Netflix won’t be the end of movie theaters
As Netflix is intent to complete its quest for world dominance, it’s meant to come with some negativity. That explains why one of the narratives surrounding Netflix is how it’s set to kill the...
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.
Remembering Rob Lowe and Snow White at the 1989 Oscars
When the Academy lost comedian Kevin Hart as host for this year’s 91st Academy Awards, they made an unusual decision. They made the choice to have nobody replace him. As a result people started wondering if...
Audience interaction gone wrong: my magic night w. Joe Labero
If you’ve visited my blog before, then you must know there are plenty of things I don’t like (see my post on Alien Covenant 2) or am not impressed by (my post on peak...
What would have been the plot for Alien: Covenant 2?
At this point it’s uncertain if we’ll get an Alien: Covenant 2 or not, but if we do we now have an idea of what the movie’s plot would be. Screenwriter John Logan –...
Star Wars fatigue to impact planned spin-offs
The same way video once killed the radio star, Solo might’ve killed the Star Wars universe. Disney bought the property in 2012 for a whopping $4.05 billion, and has done a great job running...
Superhero fatigue is near: what studio will kill the superhero movie?
We are now 10 years into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has been behind big superhero films such as Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, and Avengers: Infinity War. The latter proved that the Marvel...
Highlighting the shocking similarities between Sully vs Tully
When the movie Tully came out in theaters, a lot of potential moviegoers skipped it. Their reasoning had been: “we just saw this movie”. Since Tully had not in fact been re-released it seemed...
An overview of the bad decisions T.J. Miller has made
Comedian T.J. Miller recently found himself at the center of controversy again, when actress Alice Wetterlund – who appeared in Silicon Valley alongside him – referred to the comedian as a ” a bully...
Where was Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt in Mission Impossible 6?
One actor who was missing from the most recent Mission: Impossible movie was Jeremy Renner. We help to explain why Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt character sat out Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Although the Mission:...
Whatever happened to… Tom Hulce
When actor Tom Hulce got nominated for his role in 1984’s Amadeus, he was only in his early 30s. The most notable role he had played on film before that had been in the...