https://vimeo.com/290918671 The sudden death of Kobe Bryant has reverberated across several cultural platforms, far beyond the arena of basketball where the man became an icon. Bryant, a 5-time NBA Champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and one of the greatest players in the history of the game, died Sunday morning January 26, 2020 when a [...]
The last major Awards Season card has been played, and it's predicting that 1917 is the movie to beat come Oscar night. After taken home Picture and Directing honors at the Golden Globes, then the top prize at the Producers Guild of America (a Best Picture equivalent), the Directors Guild of America named Sam Mendes [...]
**** out of **** Rated R (for strong language, some violence and sexual content) Released: November 8, 2019 Runtime: 132 minutes Directed by: Bong Joon-ho Starring: Song Kang-ho, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik, Park So-dam, Lee Sun-kyun, Jang Hye-jin, Lee Jeong-eun, Jung Ji-so Think of this as a Jordan Peele movie for South Korea. In the same spirit [...]
Any lingering doubts about the validity of the leaked screenplay for Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars: Duel of the Fates (i.e. the original draft for Episode IX) can finally be put to rest with this latest online bombshell: concept art for Trevorrow's never-produced vision. In 20 amazing images (posted on the internet sharing community Imgur.com), we [...]
It’s David Lynch’s birthday but he’s the one giving away a present. On the day he turned 74, the singularly offbeat director of films like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet (as well as TV’s Twin Peaks) dropped a new short film online via Netflix: What Did Jack Do?. This 17-minute avant-garde two-hander is set in [...]
As predictable as a Hollywood formula, the Screen Actors Guild handed out acting awards to the presumptive favorites in four individual categories, and a leading Best Picture contender from their five cast nominees. Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Laura Dern and Brad Pitt all won their respective awards in leading and supporting categories, just as they [...]
We officially have our Oscar frontrunner for Best Picture. In the 30 years of the Producers Guild of America Awards, 21 of their winners have gone on to grab the Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards, including 8 of the last 10. This year, director Sam Mendes' "one shot" World War I epic 1917 was [...]
It was bound to happen: the screenplay for Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s version of Star Wars: Episode IX has leaked. And it's true. All of it. A full draft of the script is nowhere to be downloaded (yet), but between the Reddit postings about its contents as well as other accountings by others who’ve gotten their hands on a [...]
https://vimeo.com/382811408 The Safdie Brothers have cut another gem with Adam Sandler. Released on the heels of their critically-acclaimed collaboration Uncut Gems, NYC writer/director siblings Josh and Benny Safdie have dropped a bonus short film online that they made with Uncut star Adam Sandler. It has nothing to do with that intense feature-length drama they made [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-lElIlZM0 Martin Scorsese's The Irishman is among the year's big Oscar heavyweights, having just scored 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. One of the categories it's a contender in (and favored to win) is Best Visual Effects, for the groundbreaking digital de-aging by Industrial Light & Magic. In this extended 13-minute featurette, Scorsese and his [...]