***1/2 out of **** Rated PG (for peril/action, some thematic elements, and brief mild language) Released: March 29, 2019 Runtime: 112 minutes Directed by: Tim Burton Starring: Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Nico Parker, Finley Hobbins, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Alan Arkin, Joseph Gatt, Douglas Reith, Roshan Seth, Deobia Oparei, Sharon Rooney There are right ways and wrong [...]
Double, double, toil and trouble: Denzel Washington is going to be in a Coen movie. And it's going to be Shakespeare. Yes, that's right, a Coen movie -- not a Coen Brothers movie. Joel Coen will direct his screenplay adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Washington in the title role as a Scottish lord who looks [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=yHzJSvVGn8k New monster-mash clips in the latest spot for Godzilla: King of the Monsters -- set to an epic version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" -- tease more from what looks to be a no-holds-barred creature feature spectacle. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, and Kyle Chandler in a cast that also includes Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, [...]
First, there was a teaser trailer that didn't really give us any new footage. Then there were the first look photos that finally did. Now, Focus Features drops four new character posters to keep the Downton Abbey movie morsels coming for Anglophile obsessives of the franchise. A couple from upstairs. A couple from downstairs. And a bonus [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=zTGdTEHvRoc Want to see more of the same trailer footage intercut with some new cast soundbites? Welp, here you go. Oh -- plus some new character posters, too (see below, in "The Dusted" and "The Survivors" galleries). And for what it's worth, both Gamora and Loki are in the "Dusted" posters, despite the fact that [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTtJjV852c "Indiana Jones for kids" meets "Nickelodeon school comedy". That's basically the mash-up for the first live-action adaptation of the popular kids animated series Dora The Explorer. Starring Isabela Moner (the lone standout from Transformers: The Last Knight) in the title role, Dora and the Lost City of Gold takes Dora, her parents (played by Eva [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for violence/terror and strong language) Released: March 22, 2019 Runtime: 114 minutes Directed by: Jordan Peele Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Madison Curry, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop (SPOILER CAUTION: While no plot details are divulged beyond what's been revealed in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5sd_wn2ztg FilmStruck is dead. Long live The Criterion Channel. In the wake of last fall's shocking demise of FilmStruck (the now-defunct streaming service collaboration between Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Collection, which was shut down in a total blindside to subscribers when the new conglomerate Warner Media was formed), The Criterion Collection wasted no [...]
Twenty years ago (when the Academy Awards were still in late March), one of the biggest Oscar upsets of all time went down in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture. In this feature story for Collider, I make the case for why the Academy got it right. [...]
A. O. Scott has been a film critic for the New York Times since 2000, and chief film critic since 2004. One of the most influential and widely-read film writers of our time, he's also written the book "Better Living Through Criticism", a defense for living critically. It's not only a philosophy of how to [...]