https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSdSYmXCPXU The man who's made the most popular (and some of the best) movies of a generation is now the primary focus of one. Spielberg is just that, a feature length documentary about Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest film directors of all time. Produced by HBO, documentarian Susan Lacy conducted almost 30 hours of interviews [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPHhTqssaU Wes Anderson is back in the stop-motion animated world, with his own homespun yet meticulous style. While it focuses on animals like his previous effort Fantastic Mr. Fox did, Isle of Dogs is an Asian set adventure of a very different sort. It's about a Japanese boy's search for his dog after all canines [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM5vWQUX9V4 The Netflix/Adam Sandler partnership has been a disastrous collaboration. It looks like that's about to change with The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Sandler co-stars with Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson in the new dysfunctional family drama from a filmmaker who knows how to make them, writer/director Noah Baumbach. A frequent writing partner [...]
Now they're really teasing us. Actually, it's more than that. Depending on your aversion to spoilers, Entertainment Weekly's new multi-article exclusive look at Star Wars: The Last Jedi could provide way more Episode VIII dirt than you're looking for. From Luke's motives to Snoke's backstory to Finn's crisis of purpose, the EW scoop gives us more about [...]
(Click here for new photos and article links from Entertainment Weekly's Last Jedi exclusive.) Strike a pose. Raw untreated images from an official photo shoot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi have been released. With generic scrims, backdrops, and tape markings clearly in frame, this series of pictures is clearly intended to be used in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpQ3G08k48 They're heeeeere. Oh, wait, wrong Spielberg joint. In 1977, the big sci-fi phenomenon was Star Wars, but where George Lucas went mythic his best friend Steven Spielberg went existential. Now for its 40th Anniversary, Columbia Pictures is re-releasing Close Encounters of the Third Kind back into theaters for a one-week run, digitally remastered in [...]
George Clooney and the Coen brothers are making a film again, but this time the dashing leading man isn't starring; he's directing. Taking a screenplay written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Clooney and his producing/writing partner Grant Heslov gave a rewrite to Suburbicon and are now filming the quirky crime comedy. Clooney will not appear in [...]
Pictures from The Papers. First images (see gallery below) from the set of Steven Spielberg's new docudrama have begun to pop up online. Filming began in late June and is currently underway. Set in 1971, The Papers is based on the real-life account of Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee - the publisher and editor of [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZCBSsBxko The director of Suicide Squad has reteamed with Will Smith for Bright, Netflix's first big budget blockbuster - and it looks as cheesy as their DC villain flick flop. Writer/Director David Ayer has conceived a "Training Day meets Lord of the Rings" real world cop drama crossed with sci-fi fantasy, exploring themes of bigotry [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA Guillermo del Toro at his best? That's certainly the hope this first trailer for The Shape of Water conjures. Going back to Dramatic Period Fable territory (akin to the WWII set Pan's Labyrinth, del Toro's current masterpiece), The Shape of Water is a "creature feature" movie set in the 1960s Cold War era, playing [...]
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