Get Out, 2017. Written and Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, LilRel Howery, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson, Lakeith Stanfield, and Catherine Keener SYNOPSIS: A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s mysterious family estate. So you want something subversive? How about a horror movie where […]
Second Opinion – Get Out (2017)
Get Out, 2017. Written and Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, LilRel Howery, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson, Lakeith Stanfield, and Catherine Keener SYNOPSIS: A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s mysterious family estate. Horror films that manage to be at once scary, funny and […]
Jordan Peele is being courted to direct the live-action Akira movie
Warner Bros. is courting Jordan Peele to direct the long awaited film adaptation of the popular anime Akira. With the success brought his way through his work directing Get Out – a horror film centred on a young black man visiting his girlfriend’s creepy Caucasian family – one can imagine that Peele will be getting […]
Jordan Peele set to write and direct Blumhouse horror-thriller Get Out
Jordan Peele, along with his Key and Peele co-star Keegan-Michael Key, has emerged as one the strongest talents working in comedy today, but for his next project he is set to take on an entirely different genre. According to Variety, Peele has been hired to write and direct an upcoming horror-thriller titled Get Out, which […]
Deja Vu: The Dull Predictability of the Hollywood Tentpole Lineup
Tom Jolliffe on whether the yearly line ups of Blockbusters are becoming too predictable… So new year rolls around, as time inevitably guarantees. At the end of the year we invariably look back. Best of lists permeate film sites across the internet land. Then as soon as we kick into a new January, we start […]
Flickering Myth Film Class: How to Open Strongly
In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at how to open strongly… It takes a great deal to get an audience to succumb to your film. You need to keep their attention for the entirety of the film. The best way to hook them in of course is to open […]
Disney win the US box office crown for second year in a row
Largely thanks to the cinematic behemoths that were Beauty and the Beast ($504m) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($423m and counting), Disney has once again won the race to be crowned the domestic box office champions with $2.27 billion in the studio account. At the time of writing, Disney held a 21.3% market share, ahead of […]
Are We Losing Objectivity? Critics and Joe Public Succumb to Hyperbolic Overstatement
Tom Jolliffe on whether the lavish praise from critics or utter derision from the public for a film is always justified… There seems to be a trend in films recently. There are films which come out with a level of relevance that mean that the reaction to said film is under the microscope from pre-release, […]
The Oscars: Does the Academy know better than the fans?
George Chrysostomou on the Academy Awards… The yearly debate has reared its head again as to whether the Oscars truly capture the feelings that audiences had towards films in 2017. Whilst there is always the ongoing issue of the ever increasing divide between fans and the critics, as evidenced by recent pickings such as Star Wars: […]
Jordan Peele “seriously considering” a sequel to Get Out
Actor and comedian-turned-filmmaker Jordan Peele certainly scored with his feature directorial debut Get Out, with the Blumhouse-produced horror proving to be a hit with audiences, critics, and even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, who nominated it for four Oscars – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya). […]
