Review: "Good Time"

By Spencer Coile 

2017 has quietly become the post-Twilight year of Pattinson & Stewart. After Kristen Stewart dazzled in Personal Shopper, Robert Pattinson was given a leading role worthy of his talent in the Safdie Bros. film, Good Time. Taking place throughout the span of one night, Pattinson's Connie scrambles to get his brother Nick (Benny Safdie) out of jail after a fumbled bank heist. 

As far as plot is concerned, that is all you need to know. The Safdie brothers then let this story unfold in such quick, confident ways that all you are left to do is sit back and grip the sides of your chair...

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"78/52" Trailer teases method behind madness of Hitchcock's "Psycho"

by Daniel Crooke

Arriving just in time to slice and dice screens during the Halloween season comes Alexandre O. Phillipe's documentary 78/52, named after the 78 shots and 52 cuts that comprise the primal terror of Psycho’s infamous shower scene. A frame-by-frame deconstruction of the sequence, the myth, and the way it changed moviegoing culture forever, 78/52 debuted to warm reviews at Sundance earlier this year and will no doubt be a sweet seasonal treat for fans of Alfred Hitchcock, legacy horror, and the precise construction that goes into the craft of filmmaking.

Aficionados and genre experts such as Guillermo del Toro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Karyn Kusama, and Danny Elfman provide their own insights in the documentary...

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Soundtracking: "The Big Chill"

Chris Feil's weekly series looks at the use of music in movies

The Big Chill is one of the definitive films about the baby boomer generation, marking their coming of a certain age where life begins to look a lot less like what they were promised. And this is a generation that was promised an awful lot. It’s appropriate then that Lawrence Kasdan packs the film with tunes that contrast a youthful optimism with more complicated tones of soulful longing.

Many of the songs featured in the film would become soundtrack staples to the extent that they became movie cliches. Off-hand you can probably think of a half dozen films that also featured “The Weight” by The Band or “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night. But what The Big Chill got right - and first, mind you - about much of this music is how it was the tapestry of that generation...

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would you rather...?

It's time to play our new favorite fantasizing rather than dealing with awful reality game. So where and with whom would you like to be doing what right about now. Would you rather...

...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn?
...decorate Milla Jovovich's face with jelly stickers?
... float in the sea with Nico Tortorella?
... see Hamilton with Ashton Sanders?
... go vegetable shopping with Kristin Scott Thomas?
...hit the stables with Naomie Harris?
... "go heavy" with Orlando Bloom?
... do a shot with Leonardo Nam and Ptolemy Slocum as Westworld season 2 begins filming?
...F@*# Up some homophobes with Haaz Sleiman?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide.

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Frankly my dear... I DO give a damn

by Seán McGovern

With the recent news of Ed Skrein's departure from Hellboy, cinema goers as well as actors are becoming increasingly aware of the sensitivities of depicting race on screen. For 34 years the Orpheum theatre in Tennesse has shown Gone With the Wind in its summer programme. Screening the evening of August 11, just before the racist violence in Charlottesville, the theatre received numerous complaints of screening a work with highly romanticised visions of the Old South, and black characters who exist without any acknowledgement that they are slaves.

The Orpheum has decided to forego screening the film in 2018...

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