Having landed its hero, the rest of the Shazam! movie is quickly coming together. Zachary Levi was recently cast as Billy Batson a.k.a. Shazam! a.k.a. Captain Marvel a.k.a. probably some other moniker to help distinguish between Levi and Brie Larson’s superhero movies. Now The Wrap reports that director David Sandberg…
Dumber and less stylish than its predecessor, Kingsman: The Secret Service, the cartoonish secret-agent pastiche Kingsman: The Golden Circle is also even more of an incoherent right-wing text, an exaggeration of the James Bond movies’ violence, fashion sense, and sex that keeps trying to pass off its ham-fisted…
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
After a couple of teasers that tried to cram a lot of sequel action, Channing Tatum, and Halle Berry into less than half a minute, 20th Century Fox has released a full trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle. And oh dear, but things are looking rather grim for Eggsy (Taron Egerton)—the Kingsman headquarters and…
Like a well-tailored spy operating with stylish discretion, Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman sequel has revealed little beyond the casting of Julianne Moore, and the return of Edward Holcroft as privileged snot Charlie Hesketh. Now ComicBookMovie.com is reporting that director Matthew Vaughn has declassified the film’s…
Sacha Baron Cohen obviously holds certain strong beliefs about what constitutes good comedy—a willingness to risk offense or disgust, for one, and an intense commitment to creating distinct characters for another. Perhaps less heralded and more technical is his clear dedication to the art of brevity. In contrast to…
Back in October, the red band teaser for The Brothers Grimsby set up Sacha Baron Cohen as the idiot brother to Mark Strong’s hyper-competent secret agent. The extended trailer carries on in the same vein, but the characters now have names and a sad backstory. There’s also a “suck the poison out” scene, in case the…
After months that were not-so-filled with casting news and denouncements from British officials, The Brothers Grimsby has a premiere date and a red band trailer. The spy spoof, from Sacha Baron Cohen and Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me), stars Cohen as a soccer hooligan who has to help his spy brother (Mark Strong)…
Rowan Joffé’s drizzly, workmanlike thriller Before I Go To Sleep turns a ludicrous premise into a fitfully suspenseful, consistently interesting exercise in audience manipulation. Less a cut-rate Gone Girl than a throwback to gothic, mid-1940s women’s noirs like My Name Is Julia Ross, the movie mines common domestic…
