“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” opens in Brooklyn with the plumbers Mario (Chris Pratt) and his brother Luigi (Charlie Day) trying to get their new business off the ground. Some Nintendo easter eggs in the background of these initial scenes should produce a small smile from people of my generation, and there’s a bit of … Read more
With “Air,” it all comes together in an enormously entertaining package—one that’s old-fashioned but also alive and crowd-pleasing. Working from a sharp and snappy script by Alex Convery, Affleck tells the story of how Nike nabbed Jordan by creating a shoe that wasn’t just for him but of him—the representation of his soon-to-be iconic persona … Read more
Priyanka Chopra Jonas will star alongside John Cena and Idris Elba in Prime Video’s Heads of State action movie. Priyanka Chopra Jonas is going from AGBO’s Citadel to Amazon Studios for Heads of State, an upcoming action film starring John Cena and Edris Elba. Action fans should get excited about this project, given that it … Read more
As the Glendale Community College students reunite for a movie at Peacock, Troy’s appearance was questionable until Glover gives an update. It’s been a bumpy road, but Community was able to get up to six seasons, partly due to it being streamed on Yahoo, of all places, and Peacock will now be granting the show … Read more
Mario has been bouncing, flying, and fireballing his way through Nintendo games for 30 years now. He’s even gotten a movie before, 1993’s Super Mario Bros. Goal 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. movie is the first animated big-screen adventure based on the mario franchise, and it draws on its long history in telling the story … Read more
Robert Bresson does nothing in a superficial way to please his audiences. The rewards of his films unfold slowly from their stories, and pierce deeply. He is very serious about human nature and the indifference of the world. He is not a Catholic but an agnostic who values any consolation his characters can find, in … Read more
It would be very instructive to watch a double feature of the new Super Mario Bros. movie and the live-action Super Mario Bros. from 1993. Together they offer a clear snapshot of Hollywood’s evolving relationship to intellectual property. Thirty years ago, movie studios thought they knew best about what worked onscreen, and so they mostly … Read more
Ahead of its release on June 2, Sony Pictures released a new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer. The nearly three-minute video shows off more footage of Miles Morales’ upcoming adventure that will span the multiverse. Check out the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer below: The film is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and … Read more
Mario, Bowser, Luigi, and Donkey Kong have been known to race against each other, and now the actors portraying them in the upcoming film have taken to the track, as well. One of the latest ads for The Super Mario Bros. movie has Seth Rogen, Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Jack Black going head to … Read more
That’s a comment on the perspective of the movie and the filmmakers. But what was it like for a fifth-grade girl to play that role? To have a camera pointed at her as she had her first sexual kiss, with an adult male actor? What was it like to have the parent a child needs … Read more