https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=nQk7DWW4mz8 Leave to Pixar to deliver, in stealth fashion, a reunion that many comedy fans have been longing for. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, a.k.a. the stars of the long-running sketch comedy series Key & Peele, are the voices of two new characters in Toy Story 4. One day after the first teaser for the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roy4o4tqQM&feature=share "Deadpool for Kids" is basically what you get when Ryan Reynolds does the voice for Pikachu...and that's exactly what the first live-action Pokémon movie is offering up. POKÉMON Detective Pikachu plops a CGI version of that yellow fuzzy rodent into the real world, fueled by Reynolds' snarky sass dialed in for the entire family. The [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXYRzerjzU No spoilers, just radar-pinging in this first brief teaser for Toy Story 4. Avoiding plot details entirely, the whole purpose of this promo quickie (well-timed to be tagged on the front of Ralph Wrecks The Internet) is to remind everyone that this is coming out next summer. That, and to introduce a new character: [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for thematic material including a sexual situation, brief strong language, and smoking) Released: October 19, 2018 limited; November 9 expands Runtime: 105 minutes Directed by: Paul Dano Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp (Click here to read my interview with director Paul Dano) Taking a slow burn [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for strong language, drug content throughout, and brief sexual material) Released: October 26, 2018 limited; November 9 expands Runtime: 120 minutes Directed by: Felix van Groeningen Starring: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan, Kaitlyn Dever, Christian Convery, Oakley Bull When an actors’ showcase collides with a filmmaker’s indulgences, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=Cm500za3Gwc Need some cliffs notes to connect the new Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald to the original Harry Potter films? Yeah, me too. With a mythology this dense, it's hard for mortal muggles to maintain an encyclopedic recall of every detail, even some of the big ones. This new promo from Warner Bros. helps connect [...]
This is my interview (click here), for The Tulsa Voice, with actor-turned-director Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, Swiss Army Man, Little Miss Sunshine) about the making of Wildlife, his first film as a writer/director. Co-written by his partner Zoe Kazan (an actress and writer of her own acclaim, including last year's The Big Sick, who I also had [...]
** out of **** Rated R (for pervasive strong language, drug and alcohol use, some violent behavior and disturbing images, and sexuality - all involving minors) Released: October 26, 2018 Runtime: 84 minutes Directed by: Jonah Hill Starring: Sunny Suljic, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, Ryder McLaughlin, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston Nostalgia rings truer when [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=Q72igEUBLjY Now this is the Mary Poppins that Mary Poppins fans have been waiting for. Amidst all the magic, adventure, and wonder -- which is what previous trailers for Mary Poppins Returns have focused on -- what has endeared the magical nanny to millions of fans (girls especially) for over five decades is her proper "spit [...]
Episode 13 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema-episode-13 First Man, @ 1:25 Venom, @ 20:38 The Old Man & the Gun, @ 30:20 A Star Is Born, @ 39:39 Outro, @ 01:05:49 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and I launch into the 2018 Oscar Season with big [...]