Released: February 8, 2019 Runtime: 105 minutes Program: Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts for 2018 (Parental Discretion strongly advised; not suitable for children) During every Oscar ceremony, there’s a stretch of categories with nominees that virtually no one has ever heard of, let alone seen: the shorts. Divided into three competitive groups – Live Action, Animated, and Documentary – [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated TV-MA (for strong language, some sexuality) Released: February 8, 2019, on Netflix Runtime: 90 minutes Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Andre Holland, Zazie Beetz, Melvin Gregg, Bill Duke, Jeryl Prescott, Sonja Sohn, Kyle MacLachlan, Zachary Quinto My review of High Flying Bird, for The Tulsa Voice. The latest film from director Steven Soderbergh (Erin [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=106&v=IBz7FUlZPXI Previous trailers for the live action Dumbo movie (this one and this one) have definintely felt like a Disney movie, but the new international trailer really feels like a Tim Burton movie -- not in a dark way, but more like a "sentimental sympathy for the freakish outcasts" Edward Scissorhands kind of way. Dumbo opens [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=213&v=B6uuIHpFkuo Pixar's new endeavor makes two bold statements with its debut. The first is the endeavor itself: SparkShorts, a new animated division from the legendary studio that allows for (as they describe it in the video below) "indie filmmaking inside of Pixar." With a limited time and budget, animators within their team will be allowed [...]
We may now know who's going to win the Academy Award for Best Director, but the Best Picture race is more wide open than ever. Capping a pre-Oscar awards run of near dominance, Alfonso Cuarón was named the year's best director for Roma by the Directors Guild of America. This follows a slew of wins for Cuarón [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=9SA7FaKxZVI Mission: Impossible - Odd Couple. As this first trailer for the Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw opens with Fallout's Vanessa Kirby, you wouldn't fault an M:I fan for briefly getting their hopes up that this was another Ethan Hunt adventure. (The marketers, no doubt, were strategically playing off of Kirby's association with [...]
A lot of people can't wait to see Avengers: Endgame. What they wouldn't give to see an early cut of Star Wars: Episode IX. For me, this is the movie I want to see right now. As first reported by Deadline, lauded indie filmmaker Chloé Zhao is writing and directing a biopic about Bass Reeves, [...]
Well that didn't help. That's what Oscar prognosticators were thinking when Emily Blunt won the Female Supporting Actor Award for A Quiet Place. In doing so, she became only the second winner in the 25 year history of the Screen Actors Guild Awards to not even be nominated for an Oscar in the same category. [...]
I'm hip to this jive. Sony Pictures has released more images (below) for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; they follow the initial Pitt-DiCaprio debut photo. It's the ninth feature-length film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino, and his first without now-shamed (and indicted) producer Harvey Weinstein. Details of the plot are still vague, other than the [...]
Episode 17 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-17 Top 10 Lists, 10 to 6, @ 1:11 Glass, @ 22:17 Burning, @ 33:45 Top 10 Lists, 5 to 1, @ 37:57 Outro, @ 01:02:23 On this first episode for 2019 of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and Jeff reveal their choices [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 