Not to be cynical–which pretty much means I am going to do exactly that–but I am shocked to see that the producers of the upcoming The 33 are actually casting Latino actors to play the Chilean miners who were trapped in a cave-in a few years ago (I only recognized Lou Diamond Phillips, who wasn’t among […]
I will admit that some movies look better in black and white than color. It’s often striking how the contrast between light and dark can create a sense of tension, of drama. I was going to watch A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night when I noticed that it was shot in black and white, and I almost […]
The Maze Runner honestly mystified me. It was pretty popular, and hugely profitable (earning over $340 million on a $34 million budget) yet was stuck with a seriously nonsensical plot that was way more complex–and not in a good way–than it needed to be. The cast was pretty game, and clearly brought into the entire […]
“Cooties is like Ebola, but funnier.”
MGM released the new trailer for their latest James Bond adventure a few hours ago, and there’s the prerequisite car chases, explosions and Bond being Bond (by which I mean a bit abrupt and dickish). It’s also the first trailer that we see Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) in a full reveal, though what we […]
“”Southpaw” is a boxing movie that overcomes the limitations of the genre.”
The Good Dinosaur will be the latest from Pixar, and I want to say that it will make a bazillion dollars, like most Pixar movies, though I don’t know…the dinosaur in question looks a bit gummy. That might not matter at all, after all it’s not like everything that they have done so far is […]
How much of what analysts do is about ego?
“Ant-Man Shows That Great Things Come In Small Packages.” Considering how well put together Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man is, it’s a shock that just a few months ago a lot of people were talking about how it would be Marvel Studios’ first misstep. And I can understand–prior to having seen the movie– how one could come […]
“Shiny, happy plastic people in tragic circumstances.” Tom Ford’s A Single Man isn’t a horror or fantasy film, but it might as well be, as far as depicting relationships between humans goes. George (Peter Firth) is a British expatriate, teaching at a college in California. His world is seemingly perfect till the death of his […]
