'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
So, this Red Sparrow movie--is it because Marvel has dropped the ball on a proper Black Widow movie?
The trailers are selling it that way, but having seen it...nope. She's not that kind of spy, and it's not that kind of movie.
I would recommend it to fans of The Americans with the caveat that it is VERY VERY LONG. Runtime was 2 hours 20 minutes and I was lucky enough to see it without trailers.
It has been movie weekend for me.
Black Panther, Dunkirk, Marshall, Logan, and now Traffic Stop, one of the docu shorts.
Just got back from a screening of Game Night. I laughed, I winced, I thought fondly of playing games with msbelle and her brother as well as Noise Design and Pix. Good times.
Alyssa Rosenberg on Annihilation: [link]
It's a short series of twits, no spoilers. I am a horror movie weenie but I really want to watch it. Ex Machina was such an interesting film that grew on me more the longer I thought about it, and it sounds like Alex Garland has another thoughtful genre film on his resume. Someone also twitted yesterday that this is a movie that's better watched by oneself, not in a rowdy crowd of people.
It's super obvious that I've spent all day trying to avoid work and just read film news right? A couple more links!
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl: [link]
(I hope TPTB all realize that they now kinda HAVE TO hire a woman to direct.)
A terrific oral history of the making of Get Out on vulture: [link]
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl
sources say that Whedon, after a year of trying, could not crack the code of what a Batgirl movie should be.
For fucks sake. Kudos, I guess, for him coming to that realization, but Babs is not that complicated a character.
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl:
Praise jeebus.
Damn straight.
Considering what he would've done to Wonder Woman, I'm glad he's leaving Batgirl. Joss is a great writer and generally a good filmmaker (Ultron being the exception) and script doctor, but I'd rather he never touch a woman again. Real or fictional. His issues are too creepy and he is not in control of them.