As we’ve seen with Star Trek and Twilight Zone Blu-ray releases, old TV shows that shot on 35mm film can now look really great in HD. Wonder Woman is the latest series to get the upgrade, and its three seasons provide a visual treat you couldn’t have imagined on 19” TVs in the ‘70s. The […]
I grew up watching Wonder Woman on TV. I didn’t know there was anything feminist about it. I just thought she was a cool, powerful hero. Perhaps seeing her and Supergirl made me the man I am today, one who doesn’t think twice about including diverse people. If there’s anything to that, it’s important that […]
I have a lot of issues with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Get it? Issues, like issues of a comic book. But really, this movie has a lot of problems. Spider-Man: Homecoming could be a fun story about a kid discovering his new super powers. It’s just someone else’s powers. Iron Man’s, specifically. That suit that Tony Stark (Robert […]
Wonder Woman is finally here this weekend. Nerd Report was at the press conference with Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston and director Patty Jenkins. Gadot plays Diana Prince, aka the Amazon Wonder Woman. Nielsen plays Diana’s mother and Wright her Amazonian trainer. Chris Pine plays Steve Trevor and Huston the villain […]
Cinematic takes on King Arthur have attempted to be realistic, romantic, fantastical and even musical (that one began on Broadway to be fair). King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is all posturing bravado. It gets off to a rough start when the film chooses really odd moments to highlight. The opening shot of a castle […]
Up front, a movie about a father making a man out of his son by teaching him to hunt in the woods was probably never going to fully touch my soul. A walkabout, vision quest or coming of age tale works for me but I so don’t relate to outdoorsmen. Bravo to them though and […]
Passengers is the kind of high concept movie I wish they’d make more often. I can describe the premise to you in a single sentence. A man and a woman on a spaceship wake from hypersleep 90 years too early, so they have to come to terms with living out their lives on the ship. […]
The buzz La La Land has enjoyed may be overwhelming, so let me put it into a bit of context. The opening and closing dance numbers are so brilliant and uplifting that they are probably the best sequences in cinema all year. There are a few other stellar dance routines early in the film too, […]
There’s nothing Robert De Niro can’t do. If a role requires a new skill, he will immerse himself in that craft and become excellent at it. The Comedian cast De Niro as a standup comic and it is totally worth it to see De Niro do standup comedy. The plot providing the vehicle for the […]
Rules Don’t Apply made me lament all the characters Warren Beatty could have played in the last 15 years but did not. He is very good as Howard Hughes, and could surely bring that to other roles he may not have been directing. Rules Don’t Apply isn’t very extraordinary in any other regard. Hughes (Beatty) […]