Venice boss Alberto Barbera had originally not given an official runtime for the film, but said in his press conference last month that it was around 3-hours. Now, let’s look at all the big lengthy fall titles: Todd Field’s “Tar” is 158 minutes. Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” is 153 minutes. Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” is 136 minutes. Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” is 165 minutes. Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” sequel is 139 minutes....
“Blockers” doesn’t break new ground in the genre, but debut director Kay Cannon revels in the feminist ideals that are in Brian and Jim Kehoe’s screenplay. The three young ladies – Julie (Kathryn Newton), Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan) and Sam (Gideon Adlon) – are more than capable, in their maturity, to make their own decisions. However, don’t tell that to the parents as played by Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and a scene-stealing John Cena....
This is fantastic news for fans of the film, especially those, like myself, that thought the musical sequences were the unadorned highlights of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The full Live-Aid set is something fans of the film and the band Queen have been clamoring for ever since the November theatrical release. And so, this is something that will most likely persuade more people to churn out their hard-earned cash to buy the Blu-Ray....
Using the cinema verite genre to tell her story, Cypriano’s camera follows Dr. Ting making his daily rounds, and consulting patients as surgery nears for all of them. The operations themselves include feminization to vaginoplasty and phalloplasty. This is unique access to a community and the heroic doctors and support staff that conduct these surgeries — the result is a deep examination of uncharted and fascinating territory. “Born to Be” is a film filled with interesting characters, scientific progress, and incredibly provocative questions....
Eastwood has proven time and time again how his films can still be major attractions for moviegoers. “Richard Jewell,” “The Mule,” “Sully” and “American Sniper,” were all released within the last six years, with a considerable amount of tickets sold. However, and most importantly, it also helped that the films themselves were fantastic (I do have some issues with ‘Sniper’), straight-shooting dramas that could only be made by an old-school veteran of the craft....
That’s what Flanagan just tweeted about “Doctor Sleep,” which, according to AMC Theaters, has been confirmed to have a runtime of 152 minutes. This makes “Sleep” longer than Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” (146 minutes). We’re actually a little more intrigued now by this film. Let’s hope Flanagan takes full advantage of the creative freedom given to him by the WB when “Doctor Sleep” hits theaters nationwide on Friday, November 8th....
A 77% audience score on RT, and a 7.3 on IMDB is nothing to feel ashamed about. Contrast that with its 55 rotten rating and a 53 on Metacritic. No matter how dreadful the reviews were, McKay’s film was never out of the Best Picture race. McKay is a director for whom critics always have darts ready to throw at every time he has a new film out. It’s the total opposite when it comes to his peers in the industry, he’s just a well-loved guy whose been around for now close to 25 years, as a director of comedy and drama, and has produced many big hits....
Now we have more ‘Gladiator 2’ news as the producers behind the 2000 follow-up, Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have confirmed that the sequel will be set 25 years after the original. That is what they told HeyUGuys writer Stefan Pape during the press tour for ‘Men in Black: International’ MacDonald: “We’re working with Ridley, that’s one we wouldn’t touch unless we felt in a way to do it was legitimate....
Served on a pitch-black platter, Ethan J. Blakeson’s nastily rendered “I Care a Lot” has no likable characters. In fact, everyone in this dark comedy is either a sociopath, a psychopath, or both. A riveting and ice-cold Rosamund Pike, playing dead-eyed, immoral legal guardian Marla Grayson, is the reason to watch Blakeson’s film. It might just be the best work of her entire career. Her Grayson makes a living by legally, yes legally, scamming defenseless seniors out of their assets, with the intention of taking control of their lives and shutting out any family members from seeing them....
Last night, Stone went on Facebook to announce that not only did “JFK Revisited” get U.S. distribution but that its premiere will happen a few days from now — on Friday, 11.12 via the Showtime app, and on the Showtime network beginning on Monday, 11.22, which coincides with the 58th anniversary of the JFK assassination. It’s been 30 years since Oliver Stone released his controversial “JFK” — an exhaustively brilliant account of the conspiracy behind President John F....
