Lena Dunham is incredibly annoying and a bad a person for multiple reasons. Many such cases. Fans of art have long had to pretend we do not care about the various transgressions of artists. We should care for sure. I think we can also engage in the art that they made along the way and keep the context of who they are in mind to see if it helps to illuminate what is going on with their art.
The Fantastic Four is one of the most celebrated superhero comic book teams ever. Despite that though, their cinematic adventures have essentially been one disaster after another. But the need for content exists (both in terms of movie studios and the media click-based ecosystem) so these films are just going to keep coming out I suppose.
We luckily have a fantastic podcast series – Fantastic Fouray – from one-time site editor, Matt Waters, and sporadic site podcaster and contributor, Kevin Ford, breaking down the past, present, and future adventures of the Fantastic Four on the big screen.
Episode #1: The Fantastic Four (Unreleased) & Doomed! Documentary
Episode #2: Fantastic Four (2005)
Episode #3: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Episode #4: FANT4STIC
Episode #5: First Steps
(Also, read: 8 Takeaways from the Black Panther Episode of Fantastic Four)
And with that, it’s time for me to rank all the (futile) attempts to make a Fantastic Four film.
Films I Still Need To See: Identity Crisis, Vrooom Vroom Vroooom, Le Conte du ventre plein, Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Melvin Van Peebles was a true American genius. His films are as compelling and as interesting as any American director ever.
The John Wick movies (no matter if they descend into a period of total mediocrity or not) will always have a special place in my heart for being a big part of restoring Keanu Reeves’ status as a big star in Hollywood. Here is how I rank the films (so far). Continue reading Ranking the John Wick Films
Superman has never been a superhero that I was drawn to due to all the obvious reasons about him being too difficult to kill, etc. As I get older, I do find him more fascinating at the very least as a pop culture artifact. And that brings us to this column.
For the purposes of this column, I decided to only count the Superman solo projects. Thus, Man of Steel is the only Snyderverse film being included for an example.
It was very late in life that I learned that Dennis Hopper was an interesting filmmaker. I cannot explain exactly why it took so long for me to learn this; I can only guess it’s because all of his films after Easy Rider did not really receive the mainstream recognition and success that his debut did. If you are a fool like I was and ignored his post-Riders work, you owe it to yourself to check a lot of them out. They kick ass.
David Cronenberg is one of the most interesting filmmakers who has ever done it. He understands the human experience so well, and how much horniness and fear of our bodies is inherent to our lives. No one does it like him.
Still Need to Watch: Finian’s Rainbow, Gardens of Stone
Not Gonna Lie, Probably Will Never Watch, Life is Too Short: Jack
Francis Ford Coppola is such an icon and is one of those figures that you sometimes forget to actually look at the word he has produced when you assess his abilities and contributions to the world of cinema. He has made some of the best, biggest and most important movies ever made. He has made some financial disasters. He has made some real intimate and personal movies. And more importantly his work suggests he has rarely ever stopped exploring through art what it means to be alive in a very messed up world.
Continue reading Ranking the Francis Ford Coppola Films
The Mission Impossible flicks are up there with the Alien and Fast/Furious series for best franchises in film history. I have ranked the films here.
Here are the four total articles we did on Mission: Impossible:
Ranking the films overall
Ranking the villains
Ranking the Tom Cruise stunts
Ranking the recurring ensemble members
8. Mission: Impossible III
Every week in September gets you a new Mission: Impossible listicle. Why? Why not.
Here are the four total articles we did on Mission: Impossible:
Ranking the films overall
Ranking the villains
Ranking the Tom Cruise stunts
Ranking the recurring ensemble members
Rule Clarification: Dead Reckoning and Final Reckoning I am counting as a two-parter – to qualify for this list, those two films could not be your only two films.
LAST: Jeremy Renner – William Brandt
