Unfrosted movie review & film summary (2024)

But I digress. “Unfrosted” doesn’t make much of anything from its subject. It doesn’t care enough to communicate, even in the most basic and lighthearted sense, why it exists, which is something you’d never wonder about, had the movie been overseen by somebody like Joe Dante (“Gremlins”) or Adam McKay (back when he was making films like […]

SMALLVILLE and WEDNESDAY Creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar Sign First Look Deal with Sony Pictures — GeekTyrant

Smallville and Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures to develop film projects through their Millar Gough Ink banner. The two creatives, who recently wrote Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, have hired Aaron Schmidt has been hired as Head of Film at Millar Gough Ink, and he will […]

Wildcat movie review & film summary (2024)

In “Wildcat,” O’Connor and the real people from her life appear as characters from her stories as they blossom in her mind. But while it’s admirable that the script tries to deviate from the episodic, chronological constraints of the traditional biopic, these sequences end up feeling distracting and distancing. Most feature Laura Linney as both O’Connor’s real-life mother, Regina, and a series of bluntly racist Southern stereotypes. Among the other supporting players in the film’s impressively deep […]