Fools Who Dream

2 weeks ago | foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson

From across Seattle's Pier 47, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) gazes at his ex-wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). They smile as their eyes meet. She raises her hand in farewell. He vanishes in a swirl of steam. That wordless reconciliation concludes Brad Bird's "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (2011), but it wasn't supposed to. In an earlier script, Julia was killed, a twist that uncredited rewriter Christopher McQuarrie couldn't abide.

1 month ago | foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson

Yoda warned me, but I didn't listen. "Fear is the path to the dark side," Frank Oz's wise Jedi master wheezed in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999). "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads...to suffering."Did I suffer when I first saw "The Phantom Menace"? Hardly. I was 11 years old-not yet seasoned enough to know that Jar Jar Binks' Gungan colloquialisms weren't the height of cinematic wit (okay, I'll admit it: "Mesa no have a booma!" still cracks me up).

1 month ago | foolswhodreammovies.com | Bennett Campbell Ferguson

Chow Mo-wan files his nails, dons a dark jacket, combs his hair, and turns out the light. Maybe he's going out for the night. Maybe he has a date. Embodied with sublime elegance by Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chow cameos in the final scene of Wong Kar-wai's "Days of Being Wild" (1990). It is the only time he shows up in "Days," but the first of many appearances in Wong's luxuriant tales of heartbreak in Hong Kong. "A man like me has nothing much except free time," Chow declares in "2046" (2004).

2 months 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.

2 months 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.