Hollywood is poking the bear again, but what’s most interesting about their latest passive-aggressive tantrum is what they’re not doing. It was just announced that Wicked star Cynthia Erivo will play the title role in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which will be performed at the Hollywo...
Read MoreFlight Risk is the kind of movie I’ve been saying Hollywood should start making again: a relatively low-budget thriller that doesn’t need to make much money to be successful. What I forgot to mention is that they actually have to be good. Flight Plan had a lot of promise, and it has some decen...
Read MoreThe incoming President of the United States has vowed to save one of the entities that tried to destroy him. Today, President Donald Trump, who is about to be sworn into office for the second time in three days, announced on his Truth Social app that he is appointing three actors as “Special Ambas...
Read MoreFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga is a mess of a film that doesn’t know what it wants to be. It can’t decide if it’s a revenge movie, a futuristic crime film, or, oddly enough, a Mad Max movie. What it does know is that it isn’t very interested in its title character, as Furiosa is the least &hellip...
Read MoreWhile the new Hunger Games movie sits in theaters, another dystopian sci-fi film is preparing to make us fear the future. Today, Warner Bros. released a trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a spin-off of/prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (which didn’t have Mel Gibson, so it’s socially acceptable t...
Read More“Theatre of Pain” brings The Continental to a ridiculous, empty-headed conclusion, successfully demystifying the High Table and removing the stakes from what should have been a near-suicide mission. A few good scenes are sprinkled through what is otherwise an enactment of a child playing with a...
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