In this week's reviews, Jane Campion evokes the tortured masculinity of 'The Piano,' Mike Mills hits the road, and Jason Reitman returns to his father's wheezing franchise.
The Power of the Dog was absolutely incredible - seeing it at a festival a couple weeks ago was just one of those moments where you know beyond a doubt you're seeing one of the year's absolute best films. I was so impressed with it from beginning to end.
Back in mid-90s, me was somewhere where there was bowl of candy hearts. They were chalky, tasteless candy with messages stamped on them like "Be Mine" or "Love You." Me picked one out of bowl and it said, "Web Site."
Naming character "Podcast" have very similar energy. "Hey, we need to sound hip! What are kids into?"
And that probably nicest thing me will have to say about Ghostbuster movie at end of day.
Anyway, these other two look great. Me especially happy to see Jane Campion come roaring back after spending 2010s in wilderness. (First season of Top of Lake was terrific, but two short season of that show was only thing she directed between 2009 and now.)
The heir to the Ghostbusters throne (whether or not you accept the premise that Ghostbusters ever deserved that throne - I don’t) is probably Men in Black. And even that ended up getting almost immediately run into the ground with awful sequels (3 possibly excepted) and ripoffs like RIPD.
based on this and other reviews, I'm certainly not wasting my time and money on seeing this in a theater, but I am really curious whether the movie even bothers to try and explain how the Ghostbusters seem to have been forgotten so quickly?
I think I found a factual error in your Ghostbusters: Afterlife review. You say that Muncher is voiced by Josh Gad. My understanding is that he is voiced by noted movie expert, founder of the Victorville Film Archive and star of Ant-Man Gregg Turkington, as mentioned on last week's episode of On Cinema At The Cinema (https://www.heinetwork.tv/episode/red-notice-ghostbusters-afterlife/).
The Power of the Dog was absolutely incredible - seeing it at a festival a couple weeks ago was just one of those moments where you know beyond a doubt you're seeing one of the year's absolute best films. I was so impressed with it from beginning to end.
Back in mid-90s, me was somewhere where there was bowl of candy hearts. They were chalky, tasteless candy with messages stamped on them like "Be Mine" or "Love You." Me picked one out of bowl and it said, "Web Site."
Naming character "Podcast" have very similar energy. "Hey, we need to sound hip! What are kids into?"
And that probably nicest thing me will have to say about Ghostbuster movie at end of day.
Anyway, these other two look great. Me especially happy to see Jane Campion come roaring back after spending 2010s in wilderness. (First season of Top of Lake was terrific, but two short season of that show was only thing she directed between 2009 and now.)
The heir to the Ghostbusters throne (whether or not you accept the premise that Ghostbusters ever deserved that throne - I don’t) is probably Men in Black. And even that ended up getting almost immediately run into the ground with awful sequels (3 possibly excepted) and ripoffs like RIPD.
"Then it gets worse. Much worse."
wow.
based on this and other reviews, I'm certainly not wasting my time and money on seeing this in a theater, but I am really curious whether the movie even bothers to try and explain how the Ghostbusters seem to have been forgotten so quickly?
I think I found a factual error in your Ghostbusters: Afterlife review. You say that Muncher is voiced by Josh Gad. My understanding is that he is voiced by noted movie expert, founder of the Victorville Film Archive and star of Ant-Man Gregg Turkington, as mentioned on last week's episode of On Cinema At The Cinema (https://www.heinetwork.tv/episode/red-notice-ghostbusters-afterlife/).