**** out of **** Rated PG (for language, thematic elements, some suggestive content, and brief smoking images) Released: June 28, 2019 limited; expands in August Runtime: 97 minutes Directed by: Alex Holmes Starring: Tracy Edwards, Jo Gooding, Sally Creaser Hunter, Tanja Visser, Marie-Claude Kieffer Heys, Dawn Riley, Michele Paret, Jeni Mundy, Nancy Harris It’s amazing [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjFOkCKb3g For anyone already cobbling together their must-see list for the upcoming Awards Season, a slot has to be made for Pain And Glory, the Spanish-language film from writer/director Pedro Almodóvar. The legendary auteur reunites with Antonio Banderas (whose collaborations first began back in the late 1980s) in a film that is blatantly semi-autobiographical. Banderas plays [...]
Episode 22 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-22 Hobbs & Shaw, @ 0:57 Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, @ 6:26 "Gender & Race in the Tarantino Universe" (discussion), @23:30 Outro / Contact Info, @ 31:27 On this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and I look at two different [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for prolonged sequences of action and violence, suggestive material, and some strong language) Released: August 2, 2019 Runtime: 135 minutes Directed by: David Leitch Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Vanessa Kirby, Idris Elba, Helen Mirren, Eiza Gonzalez, Eddie Marsen, Eliana Sua, Cliff Curtis, Lori Pelenise Tuisano As instantly [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=cF76gm9PdOs I was mixed on aspects of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, but not with any of the characters. The central performances are particularly strong, especially Leonardo DiCaprio's as Rick Dalton, a fading TV Western star caught in the crosshairs of Tinseltown's transition from heroes to anti-heroes at the dawn of the 1970s. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcmZN0Mbl04 The Great War isn't explored in as many films as is the bigger war that followed it; that makes director Sam Mendes' 1917 intriguing enough. The scale on which it's produced (as seen in this first trailer) piques that interest even more. The war picture has a quasi-Saving Private Ryan premise to it, but [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Expe7hf6MU Martin Scorsese has one big mob movie left in him, and now we have our first full look at it in this new trailer -- complete with glimpses at the de-aging digital technology that allows stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci to appear decades younger. The Irishman is the true story [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyag7lR8CPA I've recently lamented the carbon copy nature of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood. That take, I'll acknowledge, is a minority opinion, but when I see a trailer like this, well, this is the kind of daring, original auteurism I'm holding out for. The Lighthouse is the sophmore film from writer / director [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated R (for sequences of violence and peril, and some thematic elements) Released: July 26, 2019 Runtime: 161 minutes Directed by: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley, Al Pacino, Julia Butters, Emile Hirsch, Austin Butler, Maya Hawke, Madisen Beaty, Timothy Olyphant, Mike Moh, Dakota Fanning, Bruce [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEQTGlZZhAo The premise of Gemini Man initially felt a bit too high concept for its own good, and the initial trailer essentially reinforced that feeling; despite being helmed by two-time Oscar winning director Ang Lee (Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain), the first impression that this would be another slick studio fall release but little else. [...]
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