First, there was a teaser trailer that didn't really give us any new footage. Then there were the first look photos that finally did. Now, Focus Features drops four new character posters to keep the Downton Abbey movie morsels coming for Anglophile obsessives of the franchise. A couple from upstairs. A couple from downstairs. And a bonus [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=zTGdTEHvRoc Want to see more of the same trailer footage intercut with some new cast soundbites? Welp, here you go. Oh -- plus some new character posters, too (see below, in "The Dusted" and "The Survivors" galleries). And for what it's worth, both Gamora and Loki are in the "Dusted" posters, despite the fact that [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTtJjV852c "Indiana Jones for kids" meets "Nickelodeon school comedy". That's basically the mash-up for the first live-action adaptation of the popular kids animated series Dora The Explorer. Starring Isabela Moner (the lone standout from Transformers: The Last Knight) in the title role, Dora and the Lost City of Gold takes Dora, her parents (played by Eva [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated R (for violence/terror and strong language) Released: March 22, 2019 Runtime: 114 minutes Directed by: Jordan Peele Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Madison Curry, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop (SPOILER CAUTION: While no plot details are divulged beyond what's been revealed in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5sd_wn2ztg FilmStruck is dead. Long live The Criterion Channel. In the wake of last fall's shocking demise of FilmStruck (the now-defunct streaming service collaboration between Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Collection, which was shut down in a total blindside to subscribers when the new conglomerate Warner Media was formed), The Criterion Collection wasted no [...]
Twenty years ago (when the Academy Awards were still in late March), one of the biggest Oscar upsets of all time went down in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture. In this feature story for Collider, I make the case for why the Academy got it right. [...]
A. O. Scott has been a film critic for the New York Times since 2000, and chief film critic since 2004. One of the most influential and widely-read film writers of our time, he's also written the book "Better Living Through Criticism", a defense for living critically. It's not only a philosophy of how to [...]
(see full image below) Happy Birthday, Mr. Rogers. To celebrate what would've been Fred Rogers' 91st birthday on March 20, the makers of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood -- the upcoming film starring Tom Hanks as the beloved PBS children's show host -- released a new image from the film, with Hanks striking the iconic [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf8nIJCvs4 Groovy, baby. It's hard to imagine a movie being "more" Quentin Tarantino than his 9th one, Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood. It has everything he geeks over: movie sets, movie stars, a hip retro soundtrack and the styles to go with it, some kung fu fighting, and that turn-of-the-mid-century era when Old Hollywood was transitioning [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=wmiIUN-7qhE New toy gets lost from home, rescue adventure ensues, old loyal toys become tempted by a life beyond the toybox, only to realize that one's purpose is to bring joy to a child. Well this feels familiar, doesn't it. That's because you've seen Toy Story 2. While not ripping off that movie wholesale, Toy [...]
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