https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdoWJywrOuw If we're going to keep making new Star Wars movies, maybe Topher Grace should produce one of them. He certainly makes a case for it as co-editor of the best Star Wars fan edit I've ever seen. In five minutes, he and fellow editor Jeff Yorkes summarize the expanse of the 8-episode Skywalker saga [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=eSLe4HuKuK0 Just when I was ready to let it go, Frozen II pulls me back in. Despite my love for the original Frozen, the pop culture zeitgeist that blew up into a phenomenon became too saturated. Then what really left me cold was that lame Christmas episode tagged onto the front of Coco, followed by [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=134&v=nr2g8zRwX4Q We're all tired of the over-burdened superheroes, already, and Shazam! knows it. As this latest featurette shows, the comedy-driven Big-style entry from DC chucks angst for awe, and is fueled by a spirit of OMG NO WAY fun. Starring Zachary Levi in the title role and Jack Dylan Grazer (IT) as his middle school [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Girzu81oS8Q An inevitable biopic -- arguably even long overdue -- the movie about Middle Earth creator J.R.R. Tolkien has finally be made. The film's first teaser trailer reveals...pretty much what you'd expect, if not exactly, as it juxtaposes real-life events (from serving in WWI to his time as a student at Oxford) against visions of [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=fOJ9YhY9v0Q I think I know why the previews for the new live action Aladdin movie look so bad: Disney seems to have put all of their best artists on the live action Dumbo. Okay, obviously that's not the case, but the stark difference in quality (not to mention originality between the two sets of previews starts with [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=7hHECMVOq7g When the first teaser for the Mouse House's live action Aladdin premiered, I said, "Disney's going to have to do a lot better than this with their next, first full trailer..." Well this may only be a new TV spot (above) and not a full legit trailer, but it's certainly not doing better. If [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=106&v=IBz7FUlZPXI Previous trailers for the live action Dumbo movie (this one and this one) have definintely felt like a Disney movie, but the new international trailer really feels like a Tim Burton movie -- not in a dark way, but more like a "sentimental sympathy for the freakish outcasts" Edward Scissorhands kind of way. Dumbo opens [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=9SA7FaKxZVI Mission: Impossible - Odd Couple. As this first trailer for the Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw opens with Fallout's Vanessa Kirby, you wouldn't fault an M:I fan for briefly getting their hopes up that this was another Ethan Hunt adventure. (The marketers, no doubt, were strategically playing off of Kirby's association with [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iL1K_l8Jyo I often hear or read fans of Steven Soderbergh -- ones who genuinely love his movies but also love the aesthetic of film and/or high-end digital cameras -- ask why he keeps shooting on an iPhone. There's a disatisfaction rooted in that question and, to be frank, it's one I share. But the answer is abundantly, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkecgBW-Y80 There are certain directors and actors whose films I'll always see simply because of who they are, regardless of what the film actually is. Judi Dench is one of them, and the upcoming Cold War spy drama Red Joan is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. I'd have little interest in going [...]
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