Juliet Naked
Um, yeah, so I’m questioning this “No Good Roles for Women” trope. Rose Byrne is lovely.
Author: Martin Cuff
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
I do think Claire Foy’s transformation is incredible.
Black 47
An Irish famine revenge thriller with a star cast of character actors. Seems wholly relevant today. For, without such stories, how will we remember why the “Irish Border” remains a political issue.
Peterloo
REFORM, UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, EQUAL REPRESENTATION and LOVE were some of the banners carried by peaceful demonstrators into Manchester on August 16th, 1819. A panicked official unleashed mounted troops onto the crowd, killing 13 men, four women and a child, and seriously injuring nearly 700 others. The horrors of a suppressed […]
The Passage
Sit down, strap in, hold on. This is next-level exciting; Justin Cronin’s trilogy, The Passage, coming to tv screens near you soon.
Deadpool 2 Transmedia Marketing (is awesome)
Fast Company provides an awesome summary of the whacky transmedia Marketing machine for Deadpool 2. I just love all this thinking-out-the-box stuff. “What 20th Century Fox and Ryan Reynolds did was lean into what worked last time, while expanding ever so slightly into newer, less familiar areas. Like a coloring […]
Star Trek, Beyond: Even the Big Guns Suck at Marketing
Over at ScyFy, Simon Pegg has been bemoaning the atrocious marketing job done for Star Trek Beyond. He’s particularly scathing about the trailer above. …It used ‘Sabotage,’ which was our surprise moment in the end. It was supposed to be a very fun and heightened twist, and something that was […]
Adopt, Don’t Photoshop
So Elizabeth Olsen is talented as fuck and one of the most natural and understatedly beautiful actresses on the screen today. So why, oh why, would Empire Magazine even think they needed to photoshop her? It’s gobsmacking.