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2 weeks ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
Bernardo Bertolucci (Giuseppe Maggio) stares at Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei). "There's something wounded about you that I like," he tells her, neither knowing nor caring that some of the most grievous physical and psychological scars she endures will be inflicted by him.
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3 weeks ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
In an unprecedented feat of corporate synergy, Marvel Studios and American Zoetrope have announced that next year's "Avengers: Doomsday" will feature Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, the visionary architect he portrayed in Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" (2024). "At Marvel, we expand our audience by refusing to follow a pattern or a mold or a formula," said Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios.
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1 month ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
I have some bad news for Robert Pattinson: He is a charming, handsome, and charismatic man. This may come as a disappointment to the former Edward Cullen, who wore a frumpy mustache in "The Lighthouse" (2019) and turned Batman into a total bummer. Pity poor Pattinson: Despite his valiant struggle to conceal his sex appeal, he remains an actor cursed with being a star.
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1 month ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
In Sir Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" (1982), the Voight-Kampff test measures a subject's blushing, heartbeat, and pupillary dilation to determine whether they are human or android-a process that usually leads to someone getting blasted through a wall.
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2 months ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
Mere minutes into "Cleaner," Joey (Daisy Ridley) faces a countdown. Catastrophically behind schedule, she microwaves a cup of day-old coffee, burns two pieces of toast, and busses to the London skyscraper where she washes windows, punching in with only seconds to spare. If "Cleaner" were solely about a millennial's frantic commute, it could have been the existential slapstick thriller of the season.
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2 months ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
In "He's Just Not That Into You" (2009), Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) isn't dating Alex (Justin Long)...yet. "I'm pretty sure that something's about to happen between us!" Gigi says perkily. Gigi is always pretty sure. Alex runs the City Supper Club (actually Duda's Tavern in Baltimore), where he bedazzles Gigi, a regular customer, with pearls of heterosexual wisdom that teeter precariously between brilliance and bullshit. "Look, I know what blowing off a woman looks like, okay?" Alex bloviates.
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2 months ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
Why do men chase women? Thirty-eight years ago, Rose Castorini (Olympia Dukakis) and Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) seemed to have settled the matter in "Moonstruck" (1987). "Why would a man need more than one woman?!" Rose thundered. "I don't know," Johnny said quietly. "Maybe because he fears death."So forceful was Rose's reply ("That's it. That's the reason!") that infidelity could have been reasonably retired as a plot point then and there.
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2 months ago | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
Terrence Malick was born in 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois, but John Bleasdale's biography "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick" (the University Press of Kentucky, 292 Pages, $35) begins with the birth of all creation.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson
Best Picture "Babygirl" "The Brutalist" "Day of the Fight" "Dune: Part Two" "Evil Does Not Exist" "Hit Man" "Joker: Folie à Deux" "Megalopolis" "My Old Ass" "Sometimes I Think About Dying" Francis Ford Coppola, "Megalopolis" Brady Corbet, "The Brutalist" Jack Huston, "Day of the Fight" Halina Reijn, "Babygirl" Denis Villeneuve, "Dune: Part Two" Best Actress Amy Adams, "Nightbitch" Kirsten Dunst, "Civil War" Nicole Kidman, "Babygirl" Daisy Ridley, "Sometimes I Think About Dying" Maisy Stella,...
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
foolswhodreammovies.com | Chance Solem-Pfeifer
Of the many kindnesses Bennett Campbell Ferguson showed me during the two years he edited my Willamette Week writing, among the kindest was naming a year-end column after me (not at my request). For a couple of years prior, I'd tried to skirt the best-of list trope by handing out customized joke awards.