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"The book was better" is a phrase heard often in conversations about book-to-film adaptations. "Don't judge a book by its movie" is another common jab. While we've all uttered some version of this sentiment at one point or another, there have been those rare occasions when the opposite is true. As a lifelong bookworm and cinephile, I've discovered that whether I read the...
Like so many middling horror films, The Wretched gets an A for effort. The film’s creature design is incredible, and the weighty old school score is worthy of a more impressive film, but ultimately the whole assembly is a bit of a belly flop. The film starts with a throwback to 35 years ago in a lakeside town. We see early on that...
The LITTLE MONSTERS Trailer Promises The Lupita Nyong’o VS Zombies Movie We Didn’t Know We Needed
July 31, 2019
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It certainly feels like nearly a decade has passed since, but it was a mere six months ago that I wrote a Crypt that was basically a wishlist of Hammer titles that I was hoping the good folks at Scream Factory could release in the near future. At the time they had only recently started putting out movies produced by the venerable British...
This summer marks 50 years since the counterculture revolutions of 1969, an era where the Vietnam War raged and Richard Nixon fanned the flames of division across the US. For a new BBC Arts film series, Inside Cinema, Christina Newland looks at counterculture filmmaking during the Nixon years – and how some films were made to disappear. If you look up the director’s...
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Few directors command attention on the level of a Martin Scorsese. When he has a new film coming out, whether you’re a cinephile or not, it’s a big deal. When that new film returns him to the gangster genre that is his wheelhouse, and features a cast of heavyweights including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, then people start clearing their...
In 2018, producer Jason Blum said that one of the reasons why Blumhouse had not hired more female filmmakers was that, “There are not a lot of female directors period and even less who are inclined to do horror.” This comment, likely said in the heat of the moment, should be taken with a grain of salt (Blumhouse does have a lot of...
In 2010, the American director Kelly Reichardt made a revisionist take on the classic movie western called Meek’s Cutoff. It told of a wagon party on the Oregon trail and the inherent dangers of travelling across a largely barren, depopulated landscape. What makes the film unique is that, in this male-dominated genre, its story is from the perspective of the women who are...
Knives And Skin has been compared to David Lynch’s work a lot - including in this year's Fantasia Film Festival programme. Given that its plot is kicked off by a girl going missing by a river, that the movie subsequently pays more attention to a range of subplots than the A-plot, and that its characters and dialogue are strange and heightened, it’s easy...
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It's First Wave Announcement Day for Fantastic Fest 2019, which means today is a holy day 'round these parts. The Birth.Movies.Death. crew looks forward to Fantastic Fest (now in its 15th year, believe it or not!) much like overcaffeinated children look forward to Christmas. It's the one time of the year we all get to be in the same room together, the one...
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Hobbs & Shaw is just around the corner. Get your tickets now! Jason Statham is a man of many talents. In previous lives, he was a championship diver, martial arts master, and a fashion model before making a seamless transition into acting via a variety of tongue-in-cheek action movies culminating in Statham's inevitable joining of the Fast & Furious family. Spin-off Hobbs & Shaw finds...
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Back in May at the Cannes Film Festival, the Little White Lies team was collectively wowed by The Witch director Robert Eggers‘ hallucinatory follow-up feature The Lighthouse. It’s been a fun few months of dangling our knowledge over the colleagues that didn’t make it to the Croisette, but now the film’s first trailer has arrived to give everyone a look into the eye...
Despite 30 years having passed since the film’s explosion onto the national stage (complete with panic from some white critics that it would cause riots in the streets), there’s no denying the staying power of Do the Right Thing. Just as it was in 1989, Spike Lee’s fourth feature is painfully relevant to the current cultural moment; filled with discussions of gentrification, police...
By most standards, Cats is not a very good musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music is, save for a couple standout songs, repetitive and annoying. T.S. Eliot’s text, written decades before Webber wrote a single note, has no real story, as it’s literally a collection of poems. No character really gets more than a single song of development, and most can be summed up...
Mike Moh, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD’s Bruce Lee, Breaks Down His Fight With Cliff Booth
July 29, 2019
Spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to follow... It’s funny how much ownership we claim over our heroes and their stories, especially when they’re fictionalized. Bruce Lee is of course a mythic figure not just within Hollywood lore, but the Asian community, and the world stage, and so much of his life remains a mystery. But in Once Upon A Time...
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