***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for violence/terror and strong language) Released: March 22, 2019 Runtime: 114 minutes Directed by: Jordan Peele Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Madison Curry, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop (SPOILER CAUTION: While no plot details are divulged beyond what's been revealed in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5sd_wn2ztg FilmStruck is dead. Long live The Criterion Channel. In the wake of last fall's shocking demise of FilmStruck (the now-defunct streaming service collaboration between Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Collection, which was shut down in a total blindside to subscribers when the new conglomerate Warner Media was formed), The Criterion Collection wasted no [...]
Twenty years ago (when the Academy Awards were still in late March), one of the biggest Oscar upsets of all time went down in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture. In this feature story for Collider, I make the case for why the Academy got it right. [...]
A. O. Scott has been a film critic for the New York Times since 2000, and chief film critic since 2004. One of the most influential and widely-read film writers of our time, he's also written the book "Better Living Through Criticism", a defense for living critically. It's not only a philosophy of how to [...]
(see full image below) Happy Birthday, Mr. Rogers. To celebrate what would've been Fred Rogers' 91st birthday on March 20, the makers of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood -- the upcoming film starring Tom Hanks as the beloved PBS children's show host -- released a new image from the film, with Hanks striking the iconic [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf8nIJCvs4 Groovy, baby. It's hard to imagine a movie being "more" Quentin Tarantino than his 9th one, Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood. It has everything he geeks over: movie sets, movie stars, a hip retro soundtrack and the styles to go with it, some kung fu fighting, and that turn-of-the-mid-century era when Old Hollywood was transitioning [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=wmiIUN-7qhE New toy gets lost from home, rescue adventure ensues, old loyal toys become tempted by a life beyond the toybox, only to realize that one's purpose is to bring joy to a child. Well this feels familiar, doesn't it. That's because you've seen Toy Story 2. While not ripping off that movie wholesale, Toy [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=WAfJpyBgcgA Now this is how you put yourself on the map. Kansas City filmmaker Morgan Cooper just released a fan-made trailer called Bel-Air, a modern, slick-yet-gritty dramatic re-imagining of the 1990s Will Smith sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And that's all it is -- a fan-trailer -- meaning that it's not promoting an actual [...]
Episode 19 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-19-triple-frontier-captain-marvel Triple Frontier, @ 0:55 Captain Marvel, @ 21:09 Belated Oscar Tidbits, @ 38:08 Outro / Contact Info, @ 42:14 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and Jeff buckle up as Marvel goes for Girl Power while Ben Affleck and Oscar [...]
Now here's a fan theory for you, presented in prime conspiratorial mint condition...but one that, in the grand tradition of fan theories, gets too over-plotted for its own good. You know that mid-credits scene at the end of Captain Marvel? Well, Hollywood Reporter writer Rosie Night suspects that we may not have seen what we [...]