The ridiculously named March 7th has been the poster child for Honkai: Star Rail since the free-to-play game launched, and now there’s a new version of her that plays as a DPS. The recent 2.4 update has provided her with a new Path to switch to, just like the main character, The Trailblazer. What’s great here is that…
The ridiculously named March 7th has been the poster child for Honkai: Star Rail since the free-to-play game launched, and now there’s a new version of her that plays as a DPS. The recent 2.4 update has provided her with a new Path to switch to, just like the main character, The Trailblazer. What’s great here is that…
Deadline reports that Netflix has announced the casting of 28 actors for the upcoming whodunnit mystery series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole. The mystery’s plot is led by “famed anti-hero detective Harry Hole. Underneath the surface, this series is a nuanced character drama about two police officers — and supposed colleagues — operating on opposite sides of the law. Throughout the first season, Harry goes head-to-head with his long-time adversary and corrupt detective, Tom Waaler. Harry is a brilliant but tormented homicide detective who struggles with his demons. As the two navigate the blurred ethical lines of the criminal justice system, Harry must do all he can to catch a serial killer and bring Waaler to justice before it is too late.”
The series was previously reported to star Tobias Santelmann, Joel Kinnaman and Pia Tjelta. The series is now welcoming character actor Peter Stormare (Fargo) to the cast, as well as Anders Baasmo (Power Play), Ellen Helinder (Exit), Simon Berger (Exit), Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Westworld) and Kelly Gale (Plane) in secondary roles. The cast is also set to include Kåre Conradi (Norsemen), Fridtjov Såheim (Ragnarok), Eili Harboe (Thelma), Atle Antonsen (Dag), Manish Sharma (Power Play), Henriette Steenstrup (Ragnarok), Jesper Christensen (Casino Royale), Kristoffer Joner (War Sailor), Linn Skåber (Midsummer Night), Jonas Strand Gravli (Ragnarok), Sonny Lindberg (The Rain), Agnes Kittelsen (Dag), Nader Khademi (Power Play), Agot Sendstad (Neste sommer), Maja Christiansen (Julestjerna), Frank Kjosås (Exit), Oddgeir Thune (Billionaire Island), Ravdeep Singh Bajwa (A Storm for Christmas), Henrik Mestad (Occupied), Ingar Helge Gimle (The Lørenskog Disappearance), Helge Jordal (Orion’s Belt) and Eirik Hallert (Midsummer Night).
Anna Zackrisson (Deliver Me) has joined the production as a director. She joins Nesbø and Øystein Karlsen, who will also be directing episodes of the show. Tor Arne Øvrebø is on board to produce the series from Working Title Television, as well as Universal International Studios, which is a division of the Universal Studio Group. The executive producers on board will include Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Katy Rozelle, Rene Ezra, Øystein Karlsen, Nesbø, Niclas Salomonsson.
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We love seeing which films rank among our favorite directors’ list of best ever — the ones that left a mark and steered them in the path of becoming some of the most renowned artists of the medium. But let’s face it, we don’t mind a little conflict, either. But Park Chan-wook wasn’t going after his fellow directors in a physical way but rather in a much more damming way — attacking their work!
In a recently unearthed slam session from 1999, Park Chan-wook called out 10 films that he considered the most overrated ever. Keep in mind that by this point, the South Korean director only had two features to his credit. So what’s on the list and what did he have to say? Let’s check it out:
Park Chan-wook primarily took issue with American films, opening the list with Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, which can hardly be called overrated considering it has always been insanely divisive. Regardless, he said of the 1994 film, “This film steals from the works of true independent cinema and makes a huge fuss selling them all out.” Heading later into the 1990s, Park Chan-wook called out Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (#7) for being totally undefined and having “pedantic monologues.” He, too, didn’t think that Alex Proyas’ Dark City (#8) deserved any of the praise young filmmakers had been giving it. And he took it even further with David Lynch’s Lost Highway (#3), calling it “pretentious” aka pretty much the worst thing you can call a film.
