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When Sony Pictures  decided to abruptly pull their latest film All the Money in the World from AFI Fest in November, people were surprised. Then when director Ridley Scott announced he planned to  replace the film's star Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer a mere month before its scheduled Christmas release date, people were downright shocked. And now, in the most impressive of ways, Scott actually pulled this last minute reshoot off in only nine days! But what about the film itself? Outside of all this behind the scenes drama, is it any good? I’ll give you the short answer: Yes. All the Money in the World is based on the later years of real life American industrialist J. Paul Getty  (Plummer), who went a long way from his Minnesota roots to become—at the time—the richest private citizen who had ever lived (which with inflation today would be close $9 billion). The central plot focuses on an infamous and publicly-followed incident where one of Getty...

When Ridley Scott made the  announcement  that he would be replacing all of Kevin Spacey 's scenes with actor Christopher Plummer in his upcoming film All The Money In The World , the idea was pretty unbelievable and shocking. It's been less than a month since that news broke and Scott has made good on his word. A new video spot promoting the high-profile film was just released and it offered us the first glimpse of Plummer as  J. Paul Getty . Of course, I couldn't resist putting clips of Spacey and Plummer side by side to see the before and after visuals. It makes the trailer's voiceover that much more haunting: "To be a Getty is an extraordinary thing...we *look* like you...but we're NOT like you..." 

In an unprecedented move yesterday, Ridley Scott  announced that he will remove  Kevin Spacey entirely from his upcoming film All the Money in the World , where Spacey played J. Paul Getty . The trailer for the film had already been released and it was supposed to play at AFI Fest next week. This is the latest fallout that has landed on Spacey since the recent allegations of his sexual assault towards several victims. And what about the film? Scott said that Oscar winner Christopher Plummer will take over the role of Getty, leaving Scott only weeks to reshoot all of Spacey's scenes with Plummer before All the Money in the World's Christmas release date next month. So with that cavalier spirit in mind, I thought I'd reimagine another one of Spacey's films ( The Usual Suspects ) with Plummer taking over the reigns. In my video "The Usual Plummers" Chazz Palminteri slowly realizes that it was Plummer -- not Spacey -- who was  Keyser Söze all along......

  In an interview discussing his freewheeling and challenging film Goodbye to Language , Jean-Luc Godard made some comments on our current dependency to smartphones and, more specifically, text messaging. He questioned if anyone actually knew what the "SMS" in the phrase 'SMS text messaging' actually stood for. Godard insisted it meant "Save My Soul." It's that very idea, that notion of being alone in the universe, that drives the dramatic weight of Ridley Scott 's latest film The Martian . Much of the film involves the protagonist Mark Watney ( Matt Damon ) sending video selfies to NASA--and in parallel fashion to the audience in the movie auditorium. While watching the film (which is fairly conventional in regards to its plot) I was provoked by its accidental (or maybe intentional) role as a "selfie space opera." Stimulated by this idea, I went ahead and created this video that re-imagines the film (which runs around two and...