** out of **** Rated R (for some violence, language, and disturbing images) Released: March 1, 2019 Runtime: 98 minutes Directed by: Neil Jordan Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, Jeff Hiller, Stephen Rea My review of Greta, for The Tulsa Voice. This indie thriller from director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) stars Isabelle Huppert [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ1vn85iQRE Nothing like bragging about the new nerd language you invented to woo your lady fair. Such is the swagger of J.R.R. Tolkien in the opening moments of the new trailer for Tolkien, the upcoming biopic about the legendary author's young life. Nicholas Hoult plays the writer in a movie that will focus on his [...]
Steven Spielberg hasn’t even addressed the Academy yet, but Film Twitter isn't waiting to render its own verdict. Things have gotten so heated, it's even garnered its own trending hashtag: #SpielbergVSNetflix. Ever since it was reported that the iconic director of enduring blockbusters and Oscar-winning classics was going to speak to the Academy board about [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6O1aYoj0k Honest to God, every new trailer or preview for Disney's live-action Dumbo is even better than the last. This latest 2-minute behind-the-scenes promo is no different. The remake from Tim Burton has definitely become my most anticipated "Disney vault redux" for 2019 (yes, more than Aladdin or The Lion King). Thankfully we'll get it [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=67&v=Y5I4TA0yhr4 It's the latest trailer for...Captain Sparkle Fingers? This looks so much fun, not simply because it's funny but because it really seems like it has such a confident self-awareness of what it wants to be. Shazam! opens on April 5, 2019.
Streaming is TV. You can distill Steven Spielberg's opposition to Netflix competing for Academy Awards down to those three words. (Full disclosure: I'm #TeamSpielberg on this one.) Spielberg is about to make an official argument to the board of the Academy, the film industry org that produces the Oscars, that rules of eligibility should change. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=110&v=3uxOvXM7eBc It's the trailer you've seen before, but more of it. Marvel's "new" trailer release of Avengers: Endgame is simply a side-by-side of the first one (which is framed in the standard aspect ratio that you'll see in regular movie theaters) with an IMAX-enhanced version to its right. It certainly does an effective job of how [...]
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