General movie news thread

The word of mouth I'm seeing on Cocaine Bear is 'stupid but clever'. That's hard to pull off.

I have not seen it.

 

For a while in the 1990s/early 2000s, Sizemore was on an incredible streak working with many top Hollywood directors (Spielberg, Scorsese, Michael Mann, Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Lawrence Kasdan)....but his career and personal life took a long downhill slide before this.

 

I did hear that Brendan Gleeson gave one thumbs up to The Banshees of Inisherin.

 

Ricou Browning, the Gill-Man in ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon,’ Dies at 93

Also a filmmaker and co-creator of "Flipper." Directed the underwater sequences in "Thunderball."

 

That was a staple of Friday Night "Creature Features" and a long-remembered creepy part of my nightmares. Also the reason I disliked Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water, it was the Creature From the Black Lagoon making out with her!!

 

Jennifer Lawrence fronts an R-rated teen comedy from Office writer:

 

Of all the In Memoriam segments - the SAG Awards version is always tops for including all those "that guy" actors you've known for years. Didn't know about half of these.

 

The Oscars REALLY could have used Tom Cruise at tonight's event. I understand how its become a thing for the big movie stars not nominated to stay home so they don't overshadow the nominated actors - who have trended to be on the lower wattage of things - but this is about as a low-wattage group of nominees as I've ever seen. Great actors to be sure - but I'm sure more than a few would go unrecognized walking into a 7-11.

Spielberg might be the biggest "star" nominated.

 

Cruise was nominated as a producer of Top Gun. He is filming another MI.

 

I know he was nominated as a producer - but he could have been there - the guy can do whatever he wants to do.

I was thinking - is it odd that there hasn't been an "anti-Trump" movie released since he was elected? I can't even think of a movie dealing with the reappearance and growth of the white power movement - no American History X, - not even a comedy that mocks it. Not even a Michael Moore doc. I can think of more "pro-Trump" movies starring or directed by his celebrity friends - than one where Trump, his views or hi s actions are a prominent feature. Sure, movies take time to develop - but seems like it would be an easy way to make some coin.
Though I doubt any pop culture production would be as effective at portraying his Presidency better than The Good Fight - so much so I wonder if that show would have been half as good if Hillary won in 2016.

 

I think there’s an exhaustion level of all things trump. Even the hate-watchers. The cult wouldn’t see it. And it’s all been in everyone’s face every day for seven years.