Some of Newhart’s most fondly remembered routines hilariously skewered Madison Avenue. In “Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue,” an increasingly flustered imagemaker tries to get Abe to stick to the Gettysburg Address script (“You changed four score and seven to eighty-seven? Abe, that’s meant to be a grabber.”) That routine kicks off The Button-Down Mind of Bob … Read more
When would a Black protagonist have a chance to be featured in their own original video game? The answer to that question was part of what made “San Andreas” so groundbreaking when it was released on October 26, 2004. Set in the state of San Andreas, a fictionalized mashup of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and … Read more
“We are thrilled and honored to present Denzel Washington with the very first ABFF career retrospective,” said Jeff Friday, Founder & CEO of NICE CROWD. “Denzel has been a longtime supporter of ABFF having attended the festival in the early years, so it is truly a full circle moment for us to spotlight his career … Read more
Carrie-Anne Moss, who played Trinity in The Matrix franchise, remembered how often she say spoofs of the bullet time effect. Maybe the Matrix can’t tell you who you are but Carrie-Anne Moss can tell you the impact it had. It’s kind of hard to believe that The Matrix came out 25 years ago, redefining special … Read more
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is aiming to make season 2 bigger and better while letting viewers spend more time with Kong The first season of Legendary’s MonsterVerse TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters ran on Apple TV+ from November into January (you can read our own Alex Maidy’s review of the first batch of episodes HERE), and while … Read more
Martin Scorsese famously said that cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out–though, of course, it’s about lots of other things, including lighting, sound, music, performance, and design elements. Bordwell and Thompson’s interest was very much in that spirit. They cared about how stories were told, not just about what messages … Read more
Boris Karloff’s last film role was in the debut movie by film programmer and industry gadfly Peter Bogdanovich, “Targets,” about an assassin on the rampage at a drive-in movie theater where an elderly horror star named Byron Orlok (Karloff) is making a personal appearance; the film being shown on the drive-in screen is actually Corman’s “The … Read more
Apple TV+ has renewed Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for season 2, plus multiple spin-off series set in the MonsterVerse are in the works. Apple TV+ announced today that Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has been renewed for season 2. Not only that, but Apple has struck a new multi-series deal with Legendary Entertainment to develop multiple … Read more
The 1950s was a decade of great sexual repression, and the culture tugged towards the nuclear family that had been disrupted during WWII. This obsession often focused on voluptuous women’s bodies, and few were more notable than that of Russell and Monroe, the latter, in 1953, at the beginning of her star career. Yet, due … Read more
James Gunn is getting closer to launching his own DC movie and TV universe. The first film in the relaunched DC Universe will be Gunn’s own Superman: Legacy. (Gunn is now also the co-CEO of DC Studios with Peter Safran.) It will star David Corenswet as the new Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as the new Lois Lane. Although … Read more