The show is smoothly staged before an appreciative audience, with well-chosen theatrical touches. The simplified sets – café, Jenna’s modest living room, Jim’s doctor’s office – swing in and out, suggesting the locations without trying to be too detailed. In one particularly effective musical number, the furniture from one location slides away mid-song, leaving Jenna … Read more
“The Boy and the Heron” is the story of a 12-year-old named Mahito Maki, whose mother dies in a hospital fire in Tokyo, sending him to the countryside with a distant father named Shoichi and a new, pregnant mother named Natsuko, the sister of Mahito’s late mother. Mahito understandably operates from a place of grief … Read more
A top-secret movie called Sasquatch Summer is coming to movie theatres in 2024, starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg. Here’s a strange little movie announcement – apparently, The Zellner Bros (Damsel and Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter) shot a top-secret movie called Sasquatch Sunset with two pretty big stars, Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, and the … Read more
Post-apocalyptic movies have almost become a holiday tradition for Netflix. “Don’t Look Up,” “White Noise,” “Bird Box” have all arrived in the Thanksgiving to Christmas window in recent years. While “Leave the World Behind,” adapted from the same-titled novel by Rumaan Alam, bears some superficial similarities with McKay and Baumbach’s disaster offerings, you mostly feel … Read more
Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve teases that the sequel is more of an action movie than Part One. In a different world, Dune: Part Two would already be playing in theaters, but the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s excellent adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi novel is still a few months away. I’m certain Dune: … Read more
Adam McKay considering a climate change movie as his next project, but drops serial killer movie starring Robert Pattinson & Robert Downey Jr. Deadline reports that Adam McKay is developing a climate-related movie which he’s considering making his next directorial project, but it has come at the cost of his star-studded serial killer dramedy starring … Read more
Captain Marvel and her colleagues like to talk about going higher, further, faster. Unfortunately, that just didn’t happen this time. The Marvels, a sequel to the first Captain Marvel movie and the first season of the Ms. Marvel Disney+ show, is nearing the conclusion of its run in theaters with extremely disappointing box office results. To date, the movie … Read more
Sometimes the movie’s tendency of favoring movie clips and bombastic soundbites doesn’t really matter since the juxtaposition of so many clashing personalities still creates its own lunatic harmony. In the movie’s most disarming and logic-frying transition, we jump from fellow New German Cinema filmmaker Wim Wenders, who seems to be on to something when he … Read more
Trailer: Godzilla x Kong team up in first look at The New Empire The first trailer has arrived for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, pitting the giant monsters against a new threat. December 3rd 2023, 4:01pm Deadpool 3 set photos confirm the return of two old-school X-Men villains (SPOILERS) Two classic X-Men villains, who … Read more
INTRO: There’s one line that will forever go down in movie history as one of the most iconic moments of dialogue ever, and it was almost never to be. While filming the 1984 sci-fi / action / horror classic The Terminator, director James Cameron had initially written the line for Arnold Schwarzenegger as “I’ll come … Read more