As is generally true of movies that kick up Controversy In The Discourse, The Hunt is not in the remotest way worthy of that much attention, so I’m not even going to bother recapping all of that. Instead, let’s just dive into the movie itself. Only let us dive very carefully, for it is extremely shallow, and we do not want to crack our heads on the bottom. What if […]
To judge from the films that get produced, there’s never been a single screenwriter in the history of the art form who had a good relationship with their dad. The latest of the innumerable stories of a bad dad and a suffering child is coming out soon, with Shia LaBeouf playing his own beastly father in Honey Boy. To mark the occasion, we’re taking a look at our own favorite […]
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies – a review of the last 7-days of movie new…with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5 The Grudge – Official Trailer Drops Terminator Star Linda Hamilton Called Her Marriage to James Cameron “Terrible on Every Level” Anna Faris […]
Hey everybody, movies are coming back! In three of the last four months, there have been fewer than 10 wide releases in North America, and while August had a whole lot, nearly all of them were the kind of underperformers that get quietly dumped and make no money. Ah, but in November, we have no fewer than 17 movies to think about, plus the first big wave of Oscar hopefuls. […]
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies – a review of the last 7-days of movie new…with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5 Pippi Longstocking Film in Works From StudioCanal, Heyday Films New ‘Treasure Island’ Movie in the Works at Universal, Mandeville Films Tom Holland’s […]
Furious 7, the last altogether good movie in the Fast & Furious series, came out in April 2015. This is very recent according to any human-scale accounting of time; but it has been an entire generation in American action cinema. The intervening four years have borne witness to a veritable golden age: while Furious 7 was still in theaters, it had to share space with the epochal Mad Max: Fury […]
If you’ve seen Stranger Things or the recently released zeitgeist-embracing adventure The Kid Who Would Be King, you know there’s no shortage of nostalgia for the decades in which most of the folks reading this grew up. The 1980s and ’90s are en vogue and ready to transport you back to your Topanga poster-covered walls of your bedroom. Or whomever you were into at the time. Maybe it was just […]
There is probably no major franchise with a more gnarled line of continuity than the Halloween slasher movies, which despite the apparent cleanliness of their numbered progression, have no fewer than four different, irreconcilable universes, and that’s without bringing in Rob Zombie’s standalone remakes in the 2000s to muck it up. 1978’s Halloween begat one line of descent that stretched from 1981’s Halloween II to 1995’s Halloween: The Curse of […]
Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: Solo: A Star Wars Story is titled Solo, but it’s not the first film for which that’s true. Why, you might say it’s not the SOLO mov- [gets torn apart by wolves] So you […]
I will say this, and say it sincerely: Rat Film is definitely a weird film in all the right ways. On paper, director-writer Theo Anthony’s documentary argues a basic-unto-banal chain of causes and effects: systemic racism keeps black communities in the United States mired in poverty, urban centers that are mired in poverty tend to be falling down around their inhabitants, falling-down urban centers tend to attract sizable rat populations, […]
This week, Transformers: With King Arthur Now, Apparently? Whatever storms its way into theaters, and that’s gotten the Alternate Ending crew excited to think about robots. Killer Terminator-style robots; romantic WALL·E-style robots; and all the robots in between. And that’s why we’re going to be sharing our favorite robots in movie history on our next podcast. From totally inhuman machines, like R2-D2 in Star Wars, to the more-human-than-human tragic killers […]
Popular history records the 1976 remake of King Kong as a terrible failure, but this is not in fact the case. The film cost a shocking amount of money, much of it wasted on a terrible-looking and dysfunctional live-sized robot Kong, but it also brought in a pretty healthy box office return, emerging as one of the year’s biggest hits. Certainly, it brought in enough to suggest that a sequel […]
