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DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
Now Streaming: OUTER RANGE, Leaning Into Lunacy
Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor and Imogen Poots star in a sci-fi tinged modern Western series that gets better as it goes, debuting on Prime Video.
Toronto 2021 Review: DUNE, A Handsome, But Stoic, Do Over
There is a row of palm trees in front of the outer wall of the capital city of Arrakis, the desert planet also known as Dune. They require massive amounts of resources, and have grown straight & tall, tended by...
First Image From Denis Villeneuve's DUNE
Denis Villeneuve's big budget Dune is one of the few 2020 blockbusters that has not adjusted its release date in light of the current global pandemic. This is because it is set for a december release of this year. That may...
Review: SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, A Better Day
Not so long ago, when one considered which recent films might parlay nicely into a franchise, Sicario probably didn’t spring to mind. Fortunately, the film’s writer, Taylor Sheridan, was not of this persuasion. Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 original remains an...
Review: DEADPOOL 2, Satirical Lunacy Cranked To 11
Expectations were pretty low for Deadpool 2. What could have easily been conceived as a cash-cow on Marvel's part, merely another cog in the exhaustive line-up of films that have been and are to come, is instead a self contained...
Review: AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, A Fun and Dire Marvel Royale
The impossible geek dream of most every Marvel movie character together in one adventure has, at long last, landed. Iron Man! Captain America! Thor! Spider-Man! Doctor Strange! Guardians of the Galaxy! (This could go on for a while). But is...
The Many Faces Of Josh Brolin
This week, Josh Brolin appears as an important supporting actor in not one but TWO new releases: the great-looking mountain drama Everest (reviewed here) and the by all accounts spectacular Sicario (reviewed here). Time for him to feature in our...
Review: SICARIO, A Marvelous, Stunning Hybrid
In white writing on a black screen, we're taught that Sicario was the name given to Hebrew Zealots (the name means "dagger men") who fought to expel the Romans in Judea. Now the name is used in Mexico to refer...
Hey, NYC! Wanna See SICARIO Early And For Free?
With Denis Villeneuve at the helm I betchya that answer is YES. The Quebecois director has been raking up a complex and eclectic filmography over the years, from Prisoners to Enemy, and his Cannes premiering Emily Blunt starring cartel thriller...
Review: EVEREST Tackles Disaster With Diplomacy At The Top Of The World
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur tackles his largest Hollywood project to-date, with this epically staged account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers perished on the Himalayan peak in a single day. Featuring a robust ensemble cast and...
Gyllenhaal, Brolin, Clarke And Hawkes Head Up The Hill And Down Again In First EVEREST Trailer
Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur takes an all star cast (Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson) up the world's tallest peak in upcoming survival thriller Everest. With a title like that the...
Pretty Packaging: The SIN CITY ULTIMATE KILLER EDITION May Corrupt Your Soul
(Crime and grime get a nice package...) It's hard to think of titles which would fit the idea of disc pimping more than Sin City and Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For. Frank Miller's fun and exaggerated graphic...
Review: INHERENT VICE, Say Hello To The American Psyche, Circa 1970
Paul Thomas Anderson faithfully adapts Thomas Pynchon's most accessible novel, the zaniest surf noir, Inherent Vice. It is also the first time he's worked with a large ensemble cast since Magnolia. The result is often hilarious, a laborious snapshot of...
New York 2014 Review: It's The Trip, Not The Destination, In INHERENT VICE
P. T. Anderson faithfully adapts Thomas Pynchon's most accessible novel, the zaniest surf noir, Inherent Vice. It is also the first time he's worked with a large ensemble cast since Magnolia. The result is often hilarious, a laborious snapshot of...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks Richard Attenborough, SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, And THE CONGRESS
The latest edition of my video report is dedicated to memories of the late Lord Richard Attenborough, star of numerous classics and a world class director.Also, a look at Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, as well as the...
The Many Faces Of Stacy Keach
Looking at this week's releases, one actor pops up in the two biggest films: Stacy Keach! He plays Chloë Grace Moretz' avuncular grandfather in If I Stay, and the pinnacle of human corruption in Sin City: A Dame To Kill...
Review: SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR, Where Broken Dreams Go To Die
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, like its sibling film 300: Rise of an Empire, is a sequel few were clamoring for. The first film from 2005 set the tone for these Frank Miller adaptations, strongly graphical with a...
Latest SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Trailer, Black And White and Red All Over
Hmm. I must be getting old, because I'm not as excited by the latest trailer for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as I should be. Maybe it's because the original Sin City raised my hopes so high, and then...
Let The Monster Out With Full SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Trailer
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have gotten the gang back together for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and after what seems an age of teasing and cast announcements and deliberately stirred up faux controversy about breasts in marketing...
