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Top Ten Films to Watch from 1984, via @80sAllOver

Once again I use the fantabulous podcast 80s All Over as a springboard into movie ventures unknown. Having just completed the year 1984 in Drew McWeeny and Scott Weinberg’s epic journey through every film to get a cinematic release in the 1980s, I now have another huge list of films I’d never heard of (or, y’know, maybe I’d heard the title but had no idea what the film was or who was in it or whatever) that tickled my movie buds.

Here, then, for no one’s delectation but my own, is a list of the ten films from 1984 that I was introduced to via 80s All Over that I really wanna see. Like, now.

A Breed Apart

Old Enough

Cloak and Dagger

Nothing Lasts Forever

The Life of Harvey Milk

Night of the Comet

Johnny Dangerously

Runaway

Birdy

Mass Appeal

Weirdly – and I don’t think this is just because it was the episode I listened to most recently – there are about three or four from December of 1984. It was a very good year, and as this list hopefully demonstrates, not just for the huge things that we always remember (Ghostbusters, The Terminator, Gremlins, etc).

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Is BATMAN V SUPERMAN Really In Trouble?

Warner Bros. has finally gotten their act together and started the DC Extended Universe, which has been a long time coming. It started with Man of Steel, which got some mixed reviews and didn’t break $1 billion worldwide, and now the universe continues to expand with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. You’re getting Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor, Cyborg – so many great DC characters will finally be able to share the screen together. However, some recent reports from certain sources might be spelling trouble, much like what Man of Steel went through, which is one of the worst things we could be hearing right now.

Some execs at Warner, and some others, have seen the film and according to Drew McWeeny at HitFix, the studio isn’t feeling 100% confident right now.

“My guess is what’s going to happen is based on what I’m hearing… I’ve talked to enough people who have seen the film now that I’m starting to sweat a little, is Justice League is going to get moved back and that Ben Affleck Batman movie, that’s what’s going to end up in that spot. My guess is they’re going to throw whatever money it takes at Ben Affleck to make that Batman film happen sooner rather than later. They’re going to need to rebuild again, they’re going to need to win people over, they’re going to need to lay some different groundwork. I don’t think this is going to be the springboard into the Justice League that they wanted it to be.”

Mario Francisco-Robles at Latino-Review makes a point of saying that Warner Bros. isn’t really scared, but just nervous, and this is an important point. Being nervous is understandable, because a lot of us are nervous about this film and how its executed. The studio obviously wants this to break $1 billion and do Avengers numbers, as it should based on its premise.. You’re dealing with Superman and Batman – on the totem pole of superheroes, these two are at the very top, #1 and #2. This is a movie that absolutely should make up to and over $1 billion worldwide at the box office. 

Man of Steel was a superhero film that wasn’t for everybody, with some feeling that the character of Superman didn’t resemble the Superman from the comics, or the Superman they knew as a child. Some felt it wasn’t fun enough and a lot of people had problems with the collateral damage in the third act. It might be safe to say that Snyder isn’t going to make that same mistake again. If you even saw it as a mistake… They’ve even addressed Superman’s recklessness in the trailers for this film. Hopefully, the reason some executives are nervous is because the film is made for comic book fans and may not be easily accessible for general audiences…which is good news for us, at least. Technically a film such as this should be able to please fans of the source material as well as general audiences equally, but, if the scale is tipped towards pleasing the geeks…that’s exciting to hear!

  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens on March 25th, 2016

I think Drew McWeeny must be feeling  little regretful about his Twitter rant at Tom Hardy over the press junket fuck-ups he endured recently, but he makes good points in his recent article. While not entirely agreeing with Tom’s take on the issue, he steps back from his initial reaction and makes it clear that what is really at fault is the whole system of putting actors in a hotel room and forcing them to interact with a succession of interviewers all armed with more or less the same questions.

I watched a whole string of those Revenant interviews today and they are basically crap. All the reporters want to raise the same points, How tough was the shoot, how cold was it, how tricky was the process. All the actors want to talk about is how worthwhile the process was, how proud they are of what the whole crew achieved.

When a reporter can get Tom alone for an extended period, as Anne Thompson did, she can get insightful stuff, but in two minutes, all they get is Tom fidgeting and not being very clear.

Drew McWeeny is obviously a thoughtful movie critic, just listen to him talk about his favourite films of the year. 

Schooled! Tom Hardy Responds To Journalist Twitter Rant Calling Him A “Spoiled Baby”

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It’s been a busy few days on Twitter!

Drew McWeeny, a Hitflix journalist, went on a Twitter-rant after Tom Hardy supposedly napped through his allotted time for a Revenant press junket.

It wasn’t pretty.

He called Hardy a “spoiled baby,” a “delicate f**ing flower,” and a ”piece of sht,” alongside making some pretty brutal comments about the relationship between actors and the…