By John H. Foote Academy Award nominated Best Director Alan Parker has passed at the age of 76. The talented Brit first came to the attention of North American audiences directing Bugsy Malone (1976) but it was his explosive film Midnight Express (1978) that truly brought him to the attention of North American film audiences…
By Alan Hurst He was the man Sid Caesar once called the best straight man in comedy. He was also the creative brain responsible for one of the best comedies in television history; he discovered Mary Tyler Moore; and he was singularly responsible for Steve Martin’s early success on film. Carl Reiner died Monday evening…
By John H. Foote I would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest critic and staff writer Marie-Renee Goulet! Hailing from Quebec City, Marie-Renee and I have known one another for more than twenty years, beginning when she was a student of mine at Trebas Institute, where she graduated at the top of…
By John H. Foote Director Joel Schumacher often blamed for the demise of the Tim Burton started Batman franchise died of cancer yesterday. The lanky, friendly filmmaker was always smiling and an excellent interview, willing to field the tough questions. I first interviewed Schumacher for his brilliant independent film Tigerland (2000) which introduced Colin Farrell…
By John H. Foote Ian Holm, one of the greatest though less known British actors, has died at 88. Best known to this generation of film audiences as Bilbo Baggins in the superb The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-02-03) and as Mitchell Stevens the lawyer in The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Holm had a career…
By Nick Maylor It’s the announcement many fans have been longing to hear. The #ReleaseTheSnyderCut crowd rejoiced today when it was announced that the streaming service HBO Max would be the official platform to release the director’s cut of Justice League (2017). The 2017 film was in post-production when a personal tragedy moved director Zack…
By Nick Maylor On this episode of our official podcast, John and I discuss the career of Al Pacino. We also introduced our new news segment where we discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the film industry. Please check out our official YouTube channel and subscribe for all of our shows. Nick MaylorNick is an…
By John H. Foote In another potentially crippling blow to a gasping film industry, the Cannes Film Festival has been postponed due to the struggles around the world with COVID-19. The announcement states the organizers hope they can hold the festival later in the year, June or July perhaps, but this will undoubtedly have an…
By John H. Foote With this nasty virus sweeping through North American and around the globe, Hollywood film studios have slammed the brakes on releasing their major new films, postponing releases by weeks to months. So for the next few weeks (or months) with nothing new to review on Fridays, the writers at Foote and…
By John H. Foote Are the days of an audience of 800 strangers gathering in a cinema to watch the film on the silver screen in front of them gone? Will the COVID-19 outbreak currently altering our way of life in around the world impact forever the film industry? Will the studios set up their…