Based on the 2013 book, The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III by Phillipa Langley and Michael Jones, this incredible true story has been made into numerous BBC documentaries. As bizarre and strange as the story gets, it’s about a lonely housewife’s relentless pursuit of the truth. In Edinburgh, England a nobody named Phillipa…
Movies being made into Broadway musicals that are then made into movies again? Good God! Well, it worked for Mel Brooks’ The Producers but it failed with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, sometimes it’s best to leave well enough alone. Based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 book & 1996 movie (see review below), this popular…
Imagine this: a comedy/murder mystery (like Knives Out) but set in a 50’s posh British theater with some questionable detectives trying to figure out who the killer is. And if it looks suspiciously like a Wes Anderson film, that’s because it does. In London’s famous West End, they’re showing Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, a play…
Based on historical facts, this is a story of deception, dead bodies, Nazi invasions, and trying to fool everyone in the Third Reich, including Hitler! Even though it’s ‘based on true facts’, certain events have been embellished for, y’know, Hollywood. It’s 1943 and WW2 is going strong as the British get wind of the Germans…
So, you think that making a movie is easy, huh? Many films have tried to show the crazy antics of a film team in action (Ed Wood, Tropic Thunder, Bowfinger, etc), but this behind-the-scenes film of a movie production goes beyond the pale! In this absurdist Netflix/Judd Apatow film, the pandemic never looked so funny.…
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