https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkRo5l8679g Well that only took 20 years. In possibly the most infamous film production disaster of all time, director Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, and Monty Python alumnus) saw his Don Quixote passion project go up in flames while he was shooting it in the 1990s. As accounted for in the absolutely [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIWiCjiYi7o Here's something I never thought I'd say: if the new Star Wars movie is anything like that Denny's commercial, it should be a lot of fun! Have faith, padawans. Solo: A Star Wars Story opens on May 25, 2018.
Episode 4 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema Ready Player One, @ 1:10 Spielberg Top 5 / Jeff's bonus 10 thru 6, @ 29:23 Spielberg Top 5 / Charles' 5 through 1, @ 38:57 Spielberg Top 5 / Jeff's 5 through 1, @ 57:26 Outro, @ 01:01:15 A new film podcast [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCF5Y8dQpR4 A thriller where the insidious terror is...Reformed theology? Okay, not quite. But in controversial writer/director Paul Schrader's latest film, it's a question of if the light that one reverend preaches about is powerful enough to defeat the darkness. First Reformed stars Ethan Hawke as a small town minister whose existential crisis of faith is [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequence of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity, and language) Released: March 29, 2018 Runtime: 140 minutes Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen Now included in my [...]
Episode 3 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema-episode-03 Unsane, @ 0:46 Pacific Rim: Uprising, @ 19:20 I Can Only Imagine, @ 22:47 Vertigo, @ 27:36 Outro / Preview, @38:49 A new film conversation podcast co-hosted by myself and Charles Elmore. You can download it on iTunes or stream Episode 3 above. This [...]
https://youtu.be/_hTTvO50QTs?t=4m25s A movie on a movie screen is an Oscar movie. A movie on a TV screen is an Emmy movie. Why is this so hard to understand, let alone accept? Much of Film Twitter and nerdom is up in arms over Spielberg's "controversial" statement that movies which play in theaters should be up [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for djsturbing behavior, violence, strong language, and sex references) Released: March 23, 2018 Runtime: 97 minutes Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Claire Foy, Jay Pharoah, Joshua Leonard, Amy Irving, Juno Temple, Polly McKie, Aimee Mullins Give it enough time and it starts to make sense. Initially, Unsane feels like an overlong Black Mirror [...]
** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language) Released: March 23, 2018 Runtime: 111 minutes Director: Steven S. DeKnight Starring: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, Tian Jing, Jin Zhang, Adria Arjona, Rinko Kikuchi An absolutely mind-numbing action movie, Pacific Rim: Uprising is, at least, not so bad [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwktRDG_aQ&feature=youtu.be It's not often (if ever) that someone as counter-cultural as Mr. Rogers, a person so unhip and categorically square, can be so universally revered. But no matter who you talk to - liberal or conservative, progressive or traditionalist - the sentiments are the same: Fred Rogers was the best of us, someone we all [...]
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