Men in Black, with a couple of decades distance, is possibly the oddest pre-millennial blockbuster ever made. It’s marketed as the story of a young hip NYPD officer discovering the true nature of the world and there’s certainly a lot of that. But there’s also a unique and memorably horrible villain, moments of genuine poignancy …
Men in Black is such a perfectly neat story that it was alway going to find an audience and that audience was going to want a sequel. A sequel that, by its very existence, would damage that self same perfect neatness. Late stage capitalism, it seems, is once again a hell of a drug. Robert …
(Turns chair around, sits down) So, you made a sequel, a decade later, to a sequel that was itself made five years after the original. The production was functionally cursed, the half of the movie set in 2012 was filmed before the half set in 1969 was written, you lost at least one cast member, …
After a close encounter changes her life for ever, Molly Wright dedicates herself to discovering the truth not just about aliens but the Men in Black. It takes her twenty three years but she finds them, finds proof. Impressed by the young woman’s drive, and perhaps desperate to change things up a bit, O offers …