Angel Has Fallen: Franchise Third Chapter, Starring Butler and Morgan Freeman
Lionsgate’s Angel Has Fallen, the third chapter in the Fallen franchise, stars Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Jada Pinkett Smith. It should earn $13 million to $15 million when it launches on 3,200 screens. The movie is expected to have a series-low start, behind 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen ($30 million) and 2016’s London Has Fallen […]
Ready or Not: Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s Darkly Comedic Thriller
Ready or Not, a darkly comedic thriller about a diabolical game of hide-and-seek, offers sadistic and subversive pleasures to young and bold viewers.
Let Them All Talk: Soderbergh’s Comedy, Starring Meryl Streep, Goes to HBO Max
HBO Max has picked up Steven Soderbergh’s next film, the comedy Let Them All Talk starring Meryl Streep.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Tarantino’s Love Letter is International Hit
Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood dominates the international box office, where it collected $53.7 million from 46 markets.
Vitalina Varela: Portuguese Pedro Costa’s Movie is Top Winner at 2019 Locarno Film Fest
The 72nd Locarno Film Festival ended Saturday, August 17, with Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela earning major awards and special praise from jury president Catherine Breillat.
Tribute to Peter Fonda: Easy Rider–Seminal Counter-Cultural Film–Impact, Ambiguities, Contradictions
Tribute to Peter Fonda: Regardless of your aesthetics and politics, the movie is a must-see experience, a generational touchstone that forever changed Hollywood and American pop culture.
Fonda, Peter: Star of Seminal Countercultural “Easy Rider” Dies at 79
Two-time Oscar nominee Peter Fonda, who became a counterculture icon when he co-wrote, produced and starred in seminal 1969 road movie “Easy Rider,” died on Friday from lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79.
Blinded By the Light: Gurinder Chadha’s Heartfelt, Inspirational Coming of Age Tale, Companion Piece to Bend It Like Beckham
In many ways, her new film, Blinded by the Light is a companion piece to Bend It Like Beckham, a joyously inspirational but unsentimental serio-comedy, which is grounded in reality.
Oscar 2020: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse
One of the best-reviewed films at Cannes, The Lighthouse is a stylized (black-and-white) gothic horror period piece (it’s set in the late nineteenth century).
Oscar 2020: Queen & Slim, Starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith (Preview)
Queen & Slim: The Oscar season has not begun yet, but here are some films and performances that promise to be interesting and may become Oscar contenders.
Seberg: Preview of Benedict Andrews’ Political Thriller–Venice Premiere
Benedict Andrews directed Seberg, British-American political thriller about the late American actress, based on a screenplay by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette: Linklater’s Comedy, Starring Cate Blanchett
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Richard Linklater’s new pproblematic film, is based on Maria Sample’s bestseller of a female misanthrope who goes through mid-life crisis.
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood: Tarantino Defends “Arrogant” Portrayal of Bruce Lee
Tarantino defended the criticisms of the “arrogant” portrayal of Bruce Lee in his new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, claiming that it isn’t so inaccurate…..
Dora and the Lost City of Gold: James Robin’s Live Action Adventure, Starring Isabela Moner
Paramount’s adventure film, Dora and the Lost City of Gold,directed by James Bobin, catered to younger female moviegoers. The film, a live-action adaptation and continuation of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.’s television series Dora the Explorer, stars Isabela Moner as the title character, with Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, and Danny Trejo in supporting roles. […]
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Like most horror flicks, the tale is set in a small-town, here Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, and on a special day, on Halloween of 1968.
Oscar 2020: Laundromat, Soderbergh’s Drama, Starring Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman
Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep stars in The Laundromat, a drama based on the Panama Papers that Oscar winning Soderbergh (Traffic) directed.
Farewell, The: Small Indie That Could
As in the film, Wang’s family didn’t tell her aging grandmother that she had stage-IV lung cancer and, instead, staged a wedding in northern China as the family’s goodbye to her.
Oscar 2020: Best Picture–Potential Contenders
The Report, directed by Scott Z. Burn, tells the story of one man (played by Adam Driver), who fought against both the CIA and the White House to get his report published.
El Norte: Gregory Nava’s Powerful Tale of Gutamalan Immigrants Restored and Rereleased
With the somber gentleness of a fairytale like “Hansel and Gretel,” transplanted to 1980s Central America, El Norte is a bitter-sweet fable about two Guatemalan Indians, brother and sister, forced to flee their village due to politics and endure the ordeal of illegal immigrants.
A.D. Pennebaker: Seminal Documentarian (Don’t Look Back) Dies at 94
Pennebaker, a director and cinematographer known for his documentaries, including the classic “Don’t Look Back” (1967), “Monterey Pop” (1968) and “The War Room” (1993) and “Elaine Stritch at Liberty” (2002), died Thursday night of natural causes. He was 94.
