Now this is game changer. Or is it? In the wake of the national shutdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, a.k.a. the Coronavirus, Universal Studios announced that they will forego an exclusive theatrical release for their new animated sequel Trolls World Tour on April 10 and, in addition, make it available for Video-On-Demand rental [...]
(Watch on Amazon Prime) We've reached that point in movie history where, in the 2020s, we're about to hit the first consistent string of major 100th Anniversaries. That starts with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which was released in Germany on February 26, 1920. Prior to that year, Silent Film was largely driven by short [...]
We may not have witnessed the biggest upset in Oscar history (that still goes to 2016’s Moonlight), but the 92nd annual ceremony ended with what was arguably the Academy Awards' biggest breakthrough. Right there with Kathryn Bigelow’s glass-ceiling shattering first female win for Best Director with The Hurt Locker, Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean thriller Parasite became the [...]
Yes, I'm a Top 10 straggler, but I'd rather be sure about my choices than second-guess them down the road. Rushing out a list during the onslaught of screening season, simply to meet the obligatory date of December 31st, doesn't allow for proper consideration, especially with so many contenders dumped out en masse at year's [...]
It's always nice to have a working thesis (and, frankly, common sense) confirmed by data, and now the firm Ernst & Young has done just that. Their new study, commissioned by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), shows that 62% of people are more likely to stream a movie that has first had a [...]
(Click here for Leaked Concept Art for Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX.) (Click here for more leaked concept art.) It was bound to happen: the screenplay for Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s version of Star Wars: Episode IX has leaked. And it's true. All of it. A full draft of the script is nowhere to be downloaded (yet), but between the [...]
With 2019 about to close, a decade will end along with it. Fellow film critic Charles E Elmore and I reflect on the films of 2019 and the 2010s in this retrospective for Tulsa People. Excerpts: "Elmore: The serialization of cinema has become quite the daunting task! Even so, it’s quite a fascinating time in [...]
Major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker follow The first, hottest, and possibly most predictable take to come out of the initial reactions to Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker was that director J. J. Abrams had retconned (a.k.a. reversed) the divisive subversions of Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi. For the most vicious critics, it [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDS0tfFzvI Daisy Ridley is so cute and adorable -- with a British accent no less -- as she breaks down The Throne Room scene from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. During this 8-minute video from British GQ, Ridley takes us through the VFX-heavy action sequence, pausing along the way to provide commentary about how the [...]
SOMEBODY: Hey Jay-Jay, I bet you can’t come up with a reason for Rey to turn to the Dark Side and actually have it work out in a way that fans will accept. J. J. ABRAMS: Hold my Bantha milk. The latest “Special Look” trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker didn’t reveal anything [...]
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