Guillermo del Toro’s SF/Fantasy/Fable inspired by an old monster movie won Best Picture and Best Director at the 2018 Academy Awards.1 Blade Runner 2049 took two, for Visual Effects and Cinematography, and Get Out, one, for best original screenplay.
Our review of the film appears here.
Full listing of winners may be found pretty much everywhere.
It has been awhile since we’ve done a Weekend Review of an older film, but here’s one we missed in 2017. A Ghost Story turns its familiar premise into something we’ve never quite seen before. It earned itself numerous awards— but less time in the theatres than the filmmakers might have liked.
The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe installment has been released, adding a new nation to the map and offering new technology. Click below to read the Black Panther review.
The latest subjects of Make Me Watch It are now available, covering Oz the Great and Powerful directed by Sam Raimi and Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return directed by Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed fantasy film takes the old monster movies and views them from a skewered perspective. In the first half, we’re following the action from the point of view of the cleaning woman at a government facility.
Then, she decides to get involved….
The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Lon Chaney Sr. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Running counter to Hollywood’s long-standing (and self-perpetuated) myth that woman can’t lead blockbuster movies, the top three films of 2017 all had female leads. Perhaps a shift is coming?
I was looking for a good movie viewing challenge for 2018, and couldn’t find any, so I made one. Anyone who wishes to participate may do so here. It requires Google account sign in, so that you can come back to it over the course of the year and change your answers to keep track of how you are doing. I intend to make one for TV series as well, after which I’ll create a permanent home for them in the right hand side bar.
With an opening weekend behind it, here is the Bureau 42 review of Star Wars – Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. The review itself will endeavor to be as spoiler free as we can, but if you are avoiding spoilers, you should probably avoid the comments, too. Continue reading →