https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=121&v=o3oL9-lGNog All Marvel movies should be required to have Japanese narration with subtitles, like in this Black Panther trailer for the Japan market. The cool quotient goes up instantly. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Creed helmer Ryan Coogler, Marvel's Black Panther opens in the United States on [...]
First Ever Philly Critics Awards Cite GET OUT Best Film (AWARDS 2017)
The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle showed some brotherly love to Get Out in their first annual year-end awards. It's another Best Picture win this Awards Season for writer / director Jordan Peele's horror racism allegory, following top honors from the Washington D.C. Film Critics Association. Philly also gave Peele his first major critics group award for [...]
Toronto Critics Go South To THE FLORIDA PROJECT For Best Film (AWARDS 2017)
The critics awards keep rolling in, and now Canada's premiere group adds its list. The Toronto Film Critics Association showed a lot of love for indie efforts, with The Florida Project, Lady Bird, and Get Out each garnering two awards. The big winner was The Florida Project, which was named the year's Best Picture. Willem Dafoe also continued [...]
The 75th Golden Globe Nominations (AWARDS 2017)
The Oscar race is taking on the shape of water. That pun refers not only to The Shape of Water, which leads the 75th Golden Globe Awards with 7 nominations, but also to how fluid this year's Oscar race remains. Guillermo del Toro's Cold War fantasy drama joins Steven Spielberg's The Post (6 nominations) as the [...]
San Francisco Critics Look East To FLORIDA PROJECT For Best Film (AWARDS 2017)
As in many things, San Francisco went its own way. The San Francisco Film Critics Circle named The Florida Project the year's Best Picture, a rare top win for director Sean Baker's indie about poverty near Walt Disney World (although it's also been cited by some Online Critics groups). Guillermo del Toro got some traction, too, with [...]
Boston Critics Pull On PHANTOM THREAD For Best Film (AWARDS 2017)
The 2017 Oscar Season continues to morph and change. What first appeared to be a race focusing on The Post, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape of Water as the main Best Picture contenders has now expanded. The Boston Society of Film Critics has added Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread to the [...]
Spielberg Back In Blockbuster Sci-Fi Mode With New READY PLAYER ONE Trailer (VIDEO/POSTER)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=145&v=cSp1dM2Vj48 Whoa, this is heavy, Doc. After a ten year break from big budget blockbusting, Steven Spielberg returns with Ready Player One, the adaptation of the popular YA novel phenomenon. Set in 2045, it's a young man's journey through OASIS, the future version of the internet that has gone full-blown VR. In it, there's an [...]
D.C. Critics Shake Up Awards Season, Name GET OUT Best Film (AWARDS 2017)
For the first time this awards season, Get Out has emerged from The Sunken Place. More importantly, by naming Get Out the Best Film of 2017, the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association stepped outside the trending convention of limiting the top honor to the trio of The Post, Call Me By Your Name, or Lady Bird, or [...]
THE DISASTER ARTIST (Movie Review)
*** out of **** Rated R (for strong language throughout, and some sexuality/nudity) Released: December 1, 2017 limited; expands December 8 Runtime: 103 minutes Director: James Franco Starring: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor, Alison Brie, Jacki Weaver, Paul Scheer, Zac Efron, Josh Hutcherson, Megan Mullally, Jason Mantzoukas In the annals of the worst films ever [...]
Extinction Threatens Dinos In JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM Trailer (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=143&v=vn9mMeWcgoM Blockbusters find a way. After the retro reboot Jurassic World became an unexpected box office behemoth, raking in over $200 million its opening weekend on its way to a mammoth haul of $652 million domestic (4th best ever) and $1.6 billion worldwide, nothing was going to make this franchise extinct any time soon. But [...]
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