PlayStation’s only really released a handful of major exclusives to show for its efforts since the PS5 launched in 2020. God of War Ragnarök, the latest game in the long-running action franchise, is one of those titles, releasing at the tail-end of 2022 on both the PS4 and PS5 to acclaim and huge sales.…
Dozens of major names circled the role of Marty McFly, but only one man could get it…Well, make that two. While Eric Stoltz was originally cast in the Back to the Future role, director Robert Zemeckis would ultimately decide he wasn’t right for the part, canning him less than two months into filming. With that, Michael J. Fox would step in and help make modern movie history. But for Lea Thompson, it took quite a while to get used to her new co-star.
Appearing on the Still Here Hollywood podcast (via EW), Lea Thompson said she was initially distant to Fox, thinking his TV work on Family Ties wasn’t up to snuff with her big screen successes…“I remember specifically being really snooty because there was a big division between movie stars and TV stars at that point. I remember being like, ‘He’s just a TV star and I’m a movie star — I was in Jaws 3D.’ So I think it took me a while to warm up to him.”
Much of this came from Lea Thompson already having a working relationship with Eric Stoltz, having co-starred in the previous year’s Cameron Crowe-penned The Wild Life. The two would work together again, however, on 1987’s Some Kind of Wonderful. Eventually, Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox did hit it off, creating a chemistry that feels both genuine and, yes, creepy…
Working with both Eric Stoltz and Michael J. Fox on Back to the Future gave Lea Thompson a unique opportunity to see how two completely different actors would handle a given scene. As she recalled, “He was so funny and fun to act with…[I’d] done some scenes with Eric already, and then I did them with Michael, so I could see how they were completely different scenes.” Obviously Fox ended up being the perfect choice for Marty McFly, but if you are curious about Stoltz’s performance, some of his discarded scenes can be found online.
What do you think the chemistry between Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox brings to Back to the Future? Would the movie have been as much of a hit with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly? Hop in that DeLorean and let us know below!
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Dozens of major names circled the role of Marty McFly, but only one man could get it…Well, make that two. While Eric Stoltz was originally cast in the Back to the Future role, director Robert Zemeckis would ultimately decide he wasn’t right for the part, canning him less than two months into filming. With that, Michael J. Fox would step in and help make modern movie history. But for Lea Thompson, it took quite a while to get used to her new co-star.
Appearing on the Still Here Hollywood podcast (via EW), Lea Thompson said she was initially distant to Fox, thinking his TV work on Family Ties wasn’t up to snuff with her big screen successes…“I remember specifically being really snooty because there was a big division between movie stars and TV stars at that point. I remember being like, ‘He’s just a TV star and I’m a movie star — I was in Jaws 3D.’ So I think it took me a while to warm up to him.”
Much of this came from Lea Thompson already having a working relationship with Eric Stoltz, having co-starred in the previous year’s Cameron Crowe-penned The Wild Life. The two would work together again, however, on 1987’s Some Kind of Wonderful. Eventually, Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox did hit it off, creating a chemistry that feels both genuine and, yes, creepy…
Working with both Eric Stoltz and Michael J. Fox on Back to the Future gave Lea Thompson a unique opportunity to see how two completely different actors would handle a given scene. As she recalled, “He was so funny and fun to act with…[I’d] done some scenes with Eric already, and then I did them with Michael, so I could see how they were completely different scenes.” Obviously Fox ended up being the perfect choice for Marty McFly, but if you are curious about Stoltz’s performance, some of his discarded scenes can be found online.
What do you think the chemistry between Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox brings to Back to the Future? Would the movie have been as much of a hit with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly? Hop in that DeLorean and let us know below!
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A new report says that Paramount has greenlit a live-action/CGI hybrid adaption of the classic Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats from the ‘90s. Are you ready for this horrible cinematic nightmare?
A new report says that Paramount has greenlit a live-action/CGI hybrid adaption of the classic Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats from the ‘90s. Are you ready for this horrible cinematic nightmare?
There are tons of mods for Black Myth: Wukong, from ones that make the action game’s parry window a little more forgiving to others that turn the main character into Goku. But I was not prepared for just how absurd and unhinged the hit 2024 game looks as a Wolfenstein-style first-person shooter.
There are tons of mods for Black Myth: Wukong, from ones that make the action game’s parry window a little more forgiving to others that turn the main character into Goku. But I was not prepared for just how absurd and unhinged the hit 2024 game looks as a Wolfenstein-style first-person shooter.
Great Reptar’s scales! What year is it? Hold onto your diapers and let your imagination run wild because a live-action hybrid of the classic Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats is waddling our way from Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore. It’s the ’90s all over again, and we’re all about it!
Created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain, the Nickelodeon series premiered in 1991 as the second of three series in the Nicktoons lineup alongside Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show. Rugrats follows a group of toddlers comprised of Tommy Pickles, his best friends Chuckie, the twins Phil and Lil, Susie, and his spoiled 3-year-old cousin Angelica. Using their cunning and the power of imagination, the group often wanders away from their caregivers to engage in grand adventures that offer a poignant life lesson.
The original Rugrats series was essential for ’90s kids, with shows like Rocko’s Modern Life, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, The Wild Thornberrys, and Hey Arnold! also a part of the mix. Rugrats got rebooted in 1996 after three seasons and lasted through the 2000s. The series inspired three animated movies, including The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats in Paris, and Rugrats Go Wild, which found Tommy and the gang embarking on a grand adventure with the Wild Thornberrys.
