Grand Tour (MSPIFF 44)

 

   The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is a yearly event featuring many great features from around the world.  Learn more about MSP Films and how to submit your feature for next year https://mspfilm.org/

Grand Tour 

Cast: Crista Alfaite, Goncalo Waddington, Lang Khe Tran

Writers – Too Many to List

Director: Miguel Gomes

 * out of Five Stars.

Grand Tour is separated into two parts.  The first part follows Edward(Goncalo Waddington).  A man on the run,trying his best to avoid his fiancé from finding him.   The second half involves Molly stopping at nothing and finding amusement in searching for him. 

Megalopolis & The Multiplex (Ingredients for failure)

  I'm proud to announce that I just joined the MNFCA (The Minnesota Fim Critics Association) and am extremley honored to be an alliance of this organization.

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https://mnfilmcriticsassociation.com/2024/09/25/jasonhemming/

If you are expecting this to be a critique about this supposed last feature from director, Francis Ford Coppola.  I apologize but this is not that sort of essay. Like many film fans , I too was a little surprised that the famous director of movies like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now spent over $120 Million Dollars of his own money on this project, only to have it gross just under $5 Million.  Many asking why, especially since this sort of thing occurred back in the early 80’s when he spent big loads of money to make his musical One from the Heart.  Only to be in such debt afterwards he had to direct movies like Jack and Bram Stoker’s Dracula to recoup the lost.

Crash (1996) with Jim of Film Rage

 

Continuing our look back at the films from David Cronenberg comes one of his most polarizing and controversial projects, Crash.  The movie about sex and car crashes that won big at Cannes but was stopped from getting the top award thanks to Francis Ford Coppola.

Guest Jim of Film Rage and The Vern talk about many things with this movie and a lot more duing the show.   Thank you for listening.

Valerie: Written Review

 

Valerie.

Director: Stacey Souther

Featuring interviews with Jeff Bridges, Richard Donner, Loni Anderson, Howard Hessman and more

 **** out of five

Bonus Episode: Titane Review

 

The following episode is my random thoughts after watching the latest film by director Julia Ducournau(Raw).   Titane is a movie that will have viewers fully engaged with it or extremely angry at for wasting their time.  It's win for best picture at the Cannes Film festival certainly put this into the heads of many film buffs, but how many of you will actually watch it.    Patreons get a longer episode and your either welcome or I'm sorry.

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Be sure to check out my guest spot on  The LAMBcast where I was joined by other great film critics  who had a very fun but diverse opinions on this film.

http://www.largeassmovieblogs.com/2021/10/lambcast-604-titane.html 

I also talked about Titane on Piecing it Together Podcast with host David Rosen. We gave some good recommendations on movies that will match this unique wild ride

https://www.piecingpod.com/2021/10/15/titane-featuring-the-vern/

Get the Full Uncut Review on our Patreon page

Music in this episode is from the Titane soundtrack written and composed by Jim Williams