve seen the film, you…
A bunch more news this week – let’s get this train a-rollin’! Ka-pow! In this week’s “most interesting remake” story, Awesome director Jeff Nichols has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to write and direct a film remake of Alien Nation, the sci-fi film from 1988. That original dealt with issues of prejudice and…
As I have done the past 7 or 8 years now, I went to the Creation Entertainment Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas last month. This year was certainly special, though, as this year marks the 50th year of Star Trek’s existence. In fact, today, September 8, is the exact date the original Star Trek…
In what can be described as a less cerebral, action/thriller version of Ex Machina, Morgan manages to use every trope in the genre book therefore creating a film whose every step is visible from the first 10 or 15 minutes. Directed by Luke Scott, son of Ridley Scott, Morgan is clearly one of those films…