REVIEW: Wish Dragon (2021)
You will hear a little voice going “it’s Genie, but now he’s Long” throughout Wish Dragon, the second of three Sony Pictures Animation’s works with rights reported to have been bought by Netflix during the pandemic (the others are The Mitchells vs. The Machines and…
REVIEW: Bố Già (2021)
“NOISY household,” “MESSY family,” “CRAPPY neighborhood” — these are the title cards in the latest trailer for Bố Già (Dad, I’m Sorry, which in Vietnamese would look more like “Ba, Con Xin Lỗi”), and they seem to promise an unruly time. Think Happy Madison picture,…
INTERVIEW: ‘Servant’ Costume Designer Caroline Duncan
They can be a lot to take in — the twists and turns, ordinary and otherwise, that creators Tony Basgallop and M. Night Shyamalan have planted in the Apple TV+ psychological horror show Servant, now in its second season and is focusing on Dorothy (Lauren…
INTERVIEW: ‘Servant’ Production Designer Naaman Marshall
How’s this for a M. Night Shyamalan twist: The Philadelphia in Servant is not exactly Philadelphia. In the Apple TV+ series from Tony Basgallop and Shyamalan himself, the world is reduced to the four walls and four floors of the brownstone where the Turners (Lauren…
INTERVIEW Part 2: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Writers & Director
JumpCut’s chat with the creators of Raya and the Last Dragon on its upcoming home-media release continues, now with director Don Hall and writers Qui Nguyen & Adele Lim. Previously we had producer Osnat Shurer, head of story Fawn Veerasunthorn and the other main director…
INTERVIEW Part 1: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ – Head of Story, Producer & Director
As equally an adventure as reuniting the pieces of the Dragon Gem in Raya and the Last Dragon was the making of said adventure. For the upcoming home media release of Walt Disney Animation’s latest, its first production with the Southeast Asia region as a…
REVIEW: Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
Two particular pairs face two greatest tests in the film adaptation of Michael Koryta’s book, also titled Those Who Wish Me Dead. Making up the first are Hannah (Angelina Jolie), a smokejumper, and Connor (Finn Little), a young’un hunted by suited assassins. She is still…
REVIEW: Profile (2021)
To err? That’s human, so when appropriate forgive yourself and carry on. To err as a reporter? Could have been more careful, but hopefully your proofreaders and editors can back you up. To err as a reporter disguising as a potential candidate for an extremist…
REVIEW: The Mitchells vs The Machines (2021)
The takeover of the techs is already here, even before the Daily Mail can submit the headline “Naked Schwarzenegger ran STARKERS after emerging from silver sphere” into kinda-journalism’s history book. Siri or Alexa’s innocent chirps of “I don’t understand that” is actually “I’m learning everything…
Low-Key but Legit: The Wondrous Women of Bong Joon-ho
For Asian women of the past, present and future. *Contains spoilers for some of Bong Joon-ho’s films. “Stop!” shouts Officer Kwon Kwi-ok (Ko Seo-hie) with all her might to get her male colleagues to focus on the radio playing Sad Letter, a song the killer…
TV REVIEW: Calls (2021)
It’s not in the official description, but it might as well: If the world is a pool, Calls is the deep end where the The Twilight Zone dares not enter. Yes, the new Apple TV+ series from Fede Álvarez can be that bizarre. The U.S….
REVIEW: Nobody (2021)
Many films are born out of what-ifs, and most of those what-ifs are opposites of what’s already there. For Nobody, it looks at John Wick, specifically the first film, and picks avenues previously left alone. Our hitman protagonist still has a wife. He has a…
REVIEW: Censor (Sundance 2021)
Newsflash: All your favourite slashers are weaker than the censor. It matters not if you’re the next Jason, Freddy or Pinhead, or if you are them, with just one strike the censor can shorten, curb, alter or altogether eliminate their killing spree. And they can…
