When you're searching for clues about Star Wars, apparently it helps to know a Star-Lord. On three separate occasions - here, here, and here - Josh Gad has tried to manipulate info out of his Murder On The Orient Express co-star Daisy Ridley about the meaning of the new Star Wars Episode VIII title The Last [...]
Leave it to the clever team behind Best Animated Feature front-runner Zootopia to come up with posters like this, complete with inspired punny tweaks on movie star names and promotional taglines. Make sure to examine each of these Poster Spoofs, first published by The Hollywood Reporter, to catch all of the little Easter Egg-ish bits. [...]
There are national TV commercials that cost more than Moonlight did, but they're not nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture of the Year. IndieWire's Chris O'Falt examines how this could possibly be his very revealing article "The Craft of ‘Moonlight’: How a $1.5 Million Indie Landed Eight Oscar Nominations". The piece includes insight from [...]
Something old, something new. Couldn't ask for a better two. Director Jon Favreau, who's conjuring his live action Jungle Book magic for the world of The Lion King, announced via Twitter the actors he's cast in the roles of Mufasa and Simba: James Earl Jones and Donald Glover Jones, of course, played the role of Mufasa in Disney's original animated version, while Glover is the hottest [...]
https://youtu.be/V9t4SKWryWM A long time in the making (and editing), the mercurial Terrence Malick has offered up another cinematic poem. In what looks to be a spiritual and stylistic cousin to his recent film Knight of Cups, Song to Song appears to continue the same musings but transfer them from the world of movie stardom to music. Song to Song - [...]
** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of fantasy action violence) Released: February 17, 2017 Runtime: 103 minutes Director: Zhang Yimou Starring: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau When an original movie feels like it’s based on a video game, we’ve got problems – not just for the movie, but in a [...]
Released: February 17, 2017 Runtime: 134 minutes Program: Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts for 2016 (Some material is not suitable for viewers under 17) During every Oscars ceremony, there’s a stretch of categories with nominees that virtually no one has heard of, let alone seen: the shorts. Divided into three competitive groups – Animated, Live Action, and Documentary – the [...]
The countdown concludes. My annual two-part guest stint with Nick Flora, now on his All Time Favorite podcast (see links below), concludes with our Top 5 choices for the Best Movies of 2016. You can download "The Films Of 2016 with guest Jeff Huston (Part Two)" on iTunes or stream it here. To start with Part 1, where we discuss picks 6 - 10 on our [...]
https://youtu.be/2tumOP_UEFY More new looks at the sets and characters for the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, opening nationwide on March 17, 2017.
https://youtu.be/VA7BivctvDI The Tony-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda dishes on "How Far I'll Go", the song that garnered him an Oscar nomination, in this behind-the-scenes video. It also takes us into the film's Writers Room with Miranda, as well as the recording booth to see Auli'i Carvalho passionately belt out the anthem. Moana, nominated for Best Animated Feature [...]
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