Monthly Archives: August 2019

Emily Blunt will be back, hubby Coach K is directing. Casting switches are kicking in at this stage. “Djimon Hounsou is replacing Brian Tyree Henry in the sequel to ‘A Quiet Place’ https://t.co/w85wCOCC1z https://twitter.com/THR/status/1161152165559361541?s=17

A Japanese manga about a mythic ancient Chinese civil war becomes a live-action Japanese feature film in “Kingdom.” It’s, in essence, a samurai sword fight film with Chinese touches and that “unified China” messaging that many a Chinese combat period … Continue reading →

“Gwen” has the tenor of a spooky folk Welsh folk legend and the grasping, gasping punch of an Industrial Revolution parable. Dark, helpless, grim and bleak? It’s all a part of the windswept and gray setting of this period-perfect period … Continue reading →

Short answer? No. Milo Ventimiglia a is a bland, if pretty, non-presence in the film. Nobody went to see it, and anybody looking for star power and charisma won’t see any sign of it from him in the movie. Whatever … Continue reading →

Every cable operator, all the dish services, losing subscribers to the tune of a million and a half last quarter alone. They are the newspapers of video content, profitable but dying. Quickly. Dead media walking. https://deadline.com/2019/08/u-s-pay-tv-subscriber-losses-more-than-triple-to-1-5m-in-q2-report-1202666232/

A rain-soaked forest and mountain top, kids being kids, until the guns come out, the kidnapping happens and the helicopters come looking for them. This striking Alejandro Landes feature opens Sept. 13 from Neon (of course)

Haunted by rural farming class poverty, terrorized by… Writer-director William McGregor’s “Gwen” looks perfectly gloomy, properly spooky as only “an old folk tale” can be. It opens Friday.

I dare say Paramount is taking this $17 million opening weekend for “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” as, if not a win, at least a minimized loss. They were late realizing this tween adventure had no natural audience … Continue reading →

It’s another version of “Most Dangerous Game” (humans as “game”), and I’m not sure it is so politically touchy that it needed to be pulled. Trump wanted it yanked, and it was. https://t.co/F3KuM5x3hc?amp=1

Love this. https://www.thewrap.com/jason-momoa-says-he-cant-shoot-aquaman-2-because-he-got-run-over-by-a-bulldozer/