A film starring Academy-Award winner Matthew McConaughey and Academy-Award winner Anne Hathaway opening the weekend after the Oscars nominations were announced suggests something has gone deeply wrong - even if you weren’t aware the movie was originally slated for a September 2018 release (right in time for awards season) before being unceremoniously moved. While the first three months of the year are no longer the Hollywood dead zone they once were, it’s also not known as a staging ground for the coming year’s top hits. To be fair, this weekend’s big-screen release seems to have been doomed from the start. What happens when those characters we build out of our imagination when they begin to realize they are merely avatars of a deeply flawed human god? There are brilliant ways to tell this story. Most recently the subject of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” characters in both TV and film are increasingly questioning their creators. ![]() By turns witty and harrowing, clever and weighty, it is closer in spirit to Star Wars than anything George Lucas has produced in a quarter. He writes, It’s a classic noir murder mystery setup: a down-on-his-luck schmuck lured by a gorgeous lost love. ![]() ![]() One of the stories Hollywood seems obsessed with at the moment is how the growing ability to depict a realistic fantasy world has blurred the lines between what is real and what is programming. Serenity, released on video last week, is terrific. Serenity earned an apathetic review from The Hollywood Reporter ’s Todd McCarthy.
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