But with Killmonger and Klaue both failing to make
it out of the film alive and M'Baku seemingly on T'Challa's side, not many of the big names left from the comics have an adversarial history with Black Panther.
The Mad Titan was coming, and there was not a chance that some of my favourite superheroes were going to come
out of the film alive.
Sam Rockwell, «Iron Man 2» Yeah, yeah, Rockwell is fine in «Conviction,» even if Juliette Lewis does her darnedest to ensure no other actor gets
out of that film alive.
Not exact matches
There is nothing too complex or overdone about it, which is kind
of what I was hoping for, but there are no real stakes aside from seeing if our main characters make it
out alive, which in the end does not really matter, because they all pull
of ridiculous stunts, making for a very far - fetched
film.
It's by far the dullest and least inspired
of the three
films, and despite a robust Dan Stevens performance as the comically heroic Sir Lancelot, the juice has definitely run
out of the batteries that is keeping this series
alive.
However, in the
film's opening scene we learn that someone, in fact, has made it
out alive: Lena (Natalie Portman), a woman who appears battered and is being interviewed by a team
of researchers clad in hazmat suits led by Lomax (Benedict Wong), whose many questions are eerily answered with «I don't know.»
***
out of **** Tobe Hooper's «Eaten
Alive» is a
film so tasteless and sleazy that literally the first few words
of dialogue spoken are by Robert Englund as Buck, who is as he says, «fixin'to fuck».
There's a dream sequence late in the
film that reminded me
of something
out of a Luis Buñuel
film, complete with surreal visuals and butchered meat, and it's startling and
alive in a way the
film overall fails to achieve, outside
of a few scenes.
Verdict: The vampire movie might feel played
out for most
of us, but if anyone was going to find something new in it, it was Jim Jarmusch, who delivers with «Only Lovers Left
Alive» his best, and most purely enjoyable,
film in years.
Paul Greengrass»
film is based on the true story
of a 2009 pirate attack off the Somalian coast, and despite the inescapable tension the director achieves, we know that the real - life Phillips made it
out alive; this is no spoiler here, folks, he wrote the book that provided the basis for this movie.
Rocky made him an instant star, but Stallone continued to work behind the scenes, writing numerous
films and directing many
of them: he debuted as director with Paradise Alley (1978), directed four
out of the six Rocky
films, made the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying
Alive (1983), directed 2008's Rambo, and launched a new franchise with 2010's The Expendables.
It reminds
of the way the Coen brothers have previously handled this type
of crime
film in Miller's Crossing or No Country for Old Men, where the audience has no idea who will make it
out alive but can't wait to find
out.
I caught some
of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful
film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story
of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left
Alive (TIFF's Opening Night
film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire
film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere
of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the
film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little
film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family
out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
The flashback structure gives extra shape not only to his character, but also to the fim's structure — it preserves a kind
of symmetry in the narrative that would be unbalanced if the stuff at Monaco were appended as a coda, though it also defuses what could have been a source
of tension in the body
of the
film, namely the question
of whether Sol would make it
out of the camp
alive.
The
film has plenty
of the usual hokey dialogue and characters (instead
of a singing nun we now have a singing blind man who dies a few minutes after finally finding true love) but this time around not every passenger on board will make it
out alive which does lead to some suspense.
6:00 am — TCM — Akira Kurosawa Marathon Today would be Akira Kurosawa's 100th birthday were he still
alive, and after a month
of weekly primetime Kurosawa mini-marathons, TCM is giving this day and night over entirely to his
films, starting with a series
of ones that I've frankly never heard
of, and then bringing
out the big guns starting with Rashomon at 8 pm.
There are plenty
of cheesy TV movies that have cornered that market, and more than a handful of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack u
of cheesy TV movies that have cornered that market, and more than a handful
of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack u
of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT
OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack u
OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake
out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come
alive and attack us.
And since this is the last part
of the trilogy, some speculation about the
film has focused on whether or not Batman will make it
out alive.
So while Annihilation bypasses cinemas in this country, do call
out the movie industry for its lack
of faith in filmmakers and
film lovers; petition Netflix to team up with Curzon cinemas more to release its original movies theatrically in the UK; support smaller titles that do have cinema releases where possible; but don't spend your time lamenting the decline
of cinema when the art
of the visual medium is
alive and kicking through Annihilation, in US theatres and on UK computers, phones, tablets and TVs.
Another
film I turned
out to adore in the festival's closing days was «Only Lovers Left
Alive» [A], the latest from Jim Jarmusch, which stars Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as vampiric rock stars Adam and Eve, dividing their time between Detroit and Tangier, whose comfortable, if ennui - filled, lives are upended by the arrival
of Eve's sister Ava (Mia Wasikowska).
With stand -
out performances from Ben Stiller (* Night At The Museum, Meet The Parents) * Golden Globe ** and six - time Emmy Award *** nominated actress Kristen Wiig (* Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids, How To Train Your Dragon *), Adam Scott (* Step Brothers *) and Shirley MacLaine (* Wild Oats *), the THE SECRET LIFE
OF WALTER MITTY Blu - ray and DVD is loaded with more than an hour of behind - the - scenes special features, including deleted, extended and alternative scenes, featurettes that dive into filming in Iceland and Walter Mitty history, a gallery of exclusive reference photography, and music video «Stay Alive» by José González, and mor
OF WALTER MITTY Blu - ray and DVD is loaded with more than an hour
of behind - the - scenes special features, including deleted, extended and alternative scenes, featurettes that dive into filming in Iceland and Walter Mitty history, a gallery of exclusive reference photography, and music video «Stay Alive» by José González, and mor
of behind - the - scenes special features, including deleted, extended and alternative scenes, featurettes that dive into
filming in Iceland and Walter Mitty history, a gallery
of exclusive reference photography, and music video «Stay Alive» by José González, and mor
of exclusive reference photography, and music video «Stay
Alive» by José González, and more.
But those high tech toys were like big kid fantasies come
alive, magnificently designed vehicles rolled
out as lovingly detailed miniatures with a sense
of awe and wonder, and the success
of the spawned two feature
films that upped the ante on the spectacle.
In the end, the
film basically cancels
out the events at Alkali Lake, and Wolverine returns to a present in which all
of friends are
alive and well, including Jean, Xavier, and Scott Summers.
«Only Lovers Left
Alive» The vampire movie might feel played
out for most
of us, but if anyone was going to find something new in it, it was Jim Jarmusch, who delivers with «Only Lovers Left
Alive» his best, and most purely enjoyable,
film in years.
Comedy though this is, it is one rife with palpable danger and no guarantees about who will make it
out alive with the exception
of Mike, who starts the
film being questioned about what happened, providing snippets
of flashback that foreshadow what will come.
Unlike all the brightly lit production design in that
film, the hospital has no shortage
of dark shadows where unknown forces can easily pop
out at the five strangers (Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, Peter Gallagher, and Chris Kattan) who are assembled by theme park owner Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush) and his wayward wife (Famke Janssen) to spend the night for a cool $ 1 million each — that is, provided they are
alive the next morning.