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I have a terrible confession to make: I am weirdly fascinated by Hong Kong movies superheroes. I guess you could make the argument that most wu xia films are superhero movies already — people with amazing, nearly supernatural powers that … Continue reading Made Overseas: Black Mask (1996)
Sure, this review would have been thematically more relevant, a few days ago, but it’s never too late to honor mothers. On that subject, we have the latest collaboration of director Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody. After breaking out with … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Tully (2018)
This week on TCM Underground, we travel to the 1950s and 1960s in Japan and get treated to a double feature that goes against the norm and invites us to a frank discussion on sexuality. Both films go into explicit … Continue reading TCM Underground: Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and Crazed Fruit (1956)
Ten years ago this week, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Within a week, it would be in theaters everywhere, including the California AMC multiplex where my then-high school sweetheart watched in horror … Continue reading Scene Dissections: What if Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Had Been Good?
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Pixar edition. Toy Story 2
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War Life of the Party Breaking In Overboard A Quiet Place Infinity War has now made $547M domestically and topped a billion internationally, with the second-biggest all-time opening in China … Continue reading Box Office: May 11 – 13, 2018
American Mother’s Day today so let’s talk Mums. The best To the worst TV, Movies, books, let’s see your memorable madres. Continue reading Pop Culture Moms- The Best and Worst
Orginal this was the moomins spot but I keep falling into more interesting stuff about them and their creator that it might take literal years for me to finish it. So a shorter one, about an utterly unique piece of … Continue reading Christiane Cegavske’s Blood Tea and Red String
There have been many Indian movies about the country’s fraught relationship with Pakistan. It is only natural, given their history. This week’s movie, Lahore, addresses the relationship more directly, and hints at the possibility of reconciliation. It is also a story … Continue reading WTF ASIA 4: Lahore (2010)
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: Pinocchio
For a while now, it’s been known that Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are making a fifth Indiana Jones movie, currently scheduled for release in 2020. So far, however, there’s not much concrete info on what the plot or title … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Indiana Jones 5
Shane Black’s The Predator has a shiny new trailer, but take this opportunity to discuss all things Predator, from the three mainline films to the two AvP films to the various comics, collectibles, and vintage video games. Don’t disappear into … Continue reading Predator Thread
For the longest time, I thought I might be the only one outside of Cameron Crowe who actually owns this movie on DVD, but then I found out our own Gougagna does as well, so there are at least three copies floating around out there. Continue reading Poor Little Rich Boys: Revisiting Vanilla Sky
For decades, man had looked up to the stars and wondered, “How can we take the basic premise of ET, one of most profitable movies of all time, and make it as awkward as possible?” For some, it means creating … Continue reading Made Overseas: Koi… Mil Gaya (2003)
I had always heard film buffs talk about the ’70s as the pinnacle of moviemaking, and I always chafed at that a bit, as it seemed dismissive of everything that came before and after. But it’s hard to argue once … Continue reading Snubby Awards: 1975 Results/1974 Nominations
This week’s TCM Underground double feature’s theme is on a pair of rip-offs that followed in the very, very successful wake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) Not content with borrowing just one part of its title from … Continue reading TCM Underground: Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) and Homicidal (1961)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Tarzan.
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War Overboard A Quiet Place I Feel Pretty Rampage I’m currently sitting next to an egg timer that will tell me when to take my pizza out of the oven … Continue reading Box Office: May 4 – 6, 2018
I was and am a big fan of Prometheus. I saw it on blu ray, months after the rancor of the Internet response had become calcified. My expectations were low, figuring it was another middling but proficient late period Ridley … Continue reading Old Dressings, Big Ideas: Prometheus and Alien: Covenant
Perhaps nothing emphasizes how far superhero stories, with all their bizarre tropes and gimmicks, have permeated popular culture than this: in the past year, we have had not one, not two, not three, but four live action superhero mega-crossovers, each … Continue reading The Justice Defenders in: Crisis of Infinity Wars
Three years ago today, on May 4th, 2015, visual media took another step forward in its evolution, with the beginning of one of the great comedy series of the 2010s. Two young brothers had been working for several years at … Continue reading Series Spotlight, Monster Factory
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