The more things change...the more they still look like the Star Wars we know and love (aka Episodes 4 - 7, not the Prequels). Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson recently posted a handful of black-and-white photos from the set of the much anticipated next chapter in the saga. They appeared on his Tumblr [...]
April is Autism Awareness Month, and one of the best ways you can engage the topic is currently streaming on Netflix. It's the 75-minute documentary called Autism In Love. Tracking three different stories, at three different stages of adulthood, the film does more than just reveal the unique challenges of Autistic adults who are searching for romance and [...]
J.J. Abrams and Daisy Ridley are joining forces again. In connection with Paramount, who's distributed Abrams' Cloverfield movies, the Force Awakens filmmaker has cast his "Rey" actress breakout star Ridley in a remake he's producing, title Kolma. Based on a 2003 Israeli TV movie called “Kol Ma” — which means “All I’ve Got” - Kolma is a supernatural romantic drama. [...]
Jurassic World 2 will be better than the first. Producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall just guaranteed that. The sequel to one of the biggest (and biggest surprise) hits of all time finally has a director: J.A. Bayona. And virtually everyone reading this said: "Who?" Bayona is a young but up-and-coming film director whose two previous films have shown great promise. [...]
The new Cinemark Classics Series slate is set for April and May of 2016, anchored by one of the greatest American films of all time (the Brando one) and two 80s classics celebrating their 30th Anniversaries. Here are the films, dates, and times. Scan the image below to find a participating theater near you (or click on for a larger [...]
And then there were 4. When director James Cameron first announced there'd be more Avatar movies, his scope was "limited" to two more sequels, produced simultaneously. Then he bumped it up to three sequels. Now comes the latest announcement that there will be four Avatar sequels, all helmed by Cameron himself, making five Avatars total (a Cinctology?!) [...]
The annual convention of movie theater operators - called CinemaCon - is in full swing. Theater owners are in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, getting an onslaught of first looks of the movies they'll be showing us for the rest of 2016. In case you missed any of the reports from the past few days, [...]
Man, these two need to get a room already. The collaborative bromance between director Steven Spielberg and actor Mark Rylance is about to jump from 3 to 4, and specifically in Spielberg's four most recent films (two already produced, two more on the way). Shortly after announcing their third movie together - the religious historical drama The [...]
Judaism vs. Christianity, and Roman Catholicism is the bad guy. After a career defined by sentiment - even in his most grueling historical portraits - director Steven Spielberg's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will tackle a true story of religious conflict and oppression from 19th Century Europe. Variety describes The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara as follows: The story of a young [...]
Holy Context, Batman. For all the bad press Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice has received - from scathing reviews, to a fast, steep box office dive after a strong opening - it has now reached a global box office total of $783.5 million. Not only does that make BvS one of the Top 10 highest [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 