https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CEIcmWmtA The debut trailer for the new holiday romcom Last Christmas barely dropped before the internet was abuzz over the plot twist that may be hiding in plain sight. While I won't divulge that potential spoiler speculation, it almost seems as if the trailer wants us to make the magical assumption (emphasized by another possible [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJXmdY4lVR0 How do you solve a problem like the Nazis? You can't, so you resist. That's exactly what a rural Austrian farmer did during World War II, and now his true story is brought to the big screen on an epic canvas from poetic auteur Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven). During [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AST2-4db4ic Even for an umpteenth remake, the expectations for this one are very high. That's inevitable with virtually any adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, arguably the most beloved novel of all time by American girls, young and old. That then becomes especially true when the creative talent involved is of such highly admired [...]
It's time to pivot your plans, Friends fanatics, because an upcoming Fathom Event is far from a moo point. To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of this enduring pop culture staple, Fathom Events and Warner Bros. will be screening Friends 25th: The One With The Anniversary, a three-night event playing only in movie theaters. Each night, [...]
**** out of **** Rated PG (for language, thematic elements, some suggestive content, and brief smoking images) Released: June 28, 2019 limited; expands in August Runtime: 97 minutes Directed by: Alex Holmes Starring: Tracy Edwards, Jo Gooding, Sally Creaser Hunter, Tanja Visser, Marie-Claude Kieffer Heys, Dawn Riley, Michele Paret, Jeni Mundy, Nancy Harris It’s amazing [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjFOkCKb3g For anyone already cobbling together their must-see list for the upcoming Awards Season, a slot has to be made for Pain And Glory, the Spanish-language film from writer/director Pedro Almodóvar. The legendary auteur reunites with Antonio Banderas (whose collaborations first began back in the late 1980s) in a film that is blatantly semi-autobiographical. Banderas plays [...]
Episode 22 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-22 Hobbs & Shaw, @ 0:57 Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, @ 6:26 "Gender & Race in the Tarantino Universe" (discussion), @23:30 Outro / Contact Info, @ 31:27 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and I look at two different [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for prolonged sequences of action and violence, suggestive material, and some strong language) Released: August 2, 2019 Runtime: 135 minutes Directed by: David Leitch Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Vanessa Kirby, Idris Elba, Helen Mirren, Eiza Gonzalez, Eddie Marsen, Eliana Sua, Cliff Curtis, Lori Pelenise Tuisano As instantly [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=cF76gm9PdOs I was mixed on aspects of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, but not with any of the characters. The central performances are particularly strong, especially Leonardo DiCaprio's as Rick Dalton, a fading TV Western star caught in the crosshairs of Tinseltown's transition from heroes to anti-heroes at the dawn of the 1970s. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcmZN0Mbl04 The Great War isn't explored in as many films as is the bigger war that followed it; that makes director Sam Mendes' 1917 intriguing enough. The scale on which it's produced (as seen in this first trailer) piques that interest even more. The war picture has a quasi-Saving Private Ryan premise to it, but [...]