“Great Scott, Marty, it’s been thirty years…..!!” On July 3rd 1985, Robert Zemeckis’ Back To The Future split movie screens wide open with a time travel action adventure that’s yet to be equalled. A film’s film if you will, and a movie so complete in its box ticking it’s almost unbearable. One is inclined to …
Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk, based on Philippe Petit’s wire walking across the Twin Towers in the early 1970s, opens on the face of its star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, thereby setting the tone for the film: Zemeckis puts much technical effort and detail into accentuating the depth and various surfaces of the actor’s face, and as the star, as wire walking Philippe, begins to talk, nothing but tall tales falls from his mouth.
As a first time attendee of the New York Film Festival, it’s difficult not to be overwhelmed by this year’s selection of films. I’ve been mentally preparing for the slew of world premieres and other festival favorites that will surely play a crucial part in the upcoming awards season. I’ve never attended a film festival …
Back to the Future is having its 30th Anniversary this month, and the film is on such a high in 2015 as one of simply the most beloved, classic, and near perfect blockbusters so rare today. It has something to do with the fact that the sequel had a portion set in today’s 2015 and …
Unless you’re talking about Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters or Toy Story 3, it’s usually not a good sign to hear of a sequel to a long retired franchise, least of all from a new, upstart director (just ask Jurassic World). This week however a director started a project that might even be an improvement on the …
Steve Carell has officially completed his transformation from comedic actor to a dramatic one. No one is left doubting his talents as a versatile performer. Thus, whatever he does next is highly anticipated, and this latest project might just be the perfect fit for him to show both sides of his acting range. The Wrap …
On April 29th, 2014, the entertainment community lost a truly gifted and likable performer. Robert William “Bob” Hoskins was an English actor, director, and comedian who had a wonderful and diverse career spanning more than 4 decades. Known mainly for his film roles, Hoskins’ on-screen personas were often that of gruff, down-to-Earth individuals who would …
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Written by Jeffrey Price and Peter Semen Directed by Robert Zemeckis U.S.A., 1988 Visual effects have come a long way since the 1920s when pioneering directors the likes of Carl Theodor Dreyer and Jean Renoir, amongst many other notable filmmakers, attempted to marry real life actors and sets with added optical …
E. B. White once wrote, “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” Analyzing trilogies seems to the same. The entire point is to enjoy them. Still, given the many sins to be found in film, there are worse things than movie trilogies but few have …
Cool World Written by Michael Grais, Mark Victor Directed by Ralph Bakshi USA, 1992 Cool World is a fabulously fascinating failure of a feature film. Say that three times fast. There’s no beating around the bush, Cool World was a mature, perhaps even perverted, attempt at capitalizing on the eroticism of the character Jessica Rabbit …
Flight Directed by Robert Zemeckis Written by John Gatins USA, 2012 Denzel Washington oozes charisma from every pore. Over the last two decades, he’s been one of the few actors whose charm can boost even the weakest effort, capable of elevating himself and his fellow performers above meager material. As he’s aged, Washington has shrewdly …
Today is a very special day at Mousterpiece Cinema HQ, because it’s finally happened. After months of searching, after hours of discussion, we have found a film that Mike doesn’t love. In fact, this is a film that Mike had an easier time nitpicking. Yes, that’s right, folks, Mike can nitpick, too! In this epic …
Mars Needs Moms Directed by Simon Wells Written by Simon Wells and Wendy Wells Starring Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois A fascinating trend has been cropping up in mainstream filmmaking over the last 20 years, specific to major male directors who are widely considered to be technological pioneers. From James Cameron to …
Celebrating the New York Film Festival’s 50th anniversary, the Lincoln Center announced today that Robert Zemeckis’s Flight will close the festival during it’s Gala selection. The Lincoln Center welcomes Zemeckis for the first time at the New York Film Festival, commemorating a director known for both personal storytelling and pushing technology in the film industry …
Rumour has it that director Robert Zemeckis (Back To The Future) is making another move back towards live-action with a remake of The Wizard of Oz. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. would prefer the script to stick as close as possible to the original 1939 version. Warner Bros owns the screenplay since Ted Turner bought …
While sloppy at times, Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her is an often delicious trifle, of which the core ingredients are so rich that the film is as much fun as any of Zemeckis’ comedies (if not quite as polished). Death Become Her Directed by Robert Zemeckis Although it managed to walk away with the Best …
Variety reports: “Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake Yellow Submarine, the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles… The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D …
Courtesy of: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090501/entertainment/centertainment_us_carrey/ “Jim Carrey has emerged as a leading candidate to star in “The Beaver,” an offbeat comedy-drama that centers on the relationship between a man and a beaver puppet he wears on his arm. Kyle Killen’s script has generated enormous interest in film development circles, drawing comparisons to “Being John Malkovich” and “Lars …