***1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for thematic elements and some language) Released: December 25, 2016 limited; January 6, 2017 wide Runtime: 127 minutes Director: Theodore Melfi Starring: Taragi P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parson, Mahershala Ali, Glen Powell Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K. Proceeds from purchases made through these [...]
Insiders say General Leia was to have been a bigger part of Episode IX than VIII. That's the word from The Hollywood Reporter. Although the recently-deceased Carrie Fisher had finished all of her filming for the next Star Wars episode on the docket (to be released this December), sources inside Lucasfilm now tell THR that the Star Wars braintrust will soon meet in [...]
Yo Kylo Ren! Sylvester Stallone has nabbed Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Adam Driver to star in Sly's adaptation of the memoir "Tough as They Come". Written by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills, the best-seller documents his true-life struggle to survive a quadruple amputation as a result of battlefield injuries. Mills's father-in-law Craig Buck was right by his side through the recovery process; [...]
What a gift this will be. Having premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, mere months before the unexpected and tragic passing just one day apart of this mother/daughter pair of Hollywood icons, HBO has now sped up its air date for this well-reviewed documentary from the spring to this week. Even though the trailer is light-hearted, you may need [...]
UPDATED: 02/14/17, with new postscript. (SPOILERS to the ending of La La Land are discussed below. To read my full non-spoiler review, click here.) Despite being the choice du jour for film critics groups and musical-loving audiences, La La Land has an ending with the potential to be polarizing. I made a nod to this, cryptically, with two statements from my review, once [...]
One more reason to look forward to being their guest. Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast opens on March 17, 2017. https://youtu.be/jB5zooMEZME
The OFCC fell for La La Land, too. Announcing its winners via a Twitter rollout, The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (disclaimer: I'm a member) began 2017 by revealing its choices for the Best In Film for 2016. And for the first time in its 10 year history, the OFCC also included the group's runner-up citations in each category. While the expected suspects made the cut (La La [...]
The Rebellion is building it's own Empire. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story continues to slaughter all foes at the box office. After two full weeks in release plus a third major weekend in theaters, the Star Wars anthology one-off has racked up a $430 million haul in North America, and $775 million globally (with much more to come; [...]
After debuting "I Can't Unsee That" in October of 2015, it was 2016 that marked the first full calendar year for this movie blog. Here are the essential stats for my humble endeavor, along with rankings of the Top 10 Most Viewed Articles and Reviews, as well as Rankings of Views for the Spielberg and Star Trek marathons. [...]
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