This week on The Plot Hole, and though we may be a movie podcast, damned if we don’t chat a bit of Breaking Bad – the finale, the series as a whole and its influence on the medium.
There is a little something for everyone this week a number of movies from a number of genres being released onto DVD and Blu-ray, with our Recommendation of the Week is a major box-set.
For round two, behind each story are better known directors, though of course notoriety isn’t always an indication of talent, their experience behind the camera and in the genre is certainly on display. Returning for another go are Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard who contribute the wrap-around entry and Phase I Clinical Trials respectively, and are joined by Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale (The Blair Witch Project) with A Ride in the Park, Gareth Evans (The Raid) with Safe Haven and lastly Jason Eisner (Hobo With a Shotgun) with the wonderfully titled Alien Abduction Slumber Party.
TIFF is now behind us and so is a smaller screen awards counterpart: the Emmys. This week we chat those ceremonies and all its winners and losers and what features we can expect to be headed to theaters.
John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness is a film that has somehow always managed to slip passed me in my filmgoing years.
A number of blockbusters are being released and re-released onto DVD and Blu-ray this week, including our Recommendation of the Week whilst a horror movie and a selection of comedies and dramas are also coming out.
Taking us through the Shanghais gangster era of the early 1900’s to the years immediately prior to the Second World War, The Last Tycoon chronicles the familiar story of a scrappy, determined young man who climbs through the ranks of one of the areas most notorious crime syndicates. This is a fascinating place in time where Western garb meshed with that of Asian culture which culminated in a somewhat bizarre mash-up of worlds. It serves as the most compelling facet of this crime thriller. But where the film excels at crafting a crisp presentation of place, its mastery of technical elements and story structure is less honed, leaving us with a film of languishing ideas more than one that uses them to create a uniformly compelling narrative.
