Stefan Ellison

I used to occasionally go to the actual movie theatre where the Disney Channel Original Movie "Phantom of the Megaplex" was filmed. Some movies I saw there included Be Kind Rewind, The Artist, Moonrise Kingdom and Match Point. It closed in 2013.

Added This Week: Sommersby, The Sunchaser, Don't Say a Word, Runaway Jury, Stay letterboxd.com/mrcoat/list/ev…

Looking at the action remake "Gone in 60 Seconds" and why it feels like a Michael Bay movie (even though he had nothing to do with it): youtube.com/watch?v=Hhq9QN…

Apparently nobody at the White House realised that by making a statement calling "South Park" irrelevant, that's only going to bring more eyeballs to the new episode and boost ratings for the rest of the season. Has nobody there heard of the Streisand Effect?

cinema is saved

My review of "The Fantastic Four: First Steps", whose 1960s retro-futuristic vibe plays a major role in making this an enjoyable adventure with Marvel's First Family: youtube.com/watch?v=zEHO5S…

On what might be the future of James Bond now that he's fully owned by Amazon and who would be a good choice to play 007: youtube.com/watch?v=OHn3D4…

Tron: Ares has ended up with an super eclectic combination of people who contributed "additional literary material" to the screenplay Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), Billy Ray (Captain Phillips), Nicole Holofcener (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), and Jez Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari) among…

I always love seeing things like this. People too often want to create a competition between iterations of the same source material. So it's great seeing the creatives behind one project supporting another.

Random Thought: It's surprising that Jason Alexander has not been in a Pixar movie yet.

My reaction when watching new Pixar trailers: "This looks like an creative concept. I'm interested in seeing how the story plays out and what surprises are in store" Most online reaction to new Pixar trailers: "How dare they! Why wasn't this catered to me?"

Added This Week: Man on Fire (1987), Q&A, Goodbye Lover, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Transformers 1-5, Bumblebee, The Amateur (2025), Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful, Sally Plus a lot of Canadian movies I can't fit on this post. letterboxd.com/mrcoat/list/ev…

Because of course I know this, "The Stepford Wives" has three actors who were in the film adaptation of the musical "The Producers" (Matthew Broderick, Roger Bart, Jon Lovitz) and one who almost was (Nicole Kidman). letterboxd.com/mrcoat/film/th…

My review of "Smurfs", which I thought lacked much creativity or an interesting story and just seemed to throw a bunch of things at the audience. By the way, I don't know if you've heard, but Rihanna is Smurfette: youtube.com/watch?v=YQsjZ1…

My review of Ari Aster's political satire "Eddington", which uses its unlikeable and unsympathetic cast of characters to confront how we communicate with each other in these divided times: youtube.com/watch?v=RO3FaD…

You can see the "We Bare Bears" fingerprints here. And unlike previous "person turns into animals" animated movies like Brother Bear, Spies in Disguise and The Princess and the Frog, the main character wanting to do this helps make it feel a little more fresh

Interesting contrast from the big name cast of the Mario Bros Movie. I like that they've gone with young up-and-comers for Link and Zelda rather than the more obvious actors people were speculating on.

It's weird seeing the new Bridget Jones movie, which was a theatrical box-office hit outside of North America, nominated for Best Television Movie at the Emmys. Also noticed Paul Reubens got a posthumous nomination in Best Documentary, so that's sweet.