Given the subject matter, The Apprentice has been a lightning rod for controversy. But how is it as a movie? PLOT: A depiction of the early days of Donald Trump’s (Sebastian Stan) business empire and how his friendship with Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) paved the way for his rise to power. REVIEW: The Apprentice is … Read more
We wanted to like Francis Ford Coppola’s unwieldy passion project, but it’s a mess. PLOT: In a futuristic metropolis named New Rome, the city’s mayor, Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), battles an idealistic architect named Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), who wants to create a sustainable utopia. REVIEW: One of the most unique things about Francis Ford Coppola … Read more
No history of troubled big-budget movies is complete without the story of 1979’s Caligula, which was commissioned by Penthouse Magazine as an attempt to combine serious adult filmmaking with seriously adult sex scenes. In the end, both its director (Tinto Brass) and its writer (Gore Vidal) demanded their names be taken off the film, after Penthouse’s Bob Guccione inserted … Read more
While James Cameron’s recent 4K restorations of his classics are controversial, a famous film preservationist is defending them. Over the last few months, there’s been some controversy among home theatre enthusiasts about the recent restoration by James Cameron of three of his classics in 4K HDR: Aliens, The Abyss, and True Lies. The release of … Read more
Once again, Kevin Spacey has reprised Frank Reynolds in a Christmas video, but this time he’s enlisted Tucker Carlson and X to get the word out. Kevin Spacey’s got an interesting Christmas Eve tradition. Every year, he posts a video to YouTube in his Frank Reynolds/ House of Cards persona. This year, he’s doubled down … Read more
James Cameron’s True Lies is now out for purchase in 4K, but the restoration is already proving to be controversial. After many years of being unavailable, James Cameron’s True Lies is finally out as a title we can purchase. iTunes just released the 4K remastering for Digital Download, alongside two other James Cameron classics, The … Read more
A former writer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe Blade movie has disputed some of the claims made in this week’s big Marvel Studios report. The writer, Michael Starrbury, took to Twitter to state that none of the scripts he worked on had Blade as the “fourth lead” like the report claimed. Twitter user @ComicsComm52 took … Read more
The Idol only ran on HBO for five episodes. (The show was originally greenlit for a six-episode run, but during an extensive reworking of the series during production, it was trimmed down to five.) Maybe given its reception and subject matter, that’s for the better. The show starred Lily-Rose Depp and Abel Tesfaye, better known as … Read more
Oh come on, you knew it was coming. Despite being a film that made just about every possible misstep they could take, had actually managed to accomplish something very few films do. Because did you know that today’s film actually won an Academy Award? Well that ‘aint the half of it’ as we’ve got gifted … Read more
Is The Idol a bold deconstruction of pop music and the world of celebrity? Or is it an off-the-rails mess comparable to “torture porn”? Viewers will soon get to decide for themselves. A new teaser for the long-awaited show about an up-and-coming pop star reveals that The Idol will premiere in June on HBO. The … Read more