For the first time in its history, Netflix is officially on the board as a major Oscar contender. Their 1970s Mexico-set Spanish language drama Roma -- from Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) -- was named Best Film of 2018 by the New York Film Critics Circle. Cuarón also won for Best Director and Best Cinematography; [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for some action and rude humor) Released: November 22, 2018 Runtime: 112 minutes Directed by: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore Starring (the voices of): John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Ed O’Neill I have a genuine soft-spot for Wreck-It Ralph, not [...]
The 2018 Oscar Race has begun, and green catches the first gold. The National Board of Review was the first (in what will be a long line of year-end critics groups) to announce its annual choices for the best achievements in filmmaking, naming Green Book the Best Film of 2018. In addition, the Board also published [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=4CbLXeGSDxg Everything the light touches looks very familiar. In the first teaser for The Lion King live-action (so-called) remake, we see director Jon Favreau's digitally rendered version of the "Circle of Life" opener, done in the photo-real style he mastered to acclaim in Disney's live-action The Jungle Book. But unlike that movie, or Disney's Cinderella [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for language and strong violence) Released: November 16, 2018 Runtime: 132 minutes Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Harry Melling, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, Bill Heck, Grainger Hines, Tyne Daily, Brendan Gleeson, Jonjo O'Neill, Saul Rubineck, Chelcie Ross Streaming on Netflix My review [...]
Episode 14 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/episode-14-the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, @ 0:46 Suspiria, @ 11:25 Beautiful Boy / Can You Ever Forgive Me?, @ 22:34 Widows / Bohemian Rhapsody, @ 29:06 Wildlife, @ 36:33 Outro, @ 47:06 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and I [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for thematic content, language including racial epithets, brief strong language, smoking, some violence, and suggestive material) Released: November 21, 2018 Runtime: 130 minutes Directed by: Peter Farrelly Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov It’s nice to see a studio make the kind of movie [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=cksYkEzUa7k The blocks assemble once more and everything is awesome. The hilarious new trailer for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part promises a sequel with no drop-off whatsoever in the wit, style, and ingenuity of the first. Set five years later, it follows the heroes of Bricksburg in their fight against the invadine LEGO [...]
CAUTION: I solemnly swear that I am up to spoilers here. The Muggle world has been split asunder by none other than their leader herself, J.K. Rowling. The cliffhanger she dropped on the collective Potterverse at the end of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is exactly the kind of love-it-or-hate-it move that sends uberfans [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of fantasy action) Released: November 16, 2018 Runtime: 134 minutes Directed by: David Yates Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Jude Law, Jacob Kowalski, Allison Sudol, Callum Turner, William Nadylam, Claudia Kim, Carmen Ejogo What?! That’s the question Harry Potter fans will be [...]