https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXkOTJBtvU With just a little over two weeks left before the new Lion King finally debuts, Disney has released this new featurette with cast and director interviews that also reveals new never-before-seen footage from the live action remake. In addition, Cast-Character portraits were released (see below), each one framing the various voice actors with their [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence, some language, and brief suggestive comments) Released: July 2, 2019 Runtime: 130 minutes Directed by: Jon Watts Starring: Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya, Jon Favreau, Jacob Batalon, Samuel L. Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Cobie Smulders, Tony Revolori, JB Smoove On the heels of the two-part Infinity / Endgame epic finale, with [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=qGqiHJTsRkQ Rian Johnson did it, with the all-star cast in the movie theater. That's the reveal in this first trailer for Knives Out, Johnson's follow-up to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The writer/director of such critically-acclaimed films as Looper and Brick has returned to his own new material, this time in a classicly-styled Agatha Christie-ish murder mystery [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBxcF-r9Ibs&feature=share In Christmas 2017, the Jumanji reboot Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was one of the bigger surprises to come out of Hollywood recently, especially as it blew up at the box office even while Star Wars: The Last Jedi dominating screen space. Whenever you can go toe-to-toe with a property of that size, you've [...]
Thirty years on, Do The Right Thing still wields the power to up your wake. Set on the hottest day of the year in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, Spike Lee’s third feature film incited a cultural riot. Major newspapers warned that the new, inflammatory movie about racial tensions – which debuted on June 30, 1989, in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b736ZM_KfEk Absolute insanity. This is exactly the level of slick, choreographed, physics-defying ridiculousness that I want from a Fast & Furious movie, driven by the best, most entertaining oil & water tandem in the franchise -- Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham -- with Idris Elba and Mission: Impossible's Vanessa Kirby along for the crazy. Hobbs [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7eN5iloyk Roland Emmerich is returning to a battle in the skies, but instead of sci-fi space invaders he's jumping back to America's counter attack to Pearl Harbor. Using the same title as the 1976 film about the same event, Midway uses the latest digital effects to depict the harrowing action of warfare in the decisive [...]
Small movies are getting buried at the box office. Theaters are dead. Netflix is the future. This is the conventional wisdom. And this summer, the box office slide for small films is particularly alarming. Right now, things look more dire than ever for independent cinema. Netflix, however, is not the savior, nor is the instant [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkO0Shirl8 The latest James Bond film has seemingly been a mission impossible, but now the first sneak peak of it shows that while 007 may have been down, he's not out. The still untitled Bond 25 has been shaken and stirred by numerous setbacks and challenges, most recently an ankle injury suffered on-set by star [...]
A quarter-century ago, The Lion King cemented Walt Disney Studio's comeback and, along with it, animation's place as an enduring blockbuster genre. But now, with the strategically timed live-action remake looming so largely on the horizon, it’s virtually impossible to reflect on The Lion King’s 25th Anniversary without drawing direct comparisons to the forthcoming remake. Walt [...]
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