Category: MOVIES

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” gets a bad rap, and I won’t sit here and tell you the movie is some unfairly maligned classic. No, I will freely admit the movie has its problems — the script is weak, the adventure isn’t as thrilling as what’s come before, and most of […]

The “image” Filoni was referring to appears in a scene from “Attack of the Clones” where Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to the Jedi Archives looking for the Kamino system — the only clue he has as to the origin of the bounty hunter who tried to kill Padmé earlier in the film. Upon realizing that the Kamino […]

“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” isn’t the first prequel in recent history to focus on the villain of the original movie; Disney got there first with “Maleficent” and “Cruella.” But whereas those films got around the villain problem by (respectively) revealing that the villain was actually just misunderstood, or by introducing […]

There’s a huge theme of accountability and responsibility in this movie. I know that tackling real life people and historical subjects artistically can be almost overwhelming if you let yourself get inundated with, “Oh, but what about my responsibility to the survivors?” or all of those other things. Did the book “American Prometheus” help you […]

Kershner didn’t reveal exactly why, but he wasn’t wholly satisfied with Brackett’s version of the story. Nor were, it seems, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas or “Empire” co-screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. Kershner did say that Brackett’s death, however, robbed production of a vital collaborator.  “I went up and met with George at his house, and he […]

Boy, just when you thought “Iron Man 2” couldn’t possibly age worse than it already has, you remember that it came complete with an Elon Musk cameo, too. What a world, folks. Yeah, the reports are true that the notoriously impulsive billionaire is set to get the big-screen treatment with one of our most accomplished filmmakers behind […]

“The Peanuts Movie” was a solid hit at the box office when it arrived in 2015, but was outshined by the Pixar flick, “Inside Out,” as well as “Minions.” As such, the film never gets the credit it deserves as being one of the best examples of fusing 3D animation with 2D hand-drawn elements, a […]

“Space: 1999,” for those who are too young to have grown up seeing reruns on network TV, took place in the eponymous year inside Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research facility on the dark side of the moon. In the show’s pilot, a massive nuclear explosion knocks the moon out of its orbit, causing it to […]

The movie itself is told from the perspective of amateurs who don’t know much about possession and the spirits that they are talking to. However, the Philippou brothers carefully developed the supernatural world of their film in what Danny dubbed a “mythology bible.” “It was all in that mythology bible where we broke down every […]

One of the best things a horror movie can do is give you as little story or context as possible for its scares. Defamiliarize the audience before you dunk them in an ice bath of fear. “The Exorcist III” does the exact opposite, yet still manages to feel singular, unfathomable, and unforgettable. Directed by William […]