Move over, Camelot. President Obama isn't even out of office yet and his cinematic mythos is already in full swing - in not one but two films. The first - about Barack and Michelle falling in love - already debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival: Southside With You. In the vein of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, writer/director [...]
*1/2 out of **** Rated R for strong language, some sexual references, drug use, and disturbing behavior Released: April 8, 2016 Runtime: 100 minutes Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, Polly Draper, Heather Lind Tracking the mental breakdown of a cocksure investment banker after the sudden death of his wife, Demolition [...]
This screen grab is from the debut teaser for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (click here to watch...again). My question is this: That black-cloaked figure doesn't look or move like Darth Vader...so who is it? The Emperor? Maybe...but the person seems too tall, and is moving too fast. Plus, it looks like he's beginning [...]
Rebel Special Ops. Black Stormtroopers. A Rebel leader from Return Of The Jedi. No Darth Vader just yet - but the Force is still all over this. Welcome to a new era of Star Wars: the teaser for the first non-episode anthology movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And by the looks of it, I'd [...]
Ready to fight some stormtroopers on Tatooine with your lightsaber? Soon you will, with the new Star Wars: Trials On Tatooine VR experience. While still only in the "experiment" stage, Lucasfilm's VR unit ILMxLab is deep in development with its first official Star Wars VR platform. Though it's likely to have a "for sale" home version at some point, [...]
And now we can see that big friendly giant for the first time. After an initial teaser that only showed the titular hand (and figure in shadow), this first official trailer for The BFG starts to flesh out the narrative of Roald Dahl's children's story (based on his book), and reveals the motion-capture animated giant in [...]
A day after new set photos of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange hit the internet, Marvel has let a few more images leak to the public from their NYC shoot - this time, of the mysterious unnamed villain played by Mads Mikkelsen (TV's Hannibal). Those are some freaky eyes. Directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose), [...]
UPDATE: Batman V Superman's 10-day worldwide total is $683 million, a positive figure in light of the North American decline. The asterisk paragraph (*) includes information related to this global tally. Also, the Sunday estimate of a 68% drop was adjusted after final numbers came in Monday. The drop was officially 69%, making nearly $7 million less [...]
Arguably our best look yet of Doctor Strange in action hit the interwebs today. While not official photos released by Marvel, the level of quality (which differs from low-res smartphone sneaks that have popped up from time to time) seems to suggest that Marvel wanted these out there. Though simple in nature, they're particularly intriguing for this reason: they [...]
Trailers can sometimes be deceiving. Exhibits A & B: those fun fan-made edits that turned Sleepless In Seattle into a horror movie and The Shining into the feel-good event of the year. The recent, well-received 2nd preview to Warner Bros. DC villains movie Suicide Squad isn't that dishonest, but it set an expectation for audiences different enough from the original cut that WB has approved reshoots reportedly at a cost [...]
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