Like many boys my age—okay, maybe not—I was a big Dalí fan in the late 1960s. I’m still awestruck by his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory—yup, the melting clocks one—not just because of the genuine numinosity of the image but the craft. It really is meticulous, and on such a small canvas! It’s only … Read more
Anno’s take on Kamen Rider plays out like a loving, idiosyncratic deconstruction of Kamen Rider, a wayward young hero who defends the world from the villainous SHOCKER organization and their various animal-men cyborgs. In “Shin Kamen Rider,” Hongo sets out on his anti-SHOCKER crusade after he reluctantly (and gruesomely) beats up a group of beret-clad … Read more
This is the premise of Ted Geoghegan’s latest movie. “Brooklyn 45” takes place entirely on one set, the front room of the brownstone, and it unfolds in real time like a play. Billed as a supernatural horror film, “Brooklyn 45,” which Geoghegan also wrote, is more than a strict genre label would suggest. Ghosts and … Read more
What got cut from the seven-hour version? I miss some of the movies we had in it. We used to have “I Was A Teenage Werewolf,” “Return of the Ape Man,” some really funny stuff. It is what it is now. It has a lot of stuff that dates all the way back to the … Read more
Earlier models of the format, like John Lee Hancock’s “The Founder” and David O. Russell’s “Joy,” were just hints at a growing interest in the lives of those behind well-known products and corporations, which seem to have grown in the ensuing years of inflation and economic insecurity—not too dissimilar to the current spate of movies … Read more
AT new Leprechaun movie is officially in the works at Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter. What do we know about the new Leprechaun movie? The longest-running franchise in Lionsgate history will get a new film from director Felipe Vargas, the director of the award-winning short film Milk Teeth. The reboot will be written by … Read more
With her feature debut, director Oakley uses an incredible amount of detail in bringing to life the characters she’s written and the painstaking efforts to color code her sets, costumes, and lighting to get just the right emotional tone and shades of ’80s pastels. Her style is reminiscent of another British filmmaker, Joanna Hogg, who … Read more
Early reactions for Bong Joon-Ho’s upcoming mickey 17 have been overwhelmingly positive. The writer and director of Parasite and Snowpiercer helmed the sci-fi thriller. It “follows the story of Mickey 17, an ‘expendable,’ who is a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim,” reads the film’s synopsis. “After one … Read more
Madame Web producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says the mysterious Marvel movie is more thriller than a superhero action setpiece. after Morbius single-handedly sucked the life out of Sony and Marvel’s extended Spider-Verse, the studios could stand to mix things up as the initiative continues to progress. To say this puts pressure on the upcoming film … Read more
Ryan Reynolds & Kenneth Branagh team up for Mayday, an action-adventure movie by Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors. It may not be the pairing you’d expect, but Deadline reports that Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh will be teaming up for may dayan action-adventure movie set up at Apple Original Films and Skydance. Jonathan … Read more