The latest film from animation master Hayao Miyazaki has been brought almost the entire way from concept to release without a single teaser, trailer, or official publicity still. For a long time, Studio Ghibli didn’t even announce the movie’s official title. (It’s The Boy and the Heron, for the record.) There is going into a movie … Read more
It’s not animated—the actors are live-action and are a familiar and reliable bunch. Ralph Fiennes plays a version of Dahl; the movie opens in an Andersonian recreation of the writer’s real-life “writing hut,” where, after mumbling a list of what it takes to get him started on a story, Fiennes starts telling what purports to … Read more
With the live-action adaptation finally out on Netflix, fans wonder whether Monkey D. Luffy will find the One Piece. Or has he already uncovered the Gol D. Roger’s fabled treasure? Here’s what you need to know. Does Luffy find the One Piece in the anime? The anime hasn’t revealed whether Luffy finds the One Piece … Read more
Wes Anderson premieres The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and expresses his disagreement over the censoring of Roald Dahl’s works. Wes Anderson has dabbled in children’s storytelling with his films The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs. His comedic style and quirky aesthetics naturally lend themselves to stop-motion animation. Anderson now enters the strange … Read more
Simon Pegg plays a real-life expert on parapsychology, the Austrian-American Nandor Fodor, with Minnie Driver as his long-time assistant, Anne. We first see him interviewed about the film’s (and perhaps life’s) central question: What is reality? He says he can see a man with a beard in the corner of the room. The journalist and … Read more
Disney Plus‘s new TV and movie release schedule for September 4-10 includes the fourth episode of Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka, a new season of I Am Groot, and the recently released live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey. Starting on Wednesday, September 6, Star Wars fans can catch the fourth episode of Ahsoka, which … Read more
Rotten Tomatoes critics, including our own Chris Bumbray, have picked the best movies of the last 25 years. Some might say it’s impossible to craft a best movie list that everyone agrees with, but that doesn’t stop us from reading them and letting everyone know how wrong they are. In celebration of their 25th anniversary, … Read more
There’s also a live concert she did in Germany in 1954 where she sings “I Cover the Waterfront” with Carl Drinkard on piano, and it’s Billie at her best. When she sings a lyric like “the great unknown,” she’s in touch with the great unknown, and she makes you in touch with it, too. Frank … Read more
The Class Act Season 1 Netflix release date is approaching, and viewers are wondering when they can start streaming the TV series. Viewers are interested in seeing Class Act as the drama series will be a fictionalized story of Bernard Tapie, a working-class man who eventually became one of France’s most controversial public figures. Here’s … Read more
Beau Is Afraid writer/director Ari Aster reflects on the mixed reaction to the film, with some hailing it as a masterpiece and others… not. It’s safe to say that the reaction to Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid was decidedly mixed. Some hailed the film as a masterpiece while others weren’t quite sure what the hell … Read more