Wagner did not hold back when asked by Comic Book Debate about “Justice League” and Joss Whedon. If you remember, Snyder left during the movie’s post-production phase to deal with a family tragedy. Whedon ended up getting hired by the WB and oversaw all reshoots, but he also reshaped Snyder’s original cut, even adding bits of Marvel-esque humor to the film, which displeased many DCEU fans. Wagner, tongue in cheek, told CBD that he had “unfortunately....
If you remember, back in the summer of 2020 I had exclusively reported that “Soul” was going to skip theatrical release and go straight to the Disney streaming service. People were aghast, in disbelief, absolutely did not believe the intel that I had. And, guess what? A few months later that’s exactly what happened. Ever since the “Soul” dump, which was very profitable for Disney Plus as it helped bump their last and first quarter numbers to the stratosphere, Pixar films such as “Luca” and “Turning Red” were relegated to skip theatres altogether....
Director George C. Wolfe’s film, taking place during a single day’s recording session in Chicago, has a young trumpet player (Boseman) trying to modernize the blues music of his boss, singer extraordinaire Ma Rainey (Davis), much to her dismissal. And yet, should he be trusted? Is he in it for his own gain of fame? Those are the questions being asked in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Viola Davis’s Ma shares screentime with Boseman and, much like the rest of her career’s work, this is an exemplary and emotionally rich depiction of the famous blues singer....
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The following decade or so, in between helming Dior commercials, Coppola would go on to release “Marie Antoinette,” “Somewhere,” “The Bling Ring,” and “The Beguiled” —watchable, but confusing efforts on her part. These films most definitely had a singular voice to them, but there was something distant and unfulfilling about them. After all, “Lost in Translation” was a personal film, Coppola went through a similar experience in Tokyo, but her ensuing films lacked that kind of intimacy and immediate touch....
The drama here takes place in 1918, when Pearl was just 17-years-old and blinded by her ambition to become a glamorous dancer. She desires a life greater than the one she’s been given. The fact that her dreams will inevitably be squashed by an overbearing mother won’t sit too well with this deranged girl. Trapped on her mother’s isolated farm, Pearl lusts for the glamorous life she’s seen at the movies....
Filmmakers that were experts at on-screen steaminess, such as Adrian Lyne, Jane Campion, Paul Verehoeven, David Lynch, have parted towards Europe and, in Campion and Lynch’s cases, television. It’s much harder now for a male director to depict sex on screen without being accused of using his own “male gaze.” Even the emergence of gay cinema has barely gone past a few seconds of tame sex, such as in “Brokeback Mountain” and Timothee Chalamet’s love for a peach and Armie in “Call Me By Your Name” – what gives?...
You know the drill that comes with this genre: fervent phone calls. Doors slammed. Failed sources. Blue-collar reporting. It’s an irresistible format for many in the industry and, especially, film critics. Maria Schrader’s “She Said” tackles Harvey Weinstein. The disgraced hot-shot Producer was well-known as an aggressive predatorial figure way before The New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor “broke” the news that he was … a predatorial figure....
Steve McQueen’s “Lover’s Rock” [A-] is a formally bold 70-minute dance party. McQueen uses his camera in unique & original ways. Some moments in this movie feel damn-near transcendent in the way they use moving bodies, music & photography to immerse the viewer in moments of pure ecstasy. Each individual movie is an intimate story of a little-represented community, British Black people from the West Indies, living their lives amidst a racially hostile environment....
The entire movie works purely on the ingenious casting decision of having Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista buddy-cop their way through a pedantic plot. Nanjiani plays Stu, a customer-service obsessed Uber driver, he badly wants those five star ratings, that has his newly leased Prius taken over by Vic (Bautista), a workaholic cop hunting Uwais’ villain. And so, Stu is stuck being chauffeur for Vic. Hilarity and lots head shots ensue....
