Oh, sure it’s not the first time an actor has taken over a role in a film series (James Bond, anyone?), but there have been too many others where it just didn’t work (RoboCop, The Pink Panther, Hellboy, Fantastic Beasts, etc). Will this switcheroo work? Based on Gregory McDonald’s 1976 novel, this reboot stars Jon…
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…
B. J. Novak. What, don’t you know the name? He was in TV’s The Office and in movies like Inglourious Basterds and Saving Mr. Banks, but he pulls a hat trick as a first-time writer, director, and star of his first motion picture! Good luck, pal! With a scathing indictment of the American way of…
No sooner did Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 hit movie, Murder on the Orient Express, leave theaters than this movie went into production. Fortunately, all filming wrapped in 2019 before the accursed events of 2020. Unfortunately, his lead actor, Armie Hammer, was accused of sexual abuse, but his scenes were neither reshot, cut, nor CGI’d like other…
So, the Equalizer, Freddy Mercury, and the Joker walk into a bar… and fight to see who can out act each other. Written, co-produced, and directed by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side), this HBOMax police drama movie has shades of Se7en, but without any heads in boxes. It’s murder most foul in the…
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