Park Chan-wook also slighted Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (outside of the shower scene and Bernard Herrmann score) and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, which came in at #1. On that, he said, “Kubrick is something of a mysticized figure. This film in particular is very inferior to his other works. The recruits training of the first half is awesome, but the latter half in Vietnam is a dud.” And yes, he did make room for the granddaddy of all, Citizen Kane (#9), saying it was “a self-indulgent display of techniques without any emotional resonance to justify its scale.” He would go on to praise Orson Welles’ later works, presumably meaning his contributions to the frozen peas industry.
For more international fare, Park Chan-wook put Japan’s Hana-bi at #2, Hong Kong’s Chungking Express at #5 and The Big Blue at #6.
We all have our list of most overrated films ever so it’s cool to see what Park Chan-wook puts on his own list. Personally, I can see justification for something like Psycho and Full Metal Jacket even though I’m a huge fan of both. However, his gripe with Citizen Kane is a bit amateur and obvious, while I’ll never tolerate any form of The Thin Red Line bashing. But go on, Park, you tell Oliver Stone’s what’s up!
What do you make of Park Chan-wook’s list of the most overrated films ever? Do you think he has strong takes or is he off base? Give us your take below!
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Inside Out 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2015 original, made us feel all the feelings when it debuted in June of this year. After earning more than $1 billion at the box office, it’s officially the biggest movie of the year. Inside Out 2 faces the horrors of puberty with a host of new emotions such as Envy,…
Inside Out 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2015 original, made us feel all the feelings when it debuted in June of this year. After earning more than $1 billion at the box office, it’s officially the biggest movie of the year. Inside Out 2 faces the horrors of puberty with a host of new emotions such as Envy,…
Karen Fukuhara, best known for her starring role as the silent assassin Kimiko in Amazon Prime superhero series The Boys, isn’t just a great actor. She’s also a talented voiceover artist (she’s provided voices for The Boy and the Heron, Callisto Protocol, Pokemon Concierge, and Star Wars: Visions) and an accomplished…
Karen Fukuhara, best known for her starring role as the silent assassin Kimiko in Amazon Prime superhero series The Boys, isn’t just a great actor. She’s also a talented voiceover artist (she’s provided voices for The Boy and the Heron, Callisto Protocol, Pokemon Concierge, and Star Wars: Visions) and an accomplished…
Alexander Payne’s Election is a movie whose reputation seems to be growing more and more each year. With a new Criterion Collection edition in stores (and the film celebrating its 25th anniversary), Payne and the film’s writer, Jim Taylor have recently been exploring a potential sequel. The original film was based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, and the sequel would be based on his most recent novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win.
According to a recent interview in Deadline, Payne is seriously considering teaming with Payne to adapt the sequel, saying, “There is talk and Jim Taylor and I are conceding that now,” with him adding, “If there were to be a sequel to Election, what would that look like?”
The original film starred Matthew Broderick as a high school Social Studies teacher who becomes hellbent on destroying her campaign for student body president at her high school. While the film’s ending suggested Flick would pursue a political career, Perrotta’s follow-up novel took a much different approach. In it, Flick is a law school drop-out who becomes vice principal of her old school, and she becomes hellbent on becoming principal when the position opens up.
In previous interviews, Payne said he would take a loose approach to adapting the novel. He is eager to drop the high school setting and find a way to bring Broderick’s character back into the fold. Reese Witherspoon is already on board to reprise her role. She is also producing the potential film through her Hello Sunshine label with Paramount Plus.
While Payne seems open to the idea, he also revealed in his Deadline interview that he’d like to do a western with his The Holdovers writer David Hemingson, saying, “It would be nice to take a kind of realistic-slash-naturalistic approach to a Western and also using landscape. In as much as sense of place is important…part of my interest is having even greater dramatic, archetypical interplay between character and landscape. I think it’s really interesting. Also, I’d like to do a good car chase film.”
A car chase film directed by Alexander Payne? Sign me up!
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There’s something about the Alien series that has always had such legs. Created 45 years ago, Ridley Scott brought us a creature straight from our space nightmares. The lifecycle of the creature so well throughout, and the consequences so dire, it’s easy to just put them in any environment, and just let them run wild. Yet filmmakers seem intent on constantly trying to “evolve” the Alien franchise past this point of perfection. So we’re going to get into some of the issues present in the recently released Alien Romulus. And yes, we’re getting fully into the spoilers so watch out.
