“The cinema is an invention without any future.” ― Louis Lumière
Calm weekend. The highest grossing new film was The Kid Who Would Be King (66). The King Arthur story for the junior set. Looks like a pleasant outing for parents and kids, I may just rent this someday, as I am a fan of Arthuriana. They keep making movies about this story although they never […]
Read More Opening in Las Vegas, January 25, 2019Two major changes in the Academy Awards over the last ten years has adjusted how Oscar geeks like myself have speculated on who will win the statuette. The preferential voting system, which insures that the Best Picture winner must get over fifty percent of the vote, and the push after #OscarSoWhite to have a younger, […]
Read More The 91st Oscars: Mexican StandoffI suppose the big opening this weekend is Glass (42), the conclusion to a trilogy by M. Night Shamalyan that he began many years ago with Unbreakable. But it’s getting pretty bad reviews, so his “comeback” with Split may be premature. I haven’t seen Split yet, so this will have to wait, probably a long […]
Read More Opening in Las Vegas, January 19, 2019A good weekend to stay at home and watch the football playoffs. Number one this weekend at the box office will be The Upside (44), a remake of the French film Intouchables, about a recently-paroled convict looking for work who ends up in an unlikely friendship with a paralyzed billionaire. Starring the diminutive homophobe Kevin […]
Read More Opening in Las Vegas, January 11, 2019If Beale Street Could Talk, written and directed by Barry Jenkins and based on a novel by James Baldwin, is a lovely film, pitch perfect in tone and a much more accurate version of black lives in America than Green Book. Also unlike that film, it eschews easy answers. Fonny and Tish (Stephan James and […]
Read More Review: If Beale Street Could TalkChristian Bale, at last night’s Golden Globes, thanked Satan for his inspiration in playing Dick Cheney. And I believe writer and director Adam McKay also called upon the Dark Lord for inspiration, as his film Vice, a biopic of one of the most reviled politicians in American history (he left office with a thirteen-percent approval […]
Read More Review: ViceThere’s only one wide release this weekend, Escape Room (49), which is a typical January horror dump. I’ve never been to an escape room, but I understand they’re popular. So I have no real interest in this. Opening in limited release is If Beale Street Could Talk (87), which is Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight […]
Read More Opening in Las Vegas, January 4, 2019Thought I’d kick off the year by asking everyone for their most anticipated films of the year. Here’s a list complied by Yahoo Movies: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/2019-movie-preview-50-anticipated-films-154311114.html I must say mine is Avengers: Endgame. One of the greatest cliffhangers in movie history. I have to include Star Wars IX, and Toy Story 4, The Irishman, and Once […]
Read More Random Thread for January, 2019
Gone Elsewhere 