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 [...]
The theaters are closed, but the 2020 Summer Movie Season is just beginning… Welcome to Week 2 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 [...]
First, Universal Studios ticked off AMC. Now, Justin Timberlake is mad, too. Following the straight-to-PVOD success of NBCUniversal's Trolls World Tour (PVOD = Premium Video On Demand), making $100 million in its first three weeks of at-home play, the studio announced that they would start to release more first-run movies to the PVOD platform, bypassing theaters [...]
Ready Player One (2018) Rated PG-13 (for sequence of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity, and language) Released: March 29, 2018 Runtime: 140 minutes Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen Available to rent through Amazon [...]
The Post (2017) Rated PG-13 (for language and brief war violence) Released: December 22, 2017 Runtime: 115 minutes Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Sarah Paulson, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons Available to rent through Amazon Video, iTunes, and most VOD platforms. Day 34 of “30-Plus [...]
In the age of the Coronavirus, what's old is new again. At least when it comes to our entertainment options. With all of Hollywood on pause along with the rest of us, original content is at a minimum. As a result, content providers are having to dig deep into their archives. One thing that always [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 