To the Warner Bros. TENET Marketing Department, Christopher Nolan wrote an Op-Ed in March about the social responsibility of supporting local theatres. A cinematic champion, the director received his fair share of criticism trying to promote moviegoing during the pandemic. I think most people detect that this is a director who makes movies and doesn’t…
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Sightly Monsters, Unseemly Characters in “Godzilla King of the Monsters”
Plot: A bunch of ancient monsters awaken to fight Godzilla, who is already here, and humans pretend to matter. Cast: Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, Ken Watanabe, Charles Dance, Sally Hawkins, Thomas Middleditch, Bradley Whitford, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Director, Writer, Producer: (co-writer/ director) Michael Dougherty, (written by) Zach Shields, Max Borenstein (story by),…
Why ‘Pokemon: Detective Pikachu’ Will Be A Success
UPDATE: Pokemon Detective Pikachu opened to $170M worldwide on a $150M budget. Anytime you cover your budget opening weekend it is an unqualified success. Pokémon + Ryan Reynolds + Guardians of the Galaxy writer + Competent Director + Several 1’s and 0’s = A Whole Lotta Money The idea of heart-throb Ryan Reynolds being cast…
Jurassic World ‘Fallen Kingdom’ Is Reverse-Darwinism, Survival of the Most Idiotic
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens beneath the surface of a flooded park as some nervous and partially oblivious corporate goons search for not so ancient dinosaur bones. The less nervous one says to the other, “Don’t worry! Anything that survived here is long dead by now.” You would think that, but it’s only been 3…
Kong: Skull Island Trailer 2 is For Your Health
I can already see the Batman v. Superman style problem Warner Bros. stablemate Legendary Pictures is going to have to grapple with before Godzilla vs. Kong out on May 29th, 2020, a problem hinted at in this trailer, which suggests why two ideologically passive monsters, would seek out and fight one another. “Kong’s a pretty good…
Hollywood Misuse of Trailer Card Captions
There is a small unaddressed issue in movie trailers for as many as they have. Many use the Title Card captions incorrectly, failing to capitalize or use name recognition. Often trailer editors use the same film as a marker of success too often thinking they can fool the audience with the same film every time…
Jurassic World Review: ‘A Well-Worn Retread of a Massive Footprint’
When I was eight-years old my dad took me and my four siblings to the drive-in to see ‘Jurassic Park III’ and ‘The Fast and the Furious’, from which I developed a penchant for B-movies. After having watched the original Jurassic Park and The Lost World, I read the much darker respective Michael Crichton novels….
January’s Anticipated Film – “Blackhat”
Why we’re excited: The director of such acclaimed film’s as “Heat”, which had the best Al Pacino and Robert De Niro pairing, “Collateral”, showcasing Tom Cruise’s best performance and Jamie Foxx’s best supporting work, and “The Insider” for which he was academy award nominated 3 of 4 times (the other was as a producer on “The Aviator”)….
Pacific Rim Review
Release Date: July 12th, 2013 Director: Guillermo Del Toro One of my most anticipated films of the year was Pacific Rim. I tried doing a media blackout on it like I did with Cloud Atlas but couldn’t, fortunately I’d forgotten most of what I’d seen by the time I entered…
Quietly Enjoyable Movies
There are box-office successes, failures, critical bombs and cult hits, but each film can have something of its own that doesn’t quite fit it into any of those categories, but is just good enough. These films are mild success stories based on their own merits. Monsters (2010) $237,301 72% 63 Highest Praise: Legendary Pictures, who upon seeing the scale of…
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