Tag: Samuel L. Jackson

Spiral: From the Book of Saw [Video Review]

Spin Spin Murder: Bousman Returns to the Good Book in Franchise Tangent There’s perhaps little glory in holding the distinction of being the ‘best’ entry...

Glass | Review

Walking on Broken Glass: Shyamalan Completes Superhero Trilogy with Chatty, Diagnostic Denouement For a film nineteen years in the making, M. Night Shyamalan’s highly anticipated...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #74. Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself

Life Itself With all the intersecting ensemble threads promised for his sophomore film, hopefully Dan Fogelman will better manage the puzzles pieces as we weren't...

Kong: Skull Island | Review

Kong’s Crib: Vogt-Roberts Strains Weak Characters Through Special Effects Pageant In the continuing tradition of flinging fledgling indie directors into studio tent pole franchise reboots,...

Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children | Review

Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: Burton’s Back with Another Belabored Children’s Fantasy The time has long since passed when Tim Burton was able to...

The Legend of Tarzan | Review

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Seditious Subtexts of the White Savior in Latest Tarzan Adaptation Certain properties are best left alone, allowed to exist in the...

The Hateful Eight | Review

For a Few Hours More: Tarantino’s Flamboyant Style Stamped onto a Salami Western Quentin Tarantino returns with his latest feature, The Hateful Eight, another retro...

Chi-raq | Review

Sexual Healing: Spike Lee’s New Joint Aims to Anoint Provocateur Spike Lee continues to fling his ambition into surprising experimental formats and narratives. Following the...

Big Game | Review

Rules of the Game: Helander’s Schlocky English Language Debut Even though the film seems perfectly well aware of its own silliness as it recapitulates formulaic...

Avengers: Age of Ultron | Review

The Wrath of Bland: Whedon’s Poo Poo Platter Continues Mainstream event cinema continues to shackle box office glory and narrative familiarity to a creative deathbed...

Kingsman: The Secret Service | Review

Eggsy’s Game: Vaughn’s Hyperviolent Reinterpretation of the Super Spy Caper While a release in February doesn’t speak highly of Twentieth Century Fox’s hopes for the...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #4. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino // Writer: Quentin Tarantino The film that almost wasn’t due to a draft of the script being leaked in early...

Kite | Review

Go Fly One: Ziman’s Anime Adaptation a Denuded, Unnecessary Endeavor Those familiar with Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 fifty minute anime of the same name will be...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #96. Spike Lee’s Oldboy

Oldboy Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Mark Protosevich (first credit was The Cell) Producer(s): Quandrant Pictures' Doug Davison, Primal Pictures' Roy Lee U.S. Distributor: Film District Cast: Samuel L. Jackson,...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an...

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...