Tag: Roger Ebert
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Rebel Moon – Release Date, Cast, Plot, Director, And More Info
Filmmaker and video essayist Patrick H. Willems has some thoughts about Zack Snyder (who will henceforth be known as our “himbo auteur”). He’s proposed that the key to understanding the director is his love of John Boorman’s 1981 medieval fantasy epic “Excalibur.” Snyder has expressed his love of Boorman’s film many times over the years,…
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One False Move’s Director Thought One Of His Actors Was So Good At Playing A Villain, It Actually Hurt His Career
Michael Beach was in his late twenties and primed for a breakout performance when he landed the role of Pluto in Carl Franklin’s “One False Move.” This was not supposed to be that performance. It was a low-budget crime flick from a couple of unknown screenwriters named Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson that was…
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Barbie review – a riotous, candy-coloured feminist fable
Barbie takes a ride from her dream house to reality as Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig takes another cultural icon and lovingly subverts itWriter-director Greta Gerwig’s cinematic reinvention of Mattel’s most (in)famous toy comes on like a sugar-rush mashup of Pixar’s Toy Story 2, Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, the cult live-action feature Josie and the Pussycats…
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This Strange Satire Was Roger Ebert’s Only Produced Screenplay
Beloved film critic Roger Ebert’s only produced screenplay is 1970’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a psychedelic social satire that parodies the critically condemned The Valley of the Dolls from three years prior. Working with exploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer, Ebert took viewers on a horny, drug-addled romp through a gloriously exaggerated Los Angeles at…