Renfield and The Pope’s Exorcist were no match for The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s second weekend When studio projections were first announced for The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s opening last week, the animated film was only expected to do about $87 million for the weekend. By Saturday that number had ballooned to $137 million, when … Read more
You can sense that condescension in the film’s unnatural development, as seen in commonplace scenes of prejudice: Eric Roberts briefly appears as a bigoted service station owner that shouts the Black Globetrotters away from his gas by touting a double barrel shotgun; a hotel rents a room to the monkey Mr. Bananas rather than the … Read more
This recounting of the Branch Davidians’ stories also makes for sandy-tinted flashbacks to the 1980s. We are shown the rise of Vernon Wells in the Branch Davidian community and how the man later became known as the Bible-quoting, mullet-topped titan known as David Koresh (played here by Keean Johnson). Part of that included gaining influence … Read more
“De Humani Corporis Fabrica”—the Latin title means “On the Fabric of the Human Body”—is not as groundbreaking a picture. But it is a compelling and possibly important one. Not so much because of what it shows, although what it shows can rightly be described as shocking and galvanic. (By the same token, it occurred to … Read more
“They were very violent, they were very witty, and they were very intelligent,” says Morrissey in an archival interview about The New York Dolls. That unpredictable blend of anarchy and wit has defined Johansen’s career as an artist, and it’s on display in all of the performances and excellent interviews in this project. Scorsese and … Read more
ace The Super Mario Bros. movie just enters its second weekend in theaters, it is already a massive, mushroom-sized hit. The film just crossed half a billion dollars globally — which makes it, after a single week in theaters, the biggest video-game adaptation of all time. Already! I would have assumed Mortal Kombat: Annihilation grossed … Read more
Along the way, and with the encouragement of his support group (led by an appealing Brandon Scott Jones with spot-on timing), Renfield realizes that a different life is possible for him—a happy one of his own. Hilarious details abound in production and costume design as Renfield seeks a cheerier, more colorful persona, far from the … Read more
Unfortunately, “The Pope’s Exorcist” is a watchable but far-from-special rehash of exorcism movie cliches, with detours into a Vatican conspiracy plot that has been compared to Dan Brown’s novels but half-assedly connects with church atrocities and scandals. The punchline is so convoluted and ridiculous that it seems to let the Church off the hook for … Read more
According to Film Ratings, the FastX MPA rating is now available as Universal Pictures’ highly-anticipated Fast & Furious movie has officially been given a PG-13 rating. Tea FastX MPA rating is for “Intense sequences of violence and action, language and some suggestive material.” The tenth and penultimate installment to the Fast & Furious franchise’s rating … Read more
The cast for Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson has been unveiled and will star Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington. According to a report from Variety, Jackson and Washington will join a star-studded cast that’s set to include Ray Fisher (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), Danielle Deadwyler (till, The Harder They … Read more