Fans of Fly Me to the Moon are eager to discover if the recent release is based on a true story. Set against the backdrop of the 1960s Space Race, the romantic comedy follows a NASA Director and a PR specialist brought together for the Apollo 11 launch. As they navigate their roles in managing … Read more
The best horror movies work because you feel, in the moment, that what you’re looking at is real. Or even if it isn’t real, you feel like it could happen to you, that it’s not so far-fetched as to be impossible. Plenty of horror movies carve very real feeling scares out of the most outrageous … Read more
Twenty-five years after it whacked the box office, Analyze This is remembered by stars Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro. It’s been 25 years since mob boss Paul Vitti sat on psychiatrist Ben Sobel’s couch, giving enough laughs to make Analyze This one of the biggest hits of 1999 – much to the surprise of … Read more
The animation studio Pixar is intensely beloved by its fans, its best movies speaking to experiences and feelings that are as relatable to adults as they are to children. The studio has amassed a significant and active fandom over the years, its talking toys and lost fish permeating our culture, and its animation technology changing … Read more
Richard Linklater’s Hit Man has one of those perfect movie premises. Glen Powell (who co-wrote the film with Linklater) plays a lonely college professor named Gary who stumbles into a second job for the local police aiding in sting operations. While he starts off helping with their surveillance equipment, the cops later draft him into impersonating a … Read more
Prithviraj Sukumaran’s Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil is out in theaters. The movie is special for Sukumaran’s fans as he has returned to the comedy genre in a local setting. While the movie follows the story of a special case, discussions are ongoing about whether it was inspired by true events. Is Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil based on a real … Read more
Stanley Kubrick once sat James Cameron down to find out exactly how he pulled off 1994’s True Lies a few years before making his final film. Stanley Kubrick was a peculiar man and so it’s really no wonder that his list of favorite films is so diverse. There are works by Welles and Chaplin and … Read more
Nine years after that landmark TV show, Jarecki and his team have returned with a six-episode follow-up titled simply “The Jinx – Part Two.” The four episodes sent to press don’t really answer that question other than to further reveal a man with such a strong ego and corrupt support system that he thought he … 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
Relationships with parents and ancestors is central to your filmmaking as well, and that incompleteness is reflected there, too, in the lack of closure your characters have with their relatives. Those relationships are never resolved, but they end, and they have to deal with that complexity. Revisiting your earlier work at this time in your … Read more