**** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for some language) Released: December 9, 2016 NY & LA: December 16 limited. Everywhere January 6, 2017. Runtime: 128 minutes Director: Damien Chazelle Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this [...]
The genre director of The Dark Knight and Inception storms the beaches of World War II. The Battle of Dunkirk, which took place on French soil, was a week-long fight in late May of 1940, four years before the United States' D-Day at Normandy. This one involved primarily British forces, along with other Allies, against [...]
Slow that roll, La La Land. In what seemed like a quickly growing consensus toward a Best Picture win for the modern day musical romance, the Screen Actors Guild denied La La Land a nomination in its biggest category, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (their Best Picture equivalent). Stars Emma Stone [...]
Manchester by the Sea couldn't even win in Massachusetts. Swept up by the craze for Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the Boston Society of Film Critics joined other organizations in naming the L.A.-based modern musical as the year's best film. The Oscar frontrunner, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is quickly becoming an awards season phenomenon, as Boston also tabbed it for Best [...]
The Oscar race will be a marathon between these three movies: La La Land, Moonlight, and Manchester by the Sea. That's the major tea leaf confirmed by the announcement of the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominees, one of the big Oscar harbingers every year. Those three films, along with their directors, were all nominated for Best Motion Picture; that [...]
For the first time ever, this year's Critics Choice Awards - given by the Broadcast Film Critics Association - were presented over a month earlier than the traditional mid-January date. This makes it the first Awards Show of the 2016 season, with the ceremony happening the night before the Golden Globes announce their nominees. WINNERS OF THE 22ND [...]
The influence of John Williams on film composer Michael Giacchino's career could be heard from his earliest scores for video games and television. Now, Oscar-winner Giacchino has become the first non-Williams to write the music for a Star Wars movie. In an exclusive, Entertainment Weekly was invited to a recent recording session for the score to Rogue One: [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for violence, menace, graphic nudity, and strong language) Released: December 9, 2016 Runtime: 117 minutes Director: Tom Ford Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. [...]
This looks really good. I can't say I was nearly as big a fan as many others were of the first two films in the Planet of the Apes mythology prequels (Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), but this one looks and feels legit. I'm genuinely excited to [...]
With each new iteration of this iconic character, Spider-Man actually seems to become more like his classic old school wise-cracking and wide-eyed teenage personality, not less, shifting away from modern tendencies toward "brooding". The Tom Holland version in Spider-Man: Homecoming - the first steered by Kevin Feige in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - seems to [...]