***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for brief strong language) Released: March 10, 2017 Runtime: 120 minutes Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, John C. Reilly, Shea Whigham, Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axySrE0Kg6k In about as faithful a cover as one could imagine, John Legend and Ariana Grande's update of the "Beauty and the Beast" ballad is nearly indistinguishable from Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson's original. But hey, it's in the Beast's ballroom so that's cool.
UPDATE: The Post will now not only be the next film for all three, but prep is rushing for a May shoot start, and a theatrical release later this year just in time for the 2017 Awards Season race. (Read more updates in the last three paragraphs.) Finally - Meryl Streep is going to be in a Steven Spielberg movie. Adding [...]
Practically perfect in every way. That's what this first look of Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins - dressed out by Oscar-winning costume designing legend Sandy Powell - hopefully portends. Set in 1930s Depression era London, with the Michael and Jane now all grown up, Mary Poppins Returns boasts an all-star cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Ben Whishaw, and Emily Mortimer. Oh - plus Dick Van Dyke and Meryl Streep. From director Rob [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for strong brutal violence and language throughout, and for brief nudity) Released: March 3, 2017 Runtime: 137 minutes Director: James Mangold Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant, Eriq La Salle, Elizabeth Rodriguez For a movie hell bent on further redefining a genre, Logan is, well…it’s fine. Much [...]
**** out of **** Rated R (for violence, bloody images, and language including sexual references) Released: February 24, 2017 Runtime: 103 minutes Directed by: Jordan Peele Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Lil Rel Howery, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson, Lakeith Stanfield, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root Available to buy on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support this blog. Winner [...]
The grace that the filmmakers of La La Land showed to those of Moonlight - in the midst of the biggest gut-punching "psyche" job to ever play out on a global stage - didn't end on Oscar night. Every year post-Oscars, Variety (the legendary Hollywood trade publication) puts the Academy Award winner for Best Director on its cover. This year, that honor goes [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5V5C8mEVzY They're finally putting Johnny Depp front and center. Previous teasers for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (the 5th film in the series) have focused on the villain played by Javier Bardem (and understandably, his whole vibe looks like dark comic fun) with only a glimpse of Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. Now there's an equal balance, including Geoffrey Rush as well, and despite [...]
Busted. In an exclusive pictorial essay, with timecodes, Variety shows the backstage photos that captured the subtle mistakes which led to the biggest Oscar blunder in the nearly 90-year history of the Academy Awards. To literally see the sequence of events, click here. PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants Martha Ruiz and Brian Cullinan were the only two people at the event in charge of envelopes and protocol (as is per usual), [...]
https://vimeo.com/7456450 This 2003 Florida State University short film - made in response to 9/11 - doesn't necessarily reveal director Barry Jenkins to be a future Academy Award winning filmmaker, but it does reveal a poetic one. Ultimately, Moonlight revealed both. But even My Josephine shows how a great artist interprets events; not literally but iconically.
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