Patrick Swayze in 1989's Road House (United Artists) and Jake Gyllenhaal in 2024's Road House (Amazon MGM Studios)Image: The A.V. Club
Got Road House? This month Amazon’s Prime Video has two versions of the action movie: the 1989 original starring Patrick Swayze at peak Swayze-ness and the 2024 Doug Liman...
Got Road House? This month Amazon’s Prime Video has two versions of the action movie: the 1989 original starring Patrick Swayze at peak Swayze-ness and the 2024 Doug Liman...
- 2/28/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Way of the Wind (Terrence Malick).According to Terrence Malick’s producer, Alex Boden, the filmmaker is in the editing room working on his biblical epic The Way of the Wind, formerly known as The Last Planet. “Terry is very happy with what he is working on so far is the word,” Boden told Variety. Over at The Film Stage, Nick Newman compiles all of the updates and rumors so far about the production. Mark Rylance, who plays Satan in the film, says of Malick’s process: “It’s like a fine wine or whiskey; it only gets better with time.”We’ve updated our TIFF lineup master post to reflect new additions—notably the excellent selections that make up Wavelengths, TIFF’s experimental program. Featuring films by Radu Jude, Eduardo Williams, Pedro Costa,...
- 8/16/2023
- MUBI
For critics attending the 76th Cannes Film Festival this week, Martin Scorsese's adaptation of David Grann's book "Killers of the Flower Moon" was among the hottest tickets in town. The latest film from the acclaimed director has been garnering headlines months ahead of its release, as the 206-minute epic is set to tell the real-life story of a series of murders on Osage Native American land in the 1920s.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro, and the ever-underrated "Certain Women" star Lily Gladstone all share the screen in a story about the greed and violence that erupt among white men when the Osage people strike oil in Oklahoma. Scorsese has revealed that his real-life meetings with Indigenous descendants of those murdered changed the way he wanted to frame the story, and he's also spoken about how the story reckons with genocide in the midst of a love story. In all,...
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro, and the ever-underrated "Certain Women" star Lily Gladstone all share the screen in a story about the greed and violence that erupt among white men when the Osage people strike oil in Oklahoma. Scorsese has revealed that his real-life meetings with Indigenous descendants of those murdered changed the way he wanted to frame the story, and he's also spoken about how the story reckons with genocide in the midst of a love story. In all,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Almost Friday Media, the innovative content company behind the iconic comedy Instagram account Friday Beers, expands its growing sports network with The Red Flags Podcast to mark their foray into F1 and motorsports.
Hosted by Brian Muller and Matt Elisofon, The Red Flags Podcast is a sports comedy show that discusses the important side of Formula 1 – the drama. Covering topics from drivers’ love languages to which team principal has the most daddy energy and so much more, The Red Flags Podcast brings a younger, humorous, relatable, and way more American perspective to the ultra-technical, ultra-European world of F1.
The Red Flags Podcast will be in attendance at the Miami Grand Prix, which takes place this weekend, May 5-7, as part of their coverage of the season’s three U.S. races. They will also be hosting a live show at the Villain Theater on Sunday evening after the race's completion.
Hosted by Brian Muller and Matt Elisofon, The Red Flags Podcast is a sports comedy show that discusses the important side of Formula 1 – the drama. Covering topics from drivers’ love languages to which team principal has the most daddy energy and so much more, The Red Flags Podcast brings a younger, humorous, relatable, and way more American perspective to the ultra-technical, ultra-European world of F1.
The Red Flags Podcast will be in attendance at the Miami Grand Prix, which takes place this weekend, May 5-7, as part of their coverage of the season’s three U.S. races. They will also be hosting a live show at the Villain Theater on Sunday evening after the race's completion.
- 5/5/2023
- Podnews.net
Lydia Tár, the renowned conductor who some people are still surprised to learn is just a character from the Oscar-nominated 2022 film, fell down the stairs at Sunday’s Oscars and has succumbed to her injuries, according to a Lydia Tár Twitter account that is not in any way official.
In other words, Tár’s “death” this week was nothing more than a hoax perpetrated by another hoax – but some folks fell for it anyway.
The account @LydiaTarReal has been openly operating as parody since launching in November, picking up nearly 27,000 followers in a few short months. Then during the Oscars, @LydiaTarReal tweeted a clumsy Photoshop of a “light tumble” she said she took down the stairs at the Dolby:
Please, stop sharing this image. Yes, I took a very light tumble down the stairs after being disrespectfully rejected from the venue. I am fine, if a little dizzy. pic.twitter.
In other words, Tár’s “death” this week was nothing more than a hoax perpetrated by another hoax – but some folks fell for it anyway.
