It seems like forever since 1999’s The Blair Witch Project shook up the horror world. Its innovative found footage videocamera style kicked off a wave of similarly shot films that’s made the idea feel like old hat today. However there’s a direct sequel being released in a couple of months made by one of the most capable writing/directing pairs in the horror business and early reviews are universally strong. Blair Witch is back.
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Looks like Suicide is going to be huge this August, with the Squad headed for the big screen. Out front is Big Willy Smith, who never misses his target, as Deadshot. Jared Leto is the new Joker, who has already been mentally compared to Heath Ledger 25 million times by internet users, but only 6 times to Jack Nicholson. Here are all the new clips, just fill in the blanks to see the movie.
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Short reviews of the ‘Ghostbusters’ who did not appear in their pre-chosen forms, the bodily function-obsessed ‘The Survivalist’, Agatha’s Christie’s third-time’s-the-charm-on-the-title ‘And Then There Were None’, and Robert De Niro’s most fearless performance in years, ‘Dirty Grandpa’.
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These days it’s no longer just about what movie you saw, but where you saw it. On the evening of Thursday 30th, Movie-Moron will be hosting a screening of Wes Anderson’s masterpiece ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ at Lost Format Society in Croydon – one of London’s premiere rooftop cinemas.
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I have a reasonably decent PC for video editing and so decided to get the Oculus Rift when it went up for pre-order in January (I’d also been following the Rift’s progress obsessively for years). Now, months later, it’s finally arrived, and there’s no doubt it’s the future. Perhaps the future of movies too.
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When you’re promoting a film what better to reach for than a warm-blooded creature to plonk on your head?
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Reports are that Daniel Craig’s lack of enthusiasm for future Bonds on the press tour for ‘Spectre’ was genuine (rather than just a ploy to up his fee). Tom Hiddleston has seemingly been meeting with Bond producers. But would Hiddleston take the role, and who should be the other lead contenders?
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‘The Revenant’ was a key release I didn’t catch in the cinema last year so when I was invited last week to see it at the BT Tower, I reckoned that would be a pretty interesting place to tick it off.
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Short reviews of the Lincoln-less ‘Captain America: Civil War’, Tarantino’s greatest hits tribute to Tarantino ‘The Hateful Eight’, timely home release Christmas chiller ‘Krampus’, and Tom Hanks stops the Cold War but gets his coat stolen in ‘Bridge of Spies’.
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X-Men: Apocalypse sees one of Marvel’s merry mutants a married man. I spoke with Carolina Bartczak, who portrays Magneto’s wife Magda in the film, to discuss crying corpses, impulsive kisses, and mohawk-envy.
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