When golf pro Jerry loses his job and decides to help fight an uncontrolled forest fire near their home, his wife Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) and son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) are left to fend for themselves in Wildfire – Paul Dano’s first film as director.
Wildfire will be in theaters on October 19th.
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Actor Paul Dano’s first film as a director, Wildlife follows the dissolution of a marriage through the eyes of the couple’s son.
Wildlife will be in theaters on October 19th.
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There are movies that come out of nowhere and delight some while totally disgusting others. A movie that features a flatulent corpse and a suicidal castaway might just be that.
Swiss Army Man has come to home video and it gets the kind of package a WTF movie deserves – including a commentary track so that answers the question, what the heck were they thinking?
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Even before we meet the odd couple who constitute 95% of Swiss Army Man, we are given hints of the oncoming oddness through the credits as various ‘send help’ notes drift by on increasingly curious and elaborate vessels – including one that ends with the exclamation, ‘I AM SO BORED!’
Then we get to the meet incredibly uncute between suicidal castaway Hank and waterlogged corpse Manny and the fart and penis jokes commence – but if you stick with it, Swiss Army Man becomes a vehicle for existential angst, meditations on love, friendship and life itself (however twisted and insane they might be). It might even be considered a superhero spoof (but I’m not saying another word about that – Except the word superpowers…).
Continue reading Swiss Army Man: Way More Than a Just Boy and His Farting Corpse Jet Ski!
Brian Wilson is a genius. The scope and quality of the music he’s composed over his lifetime is testament to that. For a long time, he was a tortured genius.
Love & Mercy is Brian Wilson’s story and, unlike a lot of biopics, it doesn’t gloss over anything – Wilson has described it as ‘factual’ in a number of interviews since it was made. It is an absorbing look at Wilson’s life – as much of a look as can be covered in a couple of hours – and it one of the best biopics movies in years.
Continue reading Love & Mercy: Brian Wilson – To Hell and Back!