The Great Casting Challenge: Part III
It seems this Ben Affleck casting caused quite a stir. As the news was dropped and the debris laid rest, fans were up in arms over their fallen hero, Christian Bale. The thing is the Batman recasting would’ve had to happen eventually. Just as all comic book movie stars will have to be recast eventually. So to avoid another commotion we’re here to help. We want to help plan ahead for these comic franchise, both new and old, released...
Foster the People
Here’s the thing: here are issues, and there are Issues. Every film, at least those with a conventional narrative, is going to have an issue at its core. Characters need conflict and crisis to butt up against, they need problems to solve and hurtles to overcome and yes, issues to deal with. That’s par for the course. Some films, however, find their characters dealing with capital-I Issues, big, heavy socially-, culturally-, or even...
Ain’t This Movie Awesome?
“This Happened in Texas,” states the title card of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, before you see anything else (in fact there are no opening credits, so that’s the only graphic you get at all) and it’s a damn good thing. Without that piece of exposition, it would be tough to get your bearings. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is so awesomely sharp and single-minded that it often forgets to set us in a time or place, to let us know how much...
Retrospective Review: Kick-Ass
Score: 8/10 “Come on, be honest with yourself. At some point in our lives, we all wanted to be a superhero.” – Dave Lizewski/ Kick-Ass Kick-Ass is not a movie for children. It is lewd, obscene, and over the top. However, it is an excellent movie as director Matthew Vaughn utilizes ridiculousness to keep the film funny and entertaining while balancing it with realism to develop the serious theme of the story. The movie is based on the...
The Great Casting Challenge Part II
It seems this Ben Affleck casting caused quite a stir. As the news was dropped and the debris laid rest, fans were up in arms over their fallen hero, Christian Bale. The thing is the Batman recasting would’ve had to happen eventually. Just as all comic book movie stars will have to be recast eventually. So to avoid another commotion we’re here to help. We want to help plan ahead for these comic franchise, both new and old,...
Thick as Thieves
*spoilers for more or less every single film mentioned in this article* Last year, when Clint Eastwood showed up at the Republican national Convention and angrily debated America’s future with a chair, I don’t think I was alone in being horror-tained. The segment wouldn’t end, it made little conceptual sense (pretending your rhetorical opponent is there even though he’s not, without any other creative thought going into the bit), and...