A Bill & Ted Break for Your Timeline’s Sake
The new trailer for BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC suggests that the lovable doofs will face their mistakes, and maybe save the world. It’s also super fun.
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It’s Zombie Déja Vú All Over Again (But That’s Alright With Me)
Excerpt: The new film is a familiar return to Zombieland, with a few new surprises for fans.
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Dwayne Johnson's Latest Hangs on by its Fingernails
The latest Dwayne Johnson actioner hits theatres this weekend. Is SKYSCRAPER worth the trip?
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INCREDIBLES 2 is fun, exciting, and packs an emotional punch — it was worth the wait
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Sometimes, You Can Go Home Again
Jared drops the carving knife to give us a look at the newest return to the HALLOWEEN franchise. David Gordon Green and Danny McBride look to give Jamie Lee Curtis a kickass return to form.
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How Vol. 2 Informs and Expands the Guardians
There Was An Idea… Guardians Vol. 2 not only improves upon the first film, it actually improves the first film, expanding it through richer characterizations and themes.
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A Look at the Legacy of a Master
This essay is part of Lewton Bus KubrickWeek – check out the link to keep up with all of our content to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Prologue There have been many titans of cinema, directors, producers, actors, editors, and writers, etc. who have been instrumental in shaping the history and aesthetics of film,
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Wes Anderson’s new stop-motion film is in theatres now, and is very much worth your time, with a few small caveats.
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We are Groot
This week in THERE WAS AN IDEA…, How connection and relationships help to pull the future guardians out of despair, and forge new heroes in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.
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Jared's 10 Favorites of 2017
It’s that time of the year once again, the time when critics both professional and amateur publish their lists of what they consider to be the ‘best’ films of the year. And here I am with mine. Am I some unimpeachable authority on what makes a film great? Am I so all powerful as to
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Welcome to the Fun-gle!
The first Jumanji film, starring the late great Robin Williams, was a film that came along a bit too late for me to “grow up with it”, but it was always something that I enjoyed when I caught it on TV. It was a fun adventure film that easily caught my imagination, and was lifted
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Revisiting the CARAVAN OF COURAGE
Jared returns to CARAVAN OF COURAGE, the STAR WARS television movie, to see if the Gorax is still scary.
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Will It Put You to Sleep, or Keep You Up At Night?
Jared’s first theatrical horror experience didn’t stand the test of time.
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In Which We Ironically Do Not Mention the Film ADAPTATION Even Once
This weekend Shannon Hubbell, La Donna Pietra, and myself got together and chatted about film adaptations, specifically about a few of the many that we like, and a couple that we don’t. We also talk about the difficulty in general with adapting works from other mediums into film given the very different narrative needs, and
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Hopefully it will be more CASINO ROYALE, and less Le Chiffre's Torture Chair
As you might have noticed the Lewton Bus crew are pretty big fans of James Bond, so it’s safe to say that we’ve been following the last few years of will-he-or-won’t-he surrounding Daniel Craig’s possible return to the franchise with a curious eye. And during that time it’s been difficult to predict exactly what Baccarat
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And neither is this film
Pierce Brosnan was my way into Bond. Goldeneye was the first film in the franchise I ever saw, and I loved it. I started slowly collecting the series on VHS, sticking mostly to the Connery films as he was widely regarded as “the best,” while also eagerly awaiting the next Brosnan film. That eagerness disintegrated
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Dawn of Bro-ness
Signalling what is sure to be the start of the Justice League marketing blitz, Warner Bros. released their big SDCC 2017 trailer for the film online today, and friends I’m here to tell you that I like what I’m seeing. It’s no secret that the majority of DC’s films so far have been divisive, with
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Your Father was an Orangutan, and your Mother was a Chimpanzee!
The year was 2001. Tim Burton’s reboot of Planet of the Apes had just hit theatres, and I had seen it, and even enjoyed it, but I was looking for clarification on the ending that sees Spaceman Marky Mark return to an Earth ruled by Apes – how did that work, exactly? I had seen the
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How the SPIDER-MAN cartoon of the 1960’s has endured for almost half a century
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On the Modern Master of Mayhem and Misanthropy
Mention the name Michael Bay among film fans and you will be met with at least a small amount of passionate derision, but he is a thoroughly modern auteur.
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In which, it appears, winter has finally arrived. Brrr.
HBO released a new 2-minute trailer for the penultimate season of Game of Thrones today, and boy does it have a lot going on. HBO has promised (threatened?) that the final two seasons would contain fewer episodes, but it doesn’t look like they’ve skimped on the content as there is a whole heck of a
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It Rhymes with Rat Patootie
Ten years of Brad Bird’s ode to rodent cuisine and the importance of artistic integrity
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Why the Most Dour Film of the F&F Franchise is also the Most Important
The open road slips beneath us, asphalt baking and cracking under the hot Dominican sun. Then, moments later, we are overtaken by a tanker truck. It is soon revealed to be no more than prey for none other than Dom, Letty, and a non-dead Han, plus a few fresh faces. This is a mission statement:
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