On the one hand, [the film] shares information for a medical treatment that could provide great benefit to people suffering many terrible illnesses. On the other hand, I can?t say it is not an infomercial for snake oil.
The YA feel of the film comes from the themes that seem to crop up in adolescent stories, such as mortality (it is a time when young people first truly experience the reality of death), freedom and rules, and family and self. All of those themes play out in Morgan and Jordan?s time together, but not always as we think they will.
When you have been reporting movie news for as long as I have, you learn to take “news” articles with a grain of salt. On Monday?night, Page Six ran an article with the headline?Disney execs in a panic over upcoming ?Star Wars??film. According to the report, Disney execs are?dissatisfied with?Rogue One, which has prompted “expensive…
It’s been awhile since Gerard Butler nailed his name to the blockbuster wall with?300. But in between making?Fallen?films about terrorists in the U.S. and London, he starred in the ensemble piece,?Gods of Egypt,?about the brotherly rivalry of the Egyptian gods Set (Butler) and Osiris (Bryan Brown), and the young passion of the human thief, Bek…
If the first season of?True Detective?had found itself in Los Angeles, it might have become?Triple 9. In a nearly two-hour heist flick, Australian director John Hillcoat (Lawless,?The Proposition) moves around A-list actors like chess pieces. Yes, we’ve seen a group of police officers cross over to the dark side of criminality before, but we’ve never…
Fifteen years ago, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson delivered?Zoolander, a film that ridiculously satires our thoughts on beauty, modeling, and humanitarian inclinations. It was dumb – but it seemed to be dumb on purpose. In fact, it was critically and commercially a success! But fifteen years later,?Zoolander No. 2?comes across much like the signs that…
On Tuesday, I posted the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Beauty and the Beast live-action film from Disney. Several major websites have reported this week the new teaser?was view a record 91.8 million times the first twenty-four hours it was online. The most recent record holder was The Force Awakens, which was viewed some…
The year of blockbusters continues as FOX offers?it’s latest franchise entry into the mix. Although technically a “Marvel” film, the X-Men have long been under the FOX umbrella (thus the reason no crossover with Avengers… yet). After 15 years of the X-men franchise–and depending on whether or not?you count Deadpool—X-Men: Apocalypse?is either the 8th or…
Friend to the podcast, Patrick Erskine joins Steve for a deeper look at Shane Black’s THE NICE GUYS. This 70s comedy, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, is R-rated for content… but is there more at work? We discuss corruption, porn and what the film thinks it means to be good. Want to continue to…
Based on the most downloaded freemium app of all time,?The Angry Birds Movie?has grossed over $157 million dollars in its first week. With a worldwide following for the game, it was a no-brainer that the film would follow. Seriously, we’ve seen news of PONG and Centipede movies in the works, so could a hammed-up version…
