Birds of Prey has a shaky start, a bit too infatuated with its own kitschy conceits, but when it gets to the Characters and the Action, it nails it.
Author: Bill Watters
Bill Watters
Bill Watters is a child of the late 70s- he walked into a theater to watch Star Wars, and emerged to become a lifelong fan of cinema and television. Spending nearly a decade as a projectionist, he fell into the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and became a codemonkey for a range of game companies. These days he's a frequent speaker, moderator, and panelist at pop-culture events and conventions, as well as a prolific film and television critic and genre news writer. He is also a member critic of both the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. In addition to his writing, he is also a photojournalist and can be found on Getty Images.
“Underwater,” is a film whose marketing campaign is doing it no favors. Going into it, after having seen the trailers, I was expecting that it would be a modernest slapdash blend of a greatest hits mash up of “Alien”, “The Abyss”, and “DeepStar Six”. While the trailers don’t let in too much on the story specifics, but regular viewers of genre films will recognize the various classic moments in a hot second. However, scriptwriter Brian Duffield, whose last outing was 2017’s underrated “The Babysitter”, shows again that his approach to character shorthand helps elevate a film into something that is…
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We recently reported some comments made by Jesse Eisenberg at SXSW concerning Zombieland 2: Double Tap. Woody Harrelson also commented on filming Double Tap while he was promoting his Netflix film The Highwayman at SXSW. Harrelson seems to be having quite a bit of fun during shooting. He said: “What we’ve shot so far, I’m really impressed with. Getting to hang out with these guys -Emma, and Abbie, and Jesse, and Ruben – I feel so lucky, really, really lucky. You know, it’s literally laughing all day long, and that’s your job. Like, my job is, I laugh all day…