I managed to correctly predict the Oscar winners for the four main categories last year: The Shape of Water for Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro for Director, Gary Oldman for Lead Actor, and Frances McDormand for Lead Actress. The predictions…
A Star Is Born is the latest in a long line of movies starring pop stars. In this case, the pop star in question is Lady Gaga, who can now add stellar acting to her impressive list of career achievements.…
From July 20 to 26 the Civic Theatre is showing some great summer festival movies, including First Reformed (2017), Hearts Beat Loud (2018), The Seagull (2018), Won't You Be My Neighbour (2018), and Hereditary (2018). The last of these, Hereditary,…
With an impressive 13 Academy Award nominations, Guillermo del Toro’s latest movie, The Shape of Water, looks intriguing. The basic premise concerns a woman falling in love with a captive amphibious creature while working in a military lab. As you…
The winter holiday season is almost here, so it must be time for the latest Star Wars instalment, The Last Jedi. Back in the day, we had to wait three years between episodes but now they roll around every year.…
I love the poster for Wonder. The three stars - Julia Roberts (Isabel, the mother), Owen Wilson (Nate, the father), and Jacob Tremblay (Auggie, the son) - walk towards the viewer, holding hands. A small dog walks, tongue hanging out,…
Coen brothers' films are fun-and when they are less fun they are interesting. They are like the George and Ira Gershwin of moviedom. This is not quite a fair comparison as in the case of the musicians their roles…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4m3yAoW8E Why yet another remake of Agatha Christie's classic Murder on the Orient Express? I was surprised to realize that the only prior screen adaptation was Sidney Lumet's magnificent 1974 film An abbreviated cast listing to Kenneth Branagh's Murder on…
I hope that I am not giving too much away or scaring off any potential viewers with my tagline. The film's title is striking : "Mother (exclamation point)". In Aronofsky's world it probably has several levels of meaning. Those of…
2049 - it is thirty years in the future from the opening of the original Blade Runner.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/?ref_=nv_sr_2 All of the characters of the original film were killed off with the exceptions of Deckard, Bat, and possibly Rachael. After watching…
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