Joel Schumacher, Director With a Flair for the Distinctive, Dies at 80

Joel Schumacher, the writer-director who came from a world of window dressing and costume design to bring a singular style to films including St. Elmo’s Fire, Flatliners and a pair of Batman movies, died Monday. He was 80. From a report: Schumacher died after a yearlong battle with cancer, a representative announced. Schumacher’s directorial body of work also included the horror…

Color Out of Space: Another Nicolas Cage film that’s so bad it’s good

Nicolas Cage grapples with a weird luminous alien presence in the movie Color Out of Space. It’s a story that has roots in a late-19th-century obsession with new forms of radiation, says Simon Ings Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532690-600-color-out-of-space-another-nicolas-cage-film-thats-so-bad-its-good/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…