** out of **** Rated R (for pervasive strong language, drug and alcohol use, some violent behavior and disturbing images, and sexuality - all involving minors) Released: October 26, 2018 Runtime: 84 minutes Directed by: Jonah Hill Starring: Sunny Suljic, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, Ryder McLaughlin, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston Nostalgia rings truer when [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=Q72igEUBLjY Now this is the Mary Poppins that Mary Poppins fans have been waiting for. Amidst all the magic, adventure, and wonder -- which is what previous trailers for Mary Poppins Returns have focused on -- what has endeared the magical nanny to millions of fans (girls especially) for over five decades is her proper "spit [...]
Episode 13 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema-episode-13 First Man, @ 1:25 Venom, @ 20:38 The Old Man & the Gun, @ 30:20 A Star Is Born, @ 39:39 Outro, @ 01:05:49 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and I launch into the 2018 Oscar Season with big [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for brief strong language) Released: September 28, 2018 limited; October 19 wide Runtime: 93 minutes Directed by: David Lowery Starring: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter In a role that may be Redford’s last, it reminds us of his best. As if pulled from [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCvxQOuwtI Alohomora underscore! With a wave of his magic baton, composer James Newton Howard has returned to the Potterverse prequel world of Fantastic Beasts with his new score for The Crimes of Grindelwald. Building off of cues established in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Howard and Warner Bros. record label WaterTower Music unlock [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=92&v=Do2QZsh-EVo What mind has read and ear has heard, the eye will finally see. That's the promise author J.K. Rowling sets in this 90-second promo tease for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second prequel-sequel in this early 20th Century-set saga from the popular Potterverse (which began with 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where To [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMcmd4fYKw You can run, but you can't hide. They will come for you. There is no escape. This past week on Saturday Night Live, with host Seth Meyers, their one Halloween-themed sketch ended up being a digital short that skewered the very kind of film snob that's a nightmare for everyone. The sketch's target is [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for some sexuality/nudity and language) Released: September 21, 2018 limited; October 12 wide Runtime: 111 minutes Directed by: Wash Westmoreland Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough The period-piece lesbian sex is the least interesting thing about Colette. Serving as little more than titillating soft core [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Cz1XhQiVGCc And just like -- *snap* -- that, these scenes are much more powerful. YouTuber dimitreze has synced together the disintegration scenes from Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the Wasp. For me, in their normal context, they lacked the power that Marvel was going for (largely because we knew, even as they occurred, that [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5knnlF7Zo This whole world doesn't look all that new. The first teaser for Disney's live action remake of Aladdin just dropped and...it's mostly animated?! It's pretty lame, really, what passes for "live action" today in our digitally-overloaded blockbusters. In this first look, the only thing that looks real is the brief glimpse of Aladdin himself, [...]
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