Make sure your seatbelts are on because it’s time for 40 minutes of uncomfortable car journeys, rapidly-changing hobbies, ice cream in the snow and of course a great deal of allegorical discourse. Never change, Charlie Kaufman.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 102: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
PT Anderson is one of the last real United States studio-backed filmmakers left. When his films come out, it is still something of an event – an all-too tragically rare thing these days. When looking back at his career, you can pretty neatly divided into two distinct halves. Before Blood, he made a lot of notable films very well, but in retrospect, they do not overall stand out as much. From Blood on though, he really found his own distinct voice and visual style and has just been off to the races ever since. Continue reading Ranking the Paul Thomas Anderson Films
We’re back baby! We simply couldn’t wait to start talking about the 2020s so decided to launch Volume 5.1 to cover 2020-2024, starting with Christopher Nolan’s brain-breaking Tenet.
Does Matt even understand the film? Does he realise he keeps saying palomino? Is Princess Diana super tall in The Crown??? Find out now!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 101: Tenet
The best franchise in the history of film! All of the films are were once good and all feel completely different from each other. Keep making them, Ridley. The evil Disney corporation needs to go back to letting Ridley make them. Here is a ranking of the supporting performances in the series.
Continue reading Ranking the Alien Films (& Television Seasons)
I am very late to the Lee Chang-dong party, but I am grateful I finally got there. He is a very beautiful filmmaker.
Films I Still Need to Watch: Face to Face, In the Presence of a Clown, Prison, Music in Darkness, It Rains on Our Love, Madame de Sade, This Can’t Happen Here, A Dream Play, The Image Makers, The Bacchae
Ingmar Bergman was one of the most consistently good directors in cinema history. For nearly sixty years, he cranked out good film after good film with a handful becoming iconic and very few being artistic failures. Diving into the Criterion box set was a long project but well worth it.
Sex and the City is one of the most important television shows ever. I had a mildly unusual experience watching the show. I watched most of the show when I was 13-15 years old, and I did not watch it week to week but sporadically on-demand and out of order. So, before re-watching the show in 2023, I had seen just about every single episode but really had no concept of when things happened. Besides the end. Boy, did I ever remember the end of this fucking show. This column will rank all movies and seasons of the Sex and the City world.
Continue reading Ranking the Sex and the City Seasons and Films
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.
This list is very much incomplete. More will be added.
Kevin Ford is a Fantastic Four superfan who had never seen any of the theatrically released F4 Movies… until now! Each week Matt Waters guides him through uncharted territory as they rate the movies and try to build an all-star cast.
And so we’ve come… to the eeeeend oooof the roooaaad….
Ahem. Sorry. Yes, the podcast is over already as we have completed the journey of Fantastic 4 films that currently exist. Do we finally have our first ‘Reed’? How uncomfortable can Matt make everyone with oversharing? How have Mel Gibson and Jon Voight come up??? Come find out!
Continue reading Fantastic Fouray – Episode 5: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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