The first month of the Summer Movie season comes to a close with most movie theaters still closed along with it…but there remain plenty of actual movies to choose from! Welcome to Week 5 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I will be curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, [...]
They may take our theaters, but they’ll never take…our movies! Welcome to Week 4 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I’m curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies. But now, instead of new options for the multiplex, they’re classic ones for your [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihU&t= It's not time travel. It's inversion. To put it in practical terms, it's like what John David Washington's agent is told: "You're not shooting the bullet. You're catching it." Whoa. That's about as close as I can come to describing what Tenet is about -- and I wouldn't have it any other way. The [...]
The Snyder Cut is real. All of it. And it's about to be released. Long rumored but consistently dismissed by the studio as being true, there is indeed a complete version of director Zack Snyder's 2017 DC Universe blockbuster Justice League, the DCEU mega-tentpole follow-up to Batman V Superman. After suffering a family tragedy during [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzxu26-Wqk Tom Hanks is back in World War II, but this time he'll be fighting by sea rather than by land. And rather than the action exploding on the big screen, now it will stream straight to the small. Originally, Sony Pictures had slated Greyhound for a Father's Day weekend release in June. But now, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdW6BBF22AY Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are bringing Nordic Glam Rock to Netflix -- and it's real. Kind of. Okay, it's totally fake, but Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is based on an actual Scandinavian competition that takes place annually (you can check out their YouTube page here). With this year's event [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RDTPfsLAI&feature=emb_logo Spike Lee is a filmmaker to be reckoned with, and Da 5 Bloods looks like a reckoning. As the follow-up to Lee's Academy Award-winning BlacKkKlansman, Da 5 Bloods is the fictional tale of four African-American veterans who return to Vietnam to gather the remains of their platoon leader. The slain commander's son joins them. [...]
The Summer Movie Season isn’t closed, it’s just…different. Welcome to Week 3 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I’m curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies. But now, instead of new options for the multiplex, they’re classic ones for your personal home [...]
Are you not entertained? Russell Crowe is about to ask (and answer?) that question again when Unhinged opens in movie theaters on July 1, 2020. Originally slated for a Labor Day weekend release, the indie thriller's new distributor Solstice Studios saw a way to raise its profile: release the first new movie when many theaters [...]
Empire Online has posted a new image from director Denis Villeneuve's adaption of Frank Herbert's landmark sci-fi novel Dune. It's pretty much what you expect, with stars Josh Brolin (Gurney Halleck) and Timothée Chalamet (Paul Atreides) in an action pose. (See full image below.) You can see previously released images here in this Vanity Fair [...]