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Shelton popularized the “mumblecore” genre with films such as “Laggies,” “Humpday,” “Your Sister’s Sister,” “Outside In,” and last year’s “Sword of Trust.” Her style, much like most of the mumblecore genre, was letting her actors improvise their dialogue and an assortment of humane characters filling the frames of her films. He romantic partner for some years now and WTF podcast host Marc Maron shared a statement: “I have some awful news....

In a recent interview with Vulture,as he was promoting his latest film"Glass," Shyamalan defended “The Happening,” stating that the reason “The Happening” was critically panned was because of its tone, which was aiming to feel like “the best B-movie you’ll ever see,” adding,“I think it’s a consistent kind of farce humor. You know, like ‘The Blob.’ The key to ‘The Blob’ is that it just never takes itself that seriously....

Earlier in the week, Paltrow had another startlingly ignorant moment while appearing on fellow Marvel co-star Jon Favreau’s Netflix series “The Chef Show.” She actually denied that her character Pepper Potts was featured in the Tom Holland-starring “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” “No, I wasn’t in ‘Spider-Man,’” she said, “I was in ‘Avengers,’” she said. Gulp, or should I say Goop. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

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Yes, MoviePass is on the verge of collapse. According to an SEC filing on Friday (via Business Insider), MoviePass admitted that they had to borrow $5 million in cash to take care of a “service interruption” on Thursday. The subscription service ran out of cash and the lights got cut off. The official filing read: MoviePass tweeted, “We are still experiencing technical issues with our card-based check-in process and we are diligently working to resolve the issue....

Open Road Films has acquired the North American rights to Neil Jordan’s “Marlowe”, a noir crime thriller that stars Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Danny Huston, and Alan Cumming. Principal photography for “Marlowe” took place for two months, starting in November 2021 and ending in January 2022. The screenplay comes to us from “The Departed” scribe William Monahan. I’m not the biggest Neil Jordan fan, he’s not really given us anything great in a few decades, but the Irish filmmaker is someone who deserves to be followed....

What did Netflix potentially do wrong the last quarter to warrant such a significant downslide? The loss is eye-opening, Netflix “on Wednesday reported a loss of 126,000 domestic paid subscribers compared with analysts’ expectations for a 352,000 gain. Netflix also missed its own forecast for global subscriber growth by 2.3 million.” [CNBC] Would Netflix taking a stand against Georgia’s pro-life “heartbeat bill” have anything to do with it? I have no dog to pick in this fight but, If you remember, Georgia’s heartbeat bill was signed into law by Gov....

EARLIER: Here’s some good news. Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” will have a new trailer released on Monday. Back in late September, there was a first trailer released that seemed to disappoint a lot of people. They were probably expecting something entirely different than what they ended up seeing. Regardless, “Babylon” has screened just twice (both in L.A. and NYC) to some of the most polarizing reactions I’ve witnessed in quite some time....

The 2022 Golden Globes have been cancelled by NBC. No, really, there won’t be any Golden Globes next year. This is big news because the studios rely on the promotion from the Globes to sell movie tickets. It would only make sense now for the Oscars to move up to January as soon as they can get the date with ABC. This will be huge for the Academy which has wanted an early date for decades....

In other words, it took someone of Scorsese’s ilk to finally shake things up. Scorsese’s criticisms of Marvel are actually much more important than many are giving them credit for. In fact, what Scorsese has started is damn-near close to a cinematic revolution. It’s been 11 years now that many film critics, the media and audiences alike succumbed to the “holier-than-thou” billion-dollar-making Disney machine and its grandiose enterprise, the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

“We talked about everything — William Friedkin (Sorcerer and To Live and Die in L.A.), the Safdies and Uncut Gems, The Irishman (“Goodfellas by way of Silence”), Jojo Rabbit, Stanley Kramer and Judgment at Nuremberg, Renee Zellweger and Judy Garland, wokester critics vs. movies about white male milieus (The Irishman, 1917) and a general reluctance to settle into whiteness…wokesters prefer POCs and multicultural environs as a rule.” Once again, part 1 and part 2 Contribute Hire me...

