Apropos of mostly hunches, here's my completely pointless list of predictions for who will win the film awards at the 75th Annual Golden Globes, handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and hosted by NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers. I'm remaining neutral on the TV categories. Below each prediction, I provide brief reasoning [...]
Happy New Year indeed. On the last day of 2017, my blog was cited among 9 others by the New York based AwardsCircuit.com. The website dedicated to Oscar / Emmy / Grammy / Tony news named "I Can't Unsee That Movie" as one of "a few up and comers in the film journalism/blogger community." It [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=EIY-PsHrj9A "He's not my Luke Skywalker." That's the candid hot take from Mark Hamill himself, referring to writer/director Rian Johnson's subversive spin on the iconic hero (and saga) in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In the video above (WITH SPOILERS), you can hear Hamill offer his honest displeasure in what Luke became, while still professionally [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVTKEc-mu8 Can this be the flagship in a DCEU reboot? Asking for a beleaguered franchise. Batman Ninja, a Japanese anime production, will arrive in the United States on Blu-ray / DVD sometime in 2018.
https://youtu.be/WcIfbdfZRDQ A generation grew up playing with Star Wars toys and figures. So did Rian Johnson. Now, in this new behind-the-scenes look, the writer/director of Episode VIII shares how he's able to play like that once again, but on an epic scale. This video is another fun tease for what's to come, and the backdrop [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg The long-awaited Blade Runner sequel is almost here, but before it hits screens director Denis Villeneuve and Warner Bros. are releasing a prequel trilogy of short films to setup where the dystopian world is now, forty years after the original. This one, titled 2048: Nowhere to Run, centers around the character of Sapper Morton, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=qqNn14l7hhA This is the movie I want to see. Exactly this. Instead, we'll get the modern Marvel version on November 4, 2017. Even so, as directed by Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do In the Shadows), Thor: Ragnarok should hopefully be over-the-top B-movie fun.
Converting plays to the screen is a tradition as old as the movies. Here are four lesser-known adaptations worth seeking out, plus a landmark fifth that still sets the standard for what a stage-to-screen adaptation should be, all in my featured article from the 2017 "Fall Performing Arts Issue" of The Tulsa Voice. Click here [...]
Now the story of a rebellion's battle against an evil empire, and the one who could bring balance to the Force. Ever since Ron Howard was announced as the new director of the untitled Young Han Solo movie, the social medias have had fun imagining the Star Wars saga told through the comedic filter [...]
The new director for the untitled Young Han Solo Movie is bringing back as much balance to fans on social media as he is to the set of the troubled film shoot. Through both his Twitter and Instagram accounts, director Ron Howard has been regularly posting images from the set of the latest Star Wars [...]
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