It may be an absurd thing to
say about a movie whose human protagonist (the wonderful, still Oscar-less Sally Hawkins) winds up seducing a sea creature, but I wish that, beneath its luscious aquamarine surface, «The Shape of Water» were a more genuinely surprising movie — more spontaneous and less complacent in its homage to the virtues of collective unity and individual difference.
Not exact matches
So let's
say this
movie is
about a woman
whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is
about her coming to terms with the truth
about personal love and death and all that.
Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n
Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old
movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos —
about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.
«It isn't
about the making of the worst
movie ever — it's
about people chasing the American dream,»
says Goldberg,
whose production company with Rogen, Point Grey, is making the film.
10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I
say that
about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright
whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the
movies.
Before getting into how spectacular the action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the blockbuster from plundering to the bottom of the ocean), it must be
said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea
whose story the
movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal of the
movie for all characters is finding
said artifact for different reasons, by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all
about that plot element and are just living in the moment of Jack Sparrow and company battling an army of decomposing, undead ghost pirates led by Captain Salazar.
Track of the Cat William Wellman, USA, 1954, 35 mm, 102m Mitchum reunited with his Story of G.I. Joe director William Wellman («I was very, very fond of him,» Mitchum
said of Wellman, «and he tolerated me») for a different kind of
movie, based on a Walter Van Tilburg Clark novel,
about a homesteading family in snow country
whose livestock is being destroyed by a roaming mountain lion.
«It's only the start,»
says Ducournau,
whose next
movie is
about a female serial killer.
Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher
whose class was filmed for the
movie,
said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties
about the middle - school transition ran deep.
«It's not pink, it's cranberry wine,» Jennifer
said, but Minnie,
whose big brother, Mike, tells her
about all the horror
movies he watches, thinks she looks like someone dumped a bucket of pig's blood on her.