***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content) Released: June 2, 2017 Runtime: 141 minutes Director: Patty Jenkins Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Lucy Davis, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Eugene Brave Rock, Saïd Taghmaoui Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on 4K, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray/DVD/Digital [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxaJLr92Av0 The original Paddington movie, based on the popular series of children's books, may not have been a box office sensation, but it's nice to see a family friendly charmer produced with such vibrant artful panache (like a Wes Anderson movie, for kids) do well enough to spawn a sequel. This first teaser for Paddington 2 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xo-EP_O5pQ In 1997, Judi Dench went from obscure American notoriety as M to Pierce Brosnan's James Bond to her first Oscar nomination as Queen Victoria in the under-seen yet powerful Mrs. Brown. Now, 20 years later, she plays Queen Victoria again during her final years in the dramatic charmer Victoria & Abdul. The similarities to Mrs. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzvKH8AVf0 Well that retirement didn't last long. Steven Soderbergh is officially back in the feature film game, following his dubious "retirement" in which he stayed rather busy with his Cinemax series The Knick. The Oscar-winning director's return to the big screen is Logan Lucky, a new heist comedy that plays like a hick version of his Ocean's Trilogy. [...]
Episode 8: Pirates, Guardians, and Aliens - oh my! For this edition of The OFCC Podcast, available on iTunes, a roundtable of critics from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle discuss the latest in movies for May 2017. You can also stream Episode 8 by clicking here. On this episode, the roundtable includes: Host Charles Elmore, producer of Videodrone Tulsa @918_Charles Craig Sanger, Vice [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated TV-14 (for some language, adult themes, and real war violence) Released: Now streaming on Netflix Runtime: 3 episodes, each @ 1 hour Director: Laurent Bouzereau Starring: On-camera interviews with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, and Lawrence Kasdan. Narrated by Meryl Streep. I don’t know if Five Came Back rises to the [...]
** out of **** Rated R (for strong language and sexuality) Released: May 5, 2017 limited; May 26 expands Runtime: 94 minutes Director: Azazel Jacobs Starring: Debra Winger, Tracey Letts, Melora Walters, Aidan Gillen, Tyler Ross, Jessica Sula It’s a shame when a filmmaker gets a great idea for a movie involving things he apparently knows nothing about. The Lovers is [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of adventure violence, language, and some suggestive content) Released: May 26, 2017 Runtime: 129 minutes Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Starring: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin R. McNally, Golshifteh Farahani, David Wenham, Stephen Graham Five movies in, this latest Pirates adventure isn't the best thing in the world…but [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiK1gQKgK8&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Direct Every parent of a special needs kid better brace themselves for Wonder, the new movie about a boy with a deformed face who goes to school for the first time in the fifth grade. Based on the best-selling book by RJ Palacio, the boy is played by Jacob Tremblay, the breakout star of Room. It was topliner Brie Larson who [...]
Every image is gorgeous, and some are heartbreaking. That's what's captured in the mix of portraits (seen in the gallery below) shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair's collector's issue for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. They anchor the magazine's "definitive preview" for the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga, which is the in-depth article by [...]
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