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‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ Is Another Resounding Win for Sony Pictures Animation
All hail Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, purveyors of all things deliriously unhinged, meta, and yet still somehow deeply thoughtful. I still contend one of the biggest mistakes in blockbuster moviemaking the last decade was Disney balking on their vision for Solo: A Star Wars Story I Watched Once and Immediately Forgot About. As far as mainstream entertainment goes, they’re two of the most important voices — either in live-action or animation — that we have at the moment.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Geeks
Films from the Peninsula: ‘Secret Sunshine’
Intro It’s no secret that Korean cinema is having a bit of a moment these days — whether it be due to the wild success of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the recent love for Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, or just the growing interest American audiences are starting to show for international cinema. As a Korean-American filmgoer, I’ve made it a part of my mission to seek out and recommend great Korean films that aren’t very widely known, yet deserve all the recognition and acclaim they can get. That’s the aim of my latest column, Films from the Peninsula, where I take a look at a handful of stunning yet overlooked Korean movies, both old and new, for readers interested in the diverse landscape of Korean cinema. First up, Lee Chang-dong’s 2007 masterpiece, as well as the first Korean film to enter the Criterion Collection; Secret Sunshine.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Humans
‘Bridesmaids’ Revisited
“CHICK FLICKS DON’T HAVE TO SUCK.” This quote from Movieline’s Jen Yamato was splashed across movie posters for Bridesmaids leading up to its wide release on May 13th, 2011. The marketing team must have loved the quote — it played perfectly into the film’s efforts to appeal to a wider demographic than a typical female-driven comedy. In fact, until Bridesmaids, more often than not female-driven comedies were almost always positioned as romantic comedies, and even then they were usually marketed as more rom than com. There was good reason for the marketing team to feel like they had to make sure people knew Bridesmaids was different. When you take that quote at face value, you’re left with a stark reminder of where we were a decade ago: asking if women were funny.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Humans
The Uncomfortable Brilliance of ‘Shiva Baby’
Generally, we all try and avoid uncomfortable situations. Whether it is trying to avoid someone, a confrontation, or any of the other myriad of possibilities, we don’t want any part of it. We will quickly pull out our phones and escape whichever experience we were aiming to sidestep. The reason why is quite simple, we have all had enough of these uncomfortable experiences to know better. This fact makes it more interesting when a film aims to take the very thing we try to avoid and recreates that feeling as a part of the film’s experience. This is exactly what writer and director, Emma Seligman, does with her new film, Shiva Baby.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Geeks
Adaptation Evaluation: ‘Nomadland’
“We not only accept the tyranny of the dollar, the tyranny of the marketplace, we embrace it. We gladly throw the yoke of the tyranny of the dollar on and live by it our whole lives.” So says Bob Wells, a sort of van life guru, when we first see him in Nomadland as he’s speaking to congregants at a desert gathering. While Nomadland’s largely a work of fiction, Bob Wells is a real person, so who we see isn’t simply a fictional character in Nomadland, or maybe he is a fictionalized version of himself, even if he really is Bob Wells. It’s a little complicated.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Humans
‘Mortal Kombat’ Is Far From a Flawless Victory, But a Little Win for Video Game Adaptations
As far as I am concerned, there are three certainties in life; death, taxes, and film adaptations of video game franchises always being bitterly disappointing or just plain bad. Over the years, so many great games with rich cinematic potential have been severely botched in the adaptation process, resulting in films like Warcraft, Assassin’s Creed, and Super Mario Bros. that range from mediocre to bad to borderline unwatchable. The prospect of a good video game movie after witnessing so many failures now seems like nothing more than a fanboy pipe-dream, but there is hope. It has come in the form of a familiar visage of a dragon symbol. The 1995 adaptation of the massively popular fighting game Mortal Kombat is often considered to be the cream of the crop for video game movies, which to be honest, is not saying much considering its competition. Regardless, it is a fan favorite and after its awful sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in ’97 and a third film stuck in development hell for years, this long-awaited reboot of the Mortal Kombat franchise for the big screen (or small screen for those watching on HBO Max) has re-instilled this seemingly foolish and dwindling hope. The hope that this film series can reach the heights it did back in ’95 and that cinematic retellings of these beloved games can actually be good.
By MovieBabble5 years ago in Gamers
