Fred Topel Guillermo del Toro makes lots of movies about creatures, but they’re usually the heroes. It’s us who are the monsters. So in The Shape of Water, when scientists discover an amphibian man (Doug Jones), it’s agent Strickland (Michael Shannon) who behaves monstrously. “I do think the creature irritates him,” Shannon said in a one on
In Hollywood, the director gets all the credit, but somebody has to shoot the picture. In the case of the notorious cult movie The Room, it took four. The Disaster Artist combines them all into one, played by Paul Scheer. Though named Raphael, Raphael Smadja was only one cinematographer who tried to teach Tommy Wiseau
It’s a ringing endorsement for the Gen-X/Millennial generation that Rene Russo has faith in us. In the ‘90s, Russo was one of the women who paved the way for female icons with roles in Lethal Weapon 3, In the Line of Fire, Outbreak and Ransom. Fans like me grew up watching Rene Russo, Linda Hamilton,
Doug Jones looks different in every movie. That’s because he’s usually playing the creature. Though they don’t share super powers, Jones’ aquatic man in The Shape of Water bears some similarities to a superhero he’s played. “[Guillermo del Toro] said, ‘Dougie, I want you to give me a little bit of Silver Surfer,’” Jones said.
The Disaster Artist is the story of Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) and Greg Sestero (Dave Franco) making The Room. The Room would go on to become a midnight sensation as audiences played along with Wiseau’s bizarre passion project. Based on Sestero’s book of the same title, there were some stories too bizarre to even explain
Spoiler alert for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If anyone still hasn’t seen the $936million grossing Force Awakens, this article on The Last Jedi is about a significant character who died in the previous film. Okay, everyone caught up now? Most Star Wars fans spent Christmas 2015 mourning the death of Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
Ethan Hawke is not known as an action hero. But then, neither was Liam Neeson before Taken. Hawke has done exciting movies like Training Day, The Purge and In a Valley of Violence, but he’s better known as the intellectual lover in Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight. In his new movie, 24 Hours to Live, director Brian Smrz
Jim Carey or Seth Rogen could make a shrinking movie that’s a straight comedy (Paul Rudd even did, though it was a superhero movie too). Alexander Payne made a shrinking movie that’s more interested in the actual social impact of shrinking people voluntarily, and in theory I’m for that. Yet Downsizing is not the arthouse
24 Hours to Live has a great premise that’s sure to make you want to see the movie. However, its director, Brian Smrz, wishes you didn’t know what it is about. Spoiler warning for 24 Hours to Live, although this spoiler is only the spoiler that the film’s distributors agreed to show in the trailers
The Room is so full of bizarre scenes that you may not even catch them all the first time. One of the more shocking moments features femme fatale Juliette Danielle reciting dialogue as a strange bulge protrudes from her neck. Ari Graynor plays Danielle in The Disaster Artist, a film about the making of The