Jason Moore directed the musical comedy Pitch Perfect, starring Anna Kendrick as a reluctant member of the all-girls singing group The Bellas. Moore directed the dynamic comedy duo of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in 2015’s Sisters, which is about two sisters who decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home. Moore’s latest directorial effort is for the 2022 comedy Shotgun Wedding, starring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel. In Shotgun Wedding, Darcy and Tom gather their families for the ultimate destination wedding, but when the wedding party is taken hostage, the bride and groom must save their loved ones.
I don’t know, friends. Can a live-action hybrid of Rugrats work? Will Stu and Didi Pickles be live-action while the kids are CGI? Who’s going to play Grandpa Pickles? What about Tommy’s furry friend Spike? Will Reptar make an appearance? He would have to, right? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
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Ethan Berger has made his feature directorial debut with the frat house thriller The Line, which is set to reach select theatres on October 18th, with an expanded release to follow on October 25th. With those dates swiftly approaching, a red band trailer for the film has made its way online and can be seen in the embed above.
Berger wrote the screenplay with Alex Russek, crafting the following story: The Line is a campus thriller that plunges into the dangerous world of college fraternities and blind adherence to tradition. Tom, a scholarship student desperate to break free from his working-class background, is charmed by the prestigious KNA fraternity’s promises of high social status and alumni connections that open doors. But upon beginning a romance with Annabelle, a classmate outside of his social circle, and the manipulative schemes of his fraternity president unfolding during the hazing of new members, Tom finds himself ensnared in a perilous game of ambition and loyalty.
The film stars Alex Wolff (Hereditary) as Tom, with Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick) as the fraternity president and Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid) as Annabelle. Also in the cast are Austin Abrams (Dash & Lily), the late Angus Cloud (Abigail), Bo Mitchell (Cobra Kai), Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live), Scoot McNairy (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), Denise Richards (The World Is Not Enough), and John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich).
Alexandre Dauman, Jack Parker, Adam Paulsen, and Lije Sarki produced The Line, with Taylor Grant, Zack Purdo, Ramanan Sivalingam, Dustin Zhang, Magnus Rausing, Ryan Alexander, Stacey Grant, Jay Van Hoy, and Marc Porterfield serving as executive producers.
The Line seems like a throwback to the sort of “youths behaving badly” movies we haven’t gotten in a while – or if we have gotten them recently, they’ve been passing me by – and kind of reminds me of the 2000 campus thriller The Skulls. This one definitely has my attention, and I look forward to watching it soon. It also helps that I’ve been a fan of Lewis Pullman ever since I met him on the set of The Strangers: Prey at Night back in 2017.
What did you think of the red band trailer for The Line? Will you be watching this movie when it reaches the big screen later this month? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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PLOT: In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.
REVIEW: I always love it when horror uses a real-life backdrop for horrific events. I didn’t know much about the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma in the 1930s outside of its impact on crops and farmers. So to see it recontextualized as a man-made disaster brings a modern sensibility to this period piece. The dust storms bring both isolation and insanity as the lack of food and hope starts to take hold. Hold Your Breath is a bleak look at a very difficult time in American History. But it’s also a very stereotypical horror film about a woman’s descent into madness.
Hold Your Breath follows the Bellum family as they wait for their father to get return from his job out of state. Supplies have been whittled down and they’re using a sole cow for their sustenance. Each day is like a ticking time bomb, their lives coming closer and closer to the brink of starvation. The massive dust storms and lack of food result in hallucinations among the people. Will they get any reprieve or will the dust take them out completely? In the midst of this Margaret is having visions and her family grows more unsafe with each passing day.
Sarah Paulson‘s Margaret is a masterclass on how to have a realistic descent into madness. Subtle at first with a few physical twitches and sunken eyes, she becomes easy to root against as she loses more and more touch with reality. Annaleigh Ashford is a bit underutilized as Esther Smith. She essentially is a look into Margaret’s future but they don’t go far enough with it. I wanted Margaret to constantly see herself in Esther but instead, she’s just on the outside of the story and used for jump scares.
The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach is probably the most interesting character in the film, Wallace Grady. He claims to have been sent by Margaret’s husband but there’s something off about him. Ebon has an uncanny ability to reside entirely in a morally grey area, making his performance all the more interesting. Amiah Miller continues to impress, bringing such strength to the role of Rose. All she wants to do is protect her sister Ollie (Alona Jane Robbins), all while dealing with the threat of her own mother. Miller has a wise-beyond-her-years quality to her and she holds her own across from Paulson.
Most of the horror comes from a mysterious entity that Margaret claims will come for them. In reality, this is simply the sickness taking over, with her unable to differentiate fact from fiction. Then there’s the physical force of Wallace, who isn’t what he seems and gives us a brief physical antagonist. But I’d argue, that despite his wonderful performance, Wallace isn’t really needed for the story. If anything, it feels like the filmmakers not having enough faith that Margaret’s insanity would help carry the story forward, so they had to include this external threat. Thankfully, Moss-Bachrach is fantastic that more of him can never be a bad thing.
One really distracting element in Hold Your Breath is how CGI the dust looks. I know they had real dust on set but it’s being enhanced by CGI and ends up making everything look soft. I’m sure there’s a lot of great practical work beneath it, but it feels like a digital layer that refuses to interact with the actual real world. This is the kind of movie where it’s easy to appreciate the performances, but the story being so bland makes everything surrounding it so forgettable. I even struggled a bit with this review as the movie just seems to escape your mind the moment it’s over. So if you’re hoping this movie will be anything but forgettable: don’t hold your breath.
HOLD YOUR BREATH IS STREAMING ON HULU ON OCTOBER 3RD, 2024.
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