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Telluride has had a tight relationship with Cooper over the years. They’ve premiered films such as “Black Mass,” “Hostiles,” and “Out of the Furnace.” However, it did not show up in this year’s lineup. The result is not even an AFI premiere in November. Cooper’s film is just going straight to release on December 23rd. Strange. The trailer unveiled today makes it look like a well-shot and directed affair. Bale seems to fit the part....

“To me the Cannes Film Festival (besides being the most important film festival in the world — no disrespect to anybody) has had a great impact on my film career. You could easily say Cannes changed the trajectory of who I became in world cinema,” Lee said via official announcement earlier this morning. “It started way back in 1986 — my first feature film ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ which won the Prix de la Jeunesse in the Directors’ Fortnight....

And this coming from an unadorned fans of his, Lee could practically do nothing wrong in my books between his debut “She’s Gotta Have It” back in 1986 all the way to 2006’s heist flick “Inside Man” (let’s pretend 2004’s misbegotten “She Hate Me” doesn’t exist). The Lee filmography speaks for itself, really, “Do the Right Thing,” “Jungle Fever,” “Malcom X,” “The 25th Hour,” “Summer of Sam,” and his most underrated movie and, quite curiously, the most pertinently relevant to 2019, what with its satirical depiction of blackface in the mainstream, “Bamboozled....

Let’s start with some tiny clarifying. When we say something is unusual, it doesn’t mean it’s bad. It rather means weird. Some “weird” sports have been presented at the Olympics. Organizers have just taken their chances on unusual, unknown sports since the first Olympic Games in 1896. While some of them like https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/sport/skateboarding-olympics-debate-spt-trnd/index.html worked out pretty well, others went unnoticed. So, let’s list the weirdest Olympic sports of all time: · Skateboarding · Basque Pelota · Surfing Is sport your passion?...

Speaking to ComicBook.com, Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige said today “Black Widow” will not be an R-Rated film. “It never was going to be. Somebody writes, ‘I hear it’s R-rated!’ And then everybody writes it up.” As it turns out, the rumor was never anything more than just that.” “Black Widow” is expected to shoot later this year, with Ned Benson (“The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby“) rewriting the screenplay. It will be directed by Aussie filmmaker Cate Shortland (“Berlin Syndrome,” “Somersault“) and is a prequel set in the Widow’s days as a Russian spy before joining “The Avengers....

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As sad as the state of the world and cinema is, Netflix has certainly attempted to build on the successes of the likes of last year’s “Marriage Story” and “The Irishman” to bring audiences what could be some of the must-see movies this year. *The release dates of the films below are mostly TBD but Netflix has them all listed as 2020 Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

I used to despise this decade’s onslaught of sequels and cheesy action movies, but then the last few years happened and now it feels nostalgic. Truth be told this was the decade that introduced moviemaking as a total business of sequels, franchises and action, lots and lots of testosterone-fueled action. As far as critics go, a good blueprint would be the massive critics poll I conducted a year ago. None of the films in the ensuing top 40 should really be counted as underrated, they all clearly have massive support....

What you are seeing now, is Europe slowly but surely laying out the groundwork for a full-blown ‘Rainy Day’ release all over the continent this fall. These are the seeped differences between two different mind-sets: The hive and the individual. The latter seems to belong to our European counterparts, they can read, they can see the facts more clearly than us, they have not vilified Woody in the way America has in their #MeToo purifying, which has, by the way, resulted in a lot of bad people being, justifiably, condemned, their careers ruined, thanks to the movement And yet, some have been unfairly maligned; Woody, Aziz Ansari, just to name a few....

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are back, as vain caricatures of themselves, in a fiction and non-fiction hybrid which serves fans of the series more of what they liked about the previous entries. The buddy-comedy bandy of words between the two, over expensive entrées in gorgeous European locales, has been done to death in the previous three entries, but, hey, even Brydon admits here, over a glass of expensive Pinot no less, that “originality is overrated....

Having now a final gross tally of just $27.2 million domestically, with a reported budget of $100 million to its name, “Cats” has become one of the all-time box-office bombs. It is expected to have losses in and around the 72% range. That doesn’t even include marketing. It likely already lost over $100m. Ouch. You either die a Broadway play or live long enough to be adapted into a box-office flop....

Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaikin’s surreal delve into this underworld starts by tackling the exotic animal business in the U.S., but their story actually has multiple layers of interwoven themes, the main one being the Tiger business in the United States. If you can believe it, close to 10,000 tigers are owned in the U.S. alone, mostly in farmhouses and amateur zoos. If you compare that to the 4,000 that live in the rest of the world, mostly in wildlife regions, you got yourself a major animal abuse problem....

The film is the “true story of Dana Canedy’s fiancé, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, who began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside bomb on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. The film has the son, all grown up, looking back on his father’s life....

However, written, directed by, and starring Valérie Lemercier, the film has decided to change the name of the singer to Aline Dieu. The trailer notes that the film is “inspired” by the events of Céline Dion’s life and what we do see tackled is the controversial relationship between Dion and her much older husband/manager Rene Angélil. He started working for her when she was only 12-years old. The film did get the blessing from the Dion estate, which also came with Lemercier having access to the singer’s treasure trove of original music....

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We now have an estimate of the budget. “Babylon” cost around $110 million to make. Production on the film began in mid-2020 and wrapped in October 2021. There had been a few short delays due to COVID, otherwise filming was fluid and uninterrupted. “La La Land” had a budget of $30 million. “Whiplash” cost $3 million. “First Man” was around $60 million. As we speak, there has been no trailer and poster released for “Babylon....

Bardem is supposedly the standout in ‘Ricardos.’ I spoke to two people and they both said the audience absolutely ate up his performance. This is another glossy film from Sorkin, a very slick affair that is meant to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. The person I spoke to compared it to the straightforward style of “Bombshell,” adding multiple acting and tech noms are in store for it (in terms of Oscar)....

This comes only 12 days after the filmmaker had suffered a stroke and then slipped into a coma. Singleton will forever be remembered in the cinematic time capsule for his directorial debut, 1991’s “Boyz in the Hood,” for which he was nominated for Best Director at the Oscars. Singleton was just 23 at the time of the nomination, which made him the youngest director to ever get a nod, not to mention the first African-American to do so as well....

Jones plays Ruby Rossi, a hearing daughter of deaf parents and sister to a deaf brother, who’s alarm clock goes off every morning at 3am, signifying work with her father (Troy Kotsur) and brother (Daniel Durant) at the Gloucester fisheries before heading out to the local high school where she gets ridiculed for smelling like fish. Thus commences the coming-of-age narrative, which involves an underdeveloped love story with a boy at school named Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) and Ruby’s joining a choir class run by an expressive teacher (scene-stealer Eugenio Derbez) who realizes that her stunning singing voice can get her a scholarship at Berkelee....

I saw this Richard Stanley-directed sci-fi/horror vehicle last month at Montreal’s FNC film festival and it was nowhere in the same batshit-crazy level as “Mandy.” There are a few interesting moments here and there, but nothing to write home about. You can see, based on the just-released first trailer, that this HP Lovecraft adaptation is about a family man (Cage) who finds a crashed meteorite in his front yard. The rock is of unknown origins, but then it mysteriously disappears....