Cloud Strife, the broody protagonist of Final Fantasy VII and its remakes, has a pretty elaborate backstory. He grew up in Nibelheim, went on to become a SOLDIER, and got mixed up with Sephiroth along the way. But after almost 30 years, we still don’t know who his father is. However, as Square Enix has expanded the…
Cloud Strife, the broody protagonist of Final Fantasy VII and its remakes, has a pretty elaborate backstory. He grew up in Nibelheim, went on to become a SOLDIER, and got mixed up with Sephiroth along the way. But after almost 30 years, we still don’t know who his father is. However, as Square Enix has expanded the…
It’s happened before, and it will happen again. Sometimes, a movie plays a film fest, gets picked up by a studio, and is changed. It looks like that’s exactly what happened to Boy Kills World, a movie I saw (and enjoyed) at TIFF’s Midnight Madness. The official trailer dropped today, and I’m thrilled the film is getting a full-on theatrical release courtesy of Lionsgate and Roadhouse Attractions.
However, Boy Kills World won’t be released the way I saw it at TIFF.
As soon as I started watching the trailer, it seemed different to me, as in the cut that I saw; the entire movie was narrated by Bill Skarsgard’s “Boy” character (who is deaf and mute) via his interior monologue. In the version I saw, Skarsgard seemed to be doing the voice. The hook is that Boy’s inner monologue is based on the last voice he heard, that of a nineties-style arcade game, and it looks like the studio has replaced Skarsgard’s voice with that of Archer voice actor H. Jon Benjamin.
While some may say that’s a good thing, I’m not entirely sure it will work in the context of the movie. While a rocking action film, it takes on deeper, more serious themes as it goes on, so it’s a shame that Skarsgard, who seemed to be delivering a great vocal performance (to my ears, anyway), won’t get to convey the character’s emotion the same way. I liked it originally, but I’m not sure I’ll feel the same about it when I see this new cut. For me, removing Skarsgard’s vocal performance is a weird choice, especially given what a good voice actor he is (can anyone forget how he sounded as Pennywise in It?). I wonder if Boy Meets World got any other revisions because the cut I saw was pretty balls-to-the-wall. It took several months for the film to get a distribution deal, so it’s possible the movie had to be retooled a bit before coming out. The voiceover swap – to me anyway- is a pretty big change, and I’m not sure it’s a welcome one. I’ll reserve judgment until I see the final film, but take my original review with a grain of salt now, as this version seems very different. Maybe it’ll be better, but it might be worse, too.
Boy Kills World hits theaters on April 26th.
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Mother 3 is one of those games everyone talks about but hardly anyone has played—and for a bummer reason. The 2006 Game Boy Advance RPG was never officially released outside of Japan (it’s called Earthbound everywhere else) so unless you imported it and understood Japanese, you couldn’t experience the famously elusive…
Mother 3 is one of those games everyone talks about but hardly anyone has played—and for a bummer reason. The 2006 Game Boy Advance RPG was never officially released outside of Japan (it’s called Earthbound everywhere else) so unless you imported it and understood Japanese, you couldn’t experience the famously elusive…
The Ghostbusters: Afterlife (watch it HERE) sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (which, of course, also serves as a sequel to the original Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II) is set to reach theatres in exactly one month, on March 22nd, and Sony Pictures has marked the occasion by unveiling four new posters for the film! You can check them out at the bottom of this article.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife stars Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace are back for the sequel, reprising the roles of Trevor and Phoebe. They’re joined in the cast by Carrie Coon, playing Trevor and Phoebe’s mom Callie; Paul Rudd, back as his Afterlife character Gary Grooberson; William Atherton as Walter Peck, the antagonistic EPA inspector from the first Ghostbusters film; Celeste O’Connor as Trevor’s friend Lucky Domingo; Logan Kim as Phoebe’s friend Podcast; Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz; and new additions Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens), James Acaster (Hypothetical), and Emily Alyn Lind (Doctor Sleep). And yes, original Ghostbusters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson are in the film as well, and it looks like they have more prominent roles than they had in the previous movie – in fact, the director has said they’re “actual characters” in this one.
At first, Afterlife director Jason Reitman was expected to take the helm of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, once again directing from a screenplay he was writing with Gil Kenan – but then it was revealed that Kenan would actually be directing the new film. He previously directed the animated movie Monster House, the live-action films City of Ember, A Boy Called Christmas, and the remake of Poltergeist, and an episode of the Scream TV series. Kenan has said that he drew inspiration from the Real Ghostbusters animated series and its willingness to be weird and wild when they were coming up with the ghostly threats in this film.
Are you looking forward to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? Let us know by leaving a comment below… and check out the new posters while you’re scrolling down. They’ve got new Ghostbusters, old Ghostbusters, Slimer, miniature marshmallow men, and a Sewer Dragon.
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It’s the calm before the storm. Next weekend, the box office is set to catch fire with the long-awaited release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. We caught the film this week, and as you might be able to tell by our review, we loved it. As such, studios are reluctant to open anything too ambitious this weekend because they will all get swallowed up like a Harkonen being munched on by a sandworm next weekend. So, we can expect Paramount’s surprise hit, Bob Marley: One Love to easily nab a second weekend on top of the box office. But what about Madame Web?
