By When we recently compiled our list of science fiction movies based on true stories, one film that didn’t make the list was Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer. After all, the technology behind the nuclear bomb can no longer be said to be undiscovered, sadly. Nonetheless, Oppenheimer remains the archetypal science fiction story—one
TRON: ARES Starts Shooting
Meanwhile, up in the frozen wastes of His Majesty’s Royal Canadia… well, Vancouver, filming has officially begun on TRON: Ares. The project was pushed out by the writer’s strike and then the actor’s strike. It had started pre-production last summer but was only about four weeks in before it had
Priscilla (2023) Review
ANOTHER SIDE, ANOTHER STORY In 2022, director Baz Luhrmann introduces the world of visual style of filmmaking with the release of Elvis. The movie, which starred Austin Butler and Tom Hanks as the main headliners of the feature, presented a biopic drama that centers around the life of musical
Pitches Open For HARRY POTTER TV Series
Warner Bros. has started taking pitches for the already-announced Harry Potter TV series. The plan is to adapt all seven books into a sequence of television seasons for Max and HBO. David Zaslav has already said it will be a ten-year project, so anyone pitching has to commit. The series
Sundance ’24: ‘FREAKY TALES’ A Disjointed Tapestry of Stories, Ideas, and Tones, with Nazis
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Freaky Tales, a madcap 1987 Oakland-set anthology, is a lot. Told in four loosely threaded together chapters, this interconnected story of the intersection of corruption, subculture, and violence in Reagan-era west coast America bites off more than it can chew, becoming more of an implosive