It grossed another $1.5 million on Friday, its sixth week of release, for a cumulative totak of $31.5 million. It’s almost assured to crack the $40 million mark by Tuesday or Wednesday. This is a major post-pandemic win for A24, and, by this coming week, it’ll likely become the arthouse boutique studio’s third highest-grosser of all-time, surpassing “Hereditary” ($44 million). It is not inconceivable to believe that it could unseat “Lady Bird” ($49 million) and “Uncut Gems” ($50 million) for A24’s top spot....

Kyle Buchanan is usually a reliable source when it comes to Oscar, the NYT pundit has decided to cram in “The Woman King” with seven other buzzed titles that he believes have a shot at Best Picture: When it comes to the box-office prospects of “The Woman King,” I don’t buy it. Variety is reporting the film is currently “aiming” for a $15 million opening on its first weekend. That’s somewhat realistic, but also a bit generous....

The categories affected would be Best Score, Film Editing, Make Up and Hairstyling, Production Design, Animated short, Live Action Short, and Documentary Short Films. The plan was to have a non-televised first hour during which they’ll give out these 8 awards. Then during the three hour live telecast, they would include snippets of the acceptance speeches from those categories. Of course, backlash was swift, I can understand some of the other categories, but Editing is one of the crafts that define cinema, and Score is integral to the mood of a film....

With that said, the four-time Best Director Oscar nominee hasn’t made a movie since 2010’s “The Way Back.” Why? The Sydney Morning Herald attempted to locate the reclusive Weir, who is getting an honorary Oscar next year, and, much to their surprise, were successful in tracking him down for an interview. Weir currently resides in his home country of Australia. It’s a great interview, but let’s zero in on whether Weir believes his career is over or not....

It looks awful. They picked the most awkward facial expressions to use… I was already very skeptical about Gerwig deciding to follow up her triumphant “Lady Bird” with an adaptation of Mary Alcott’s overly-familiar novel “Little Women,” alas, my skepticism seems to have been correct as “Little Women” was screened for a few select critics last week — the reaction was mixed, with Florence Pugh and Saoirse Ronan being singled out as the stand-outs....

Regardless, he‘a been promoting this book hard, and in an interview with Kimmel, after being pressed to share what he considers to be “perfect films,” Tarantino admitted “there’s not many of them.” However, he believes there are seven film that should be deemed as perfection, they are “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Jaws,” “The Exorcist,” “Annie Hall,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Back to The Future,” and “The Wild Bunch.” A very mainstream list....

I did just that with Jordan Peele’s “Nope” over the past weekend. I had originally given it a B- grade back in July, but I might just bump it up after this latest viewing. Peele is working on a much bigger canvas with this film. The result is his most ambitious movie, but also his most peculiarly structured. There are shades of early-day Spielberg here, but I don’t really think he’s ever really told a story the way Peele does here....

In late January we were getting word that Polanski was set to direct another film, this one titled “The Palace,” with a story set entirely on December 31st, 1999 in a Swiss hotel. There was confirmation that production would start in March on the film. We can now confirm that Polanski has indeed started shooting “The Palace” with actors Joaquim de Almeida, Catherine Deneuve and John Cleese. Earlier this year Mia Farrow and Emmanuelle Seigner were also rumoured to be part of the cast, no word yet on whether they are part of it....

Polanski is in the early stages of editing his film and a contact tells me he’s “frustrated” but “hopeful” about “The Palace” getting picked up in France, which is where he’s been living with wife Emmanuelle Seigner for 33 years now. Maybe it ca squeeze into competition at the Venice Film Festival and find a distributor there? The situation is quite odd given the fact that Polanski released one of his best films in 2019, “An Officer and a Spy....