George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon headline in the next film that I watched as I work my way through Ten Bad Dates With De Niro. The list this title comes from is Remakes That Are Better Than The Original. And on this count, I agree. As much as I love the Rat Pack’s…
Tag: chemistry
Road to Bali (1952) – Hal Walker
The comedic entries continue in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies book as I delve into one of the iconic Road movies of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, co-starring Dorothy Lamour. When George (Crosby) and Harold (Hope) end up unemployed in their chosen art, show-biz, (because of some fraternisation with a couple of local sheilas)…
Heavenly Creatures (1994) – Peter Jackson
I’m closing in on the end of DK Canada’s The Movie Book, as I explore its last section, The Director. And it brings me a Peter Jackson film that isn’t set in Middle Earth (it is in New Zealand, however, and I recognise a lot of the names in the credits as those he has…
Harold and Maude (1971) – Hal Ashby
The Directory in DK Canada’s The Movie Book brings me another classic that I should have seen long ago, and now, have finally been able to remedy that. Combining dark humour with an offbeat romance, Ashby’s film embraces eccentricity while reminding us to live for today. Young Harold (Bud Cort – who looks twelve) has…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010) – Voyage of Temptation, Duchess of Mandalore, and Death Trap
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” The Mandalore arc continues this week in this story written by Paul Dini which first aired on 5 February, 2010. Traveling aboard a vessel to Coruscant, Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) and Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) are assigned to protect the Council of Neutral Systems,…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010) – The Deserter, Lightsaber Lost, and The Mandalore Plot
“It is the quest for honor that makes one honorable.” The Deserter is a different kind of clone story. It was written by Drew Z. Greenberg and debuted on 1 January, 2010. Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) and part of the 501st are hunting down General Greivous (Matthew Wood), but when one of the clones,…
The Brothers Grimm (2005) – Terry Gilliam
Arguably Terry Gilliam’s most commercial film, The Brothers Grimm is the next stop as I explore Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales as portrayed in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies. The film features Heath Ledger and Matt Damon as the titular Grimm Brothers, and the always stunning (and underused) Monica Bellucci as the evil Mirror…
Moonlighting (1986) – Yours, Very Deadly, and All Creatures Great… and Not So Great
Roger Director pens Maddie (Cybill SHepherd) and David’s (Brice Willis) first case this week, Yours, Very Deadly. It first aired on 28 October, 1986. Gail Woodley (Brooke Bundy), a fairly unhappily married woman, comes to the Blue Moon Detective Agency for help. Over the past few years she has been trading letters with an admirer….
Toronto After Dark 2019: James vs. His Future Self (2019) – Jeremy LaLonde
Friend of the blog, Jeremy LaLonde brings his first genre film entry to the Toronto After Dark film festival tonight with his latest film, James vs. His Future Self. Filled with great actors the film plays with time travel as a way to show us to take the time we need to be in the…
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) – Rob Cohen
There is a fun, if not a good movie somewhere in this mess of a mummy film that is my next stop in the mummy chapter of DK Canada’s highly enjoyable Monsters in the Movies book. Unfortunately there are a number of things holding it back, there are some casting changes that affect onscreen chemistry,…
The Mind Reels 