There is an emerging trend in the film industry of remaking and Americanizing foreign films for the US Market. Of course this is nothing new, it’s been happening for decades, but never in such large numbers. The level and quality of foreign films is what has changed, as seen in the 2018 Academy awards race […]
There are a handful of directors that hit their first film so far out of the part; their sophomore follow-up becomes an inevitable disappointment. Not so with Alex Garland, who made his directorial debut with Ex Machina four years ago. Of course, Garland had already pinned scripts to films Never Let Me Go and 28
The latest Peter Berg / Mark Wahlberg collaboration proves the filmmaking duo have discovered a formula that has a broad mainstream appeal. It started with Lone Survivor, based on a true story, with Wahlberg playing an American war hero. Another extreme circumstance, another heroic situation, this time Wahlberg is saving co-workers during the Deepwater Horizon