Thirty years on, Do The Right Thing still wields the power to up your wake. Set on the hottest day of the year in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, Spike Lee’s third feature film incited a cultural riot. Major newspapers warned that the new, inflammatory movie about racial tensions – which debuted on June 30, 1989, in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b736ZM_KfEk Absolute insanity. This is exactly the level of slick, choreographed, physics-defying ridiculousness that I want from a Fast & Furious movie, driven by the best, most entertaining oil & water tandem in the franchise -- Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham -- with Idris Elba and Mission: Impossible's Vanessa Kirby along for the crazy. Hobbs [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7eN5iloyk Roland Emmerich is returning to a battle in the skies, but instead of sci-fi space invaders he's jumping back to America's counter attack to Pearl Harbor. Using the same title as the 1976 film about the same event, Midway uses the latest digital effects to depict the harrowing action of warfare in the decisive [...]
Small movies are getting buried at the box office. Theaters are dead. Netflix is the future. This is the conventional wisdom. And this summer, the box office slide for small films is particularly alarming. Right now, things look more dire than ever for independent cinema. Netflix, however, is not the savior, nor is the instant [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkO0Shirl8 The latest James Bond film has seemingly been a mission impossible, but now the first sneak peak of it shows that while 007 may have been down, he's not out. The still untitled Bond 25 has been shaken and stirred by numerous setbacks and challenges, most recently an ankle injury suffered on-set by star [...]
A quarter-century ago, The Lion King cemented Walt Disney Studio's comeback and, along with it, animation's place as an enduring blockbuster genre. But now, with the strategically timed live-action remake looming so largely on the horizon, it’s virtually impossible to reflect on The Lion King’s 25th Anniversary without drawing direct comparisons to the forthcoming remake. Walt [...]
Batman debuted 30 years ago on June 23, 1989, and no film has had a bigger, more indelible impact on movies since. When you look at the superhero dominated landscape of movies today, sure, it’s Marvel that you can thank (or blame). But what Marvel’s been able to achieve never would’ve been possible without Tim Burton’s [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaJ6Ir_H2xI Another Lion King ad, another confirmation that Disney plans on giving us the exact same movie from 25 years ago but simply in a different form. Playing again in a virtual shot-for-shot (and note-for-note) duplication, the visuals of this TV ad focus on Mufasa mentoring Simba at key moments while we hear Beyoncé Knowles-Carter [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP86-TR6IME Just when I think I may have over-gushed about the original Trolls in my 3 1/2 star review, this sequel trailer comes out in all of its vibrant glory and I stop questioning my initial instincts. Like the funtastic DreamWorks hit before it, Trolls World Tour boasts a level of visual splendor and detail [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated G (for general audiences) Released: June 21, 2019 Runtime: 100 minutes Directed by: Josh Cooley Starring (the voices of): Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Blake Clark, Kristen Schaal, Madeleine McGraw, Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Hunt, Jeff [...]