Saoirse Ronan is the Queen of New York. Well, of its film critics at least. Her movie Lady Bird was named Best Picture of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle, and she was tagged as Best Actress. For the second time in three years, the 23-year-old starlet has won the top Actress citation, [...]
The first awards group of the 2017 Oscar season just went Post-al. The National Board of Review has announced its annual choices for the best achievements in filmmaking, naming Steven Spielberg's yet-to-be released The Post as the year's Best Film. Their list is hot off the press, as it were, the first one published just ahead [...]
An update to regular readers here at I Can't Unsee That Movie. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I will be pausing all activity through the month of September, both reviews and movie related news. If I'm able to return sooner than that I will, but for now that appears to be the safe estimate. I hope [...]
The BBC is starting to make this an annual event. Exactly one year ago, the UK's flagship media network announced their list of "The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century" (so far). Now they've followed that up by unveiling their choices for "The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time". The decision to go for [...]
Ben there, doing that? Lucasfilm is officially developing a brand new Star Wars anthology film that will focus on Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi. Rumored to be a possibility for a long time now, in large part due to prequel-star Ewan McGregor's outspoken desire to make one, Lucasfilm announced their plans to move forward with the concept. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just wanted to provide a brief notice as to why you won't see new Movie Reviews for a couple of weeks at I Cant Unsee That Movie. Due to scheduling challenges, I won't be able to screen and write new movie reviews for the next two weeks or so, probably through the end of July. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiA_WQVdnn8 First footage of the live action Lion King just screened at Disney's D23 convention. It's not available to the public yet, but the rave reviews from attendees are all over the interweb Pridelands. This one, from Mark Ellis (Collider, SchmoesKnow), is as pure and exciting a fan reaction as you could hope for, and [...]
A million voices crying out in terror, but hardly silenced. Padawans across the Twitterverse fear something terrible has happened. Five months into production of the (as yet untitled) Young Han Solo movie, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has fired its directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The film's release date of May 25, 2018 remains unchanged, for now. [...]
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