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Michael Bay is no longer director of this series, Adil El Arbi, and Bilall Fallah replace Bay at the helm of this third movie — which is being released in the dead of winter, January 17th, 2020. I’ve repeated this before, but Will Smith, who’s been in a never-ending funk now for the better part of 20 years, is not a bad actor. He proved it in “Six Degrees of Separation,” “Enemy of the State,” “Ali,” and, even though the film itself stunk of unearned sentimentality, his Oscar/nominated turn in “The Pursuit of Happyness....

“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” the latest film from Romanian director Radu Jude, won the coveted Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. The win comes six years after Jude received the Silver Bear for the historical drama, “Aferim!” No slouch in terms of controversy over the years, Jude’s film, shot and set during the COVID-19 pandemic, follows what happens after secondary-school teacher Emi has a sex video uploaded online, and the backlash that ensues at work because of it....

In “Dolittle,” Downey Jr. looks, acts and whispers in very much the same manner as he did in the Sherlock Holmes films. Listen, I love the nonchalant persona RDJ has developed over the years as much as the next person, but the fact that “Dolittle” is bombing with critics nationwide should not surprise anyone. The January release date was already fairly worrisome, but, then I found this little nugget about reshoots having happened during post-production [via THR]: “In April 2019, it was reported the film had undergone 21 days of reshoots following poor test screenings....

Test-screenings have gone incredibly well for the film, which is said to be the first comedy to have an all-LGBT cast. Even the straight characters are being played by LGBT actors. Of course, that does not necessarily equate to quality, but word around the campfire is that the film is flat-out hilarious. This upcoming comedy is coming to us with the kind of buzz that could make it this year’s “The Hangover....

The film is a mix of dumb comedy and social-conscious drama. Does it work? Most of the time, it doesn’t. In fact, I was rather annoyed by quite a few of the characters in the film, not to mention McKay’s snarky writing. However, the cast alone will make this a very popular movie on Netflix. The gist of the plot has Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr....

With an estimated $60.8M domestically and a further $120M internationally, the film did however fall short of the franchises previous The Fate of the Furious installment which debuted with a healthy $98M domestically back in 2017, so it remains to be seen whether the film will hit the global target Universal has in mind. Elsewhere, Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood” entered its second week and continued with its healthy domestic gross in the lead up to its international releases from august 14-19....

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Phillips explained his exit from comedy, and, if you’ve read this site over the last year, he points out the same argument that I have been consistently making: that ‘woke culture’ is ruining the genre’s ability to tickle the funny bone. “Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture,” Phillips said. “There were articles written about why comedies don’t work anymore — I’ll tell you why, because all the fucking funny guys are like, ‘Fuck this shit, because I don’t want to offend you....

It turns out Elwood wasn’t wrong. Scorsese and his longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker have been working at a snail’s pace on ‘Flower Moon’s’ post-production. Additional shooting has also been called for next week in Oklahoma. Ok, fine, but doesn’t that still give the legendary duo enough time to complete their film? That’s an editing window between June and December, 7 months to get this one in the can, but that supposedly might not enough time for Thelma and Marty....

Account #1 This reviewer highlighted the second hour of the film and also mentioned Florence Pugh as the scene-stealer, despite Saoirse Ronan giving a solid performance. She also mentioned that, despite how watchably appealing they may be, Timothee Chalamet and Emma Watson felt a tad miscast. The reviewer also warned not to expect as universally-praised a reaction as Gerwig’s debut feature “Lady Bird” received back in 2017, but that, despite all that, a Best Picture nomination is very much a “possibility....

As seen in the new trailer, the series is set in the Deep South ‘50s, as a Black man and woman attempt to fight off monsters whilst uncovering the truth behind the man’s family legacy. Since this takes place in Jim Crow-era America, our lovebirds also encounter rampant racism along the way. If Peele’s own “Get Out” and “Us” prepared us for anything, it’ for a filmmaker loves to mix genre cinema with societal discourse....

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Last week I wrote that Abdelatif Kechiche’s “Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo” might finally be released in French theaters, more than four years after its Cannes premiere. Now, a French journalist is saying that this potential theatrical cut will be snipping the graphic 13-minute cunnilingus scene to just 60 seconds. Yikes. I sure am glad I extended my plane ticket at Cannes 2018 just to catch this film during the penultimate evening of the festival....

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What did I miss the first time around? It’s a considerably well-made and ambitious sci-fi epic with very strange pacing and probably one of the best UFO designs I’ve ever seen on-screen. French critics seem enamoured by Peele’s film. “Nope” is being released in France today and the AlloCine score is a very impressive, 4.2 with 19 critics already counted. “Nope” is set to cross $100 million domestically this week, it’s Peele’s third film in a row to attain that mark, albeit, it likely won’t come close to the $175 million both “Get Out” and “Us” amassed....

As seen in the new trailer, in which I am quoted, this boldly original movie is about Maud, a lonely, and newly devout, hospice nurse who becomes obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient. However, it turns out that the business of saving souls is a complicated one and Maud starts to realize that sinister forces will be inserting themselves into the equation to complicate things for her, messing up the mission she was sent from God....

However, at a recent fan event in Shanghai (via Newsweek), Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is confirming that “Endgame” is not the last chapter in Phase Three of the MCU. The upcoming “Spider Man: Far From Home,” which will be released in July, will actually be the final installment of Phase Three, which began with 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” As mentioned before on this site, I presume phase four will include the likes of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

As cinemas in the two biggest markets, New York and Los Angeles, remain closed, about 70 percent of U.S. theaters are actually open for business. The domestic total gross is now at a paltry $29.5 million. That’s only 15 percent of the worldwide total to date, an enigma as the U.S. market usually accounts for 40-50% of total worldwide grosses for blockbusters such as “Tenet,” which has now hit the $200 million mark internationally....

This is a lost, confused and rage-filled Caped Crusader. Pattinson looks surprisingly well-cast to take on the daunting task of tackling Batman/Bruce Wayne. Also, If I didn’t know that the Penguin was Colin Farrell I would never have guessed it. He looks and sounds completely like … Richard Kind. A few questions worth asking; Why are there clowns? Who is that masked serial killer, speaking via livestream? Is that Dano’s Riddler?...

Despite the unequivocal success of last year’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” and 1993’s surprise hit “The Joy Luck Club,” outside these outliers, Asian-American stories have lacked tangible representation on screen for decades. “Crazy Rich Asians” runaway success only underlined the severe drought: audiences completely underserved and hungry for their own cultural narratives. At his year’s Sundance Film Festival, the programmers have put in a real effort for change. Most notable in this move towards greater inclusivity is “The Farewell” from Asian-American director Lulu Wang (“Posthumous”), an immaculately impressive film which tackles its themes of love, loss, and family with such touching profundity; its simple manner makes for a knockout of emotional resonance....

A few excerpts from my 5.17.18 review: “No, this is not “The Avengers,” but Godard, a cinematic radicalist, seems to be at the pinnacle of his pretension here. Where to start when describing the “plot?” Forget it. Images ranging from Youssef Chahine to Hitchcock unfurl at a rapid, ADD-styled pace. Not to mention the uglified, and non-pixelated, assault of furiously angry stock footage. There’s another Godard-ian “statement” on the Holocaust, but we’re not really sure what he’s trying to say because the clip lasts all of four short seconds....