https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=cSp1dM2Vj48 Whoa, this is heavy, Doc. After a ten year break from big budget blockbusting, Steven Spielberg returns with Ready Player One, the adaptation of the popular YA novel phenomenon. Set in 2045, it's a young man's journey through OASIS, the future version of the internet that has gone full-blown VR. In it, there's an [...]
Hocus Pocus! No, that's not the subtitle to the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel. (How awful would that be?) J.K. Rowling's better than that. Revealed below in its full title font, the next chapter in the Potterverse prequel franchise is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. It's the follow-up to 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNsiQMeSvMk I'll drink this milkshake. Daniel Day-Lewis collaborates one more time with his There Will Be Blood auteur Paul Thomas Anderson in Phantom Thread, a film set in the London fashion world of the 1950s. This will also be, according to Day-Lewis, the final screen performance for the 3-time Academy Award winning actor. He's previously [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=xjDjIWPwcPU Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? It used to be Shaft, but now it's Black Panther. Right on. Cuz in this latest trailer for the upcoming Marvel movie, he's a bad mutha--SHUT YO MOUTH! From director Ryan Coogler (Creed), the MCU gets its "daaaamn right!" swagger in Black [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CbN8sfihY If director Rian Johnson had his druthers, we wouldn't be seeing this. But Lucasfilm marketing knows better. Fans hungered for one more bite of a marketing morsel from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and we have it: the second and last trailer for the latest Star Wars episode. It premiered on Monday Night Football, in October, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-DM9uBtVI A little over a month out and we're getting a our last rock-and-roll look at the new Justice League movie. This official "Heroes" trailer is driven by a cover of that David Bowie classic as the gang unites together in explosions of CGI excess, with glimpses of the big bad villain Steppenwolf to go [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=fUjicxMPDzs Robots! Monsters! Sequels! Oh my! Defying a lackluster stateside run with a global haul led by China, Pacific Rim has spawned a sequel, and here's its first trailer. Gone are creator / director Guillermo del Toro and actor Charlie Hunnam. In their places are Stephen S. DeKnight (TV's Daredevil) and Star Wars star John Boyega who plays the son [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFM0UqX9MJ8 The latest annual offering from writer/director Woody Allen skews dramatic, and dark, in a tale of four lives that intertwine on Coney Island in the 1950s. Wonder Wheel boasts a strong cast starring Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, and Jim Belushi, along with a mini Sopranos reunion of Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJ60u7SUSw Serving as a perfect companion piece to this summer's Dunkirk, the upcoming biopic Darkest Hour is an Oscar season hopeful about Winston Churchill confronting Britain's most dramatic turning point of WWII. Gary Oldman stars as the iconic Prime Minister in a powerhouse performance that's already being billed as a lock for Best Actor. Hype aside, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaDurSCKOk&feature=youtu.be If Ex Machina was the promise of a great new filmmaker, Annihilation looks to fulfill it. Alex Garland follows up his directorial debut with this adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's the best-selling novel, an eco-horror thriller that boasts a spectacular vision with a (female-heavy) cast to match: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar [...]
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