Why do we have a sequel to Gladiator? Nostalgia. The film industry has been riding the tremendous rise of nostalgia since the start of the post-pandemic world. From reviving the early 2000s fashion trend to electing questionable but charismatic populist leaders, people are now clinging to the ideal picture of
Tag: Ridley Scott
‘Napoleon’ star Joaquin Phoenix says he was drawn by the character’s complexities
When Ridley Scott saw Joaquin Phoenix’s Academy Award®-winning performance in Joker, the director was reminded of their collaboration on Gladiator, and he knew that Phoenix would be perfect for the titular role in his new film Napoleon: “I saw him and it all came flooding back – how we worked on Gladiator, and what
Napoleon (2023) review: Phoenix doesn’t fall short in Scott’s latest (stretched) epic
Roy Narra reviews Ridley Scott’s latest epic ‘Napoleon’ starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role and Vanessa Kirby as his wife Josephine. Showing in PH cinemas this November 29. Spoilers are present in this review. Aside from the numerous epic war battles he led for France and, let’s be real,
A healthy dose of movie trivia on James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’
James Cameron’s 1986 film Aliens is a continuation of the franchise’s thematic and conceptual tenacity. In it, a reversal of roles typically attributed to a certain gender makes the meat of the story. Where the Ridley Scott-directed 1979 original deals with a lot of issues concerning rape, Cameron’s sequel deals with an entirely
Katherine Waterston headlines Ridley Scott’s latest, ‘Alien: Covenant’
[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”@FilmPoliceRevs” suffix=”#AlienCovenant”]Katherine Waterston joins her Steve Jobs co-star Michael Fassbender in Alien: Covenant[/inlinetweet], the new film from The Martian-director Ridley Scott. Deadline is saying that Waterston is playing the female lead, Daniels, who I presume will lead the ship which will land on an ostensible “paradise” where Fassbender’s droid David, or what’s left of him,
Listen to our playlist of the music from ‘The Martian’; you know you want to
You’re no less of a person if you turned up during Ridley Scott’s latest, The Martian. Scott, aged seventy, is still able to make his work feel so vibrant and youthful it’s able to recognize the timeless magic Gloria Gaynor has on people. Admit it: you strut away with funk
The Martian
For a movie that’s basically about being stranded, all alone, in a desolate planet where everything can kill you, The Martian, ironically leaves its audience very alive and inspired largely due to its beautiful and exciting setting, greatly charismatic lead performance, and its overall hopeful story about humanity. Written by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in
Life possibility in Mars explored in ‘The Martian’ trailer
Will it be possible to habituate Mars in the near future? In Ridley Scott’s upcoming film, Matt Damon is left alone to survive as he takes on the titular moniker in the latest space adventure The Martian set in the 2030’s. The film is based on the 2011 bestselling novel of the same
