We haven’t done an old-movie Weekend Review for a while, and summer’s more than half-way done. This one seemed a natural, since it takes place in the far-future world of… 2020!
Battle Queen 2020 (2001), filmed in zero degrees and on zero budget, may well be the worst post-apocalyptic movie of all time– and that’s saying quite a bit.
Based on a true story.
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Starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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Originally broadcast December 28, 1936
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The first to manage the “clean sweep” of all major awards.
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After bouncing around the festival circuit, winning several awards, and playing a few theaters, The Vast of Night finally landed itself on Amazon Prime. With new releases on hold, this 2019 release might be just the film for those seeking a taste of retro-SF.
Another sweeping generational epic.
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Danny Boyle has grown increasingly gentle. The man who began his feature-film career with the pitch-dark comedy, Shallow Grave and achieved widespread fame for Trainspotting moved onto such films as the uplifting Slumdog Millionaire and the biopic Steve Jobs.
In 2019, he made an SF Rom-Com that also serves as a love letter to the Beatles and so, today, we’re going to review Yesterday.
What could be more appropriate now than a horror movie about two guys in isolation who drive each other crazy?
We haven’t had a Weekend Review for awhile, so I’m going to take this opportunity to annoy some of the Bureau and delight others by giving another generally positive review to an A24 production, last autumn’s The Lighthouse. After The Witch‘s success with many critics and niche audiences, Robert Eggers co-wrote and directed this strange little film, in which Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson get stuck together on an isolated island and lose their minds.
The first star-studded cast film.
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