Fury movie review (London Film Festival)
A particularly ugly iteration of “war is hell”… and I mean that as a compliment. This is a film that is deeply unpleasant and near genius.
Brad Pitt
movies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival
LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it.
Peter Capaldi sends words of encouragement to the Glasgow School of Art
I might have a little something in my eye…
Sabotage redband trailer: gotta restrain my enthusiasm for this…
David Ayer’s movies need really great actors to pull them off, and I don’t think Arnold Schwarzenegger has the chops for serious drama…
the best selfie ever: Ellen DeGeneres and Bradley Cooper (and celebrity photobombers) at the Oscars
We see a lot of insincerity at events like the Oscars, but everyone in this photo looks like they’re genuinely having a good time.
2014 preview: only movies left underived
Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.
The Counsellor review
Almost, but not quite, hilariously demented — if accidentally so — drama about sex and death, and why not to get involved with drug cartels.
2 Guns review: buddy cops, slight of hand
Oddly took some advice not intended for movies: “Be specific but not memorable. Be funny but don’t make ’em laugh.”
why so many movies about folktales?
What is it about folktales that appeal to us? What elements of folktales do you particularly like or hate, especially as Hollywood deals them out?
a World War Z sequel? maybe if they’d kept the original ending
The original ending, much of which was apparently actually shot, is a lot darker and much closer in tone to the book…
