Movies have a soft spot in our hearts. They present us with engaging, moving stories that can entertain as well as make us think. It is in the thinking of a movie long after the credits have rolled and we have gone back to our lives, that the movie continues to exist beyond the confines […]
Director Cary Fukunaga is an up-and-coming director with an impressive resume behind-the-camera on films such as the immigration drama Sin Nombre and a Gothic re-imagining of Jane Eyre. His most high-profile work was directing episodes of HBO’s acclaimed series True Detective. Fukunaga was set to direct the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It, but that no longer seems to […]
With the dearth of new releases this week – and the fact that both are completely unworthy of purchase – Orson Welles’ noir-killing Touch of Evil easily wins the title of Recommendation of the Week. Finishing off a solid group of re-releases, a pair of political thrillers from director Costa-Gavras provide plenty of reasons to empty […]
Paper Moon, the latest entry into Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series, comes with a heavy dose of nostalgia. In 1973, Peter Bogdanovich, on top form after the success of The Last Picture Show and What’s Up, Doc?, looked back fondly at pre-war America and a golden age of Hollywood filmmaking. Nostalgia is timeless, which is why his adaptation of Joe David Brown’s novel remains […]
After his trial captured the imagination of a nation and became the subject of a documentary by Joe Berlinger, the life of James J. “Whitey” Bulger was all but certain to get the Hollywood treatment. Attracting names like Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson and Joel Edgerton, the life and crimes of Whitey Bulger will take center stage […]
Gil Kenan may have brought Poltergeist into the 21st century (ditching the spooky CRT television for a glitchy iPhone), but much like the film’s desecrated graveyard, it should probably have been left alone. Vacant sarcasm and narrative banality prevail over fresh ideas, ensuring Poltergeist‘s spot among the myriad of needlessly “updated” horror films remade only […]
Imagine a place where the world’s most intelligent and highly creative minds came together to do what they do best, create and inspire. What would that place look like? What would it mean for us and how could it change our world? Disney’s Tomorrowland addresses the pros and cons of such questions and does so […]
