Episode 21 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-21 The Lion King, @ 0:44 Midsommar, @ 14:09 Outro / Contact Info, @ 26:52 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and Jeff look at a blockbuster cash-grab and the latest in art house horror. You can download it on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-iTco6JgZ4o More secrets were uncovered at the Comic-Con presentation for Terminator: Dark Fate. Along with a new 90-second featurette (above; caution, strong language and violence), producer James Cameron officially announced a big surprise: actor Edward Furlong will reprise his role as John Connor in this latest chapter, which is serving as a direct sequel to [...]
The Queen of Dragons is about to get swept up in a yuletide meet-cute. Leaving the controversies of the Game of Thrones finale far behind (along with her own personal frustrations about it -- which I share!), Emilia Clarke will be back on the big screen this holiday season in Last Christmas. What may first [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U It's actually worse than I feared. Bland studio-hack helmer Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) takes the most obvious, least-creative approach to his adaptation of Cats, the daring Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that (love it or hate it; full disclosure, I love it) took huge risks in adapting poems by T. S. Eliot to become a Broadway [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqVVswa420&feature=youtu.be I've got a need to speed the release of this movie up, but it's still a whole year away. The first trailer for Top Gun: Maverick -- which star Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures debuted in a surprise presentation at the 2019 Comic-Con in San Diego -- is everything you want it to be. Director [...]
**** out of **** Rated R (for strong language throughout, some sexual content, and brief drug material) Released: June 21, 2019 limited; expands July 12 Runtime: 101 minutes Directed by: Tom Harper Starring: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo My review of Wild Rose, for The Tulsa Voice. Newcomer Jessie Buckley stars in an absolute breakout performance in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxi6rtBtBM0 Just as we are on the cusp of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Twentieth Century Fox (now a Disney subsidiary) releases its latest trailer for Ad Astra, the new brainy, mysterious sci-fi thriller starring Brad Pitt. The initial teaser laid the groundwork for something ominous, coupled with some daddy issues [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=jzsDroK9CNs It's not a trailer (that drops Friday), but it is a first look at the movie adaptation of the musical Cats. Directed by Tom Hooper (Les Miserables, The King's Speech), the long-awaited film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber sensation -- a cultural touchstone that seems to be as mocked as it is adored [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqkdBjI6ew Reworking movies into trailers for different genres is what the internet does, but this one for Tim Burton's 1989 Batman is the best I've seen in awhile. As the "Time Warp" designation suggests, it doesn't transform the dark Keaton-Nicholson blockbuster into a different genre (like goofing it into the camp of the 1960s TV [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for sequences of violence and peril, and some thematic elements) Released: June 19, 2019 Runtime: 118 minutes Directed by: Jon Favreau Starring: Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, James Earl Jones, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen, JD McCrary, John Oliver, Alfre Woodard, Keegan-Michael Key, Eric Andre, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, [...]