366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. Keep reading for alternate takes from Giles Edwards and El Rob Hubbard DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola FEATURING: Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Lawrence Fishburne PLOT: In mythical New Rome, inventor Caesar Catalina can stop time … Continue reading APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: MEGALOPOLIS (2024) – THREE TAKES→
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Barry Levinson FEATURING: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote PLOT: A team of scientists is dispatched to the middle of the Pacific to examine a mysterious spacecraft found on the ocean floor. COMMENTS: An unexpected side … Continue reading IT CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: SPHERE (1998)→
DIRECTED BY: Zach Helm FEATURING: Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Jason Bateman, Zach Mills PLOT: Mr. Magorium, who has run his magical toy store for nearly three centuries, prepares for his imminent departure from the earthly realm, but his plans to hand the reins over to store clerk and aspiring composer Mahoney are endangered by her … Continue reading IT CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM (2007)→
Memoirs from filmmakers tend to be a mixed bag. The best ones balance useful and entertaining trivia pertinent to the field along with mildly salacious insider stories (AKA “gossip”). It’s an added bonus when they actually illuminate the career of people whose work you found interesting, but whom you didn’t really know much about. Jeff … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: DAY OF THE LIVING ME: ADVENTURES OF A CULT FILMMAKER FROM THE GOLDEN AGE (2020)→
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Fred Wolf FEATURING: Voices of Ringo Starr, Mike Lookinland, Lennie Weinrib, Paul Frees PLOT: The Pointed Village is going about its business, as it has for as long as anyone can remember, with pointed people making pointed buildings and pointed goods, … Continue reading CAPSULE: THE POINT (1971)→
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