Spoilers for Alien: Romulus. Read at your own risk.
Alien Romulus released this weekend (Check out Chris Bumbray’s 7/10 review) and I agree with most of his points. And if there’s any prominent feeling I have, it’s one of disappointment. Because there are elements of the film that are so good, I thought we were getting an all-time great Alien movie. With Rain, Andy, and this intriguing story about a derelict space station with a dark secret. But instead, by the end, this felt closer to Prometheus than anything else. And as someone who absolutely hated the Scott prequel films, this was one of the worst outcomes. Because boy do I hate black goo.
I hated the concept of the black goo when it first happened and it’s not much better here. The idea of reverse engineering from the original Alien doesn’t entirely break the narrative (though this movie does pretty much make Ripley’s triumph at the end a bit muted since we now know she didn’t actually kill the creature) but it feels sloppy and convoluted. Up until this introduction, I was actually really feeling very positive about the film. But it seems intent on connecting to every single film in the franchise in some way, with the story really needing a strictly Alien/Aliens approach. Get that Ridley Scott Prometheus shit out of my Alien movies!
Despite being told constantly how much the Xenomorphs are the perfect creature, filmmakers always seem to want to move past them. And Romulus decides that its big creature fight at the end isn’t even going to involve a Xeno, but in fact will be this weird Engineer/Alien/Human hybrid. Reminded me of something out of the end of Alien: Resurrection (which will never be a compliment). Why can’t we just have a showdown with an Alien? Why does it have to be this weird elongated creature that looks silly and moves awkwardly? After an entire film of moving through the life cycle of the Xeno, the fact that we’re only treated to a few scenes with them feels undercooked. The Engineer/Xeno simply took time away from a legitimately terrifying creature.
I also feel the need to bring up Rook AKA CGI Ian Holm. I’ve seen a lot of people very upset with this, but it doesn’t really hamper the film for me. As Fede Alvarez stated, Holm’s model is the only one we haven’t seen in other film entries, so I don’t mind him appearing here. I think we’re getting to the point with CGI where audiences are being too picky. Is it an exact recreation? Absolutely not, but to treat it like an abomination is a tad over the top, given its photorealistic nature. And with the family supporting the decision, I’m also not going to be the one to be upset about his likeness being used. If his family is okay with it, so am I.
I don’t want this to be entirely negative as I still really liked the film (just think it has flaws) so let’s discuss the characters. Andy is easily one of the best characters they’ve added to the Alien franchise since Newt, Hicks and Bishop in Aliens. As much as I love the series, big arcs and character moments aren’t as prevalent as I’d like. Yet Andy brings such a vulnerability to the proceedings. His broken and glitchy operating system contending with a new Weyland-Yutani upgrade is very intriguing.
And I know everyone was worried that Rain would simply be Ripley-lite, yet they managed to separate her enough, personality-wise. Sure, her character, and the film in general, has an issue with just recreating moments from the franchise (elevator rescue, settling down in underwear only for the alien to attack, etc). But she’s not just a perfectly black-and-white character (not telling Andy about the No Android policy) who clearly has human flaws. And the fact that they’re orphans of Weyland-Yutani workers helps add to the dystopic world of Alien.
Despite my gripes, I really enjoyed Alien Romulus overall. It’s just that it came so close to sticking the landing that it’s upset to see all the obnoxious excess elements. This could have been a very simple Alien movie that really worked as a good reset for the series. What we got was a mixed bag of mythologies that is never truly satisfying. Admittedly, I would be interested in a Romulus sequel, but that’s mostly for the characters of Rain and Andy and the slight hope that they’ll fix mistakes from this film. But if they pull an Alien: Covenant and change the clear direction from the end of the movie, then a rewatch could easily be ruined. So here’s hoping that doesn’t happen. There are a million things to talk about with this movie, and I think it will be the center for many horror chats in the foreseeable future.
What did you think of Alien: Romulus? Do you think it’s more Alien or Prometheus? How would you rank the Alien series now? Let us know in the comments!
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