The account @LydiaTarReal has been openly operating as parody since launching in November, picking up nearly 27,000 followers in a few short months. Then during the Oscars, @LydiaTarReal tweeted a clumsy Photoshop of a “light tumble” she said she took down the stairs at the Dolby:
Please, stop sharing this image. Yes, I took a very light tumble down the stairs after being disrespectfully rejected from the venue. I am fine, if a little dizzy. pic.twitter.
- 3/16/2023
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
The Super Bowl is always filled with fun new commercials, and Ben Affleck just gave us a good one. Viewers tonight got to watch the Academy Award-winning actor struggle his way through taking drive-thru orders at a regular Dunkin' Donuts joint. In the clip that aired and all the other ones released on Dunkin's YouTube channel, Affleck doesn't seem to be very quick or accurate with ringing in the customer's orders, but nobody seems to mind once they realize who he is.
Things get awkward when Affleck's wife Jennifer Lopez shows up in a minivan, getting on her husband's case for this new gig of his. "Is this what you do when you say you're going to work all day?" she asks in disbelief. She's only in the ad for a few seconds, but there's a ton of fun implications about their marriage thrown in there.
Perhaps most of all,...
Things get awkward when Affleck's wife Jennifer Lopez shows up in a minivan, getting on her husband's case for this new gig of his. "Is this what you do when you say you're going to work all day?" she asks in disbelief. She's only in the ad for a few seconds, but there's a ton of fun implications about their marriage thrown in there.
Perhaps most of all,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
The longest-acting movie awards voting committee got it done in about 3½ hours this year, with the New York Film Critics Circle finally naming Focus Features’ Tár as Best film of 2022. The movie, which reps filmmaker Todd Fields return to the camera in 16 years also saw its star Cate Blanchett win Best Actress.
The NYFCC is known for bestowing wins to indie movies and the org can take as long as five hours to deliberate on the day they announce wins. Whatever film the group names as Best Picture doesn’t always translate to an Oscar Best Picture win; the last title to do so was 2011’s The Artist.
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That’s not to say their...
The NYFCC is known for bestowing wins to indie movies and the org can take as long as five hours to deliberate on the day they announce wins. Whatever film the group names as Best Picture doesn’t always translate to an Oscar Best Picture win; the last title to do so was 2011’s The Artist.
Related Story 2022-23 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For The Oscars, Golden Globes, Guilds & More Related Story Jim Jarmusch Gives Rare Masterclass In Marrakech Related Story Colin Farrell To Receive Palm Springs Film Festival Gala Actor Award
That’s not to say their...
- 12/2/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Critics got their first look at “Jurassic World Dominion” on Monday night, and while official reviews are embargoed, there were apparently no dive-bombing pterodactyls to yoink the phones from their hands. Reactions went direct to Twitter, and it’s fair to say the response was mixed.
Scott “Movie” Mantz, often one of the more upbeat and rah-rah boosters of popcorn cinema, was unimpressed:
It pains me to say this, but I did Not like #JurassicWorldDominion — the story was convoluted & all over the place, and it didn’t feel special. There’s no magic or heart to it, and it doesn’t capture the awe-inspiring feeling of the original at all. Not sure who it’s even for. pic.twitter.com/WjhVJaY9Nv
— Scott Mantz (@MovieMantz) June 7, 2022
Io9’s critic used a Gif from the original to express his sentiment.
My review of Jurassic World Dominion: pic.twitter.com/KtBFOTyG...
Scott “Movie” Mantz, often one of the more upbeat and rah-rah boosters of popcorn cinema, was unimpressed:
It pains me to say this, but I did Not like #JurassicWorldDominion — the story was convoluted & all over the place, and it didn’t feel special. There’s no magic or heart to it, and it doesn’t capture the awe-inspiring feeling of the original at all. Not sure who it’s even for. pic.twitter.com/WjhVJaY9Nv
— Scott Mantz (@MovieMantz) June 7, 2022
Io9’s critic used a Gif from the original to express his sentiment.
My review of Jurassic World Dominion: pic.twitter.com/KtBFOTyG...
- 6/7/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
“The Queen’s Gambit” director and writer Scott Frank was called out Sunday on Twitter for insisting on pushing through his acceptance speech at the Emmys on Sunday for about two minutes despite the insistence from the orchestra’s cue that he wrap it up.
Frank won for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his work on the Anya Taylor-Joy-led Netflix series, and gave a speech that thanked Taylor-Joy, among many others, involved in the show and his personal life, as he was given several notices from the producers via the classic play-off music to wrap it up. At one point he responded, “Really?” to the tune and pressed on.
The two-time Academy Award nominee’s win was immediately followed by a victory for Michaela Coel for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her HBO show, “I May Destroy You,...
