At least for now — we’ll see what Barbie does in the weeks ahead — the top-grossing movie of 2023 is The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The adaptation of the classic Nintendo game was the opposite of the original 1993 Super Mario Bros. film in almost every way: Animated instead of live-action, deeply faithful to the Nintendo games instead of … Read more
Disney has been hard at work on a restoration of 1950’s Cinderella. Continue reading…
Season 2 of the New Zealand black comedy series Creamery is officially set to arrive stateside this weekend, courtesy of Hulu. Hulu has released a new official trailer for Creamerie Season 2, teasing the next chapter of the “Y: The Last Man but with milk” saga. The trailer concludes by announcing that the new season … Read more
The Pokémon Company International has announced its first-ever San Diego Comic-Con panel celebrating the “legacy and future” of the Pokemon anime. “Pokémon: Bringing Iconic Animation to Global Audiences” will take place on Thursday, July 20 from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm PDT in Room 6BCF of the San Diego Convention Center. The panel will highlight … Read more
hit korean drama Squid Game has officially added eight new cast members for its upcoming second season on Netflix. Who is in Squid Game Season 2? Netflix announced that the actors rounding out the cast of Squid Game Season 2 are Park Gyu-young (Sweet Home, Celebrity), former Iz*One member Jo Yu-ri, Kang Ae-sim (Be Melodramatic, … Read more
The evil dead are ready to rise (on streaming). Fresh off a very successful run in theaters, the latest attempt to revamp the evil Dead horror franchise is coming to home viewing. Subscribers to Max will get their chance to watch Evil Dead Risestarting next week. While the original evil Dead team, including director Sam … Read more
It’s been three years since Charlie Kaufman’s last film, I’m Thinking of Ending Thingswhich also marked the Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer’s first movie for Netflix. His next project is also headed to streaming, and it marks his first venture into digital animation. (He previously co-directed and wrote the stop-motion animated … Read more
The long-rumored Apple virtual reality headset has been officially announced. During one of Apple’s occasional keynote addresses, company CEO Tim Cook unveiled the “Apple Vision Pro.” The new device, which Apple is billing as the start of “the era of spatial computing,” will supposedly merge “digital content” with your “physical space.” You can watch Apple’s … Read more
If you saw Fast X — and spoilers ahoy if you didn’t — you know that it ended with the surprise return of Dwayne Johnson’s Agent Luke Hobbs, who became the Fast family’s adversary in Fast Fiveand then one of its biggest members (literally) in Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7and The Fate of the … Read more
The Proxima Competition, in its second year of existence, will present ten world and two international premieres, nine of which are fictional features alongside two documentaries from filmmakers like Swiss author Thomas Imbach, Poland’s Olga Chajdas, Cyprus-born Kyros Papavassiliou, French filmmaker Émilie Brisavoine and Romanian documentarist Alexandru Solomon, etc. NRC critic and Rotterdam International Film … Read more