Steve Jobs movie review: insanely great (LFF 2015)
You’ve never seen such a compelling, entertaining movie about a genius jerk. As smart and as sleek as a Macbook Pro, and a compulsory bit of modern history.
Ridley Scott
The Martian movie review: life on Mars
An excellent complement to the novel, simplifying the science without dumbing it down yet retaining the suspense and urgency of its interplanetary stranding.
Exodus: Gods and Kings movie review: whites only
Simultaneously the dullest and the most insulting version of itself it could possibly be. If only it had managed to be campy, that’d be something…
the Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2013 EDA Award winners
12 Years a Slave and Gravity win big…
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.
The Counsellor trailer: don’t do drugs
Don’t do drugs, people. Don’t sell drugs, don’t move drugs, don’t hang out with drug dealers, don’t work with drug dealers. Sheesh.
watch Ridley Scott’s first film, starring his brother Tony (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Prometheus (review)
Wants to be an ambitious SF drama, but somewhere along the way, the provocative speculation and the seriocomic tragedy got lost. Oh, and the characters got forgotten, too. Plus there’s precious little authentic drama.
question of the day: Has a surfeit of promo ever made you sick of a movie before you’ve even seen it?
In the current environment, in which devoted movie bloggers work for free in exchange for access to early material and talent, can we even expect any pullback on the hype overdrive?
Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender talk Prometheus
I promised to share a few of the juiciest tidbits from the Prometheus talent Q&A I attended last month. And here they are.
