Tag: hollywood
Toronto 2022 Review: THE FABELMANS, Spielberg on Spielberg
Dreams are scary. In The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg puts his own childhood up on the big screen, through the Dream Factory, with the help many of his regular collaborators, screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Lincoln), John Williams (Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic...
Review: TOP GUN: MAVERICK, Top-Flight Big Screen Blockbuster
Top Gun: Maverick manages a minor miracle, a legacy sequel over thirty years down the road that actually meets – or maybe even exceeds – the standard of the film it’s following. The original Top Gun wasn’t Tom Cruise’s first...
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Teaser
It first screened in cinemas at the beginning of the weekend. Then we caught wind of it last night from 'somewhere else'. And here it is now, all official like, for your viewing pleasure. Here is the first teaser for...
Now Streaming: SEVERANCE, Chilly Scenes of Emotional Winter
Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette star in a series from Ben Stiller for Apple TV+.
THE MOSQUITO COAST: New Approach, New Trailer
My memories of The Mosquito Coast are potent: a sweltering atmosphere peopled with unlikable characters. I saw it in a NYC theater in late 1986 and it left a strong impression, though, thanks largely to the distinctive presence of Harrison...
70s Rewind: THE KILLER ELITE, When Men Were Men and Blew Each Other Up
James Caan, Robert Duvall and Arthur Hill star in director Sam Peckinpah's action-crime film, now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
CANDYMAN Teaser Reminds
Horror never dies. If you need a reminder, first, check around your viewing area for mirrors and, second, watch a new teaser for Candyman. Our own Shelagh Rowan-Legg provided a very good overview of the upcoming film when the trailer...
Review: CHARLIE'S ANGELS, Refashioning What Action Means
Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska star in the action-adventure, directed by Elizabeth Banks.
Review: THE IRISHMAN Feels the Heavy Weight of Mortality
Martin Scorsese's epic gangster saga, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Ray Romano, Harvey Keitel, and Anna Paquin, falls short of his masterpieces 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino,' but is still well-made and magnificently acted.
Review: Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie star.
Book Review: THE CASTLE ON SUNSET, How a Building Influenced a Culture
Author Shawn Levy peers into a mysterious, secretive place that still affects what we see today.
Review: This HELLBOY May Be Fresh Out Of The Inferno, But He's Still Half-Baked
Neil Marshall directs David Harbour and Milla Jovovich in this comic reboot.
Blu-ray Review: DETOUR is Sublime Film Restoration
Recently released by Criterion, Detour is --- from what I understand --- a criminally underseen, Poverty Row film noir. I was pleased to see the restoration on the big screen at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA shortly before receiving...
Friday One Sheet: Leaning Against The Frame In ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD
The strange marketing materials for Quentin Tarantino's '9th Film' (as the poster says) feature (across two one sheets) the trio of lead characters leaning against 'the frame' of the poster. It is also present in one of the initial pieces...
AFI Fest 2017 Dispatch: A Tour Through the VR at AFI's 'Tech Showcase'
AFI Fest wrapped up last Thursday but not before a host of cool awards movies, indie darlings, and international gems played for the Hollywood audience (see our preview for a few highlights). But another main element of the AFI Fest...
AFI Fest 2017 Preview: 8 Top Picks at Hollywood's Top Fest
It's time once again for the big Hollywood festival that is AFI Fest to roll back into the crazy Hollywood & Highland complex for a week of awards movies and awesome indie and international cinema. Like always, the festival is...
GEOSTORM Trailer Destroys a Wonderful World
Long-time Roland Emmerich collaborator Dean Devlin directs Geostorm, a big budget disaster movie with so much devastation it can only be described as "Emmerich-esque". Very reminiscent of The Day After Tomorrow, in which global warming turned the planet into a...
Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 4
2000’s Continued It would be three years after the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon before Chow Yun Fat would star in another film. Surprisingly he decided to follow that classic up with the comic book movie Bulletproof Monk (2003),...
Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 2
Moving into the 1990’s Golden Harvest would once again make an attempt for American success. Unfortunately their first American made film of the decade was the poor China O Brien (1990), an attempt by Golden Harvest to launch star Cynthia...
Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 1
Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Hong Kong cinema produced many films that to this day are considered to be the best action films ever made. Films like Police Story (1985), The Killer (1989), Once Upon a Time in China...
