Licorice Pizza, 2021.Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and Benny Safdie.SYNOPSIS:Licorice Pizza arrives on home video in a Blu-ray + DVD + digital code edition that’s light on bonus feature, although it does include a small poster, if you’re into that sort of thing.There are […]
Happy Death Day helmer Christopher Landon to direct Arachnophobia remake
You may recall way back in 2018 that James Wan’s Atomic Monster was announced as teaming with Amblin Entertainment for a remake of the cult 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia, and it seems the project may now be looking to finally start spinning its web.As reported by THR, Happy Death Day and Freaky director Christopher Landon […]
Blu-ray Review – Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Extreme Prejudice, 1987.Directed by Walter Hill. Starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, Clancy Brown, Marco Rodriguez.SYNOPSIS:A Texas Ranger ranger and a drug kingpin who used to be friends find themselves going up against one another.In Extreme Prejudice, Texas Ranger John Benteen (Nick Nolte) has to go up […]
Blu-ray Review – High Crime (1973)
High Crime, 1973.Directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Starring Franco Nero, James Whitmore, Delia Boccardo, Fernando Rey, and Silvano Tranquilli.SYNOPSIS:An Italian cop takes on a European drug ring but the deeper he goes the more those around him start to get bumped off.Released as part of StudioCanal’s new Cult Classics line of movies, 1973s Euro-crime caper […]
Sarah Silverman joins Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
As cameras continue rolling on Bradley Cooper’s next directorial film Maestro for Netflix, Deadline reports that comedian Sarah Silverman (Battle of the Sexes) has joined the Leonard Bernstein biopic.She joins Cooper and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Women) in the film. Cooper plays Bernstein while Mulligan will portray his wife Felica Montealegre. Silverman will portray Bernstein’s sister, […]
Is Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman a ‘vanity project’?
Anghus Houvouras on Netflix vanity projects and The Irishman…Modern journalism is about rapid-fire reactions. That is the highest priority. Quickly getting a ‘hot take’ out for the world to see before anyone else does in the hopes of getting likes, upvotes and views. Getting things right is a distant second.Which is why I found amusement […]
Trailer for body horror Swallowed starring Jena Malone
Coinciding with its world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival this weekend, a trailer has been released for writer-director Carter Smith’s (The Ruins) new body horror Swallowed.The film is described as a “slimy wild queer horror nightmare of a movie” by the director and reunites him with The Ruins’ Jena Malone who stars alongside Mark […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity, 1944.Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, John Philliber, and Tom Powers.SYNOPSIS:Criterion continues its string of 4K upgrades of classic movies with Billy Wilder’s 1944 film, Double Indemnity. The 4K presentation is sublime, and Criterion threw in a pair of Blu-rays, one […]
The Art of Ambiguity in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at the finest in ambiguous cinema, and asks ‘how do you pull it off?’… Often in the law books of screenwriting there’s a section which might tell the studious aspiring writer that a film must have clarity. Plot threads must lead to resolution. Each act and your central character arcs should be clear. […]
Tahar Rahim joins Sony’s Spidey spin-off Madame Web
Sony’s upcoming Marvel and Spider-Man spin-off Madame Web has added another actor to its cast in Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian), according to Deadline.There is no word on who Rahim will play, but he joins a growing cast that includes Dakota Johnson (The Lost Daughter), Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria), Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and Isabela Merced (Dora The Explorer).Madame […]
