Today is Oliver Stone’s birthday so, for all conspiracy-loving readers, here is a key scene from Stone’s 1991 film, JFK! In this scene, Kevin Costner’s Jim Garrison meets the mysterious man known as X (played by Donald Sutherland). X explains the conspiracy to Garrison.
This scene certainly convinced a lot of people. Personally, I think Oswald acted alone but one cannot deny Stone’s talent as a filmmaker.
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
129 years ago today, the great French film director Jean Renoir was born in Paris! The son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean would go on to become just as revolutionary a force in the world of cinema as his father was in the world of painting. Today, in honor of the birth and legacy of Jean Renoir, here are….
4 Shots From 4 Jean Renoir Films
Grand Illusion (1937, dir by Jean Renoir, DP: Christian Matras)
The Rules of the Games (1939, dir by Jean Renoir, DP: Jean-Paul Alphen, Jean Bachelet, Jacques Lemare, Alain Renoir)
The Southerner (1945, dir by Jean Renoir, DP: Lucien N. Adroit)
The Woman On The Beach (1947, dir by Jean Renoir. DP: Leo Tover and Harry J. Wild)
The trailer for Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom dropped today. Much like the first Wonder Woman, the first Aquaman was one of the few DC films that felt worth the effort to sit through. Will the second Aquaman film continue that tradition or will it be more like the second Wonder Woman? We’ll find out soon enough.
Here’s the trailer!
October approaches and, with it, a whole bunch of new horror films that are undoubtedly hoping to launch a franchise. The trailer for Dark Harvest features a killer known as Sawtooth Jack. Judging from this trailer, Sawtooth Jack has little in common with Great Pumpkin.
Dark Harvest will be digitally available on October 13th!
Here’s the final trailer for Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon! This film, which has been the subject of tremendous buzz ever since it premiered at Cannes, is due to be released in October! I can’t wait!
Here’s the trailer for The Jester! I’m going to send this trailer to all of my friends who are scared of clowns! The Jester is due to be released on September 29th, just in time for the Halloween season!
I’m not exactly convinced that we really need a prequel to Pet Sematary but we’re getting one anyways. Here’s the trailer for Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.
Here’s the trailer for Totally Killer, the latest Blumhouse horror film to go straight to Prime. The premise looks intriguing but it’s also true that Blumhouse always seems to send their weakest stuff straight to Prime.
That said, Lochlyn Munro’s in it!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasionally Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of Mastodon’s #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We snark our way through it.
Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1989’s Burning Vengeance! Selected and hosted by Bunny Hero, this movie has the word “burning” right in the title! So, you know it has to be good!
Following #MondayActionMovie, Brad and Sierra will be hosting the #MondayMuggers live tweet. We will be watching 1971’s Play Misty For Me, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood! The film is on Prime!
It should make for a night of fun viewing and I invite all of you to join in. If you want to join the live tweets, just hop onto Mastodon, pull up Burning Vengeance on YouTube, start the movie at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag! Then, at 10 pm et, switch over to Twitter and Prime, start Play Misty For Me, and use the #MondayMuggers hashtag! The live tweet community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today is the birthday of Brian De Palma and that means that it is time for….
4 Shots From 4 Brian De Palma Films
Carrie (1976, dir by Brian De Palma, DP: Mario Tosi)
Dressed to Kill (1980, dir by Brian De Palma, DP: Ralf D. Bode)
Blow Out (1981, dir by Brian De Palma, DP: Vilmos Zsigmond)
Scarface (1983, dir by Brian De Palma, DP: John A. Alonzo)
Through the Shattered Lens