".......I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts. But I don't see myself being queen of this country...."
I'm always fascinated by movies that cast American actors as British characters who are odd and unusual: Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft; RDJ as Sherlock Holmes; Emma Stone as Abigail in The Favourite. No matter how much they nail the British essence, there will always be slips where their true accent cracks. But I never saw this as a flaw; on…
Soooooooo there was a time when these used to be MOVIES WITH ACTUAL CHARACTER GROWTH? Wild!
This was when Marvel was an indie studio no different from a car dealership! Even with X-men and Spider-man being pop cultural successes, the industry thinking remained that these were characters for comic book fans and kids (incidentally, The Dark Knight would come out that same year and shatter this notion completely). Iron Man was a C-tier hero at best back then. The masses…
"I did ride along with paramedics (in preparation for this movie).....when you step out of that ambulance, you don't know what you're walking into.....It's the world's most intense jukebox and you don't know what song they're gonna play!"
- Nicholas Cage
New York paramedic Frank (Nic Cage) is overworked and has not saved a life in months, haunted by a teenage girl named Rose (Cynthia Roman). Due to his inability to save people, Frank wants to quit his job but…
Am I in denial or did Edgar Wright peak after Scott Pilgrim? I was there for when Spaced predated the internet referencing pop culture, and became a fan since.
The World’s End was a satisfying trilogy conclusion, but the movie kinda felt like everyone had grown beyond the point where further collaboration seemed more like nostalgia than progress.
I was ELATED for Baby Driver - FINALLY ma boi Edgar was getting bigger stars and budgets. But that movie for all…
