https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=90&v=anKVhZU7D1s In the warm-fuzzy wake of Paddington 2 and Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Disney's live-action Winnie the Pooh movie called Christopher Robin looks to be another feel-good film to lift our spirits in these divisive times. Ewan McGregor stars as a grown-up Christopher who reconnects with his stuffed animal friends from the 100 Acre [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYm7mYd0SgE Paramount is getting serious about animation. After a couple of attempts with mid-range budgets like The SpongeBob Movie and Sherlock Gnomes, Paramount Animation studios is launching its first $100 million feature film. A Spanish-American collaboration with Madrid's Ilion Animation Studios, Wonder Park looks to compete with the blockbusters from Pixar, Illumination, and Blue Sky. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEw2uHUYUPk It may be too soon to anoint Timothée Chalamet as the best actor of his millennial generation, but it sure seems like a credible leap to take after watching the first trailer for Beautiful Boy. Based on the two memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff, the 22-year-old Chalamet delivers on the magnetic potential he [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=L8LWUyUy7jM Just call it Despicable Green. Illumination Entertainment, the makers of the Despicable/Minions franchise and other hits like The Secret Life of Pets and Sing, is set to release their second Dr. Seuss feature (following The Lorax) with The Grinch. In this first full-length official trailer (following a previous teaser) we see that this adaptation [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPdRfqTnt4 Well that gave me some feels. Disney keeps the live-action adaptations coming with Dumbo, the remake of the 1941 animated classic. This one is directed by Tim Burton, and what's most striking about it - aside from the well-crafted visuals - is how sentimental it is. With Burton you expect something more dark, or [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=O9Y7DTCn7Cc In his first film since winning the Best Director Academy Award for La La Land, Damien Chazelle tells the riveting story of astronaut Neil Armstrong who became the first man to set foot on the moon. Chazelle's La La actor Ryan Gosling stars as Armstrong in the historic adventure that Chazelle has described as [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=d7rlUe-Thvk Robert Redford was as big a star as any in the 1970s, and now his latest movie The Old Man & the Gun looks just like one of them. From writer/director David Lowery (A Ghost Story), who Redford previously teamed with on Pete's Dragon, this true story stars the screen legend as Forrest Tucker, a man [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UwEsQADt4 There's something about the story of A Star Is Born that has sparked the imagination of filmmakers throughout Hollywood history. Bradley Cooper's latest incarnation is the fourth, following previous adaptations in 1937 (starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March), perhaps the most famous in 1954 (Judy Garland, James Mason), then again in 1976 (Barbara Streisand, Kris [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S3phVSi0tI&feature=youtu.be Call me crazy, but this looks like it could be the best crime movie since The Dark Knight. Or at the very least the most intriguing. The latest from 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen may be a straight-up genre piece on the surface but, like director Christopher Nolan or Michael Mann [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHSlHhh1gk There's a reason The LEGO Movie was such a huge hit, a core trait that went beyond and deeper than childhood nostalgia, pop culture references, eye-popping animation, or even the genuinely witty comedy. It was the "Everything Is Awesome" ethos embodied by Emmet, voiced by Chris Pratt, that gave this brand its beloved identity. [...]