#’Communion’ is One of the Weirdest Alien Movies You’ll Ever Watch – /Film

#’Communion’ is One of the Weirdest Alien Movies You’ll Ever Watch – /Film

“#’Communion’ is One of the Weirdest Alien Movies You’ll Ever Watch – /Film” (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Communion Where You Can Stream It: Amazon Prime Video and Tubi The Pitch: The “true” story of how author Whitley Strieber was…

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#Craig Gillespie on Villains – /Film

#Craig Gillespie on Villains – /Film

“#Craig Gillespie on Villains – /Film” Cruella is a crime movie, and director Craig Gillespie seems to relish that. Sure, this is Disney’s latest live-action reboot, an attempt to bring an iconic character back into the spotlight with an expensive origin story. But it’s also a tale of revenge set against the backdrop of the…

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#Great Costumes, Sluggish Pacing – /Film

#Great Costumes, Sluggish Pacing – /Film

“#Great Costumes, Sluggish Pacing – /Film” Each of Disney’s live-action/CGI remakes, reboots, revivals, and re-imaginings has run up against the same challenge. Whether they’re about a boy growing up in the jungle, a young woman falling in love with a beast, or a girl falling through a rabbit hole to a magical fantasy world, these…

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#The Dry and Playing Subtle Characters – /Film

#The Dry and Playing Subtle Characters – /Film

“#The Dry and Playing Subtle Characters – /Film” Eric Bana‘s performance in The Dry is one of those reminders that less is more. Sometimes more is more, yes, but in the case of the hit Australian crime mystery, silence speaks loudly. Bana stars as Aaron, a man investigating a murder-suicide involving his old friend back home, where…

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#Filmmaker Simon Barrett – /Film

#Filmmaker Simon Barrett – /Film

“#Filmmaker Simon Barrett – /Film” According to Simon Barrett, although he gained a great deal of notoriety as a genre-oriented screenwriter, he’s always seen himself as a director who fell into writing thanks to a long-running partnership with director Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs. Kong). With Barrett as writer and Wingard as director, the pair have…

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#Hayao Miyazaki Influences – /Film

#Hayao Miyazaki Influences – /Film

“#Hayao Miyazaki Influences – /Film” Luca is the closest Pixar has gotten to making a Studio Ghibli film. It’s not particularly in the visuals, though there are plenty of similarities — the characters look like they’d be comfortable strolling through Kiki’s Delivery Service, albeit in a 3D version of it — but in the feeling. There’s a…

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