The fact that Sony’s latest addition to the Spider-Verse was such a disaster was all over the news this last week, with many thinking it’s a bit of a franchise killer. Should Kraven the Hunter also flop, many think Sony will stop making non-animated Spider-Verse movies. One of the things everyone is wondering about is how Madame Web will perform in its second weekend.
Usually, a movie like this would be have no trouble holding on to second place, but the word-of-mouth on this is toxic. Thus, many believe it will be trounced at the box office by Sony/ Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training. The last one earned over $10 million at the box office, so there’s no reason to doubt this will do the same. I expect it to be in second place over Madame Web with a $9.5 million opening.
But what about the other two new releases this weekend, Ordinary Angels and Drive Away Dolls? Of the two, I think Ordinary Angels can surprise people at the box office, given that it’s faith-based and stars Reacher’s Alan Ritchson. His star is rising, although the movie is being sold around Hilary Swank. I think the film will make $8 million, but unlike a lot of other movies on this list, it will have legs. I also believe it will nab third place from Madame Web, which will have to settle for fourth, depending on how awful the second-weekend drop is.
The one I think is going to tank is Ethan Coen’s Drive Away Dolls. This is his loving attempt at making a “lesbian B-movie,” as he calls it, but audiences won’t get the vibe of the film when they check it out, so expect bad word of mouth. Cinephiles might see it, but I don’t see it doing more than $4 million at the box office this weekend (or less).
Here are my predictions:
1. Bob Marley: One Love: $20 million
2. Demon Slayer: $9.5 million
3. Ordinary Angels: $8 million
4. Madame Web: $7 million
5. Drive Away Dolls: $4 million
What do you think the weekend box office will look like? Let us know in the comments!
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When the People’s Choice Award winners were announced on Sunday, there were a number of predictable categories: yes, Barbie would win Movie of the Year, Taylor Swift would win top female singer and Rachel Zegler would win Best Action Movie Star of the Year for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Wait, what? Is the prequel even an action movie?
According to the People’s Choice Awards, yes, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is indeed an action movie, right up there with John Wick: Chapter 4, Dead Reckoning and last year’s Marvel installments – you know, actual action movies. Sure, Songbirds & Snakes has some quasi-thrilling scenes, but there’s probably a reason that we didn’t once mention the word “action” in our review…
So, let’s take a look at who Rachel Zegler beat out: Tom Cruise, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Brie Larson, Chris Pratt, Keanu Reeves, and even one of her co-stars, Viola Davis. We’re not saying one is more deserving than the other here, just that Rachel Zegler was placed in the wrong category and there is a bit of ignorance as to what “action” is. But since there is no category for Best Action-Adventure That Works in Too Many Musical Numbers, perhaps they found where they placed her to be the most comfortable…
As we all know, things can get a bit loose when awards organizations begin to separate categories. While the People’s Choice Awards do feel off base here, the biggest guilty party has always been the Golden Globes, who divide lead acting and Best Motion Picture categories between drama and comedy. Remember when The Martian was nominated as the best comedy movie of 2015? Or when Michelle Williams won Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for My Week with Marilyn? And that’s not even going into other issues with category fraud relating to screen time, which goes all the way up to the grandest awards stage of them all: the Oscars – but that’s another problem for another article.
Do you think Rachel Zegler deserved to be in the running in the action category? If not, was there another she should have been in? Give us your take on the matter in the comments section below.
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When the People’s Choice Award winners were announced on Sunday, there were a number of predictable categories: yes, Barbie would win Movie of the Year, Taylor Swift would win top female singer and Rachel Zegler would win Best Action Movie Star of the Year for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Wait, what? Is the prequel even an action movie?
According to the People’s Choice Awards, yes, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is indeed an action movie, right up there with John Wick: Chapter 4, Dead Reckoning and last year’s Marvel installments – you know, actual action movies. Sure, Songbirds & Snakes has some quasi-thrilling scenes, but there’s probably a reason that we didn’t once mention the word “action” in our review…
So, let’s take a look at who Rachel Zegler beat out: Tom Cruise, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Brie Larson, Chris Pratt, Keanu Reeves, and even one of her co-stars, Viola Davis. We’re not saying one is more deserving than the other here, just that Rachel Zegler was placed in the wrong category and there is a bit of ignorance as to what “action” is. But since there is no category for Best Action-Adventure That Works in Too Many Musical Numbers, perhaps they found where they placed her to be the most comfortable…
As we all know, things can get a bit loose when awards organizations begin to separate categories. While the People’s Choice Awards do feel off base here, the biggest guilty party has always been the Golden Globes, who divide lead acting and Best Motion Picture categories between drama and comedy. Remember when The Martian was nominated as the best comedy movie of 2015? Or when Michelle Williams won Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for My Week with Marilyn? And that’s not even going into other issues with category fraud relating to screen time, which goes all the way up to the grandest awards stage of them all: the Oscars – but that’s another problem for another article.
Do you think Rachel Zegler deserved to be in the running in the action category? If not, was there another she should have been in? Give us your take on the matter in the comments section below.
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Obsidian Entertainment, the developer responsible for sprawling RPGs likeFallout: New Vegas, released its medieval murder mystery title Pentiment in November 2022. A smaller and more reserved title compared to the rest of Obsidian’s catalog, and an expertly written story that offers the player choices in how they…