If you were born in 1990, then odds are your parents saw Ghost in the movie theater. It was the number one movie of the year of your birth. If you were born in 1960, your parents might have had a date night at Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas. (Admittedly, not the most romantic date movie — but … Read more
It’s a feeling most deeply felt in the aching reveal shared by Navorski and Warren. “So what am I seeing,” Warren asks Navorski, having just learned that he is not a delayed business traveler but a man without a country. “Who are you,” she further prods, “Unacceptable?” As Navorski, Hanks is kinetic. He relies on … Read more
Netflix’s big cinematic gimmick for 2024 is what are calling “Milestone Movies” — films that were released in years that have big anniversaries. They already did a whole collection of 50-year-old titles from 1974; this month they are uploading a group of more than 20 titles that were originally released to theaters in 1984. 1984 … Read more
The Batman 2 has been pushed back by more than a full year – from the summer of 2025 to the fall of 2026. The movie will continue the adventures of the younger Dark Knight introduced in 2022’s The Batman directed by Matt Reeves. This version of the character is played by Robert Pattinson, who is … Read more
Thankfully, those came from Jonathan Glazer, writer-director of “The Zone of Interest,” which took home Best International Film. The filmmaker behind “Birth” and “Under the Skin,” and his producing partner James Wilson, who are both Jewish, have spoken out about the conflict in Gaza in interviews and previous awards shows, but never with the firm … Read more
The Razzies’ latest round of winners is here. (Winners might be a bad choice of words in this case.) Since 1981, the Golden Raspberry Awards — better known to bad movie lovers (and bad movie makers) as “The Razzie Awards” — have given out prizes to the worst films, directors, writers, and actors of the … Read more
Since 2017, I’ve written a massive breakdown of the Best Picture preferential ballot every year, trying to guess at how the votes might look every step of the way, and predicting how the eliminations will go, one by one, until finally the winner crosses the 50% of the vote threshold with the final elimination. In … Read more
The internet’s longest-running fan-voted movie awards competition, The Golden Schmoes, is back. Nominate your favorites now! Unhappy with this year’s Oscar nominations? Was the cast of The Iron Claw overlooked? Why didn’t Godzilla Minus One get more love? And did you think Greta Gerwig was snubbed for Barbie? Have no fear – the Golden Schmoes … Read more
As originally screened under its preferred title, the film ended in what I think was a perfect way, with the inevitable questions about “what happened after?” being addressed via charming, animated elements that were scattered among the end credits. After post-fest testing in the States proved audiences wanted something more overt (read: dumbed down), the … Read more
Five years after the last season concluded, AMC has ordered The Terror season 3 based on Victor LaValle’s novel The Devil in Silver. It’s been five years since the last installment of The Terror, but season 3 is finally on the way. AMC has ordered The Terror: Devil in Silver, a six-part series based on … Read more