You could be off to see the wizard in a way that no one has before. In celebration of the classic film's 80th Anniversary, AMC Theatres is screening The Wizard of Oz nationwide in its exclusive Dolby Atmos experience. Most showings will be afternoon matinees, along with some evening options., from Friday October 25 to Wednesday [...]
**** out of **** Rated R (for sexual content, nudity, violence, disturbing images, and some language) Released: October 18, 2019 limited; October 25 expands Runtime: 109 minutes Directed by: Robert Eggers Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman Controversy erupted recently when Martin Scorsese deigned to characterize Marvel movies as theme park rides. Of the twenty-plus film [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn_spdM5Zg This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the debut of the final Rise of Skywalker trailer, and we will soon see the end of the entire Skywalker saga. Over forty years in the making, spanning three trilogies and augmented by various and sundry canonical supplements across multiple mediums and platforms, the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK19jmrtWUM Throughout the fall film festival circuit, universal raves have followed Marriage Story and its two lead performances by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, The Meyerowitz Stories, Frances Ha), it follows the breakup of a husband and wife who are on opposite coasts, with [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7TlaXDPrg What gives "the happiest place on earth" its magic? We're about to find out, directly from the source. Disney World / Disneyland is about to take us behind the curtain to show us how the magic is made. The Disney+ documentary The Imagineering Story will give us a backstage pass to the biggest attractions [...]
** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for violence and action throughout, and brief strong language) Released: October 11, 2019 Runtime: 117 minutes Directed by: Ang Lee Starring: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Ralph Brown My review of Gemini Man, for The Tulsa Voice. Will Smith stars (and plays both roles) as an aging government [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8miCh30GcGU I hear the sleighbells echoing tonight...because it's Christmas in Africa! Holiday in the Wild will launch Netflix's seasonal offerings for 2019, and the trailer (above) plus the exclusive Entertainment Weekly images (below) sure lay down a marker on what Hallmark, Lifetime, and other networks have to compete with. Boasting a bigger budget and scale [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBnkBIhoFE Fair and balanced? Not so much. But definitely unafraid. Gauging by this first trailer for Bombshell (a.k.a. the Fox News exposé about how anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly brought down Fox honcho Roger Ailes), subtle and thought-provoking it ain't. Sure, a movie need not be agnostic in its point of view, even when [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NtWb4WX20 This looks exactly like the type of straight-to-streaming effort that Disney+ should be all about. Rather than investing hundreds of millions of dollars to "realistically" update animal-driven classics from the Disney vault on the level of The Lion King , the live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp employs the approach from a simpler time: [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0FRDaHnITI Well, that's one way to tell the world what's in store -- if you have over three hours, that is. Disney+ has posted a video equal to the run-time of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, a massive preview for every movie, TV series, and special that will be a part of [...]
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