Episode 8: Pirates, Guardians, and Aliens - oh my! For this edition of The OFCC Podcast, available on iTunes, a roundtable of critics from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle discuss the latest in movies for May 2017. You can also stream Episode 8 by clicking here. On this episode, the roundtable includes: Host Charles Elmore, producer of Videodrone Tulsa @918_Charles Craig Sanger, Vice [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated TV-14 (for some language, adult themes, and real war violence) Released: Now streaming on Netflix Runtime: 3 episodes, each @ 1 hour Director: Laurent Bouzereau Starring: On-camera interviews with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, and Lawrence Kasdan. Narrated by Meryl Streep. I don’t know if Five Came Back rises to the [...]
** out of **** Rated R (for strong language and sexuality) Released: May 5, 2017 limited; May 26 expands Runtime: 94 minutes Director: Azazel Jacobs Starring: Debra Winger, Tracey Letts, Melora Walters, Aidan Gillen, Tyler Ross, Jessica Sula It’s a shame when a filmmaker gets a great idea for a movie involving things he apparently knows nothing about. The Lovers is [...]
**1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for sequences of adventure violence, language, and some suggestive content) Released: May 26, 2017 Runtime: 129 minutes Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Starring: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin R. McNally, Golshifteh Farahani, David Wenham, Stephen Graham Five movies in, this latest Pirates adventure isn't the best thing in the world…but [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiK1gQKgK8&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Direct Every parent of a special needs kid better brace themselves for Wonder, the new movie about a boy with a deformed face who goes to school for the first time in the fifth grade. Based on the best-selling book by RJ Palacio, the boy is played by Jacob Tremblay, the breakout star of Room. It was topliner Brie Larson who [...]
Every image is gorgeous, and some are heartbreaking. That's what's captured in the mix of portraits (seen in the gallery below) shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair's collector's issue for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. They anchor the magazine's "definitive preview" for the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga, which is the in-depth article by [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0D3AOldjMU ...or so I've read. Not having watched the final official trailer (above) or the latest international trailer (below), I can't tell you how much of the plot is dumped here, but when I read other people say things like Marvel is giving away the story for free, I choose not to push play. But if you want [...]
These are the scoops you're looking for. Vanity Fair has once again scored an early promo coup with character portraits for an upcoming Star Wars movie. Framed by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, the four collector covers (see gallery below) for Star Wars: The Last Jedi include: "The Force": Rey and Luke Skywalker (Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill) [...]
On the heels of glowing, gushing reviews from the first press screenings of Wonder Woman, Warner Bros. has released a new batch of images from the upcoming film in the DC Extended Universe. Along with new looks at the fighting Amazonian women from which Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman) hails, there are also a number of behind-the-scenes photos of director [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for sci-fi violence, bloody images, language and some sexuality/nudity) Released: May 19, 2017 Runtime: 122 minutes Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, Benjamin Rigby Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD. Proceeds [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 