“When the first trailer for Captain Marvel dropped I had a frisson of deja vu. It wasn’t due to the image of the Blockbuster Video logo on the building she crash lands into, I have no love for the chain that slowly destroyed all the genuinely interesting mom […]
Here are the films playing the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program: Tokyo Tribe; Big Game; Tusk; It Follows; Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films; [REC]4: Apocalypse; Cub; The Editor; and, What We Do In The Shadows and The Guest. (More trailers as they […]
Jim Emerson ponders what he finds good and bad in Django Unchained and a lot of the good is Christoph Waltz: “Quentin Tarantino has found his actor in Christoph Waltz — someone who can speak Tarantinian fluently and still make it his own.” (via Roger Ebert)
Pulp Fiction remixed in chronological order. Watch it soon if chronological narrative is your thing.
It’s the invisible hand of the market– Tony Stark privatizes world peace and runs into a little competition from Mickey Rourke’s Ivan Vanko / Whiplash in the trailer for Iron Man 2.
Henry Jenkins says Snakes on a Plane might do better than Serenity, two films with comparable prerelease internet buzz, and thinks Whedon should have broken out of the broadcast media mold: “…if he had gone that route, we would have been able to enjoy many more hours of […]
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