Director Brian De Palma has revealed how the opening scene to the first Mission: Impossible instalment was completely changed after some advice by filmmaker George Lucas. “When George saw Mission: Impossible he said, ‘There’s no setup to this thing. You’ve gotta set this thing up! You’ve gotta have that scene where they’re all sitting around the table […]
25 Years of Mission: Impossible: High Stakes Stunts, Dense Plotting and Tom Cruise
Ricky Church on the 25th anniversary of the Mission: Impossible movie franchise… “Your mission, should you choose to accept it.” 25 years ago today those words were uttered as the action-spy genre was given a shot in the arm with a big screen revitalization of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Based on the 1960s TV series […]
Remembering Carrie, the best Stephen King adaptation
Henry Bevan on Carrie… The camera glides through the girls’ locker room. The girls are in various states of undress; steam from the shower creates a dreamlike quality, shrouding the scene, fogging up the lens. The camera pushes in on Carrie (Sissy Spacek) as she rubs herself with soap. It focuses on various parts of […]
Brian De Palma believes one Mission: Impossible movie was “enough” for the franchise
The original director of the 1996 Mission: Impossible movie, Brian De Palma, doesn’t think the successful and highly popular action franchise needed sequels. In an interview with AP News, De Palma pointed out that making sequel after sequel earns a filmmaker money, but as a director whose career was built on original films, that was never his […]
Movie Review – Domino (2019)
Domino, 2019. Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, Eriq Ebouaney, Søren Malling, Paprika Steen, Nicolas Bro, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Mohammed Azaay, Younes Bachir, and Guy Pearce. SYNOPSIS: A Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner’s murder by a mysterious man. For a film mired in production troubles (apparently, the […]
Movie Review – Domino (2019)
Domino, 2019. Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, Søren Malling, Guy Pearce, and Eriq Ebouaney. SYNOPSIS: A Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner’s murder by a mysterious man. Calling Brian De Palma’s new thriller a “troubled project” would most certainly be an understatement, given that it started shooting […]
First trailer for Brian De Palma’s Domino starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Guy Pearce and Carice van Houten
Ahead of its theatrical release next month, Saban Films has debuted a poster and trailer for the upcoming crime thriller Domino. Directed by Brian De Palma, the film stars Games of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as a police officer seeking justice for the murder of his partner, and also features Guy Pearce and Carice van Houten; […]
UPDATE: Brian De Palma developing Harvey Weinstein-inspired horror
Legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables) has revealed that he’s taking inspiration from the recent Hollywood sexual misconduct scandal for his next project, penning a horror film inspired by disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein. “I’m writing a film about this scandal, a project I’m talking about with a French producer,” De Palma told […]
Should you choose to accept them, here are the best Mission: Impossible moments
Matt Rodgers on the best Mission: Impossible moments… The ability for the Mission: Impossible franchise to subvert the law of diminishing returns, in terms of both box-office and quality, as well as keeping the fuse lit under Tom Cruise’s dimming star power, is surely down to the stylistically diverse way in which the films are […]
Blu-ray Review – Body Double (1984)
Body Double, 1984. Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Barbara Crampton, Gregg Henry, Dennis Franz, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd. SYNOPSIS: An out-of-work actor becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman after spying on her through a telescope, leading to a series of nasty events. After beginning the 1980s with the triple-whammy of […]
