Whatever happened to… Bridget Fonda
One of the “It girls” in the 90s was definitely Bridget Fonda. It’s no surprise Fonda managed to appear in a string of high-profile films, given her family’s stature in Hollywood. Not only is...
Category: Movies
Read about the most interesting developments in the world of movies, as filtered through the mind of The Brainjar. If it’s interesting to us, it is to you.
No Netflix movies at Cannes, company regrets ban
Another week, another article on streaming giant Netflix. While the company continues to crank out content (see our article here on Netflix pushing localized content), it seems that others in the industry aren’t too...
What can we expect for neo noir cinema in 2018?
As any true movie fan will attest to, film noir is one of the best genres to have ever graced the big screen. A standard film noir would tell the story of a detective...
2018: The year where Hollywood struggles with social media
As we all remember, 2017 was a bad year for Hollywood. Not just a bad year even, or a very bad year, but an absolutely horrible year. The sexual allegations that came forward after...
We can’t get excited for… Ready Player One
The world is now days away from the release of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, and we could not care less. What happened to our old selves, we ask ourselves, the ones who used...
Review: Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
In Hell Comes to Frogtown wrestler/actor “Rowdy” Roddy Piper plays Sam Hell, one of the last virile men in a post-apocalyptic society, who’s on a mission to free fertile women who are trapped in...
The problem with film aspect ratio on Netflix
As you can see in the above image, films can be shot in different aspect ratios. Depending on the aspect ratio that’s chosen, this creates different film experiences, from sweeping to intimate. Good directors...
Wait, how many movies has Eric Roberts been in?
The focus point of our latest ongoing slumming actors section is one of the most prolific actors working right now: Eric Roberts. Known to some as the washed-up star of 80s movies such as The...
Is Nicolas Cage making a comeback?
First things first: we believe Nicolas Cage is one of the most magnetic presences to have graced the screen in the last few decades. It seems like 2006’s The Wicker Man is when a...
Shlock alert: trailer for Hurricane Heist
We are always on the lookout for the next piece of shlock cinema: movies of B-film quality that manage to turn their horrible qualities into selling points. This time around we are intrigued by...