For the final 2018 issue of The Tulsa Voice, my fellow film critic Charles Elmore and I look back on the year in film. This is a conversation, not Top 10 Lists, as we reflect on what defined the cinematic experience of 2018, citing a wide variety of movies - both big and small - [...]
Episode 16 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-16-xmas-xtravaganza If Beale Street Could Talk, @ 0:56 Vice, @ 20:23 Outro, @ 30:33 The Mule, @ 32:08 On this holiday episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, we look at new Oscar contenders from previous Academy Award winners. You can download it on [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for some language) Released: December 21, 2018 Runtime: 143 minutes Directed by: James Wan Starring: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, Michael Beach, Randall Park The latest attempt to set the [...]
The first teaser didn't give us much, but these photos do. Entertainment Weekly has debuted the first look photos of the Downton Abbey movie. They're only a handful of shots but, at long last, it's exciting for all Downton fans to see these beloved characters, both upstairs and down, together again. Downton Abbey the movie -- [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for some violence and sexuality) Released: December 7, 2018 NY/LA; December 21 expands Runtime: 124 minutes Directed by: Josie Rourke Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, James McArdle, Guy Pearce, David Tennant, Adrian Lester, Martin Compston, Adam Bond, Joe Alwyn, Gemma Chan Cate Blanchett’s Queen Elizabeth casts a long [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=BV-WEb2oxLk A Men In Black reboot feels like the movie that no one asked for, and nothing about this first trailer for Men In Black: International screams "the movie I didn't know we needed." But who cares? I mean, Thor: Ragnarok duo Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson doing cool sci-fi spy stuff? Sure, I'm game. That could [...]
** out of **** Rated R (for strong language and some violent images) Released: December 25, 2018 Runtime: 132 minutes Directed by: Adam McKay Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk Having Vice shoved down your throat makes one long for the subtleties of an Oliver Stone political [...]
They're not bad either. Looking pretty much exactly as you'd expect, the first official photos of Disney's live-action Aladdin remake debuted on Entertainment Weekly, complete with a cover story. And they're fine. Displaying the kind of high dollar gloss of Hollywood mediocrity, these images don't inspire much -- either awe or anger. The real first [...]
Episode 15 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-15 Roma, @ 0:59 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, @ 27:20 The Favourite, @ 37:57 Outro, @ 52:00 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, we stream, we swing, and we sting as we discuss three separate year-end Oscar contenders. You can download [...]
Boston Critics like to go their own way. Marking themselves as perhaps the artiest of critics groups, the Boston Society of Film Critics became the first to name If Beale Street Could Talk the Best Film of 2018. The 1970s elegaic racial drama from director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) is a lush piece of classical filmmaking, [...]