https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UOh0UX3alI Another Grinch preview that's leaving me, well, a little grinchy. The second, more revealing trailer for the new feature length animated take on Dr. Seuss's holiday favorite The Grinch triggers the same mixed feeling as the first: not hating it, but not particularly anticipating it either. As before, this new preview plays up the kid-friendly [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=116&v=Z1BCujX3pw8 The Marvel Cinematic Universe finally has its wonder woman. After being teased in the final end credit bonus of Avengers: Infinity War, we now have the first trailer and photos from Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel, starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson (Room) in the title role. Set way back in the 1990s, the first [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=146&v=-3jsfXDZLIY The magic is back, with all the feels. My goodness, the new (and first full) trailer for Mary Poppins Returns not only boasts the artful movie magic you expect from a Disney sequel 54 years in the making, but it has an unapologetic sentimental power that packs a genuine emotional punch (rather than a [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=_2PyxzSH1HM The Coen Brothers return to the Old West, a territory they've filmed in before, but beyond that their new movie marks a lot of firsts for their storied career. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the new feature-length film starring Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) -- who leads an all-star cast -- finds [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ORHhgEmr9sQ Hot off its near-universal (forgive the distributor pun) raves coming out of the Venice and Toronto film festivals, here's the latest trailer (made for the UK market) for First Man. It's the story of the first moon mission and it focuses on the first moon walker, Neil Armstrong, and his family. This second trailer, [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for strong language) Released: August 27, 2018 Runtime: 105 minutes Directed by: Jesse Peretz Starring: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd, Lily Brazier, Ayoola Smart My review of Juliet, Naked, for The Tulsa Voice. Based on the novel by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity), this romantic, philosophical charmer stars Ethan Hawke as a [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=151&v=mxphAlJID9U Steven Spielberg's defining masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made returns to theaters this December, to mark its 25th anniversary. Opening originally a mere six months after his more typically-styled blockbuster Jurassic Park (if also masterful, in its own way), Steven Spielberg released Schindler's List, a film unlike any other that he [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=134&v=w4GtJB5WAlQ And we have liftoff. On the heels of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, First Man debuts its (likely) final trailer before its October release. It's the story of Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, that historic moment in human history that occurred nearly fifty years ago. It's [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HriuD7MsUak Ladies, would you rather have a tea party with princesses or dames? Yeah, me too, especially when the four include two towering icons of stage and screen. Tea with the Dames is exactly as it's titled, a 90-minute docutainment of having tea with four of England's legendary actresses during a weekend in the country: [...]
Episode 12 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-12 BlacKkKlansman, @ 0:54 The Meg, @ 25:06 Crazy Rich Asians, @ 29:23 Outro, @ 50:41 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and I discuss the three big films of August 2018, a.k.a. Crazy BlacKkK Megalodons. You can download it on [...]