A new blitz trailer for Suicide Squad was released during the MTV Movie Awards last night – and includes a brief glimpse at the cameo by Ben Affleck’s Batman. The trailer, set to The Sweet’s song The Ballroom Blitz, at one point shows Batman carrying Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn to the Batmobile, while another shows
Breakout director Ben Falcone teams up with Oscar nominated Melissa McCarthy (“Bridesmaids,” “Spy”) to produce a geyser of belly laughs. If you saw “Bridesmaids” and thought it was gross do not bother to take in this pratfall-fest of unbridled shock lines. If you saw the beauty of taking the crud out of crudity and the
Writer/director Gabriel Mascaro has created a great film in Neon Bull (Boi Neon). It is a movie with the breath taking simplicity and courage of Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” combined with the flabbergasting scope of “Mondo Kani.” It works on so many levels it is perplexing to see how such frantic complexity can be
Emerging Writer/director Joachim Trier’s (co-written with Eskil Vogt) family drama has a lot of content, if you are willing to work for it. Dealing with a sullen teenager as a lead has never been easy. Although Devin Druid does a good job with that role, his character Conrad Reed lacks development. The first few scenes
In Demolition Jake Gyllenhaal puts out a remarkable performance as bereaved executive Davis Mitchell looking for relief when there is none in site. Driven to the edge of insanity by the sudden death of his wife, we witness his breakdown. Actually, we witness his breakdown in spades. Unlike other on-screen insanities, he does not melt
Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club, and Café de Flore) has created another nearly perfect film. And he helped Jake Gyllenhaal, who has learned the value of Quebec’s gifted filmmakers, put in his strongest performance, outpacing even Nightcrawler. Bryan Sipe’s screenplay about a business executive transformed by the accidental death of his wife
Here’s something you don’t see every day – Luke Skywalker being given bunny ears by Poe Dameron. Mark Hamill was having his picture taken cuddling up to co-star Lupita Nyong’o, who plays goggle-eyed Maz in the series, when Oscar Isaac – aka Poe – crept up behind and gave them a sneaky photobomb. Cuddling adorable @lupitanyongo-who's seeking a little
Jake Gyllenhaal has found a sympathetic artistic partner in a second Quebec filmmaker, Jean-Marc Vallée, in Demolition. Gyllenhaal’s two films with Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners and Enemy) showed how far he was willing to go beyond the mainstream to find richly meaningful projects. Demolition takes him even further. It’s a stunning piece about Davis Mitchell, a
For sheer force of writing, direction acting and story, British television simply can’t be beaten. For all the slick, soon-forgotten artificial sludge including reality that dominates North American prime time TV, there are British series to be celebrated and admired. My current favourite is the BBC’s Prisoners Wives, a superior limited series that sounds like
Michael Shannon does the heavy lifting in Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi yarn of Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), a child with peculiar abilities. Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Nichols is racking up an enviable record of awards with only his first four films. The smartest thing Nichols does in making this film a