https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=DIBw9dSVKdU It's hard to believe it'll be six years by the time this sequel drops, but the belated return to this world will be a welcome one. The original Wreck-It Ralph was the first non-musical computer-animated feature from Walt Disney Animation to employ the best artistic and emotional virtues of then-new corporate cousin Pixar. Since [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for strong violence, bloody images, strong language, and some sexuality) Released: February 23, 2018 Runtime: 115 minutes Director: Alex Garland Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Benedict Wong Linda Holmes, host of the NPR podcast “Pop Culture Happy Hour”, tweeted this out [...]
Released: February 23, 2017 Runtime: Program A (102 minutes); Program B (82 minutes) Program: Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts for 2017 (Parental Discretion advised) During every Oscar ceremony, there’s a stretch of categories with nominees that virtually no one has ever even heard of, let alone seen: the shorts. Divided into three competitive groups – Animated, Live Action, and Documentary [...]
https://youtu.be/3TPY4TKo6uQ Scheming on a thing that's still largely a mirage, Chris Galegar of the War Starts At Midnight film podcast gave us a new way to look at the Solo footage we've seen so far. Inspired by previews from that other Star franchise (a.k.a. Trek), Galegar re-cut footage from the trailer to Solo: A Star Wars [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmYWk7kerU Here's the sequel to Terrence Malick's To the Wonder that we never knew we needed. Kind of. Thy Kingdom Come is a 43-minute short film premiering this March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Directed by Euguene Richards, a photojournalist for The New Yorker, it utilizes bonus footage that Malick [...]
Episode 1 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-01 Black Panther, @ 1:21 Sundance Film Festival Recap, @ 22:43 The Cloverfield Paradox, @ 38:29 A Look at the Oscar race, @ 48:38 Welcome to the debut episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, a new film conversation podcast co-hosted by myself and [...]
I'm excited to announce a new podcasting venture that I'll be co-hosting and co-producing with Charles E. Elmore. It's called "The Bad and the Beautiful", and it's about to debut. A fellow member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, Charles has also produced the Tulsa-based film podcast Videodrone Tulsa and curated its website. Now, as we continue [...]
Released: February 16, 2017 Runtime: 134 minutes Program: Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts for 2017 (Parental Discretion advised) During every Oscar ceremony, there’s a stretch of categories with nominees that virtually no one has ever even heard of, let alone seen: the shorts. Divided into three competitive groups – Animated, Live Action, and Documentary – the Academy Award nominated [...]
**** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for prolonged sequences of action violence, language, and a brief rude gesture) Released: February 16, 2018 Runtime: 134 minutes Directed by: Ryan Coogler Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Guria, Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya, Winston Duke, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, John [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eZxSYRhco Spielberg's up to something, and I like it. If the initial trailers for Ready Player One (here and here) were designed to tap into our sense of nostalgia wrapped up in futuristic sci-fi eye candy, then this new 2-minute cut is meant to show us that it's actually about something, thematically and emotionally. Previous teasers [...]