So as I stated last week, I'm in mass catch-up mode before I put out my first edition of the Best of 2018 list (Part 1 here). So here's this weeks round-up: THE DEATH OF STALIN dir. Armando Iannucci From The Thick of It to In The Loop to his current HBO series Veep, Armando Iannucci has perfected the …
A lot has seemingly happened since the last time we checked in with Netflix. Most importantly they recently got into an epic battle with Cannes over the film festival's decision to disqualify any film from being in competition that did not have a planned theatrical distribution. This resulted in Netflix pulling all of its movies from …
As the title of this post may indicate, this is the second edition of my quest to actually see all the Best Picture Winners. While Volume 1 helped to shatter some preconceived notions of the kinds of movies that win the Oscars, Volume 2 has only emphasized that there are very valid reasons why the …
Hollywood has a long history of taking foreign movies, TV shows, and literature and adapting them for a more American context. Sometimes the movies are outright remakes (The Ring, The Departed, Let Me In) or they are reinterpretations of the original material (both American Godzilla movies). The act of adapting non-American material is often fraught with danger as …
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