Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, especially if you can also execute them with minimal effort. This is what David Lowery, the director and writer of A Ghost Story, accomplished.
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I watched two movies on my first day at Fantasia Film Festival 2017. One that made me sad, and one that made me question my sanity.
With great power comes great responsibility. We all heard this in one way or another, whether it was from the dozens of cartoons, the handful of movies, and thousands of comics. This phrase cannot have more meaning than with the creation of this movie. When you mix an iconic character with two powerhouse movie studios, you can get a disastrous result. Who knew that we’d end up with a wonderful Spider-Man movie?
There was a time I never liked or even respected wrestling. I thought it was a weird over-the-top performance done by scarily proportioned people in colourful costumes. I preferred more intelligent and serious forms of entertainment, like comic books and video games. The hypocrisy was lost on me at that time.
The Bad Batch was a hard movie to find. It has a popular cast and an even more popular concept; I would expect it to be advertised more than it currently is. It stars such powerhouses as Keanu Reeves, Jim Carey and Jason Momoa. Add an upcoming female lead (played by Suki Waterhouse) and throw them in a post-apocalyptic environment with a cannibalistic cult and you should have a hit. This movie just screams blockbuster. Instead, it sort of just appeared. Unfortunately, this movie won’t be in theatres for long. It is popular enough to get a handful of people to come out to the opening night at midnight on Friday during a national holiday.
Is Ridley Scott having trouble paying for the groceries? Should we start a Kickstarter campaign to help the once-illustrious filmmaker? His latest production, Alien Covenant, is another sad example of studio executives trying to cash in on a franchise that died many, many years ago.