Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the streaming wars, movie theaters have had a hard time bringing back audiences ever since 2020. The seemingly endless supply of poorly-received big-budget blockbusters isn’t helping any — the 2023 box office suffered numerous financial failures. One growing trend utilized by an increasing number of theaters, however, seems to […]
For the first almost two years of our relationship, I never actually met Gen. Michael Flynn, our communications being limited to text messages and occasional phone calls. We were both standing trial in the D.C. federal courthouse, facing politically motivated prosecutions by special counsel Robert Mueller. We had so many shared experiences: Both of our […]
In a bizarre claim, a prominent Marvel movie star claimed the Marvel Cinematic Universe is creatively limited by the comic book canon established by Stan Lee and other creators. Anthony Mackie, who first played Sam Wilson a.k.a. the Falcon in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” a decade ago, argued that Disney’s MCU lacks creativity because […]
It’s easy to see why the hype had been building for A24’s new hit film “Civil War.” Set in a fictional not-so-distant future, the film imagines the United States split into various secessionist factions whose battles have turned the continental states into a war zone. Given the escalating state of real-life right-versus-left U.S. politics, many […]
To graduate from being a run-of-the-mill film director to being called a “film auteur,” there needs to be an undeniably unique style, form or fashion to a person’s movies. Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese are all such auteurs who have earned that title with their own unique styles. (Nolan is perhaps best known […]
Few minds in Hollywood are as odd and unique as film auteur Quentin Tarantino. Love him or hate him, it’s undeniable that Tarantino’s films have a certain unique flair and style to them that’s almost impossible to emulate. Of his many odd quirks, the hardheaded Tarantino has long maintained that he would be wrapping up […]
At CinemaCon, movie studios across the industry pitch their upcoming projects to theater owners. This year’s event had a bit more riding on it than usual, considering the disastrous state of the U.S. box office post-COVID and the streaming boom. Those theater owners likely hoped studios had innovative ideas for returning audiences to the cinema. […]
Actor Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in the fatal shooting on the set of the film “Rust” will begin in July. But if the 18-month manslaughter sentence given to the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, on Monday is any indication, it’s not looking good for the “Beetlejuice” actor. Before her sentencing, Reed had been found […]
If you were one of pitchfork-wielders in the angry mob breathlessly awaiting a mea culpa from Molly Ringwald for starring in teen movies that were too “white” for modern audiences, well, this was your lucky week. I didn’t know that there was such a mob out there, mind you. In fact, there might not be. […]
When it comes to hyper-stylized, ultra-violent period pieces about World War II, many moviegoers probably think of the same movie. And that would be Quentin Tarantino‘s “Inglourious Basterds,” a 2009 epic that chronicled a secret band of Jewish soldiers who were put together with the sole intent of brutally hunting down Nazis. The idea of […]
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