Ok, more fascinating tidbits from the world of film this week. Some jewels, and maybe a few inexplicable brow-furrowers. 10 Cloverfield Lane is quite good! And it stands to make a pretty penny this weekend, though Zootopia is looking to stay in the # 1 spot for the second week in a row. In this…
JJ Abrams is good at keeping secrets. This movie was under the radar until the trailers a few weeks ago. I don’t think they even revealed the title until about the same time. 10 Cloverfield Lane is clearly a nod to the film Cloverfield, which led everyone to speculate about whether this is a sequel,…
Do you like movies about angry dwarfs? If the answer is yes, then you are in for a treat with The Station Agent. It’s much more than that though, and to characterize it as just a movie about an angry dwarf would really diminish how good it is. I hadn’t seen any Tom McCarthy movies…
David Lynch is a master. Why he is not included along Stanley Kubrick more often is beyond me. I guess I’m not really well-versed enough in film to make those proclamations, but isn’t that what our society is all about? “Hey, I just saw or read something, and now I have an opinion!” Twin Peaks…
Not to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen from 2013, – oh wait – it’s the same writers and premise just in London. With much of the same cast and horrible jingoistic dialogue. Flag wavin’ shenanigans. So, yeah, it IS to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen. THIS is a sequel and almost the same…
Hey look, another week has passed, and more crazy news has happened. Ain’t that a kick in the head? And I just found out from Variety online that Bruce Willis is going to star in a Death Wish remake! Negotiations to direct are the Israeli team that made Big Bad Wolves in 2013, Aharon Keshales…
Sundance Best Director Winner Robert Eggers’ carefully modulated, highly original 1630s-set “New-England Folktale” is precisely that, and the Friday night gore-cravers and retro-slasher freaks should look elsewhere for their bloody thrills. If not, ten minutes of authentic (literally taken from journals of the period) 1630s Puritan parlance will quickly convince them they’ve picked the wrong…
László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son of Saul is as experimental as mainstream narrative cinema gets, and as bold. Set in Auschwitz in 1944 during the planning of a prisoner uprising, the film – and, very specifically here, the camera – follows Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian Jewish prisoner and Sonderkommando, as he tries to do one…
The Coen Brothers’ 1950s-set Hollywood Studio comedy is an endlessly, effortlessly entertaining flight of fancy. If they only created it to delight themselves – which is how it possibly comes off – I have no beef with that. Structured as the day in the life of the fictional Capitol Studios’ Head of Physical Production Eddie…
Welcome to this weeks’ round up of collection of random updates in film stuff and the like. Here’s a surprise (but not): The movie Gods of Egypt had a lack-luster opening last night! Only about $800, 000, so a projected 11 to 15 million for the weekend. Yeah, this is gonna bomb. Alex Proyas directed…