https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Cz1XhQiVGCc And just like -- *snap* -- that, these scenes are much more powerful. YouTuber dimitreze has synced together the disintegration scenes from Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the Wasp. For me, in their normal context, they lacked the power that Marvel was going for (largely because we knew, even as they occurred, that [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5knnlF7Zo This whole world doesn't look all that new. The first teaser for Disney's live action remake of Aladdin just dropped and...it's mostly animated?! It's pretty lame, really, what passes for "live action" today in our digitally-overloaded blockbusters. In this first look, the only thing that looks real is the brief glimpse of Aladdin himself, [...]
Tom Cruise is satisfying his need for speed once again. Photos from the set of Top Gun: Maverick -- the long-awaited sequel, now filming -- have popped up online. It's a series of snapshots with Cruise riding around as Maverick on a motorbike (Mav's preferred land-bound wheels of choice). These unofficial pics will have to tied [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=162&v=Q7ztHi9ejp4 Gaga is far from the shallow now, and Glass is about to be out of the shadows. In the latest trailer for Glass, the final film in the Unbreakable trilogy that we never knew we'd get until that cool twist at the end of 2016's Split, Mr. Glass and The Beast are unleashed. It's exciting [...]
I will show you the...lamp? It's a whole new world for Aladdin as its live action Disney adaptation is currently being filmed. But this first one sheet teaser poster - dropped online by Will Smith via his Instagram account - does little to reveal what we'll be in for when the film opens next summer. It [...]
** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for some thematic content involving peril, and brief strong language) Released: October 12, 2018 Runtime: 141 minutes Directed by: Damien Chazelle Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Kyle Chandler, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Clarke, Corey Stoll, Shea Whigham, Patrick Fugit, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Pablo Schreiber If someone asked me to recommend [...]
About a month out from release, the requisite character posters have finally been unveiled for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Rather than individual one-sheets, the marketing department has paired up the key wizards and muggles. FB2 opens on November 16, 2018. Click on any poster for larger image gallery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Dw1_ekznc Most big budget movies -- ones based on comic books especially -- are notoriously secretive, clamping down on leaked footage or images so as to carefully control the marketing roll out and public perception. But like their movie's title character, the producers of Joker seem to be taking an opposite, downright anarchistic approach. Set photos [...]
*1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for (brief strong) language) Released: October 5, 2018 Runtime: 112 minutes Directed by: Reuben Fleischer Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate, Peggy Lu The Lady Gaga fan-trolls were right: this movie is awful. Loud, hyper, grotesque, and utterly [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=315&v=WaWnLiffxJ4 Spoiler alert? The latest promotional push for the DCEU (if that's even a thing anymore) is a five-minute extended look at Aquaman. It works as a de facto summary of the plot and premise, with lots of visual teases of the VFX spectacle and action sequences (a rooftop chase plays like a live action [...]
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