A Duo Unlike Any Other: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of “Siskel & Ebert”
A former editor at the site and expert on the history of Roger Ebert looks back on the 50th anniversary of Siskel & Ebert.
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Gore Verbinski Returns with First Trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
After last directing a feature with 2016’s A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinski finally returned to the director’s chair nearly a decade later with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. While originally set for a late January release, it’ll now...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” Director Ruben Fleischer
“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” is an American heist film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie, the writing duo of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, and Seth Grahame-Smith, based on a story by Eric...
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‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: Lofty Nathan’s Dreary Biblical Fantasy Reins In Nicolas Cage
This biblical fantasy’s dreary, static solemnity invites comparison to Robert Eggers’s work. The post ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Review: Lofty Nathan’s Dreary Biblical Fantasy Reins In Nicolas Cage appeared first on Slant Magazine.
continue readingThe Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Left Handed-Girl” Filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou
“Left-Handed Girl” is an international indie drama written, directed, and produced by Shih-Ching Tsou, starring Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye, Brando Huang, Akio Chen, and Xin-Yan Chao. Multi Academy Award-winner Sean Baker served as co-writer, producer, and editor. The...
continue readingNetflix And NEON Have The Most Potential To Get Three Films Into Best Picture This Year…But Which Three Will They Be?
It took a long time, with some early pitfalls to overcome, but Netflix finally seems to have a film all but locked into the Best Picture field with Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.” This puts Netflix in the same boat NEON...
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‘The Running Man’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Mollifying Vision of Empowerment
Wright lends verve to the film’s action, but his expansion of the novel is a ruinous one. The post ‘The Running Man’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Mollifying Vision of Empowerment appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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The Running Man Review: Edgar Wright’s First Pure Action Vehicle is a Partial Victory
Edgar Wright has mostly stayed in the pocket of action cinema since Hot Fuzz paid loving homage to the bombastic genre in 2007. But because subsequent projects like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Baby Driver maintained the same comic...
continue reading“THE RUNNING MAN”
THE STORY – A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them. THE CAST – Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones,...
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KEEPER: We’ve Seen Osgood Perkins’s Latest And We Know The Secret Of The Cabin In The Woods
If there is one thing you can say about director Osgood Perkins, it's that you never really know what you're going to get once the lights go down and the nightmares begin to unfold. After seemingly setting a very firm...
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