French director Luc Besson makes spectacular films that are delightfully bonkers. His latest sci-fi epic, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is the most expensive French film ever made, and, like many of Besson’s movies, has split opinion…
One cliche of movie hyperbole that always attracts my attention is the annual “sleeper hit of the summer.” Add in “Sundance favourite” and I’m sold. This summer, The Big Sick is that film. https://youtu.be/PJmpSMRQhhs This romantic comedy premiered at the…
Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant is a sequel to his Alien origins movie Prometheus (2012), while also serving as a prequel of sorts to his original Alien (1979). https://youtu.be/svnAD0TApb8 If you’re a fan of the Alien film series, this will all…
Ghost in the Shell (2017) is the much-anticipated live-action sci-fi thriller based on the Japanese comic (manga) Kōkaku Kidōtai, subtitled The Ghost in the Shell and first serialized in 1989. Since then, there have been several anime (Japanese animation) film…
his time last year I shared my Oscar predictions for the four main categories: Best Picture, Director, Lead Actor, and Lead Actress. The predictions are based on a statistical model that I developed that uses information on factors associated with…
My teenage daughters are eagerly awaiting the new movie set in the world of Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, directed by David Yates. I can’t pretend I’m not looking forward to it myself too. Although the…
As far as intriguing movie titles go, it’s hard to beat, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton’s latest gothic extravaganza. I mentioned this movie as one of the upcoming young adult novel/movies that had caught my eye in my…
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is New Zealand director, Taika Waititi’s, latest critically-acclaimed feature film, following What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Boy (2010), and Eagle vs Shark (2007). It sounds like a thoroughly entertaining coming-of-age tale about a troubled…
I’m a sucker for movies either from or about my formative years in the 1980s. So I’m eager to see Richard Linklater’s latest movie Everybody Wants Some!! about three days in the lives of a group of college baseball players.…
With some of the Young Adult novels that have been turned into movies lately, it can seem that the post-apocalyptic future is here already. Or maybe it just feels like that would be preferable to having to endure yet another…
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