https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=213&v=B6uuIHpFkuo Pixar's new endeavor makes two bold statements with its debut. The first is the endeavor itself: SparkShorts, a new animated division from the legendary studio that allows for (as they describe it in the video below) "indie filmmaking inside of Pixar." With a limited time and budget, animators within their team will be allowed [...]
We may now know who's going to win the Academy Award for Best Director, but the Best Picture race is more wide open than ever. Capping a pre-Oscar awards run of near dominance, Alfonso Cuarón was named the year's best director for Roma by the Directors Guild of America. This follows a slew of wins for Cuarón [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=9SA7FaKxZVI Mission: Impossible - Odd Couple. As this first trailer for the Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw opens with Fallout's Vanessa Kirby, you wouldn't fault an M:I fan for briefly getting their hopes up that this was another Ethan Hunt adventure. (The marketers, no doubt, were strategically playing off of Kirby's association with [...]
A lot of people can't wait to see Avengers: Endgame. What they wouldn't give to see an early cut of Star Wars: Episode IX. For me, this is the movie I want to see right now. As first reported by Deadline, lauded indie filmmaker Chloé Zhao is writing and directing a biopic about Bass Reeves, [...]
Well that didn't help. That's what Oscar prognosticators were thinking when Emily Blunt won the Female Supporting Actor Award for A Quiet Place. In doing so, she became only the second winner in the 25 year history of the Screen Actors Guild Awards to not even be nominated for an Oscar in the same category. [...]
I'm hip to this jive. Sony Pictures has released more images (below) for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; they follow the initial Pitt-DiCaprio debut photo. It's the ninth feature-length film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino, and his first without now-shamed (and indicted) producer Harvey Weinstein. Details of the plot are still vague, other than the [...]
Episode 17 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-17 Top 10 Lists, 10 to 6, @ 1:11 Glass, @ 22:17 Burning, @ 33:45 Top 10 Lists, 5 to 1, @ 37:57 Outro, @ 01:02:23 On this first episode for 2019 of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and Jeff reveal their choices [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iL1K_l8Jyo I often hear or read fans of Steven Soderbergh -- ones who genuinely love his movies but also love the aesthetic of film and/or high-end digital cameras -- ask why he keeps shooting on an iPhone. There's a disatisfaction rooted in that question and, to be frank, it's one I share. But the answer is abundantly, [...]
Big surprises and big snubs, all in really big categories. That's what defined the nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards. Leading the pack with 10 nominations was (unsurprisingly) the period piece / acting showcase / dark satire The Favourite and director Alfonso Cuarón's personal passion project Roma. To get to 10, Cuarón's Mexican-language film set in [...]
For the Oscar nerds out there, here are my predictions of who and what the Academy will nominate on Tuesday morning for their 91st Annual Awards. I'm predicting nominees in all categories but three (Live Action Short, Animated Short, and Documentary Short). For Best Picture, Academy rules state that there can be "up to 10" nominees, but 10 [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 