107 posts tagged ‘films’
May December review: An intoxicating portrait of an emotional predator
AV Club,
From its very first shot Todd Haynes’ May December announces itself as a wildly intoxicating, intentionally strident provocation. Close-up images of Monarch butterflies and their surrounding manicured flower gardens are scored by the theme from Joseph Losey’s 1971 film The Go-Between. The archly dramatic music lends a… Read more...
Thanksgiving review: Eli Roth serves up a gory feast
Horror fans have been waiting more than a decade for Thanksgiving, director Eli Roth’s holiday slasher about a killer in a pilgrim mask terrorizing a small Massachusetts town. Ever since Roth’s fake trailer for the film showed up in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, we’ve been wondering what the… Read more...
Saltburn review: Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi seek racy thrills
The darkly comedic and corrupt whims of the wealthy are on full display in filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s racy thriller Saltburn. The cheeky provocateur’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning directorial debut, Promising Young Woman, Saltburn wages war on the stuffy British elite by way of a lower-class scholarship student,… Read more...
James Cameron's The Abyss, Aliens, and True Lies Are All Finally Getting 4K Releases
Gizmodo,
In the realm of home entertainment, one of the longest-running burning questions has always been “When is James Cameron going to release all his movies in 4K?” For years, there hasn’t been an answer—but finally, it’s here. Read more...
Where to stream National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Whether or not you get a holiday bonus this year that you can use to buy a swimming pool for the family, whether or not your weirdo relatives show up in their RV, and whether or not your yuppie neighbors are... not impacting your life whatsoever and just get punished for existing, it’s always nice to watch National… Read more...
Here's where to watch Elf during the 2023 holiday season
Depending on who you ask, Will Ferrell and Jon Favreau’s Elf is Hollywood’s last really major addition to the Christmas movie canon. Turning 20 years old this holiday season, the film has taken on a life of its own at this point, powered by the most purely sweet performance in Ferrell’s long career, capable of melting… Read more...
Filming the Star Wars Holiday Special Was Apparently Just as Bad as Watching It
As weird, bad, and awkward as The Star Wars Holiday Special is to watch, apparently, it was just as terrible to film. That’s evident from an exclusive excerpt io9 has acquired from the new book A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened by Steve Kozak. Read more...
Psychedelic film from the 1940s, featuring Bing Crosby, used to treat mental disorders
Boing Boing,
In the 1940s, British psychologist Cecil Stokes created Auroratone films, deeply psychedelic short movies meant to be shown at psychiatric institutions to help treat patients suffering from mental disorders, particularly war veterans. In 1942, Stokes was granted US patent #2292172 for the Process and Apparatus for Producing Musical Rhythm in Color. — Read the rest