https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=rjLVCpE3kuw Following a surprise premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX, Warner Bros. has released a bonus trailer for Ready Player One just two weeks before its global debut. Initial reactions to Steven Spielberg's return to blockbuster spectacle were mostly raves, some gushing, with only a few detractors. Take one guess [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=116&v=5sEaYB4rLFQ That Dumbledore is all suave and whatnot. Such is the unsurprising takeaway from the first trailer for the Harry Potter prequel sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Moving from 1920s New York to Paris (by way of a stop at Hogwarts), Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander is joined by Jude Law's young Dumbledore in [...]
The blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is near, as is the Falcon-full payload of behind-the-scenes extras that comes right along with it. The centerpiece of them all is the 2-hour and 15-minute documentary The Director and the Jedi. An exclusive look at the doc's first 11 minutes was posted online exclusively by [...]
Yes. And no. In the history of the Academy Awards, no film has ever received more than 14 Academy Award nominations, and that's only happened three times: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). To think that a comic book tentpole released in February could go on to set a new [...]
It’s not the Oscars. It’s you. Well, it's us really. A lot has been made of why the Academy Awards telecast has been in a steep decline over the last decade, falling this year to its lowest rated show ever. The conventional punditry has boiled that down to two reasons: more blockbusters need to be [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for thematic elements and some peril) Released: March 9, 2018 Runtime: 109 minutes Director: Ava DuVernay Starring: Storm Reid, Chris Pine, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zach Galifianakis, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Michael Peña, André Holland Conventional wisdom holds that novels are better than their movie adaptations, and that’s [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for thematic material including some violent images) Released: November 17, 2017 limited; on Netflix February 2018 Runtime: 94 minutes Directed by: Nora Twomey Starring (the voices of): Saara Chaudry, Ali Badshah, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus, Laara Sadiq, Kawa Ada My review of The Breadwinner, for The Tulsa Voice. A recent Academy Award [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=425M4M3Opkk Christopher Robin is all grown up and lost his way. Oh bother. But being in the big city far away from the Hundred Acre Wood won't keep Winnie the Pooh from tracking him down. The cuddly golden bear shows up to remind his old friend of what's most important in life: family, not work. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09M3C4VD1Fg Don’t get sidetracked by the confusing, too-clever-for-its-own-good title. The winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short is a deeply moving human portrait. (Watch the full 40-minute movie above.) Mindy Alper is a 56-year-old woman who has suffered from phobias her entire life. As a child, depression, anxiety, and social triggers were compounded by [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzcaR1N0pTI Poppins popped into the Oscars last night. Disney-owned ABC gave a tease for the upcoming musical sequel to the Academy Award winning classic from 1964, but not the full teaser trailer; that debuted online (and can be seen above). Emily Blunt takes over for Julie Andrews as the magical nanny who revisits the now [...]