Frank won for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his work on the Anya Taylor-Joy-led Netflix series, and gave a speech that thanked Taylor-Joy, among many others, involved in the show and his personal life, as he was given several notices from the producers via the classic play-off music to wrap it up. At one point he responded, “Really?” to the tune and pressed on.
The two-time Academy Award nominee’s win was immediately followed by a victory for Michaela Coel for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her HBO show, “I May Destroy You,...
- 9/20/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Welcome to this weeks review of Aew: Dark, which once again comes from Pittsburgh – a crowd who are so hot for Aew no matter the match Or the show! Makes a world of difference to hear an excited crowd during matches…
Match #1: 2.0 def. Skyler Andrews & Sam Adams
My Thoughts: Skyler Andrews & Sam Adams opened this match strongly, looking like they might have been headed for an upset but it was not to be… 2.0, who are on a hot streak in Aew after being released by WWE, got the win and are on a roll going into this weeks Dynamite.
My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: Tay Conti def. Rebecca Scott
My Thoughts: This was a pretty good womens match, with the debuting Rebecca Scott looking good if a little green for TV. Conti had control for the majority of this match, looking dominant with her Dd-Tay finish.
My Score:...
Match #1: 2.0 def. Skyler Andrews & Sam Adams
My Thoughts: Skyler Andrews & Sam Adams opened this match strongly, looking like they might have been headed for an upset but it was not to be… 2.0, who are on a hot streak in Aew after being released by WWE, got the win and are on a roll going into this weeks Dynamite.
My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: Tay Conti def. Rebecca Scott
My Thoughts: This was a pretty good womens match, with the debuting Rebecca Scott looking good if a little green for TV. Conti had control for the majority of this match, looking dominant with her Dd-Tay finish.
My Score:...
- 8/19/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
America: The Motion Picture is a blockbuster animated comedy available on Netflix now. The raucously hilarious patriotic satire features a completely ridiculous and nonsensical account of the American Revolutionary War, where George Washington, Sam Adams, Thomas Edison, Paul Revere, Geronimo and John Henry team up to take on Benedict Arnold (who just so happens to […]
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- 7/9/2021
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
This article contains light spoilers for America: The Motion Picture.
Director Matt Thompson has been in the adult animated comedy game for a long time. Thompson was around for the dawn of Adult Swim in 2001 when the programming block hosted Sealab 2021, the series he created alongside frequent collaborator Adam Reed. Reed and Thompson would go on to produce several other animated classics including Frisky Dingo and Archer (which is set to premiere its 12th season later this year).
Still, when it came time to direct his first feature animated film, Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture, the seasoned vet realized that movies are a unique beast.
“(With films) you get a lot more time to sit and try to make things funnier, to make more jokes,” Thompson says. “When you’re on a very tight deadline of episodic television, you kind of have to kick stuff out and move forward.
Director Matt Thompson has been in the adult animated comedy game for a long time. Thompson was around for the dawn of Adult Swim in 2001 when the programming block hosted Sealab 2021, the series he created alongside frequent collaborator Adam Reed. Reed and Thompson would go on to produce several other animated classics including Frisky Dingo and Archer (which is set to premiere its 12th season later this year).
Still, when it came time to direct his first feature animated film, Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture, the seasoned vet realized that movies are a unique beast.
“(With films) you get a lot more time to sit and try to make things funnier, to make more jokes,” Thompson says. “When you’re on a very tight deadline of episodic television, you kind of have to kick stuff out and move forward.
- 7/9/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Plot: A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution. Review: Based on the trailer alone, America: The Motion Picture should have been the definitive patriotic spoof in film history. With the animation prowess of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller as producers and the…...
- 7/7/2021
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
“America: The Motion Picture,” Netflix’s first R-rated animated feature, offers a satirical, revisionist reworking of the American Revolution, in which a chainsaw-wielding George Washington (voiced by Channing Tatum) fights the British with a merry band of Colonial misfits to avenge the death of his Bff, Abe Lincoln (voiced by Will Forte). They include beer-worshiping Sam Adams (Jason Mantzoukas), gender-bending science wiz Thomas Edison (Olivia Munn), “horse-racist” Paul Revere (Bobby Moynihan), one-armed Apache leader Geronimo (Raoul Trujillo), and handy blacksmith John Henry (Killer Mike).
It’s like an absurd 2D cross between “Archer” and “Clone High,” which isn’t surprising, since it’s directed by “Archer” producer Matt Thompson and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who are rebooting “Clone High” for HBO Max, while writing and producing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2,” which is co-written by “America” scribe Dave Callaham (Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings...
It’s like an absurd 2D cross between “Archer” and “Clone High,” which isn’t surprising, since it’s directed by “Archer” producer Matt Thompson and produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who are rebooting “Clone High” for HBO Max, while writing and producing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2,” which is co-written by “America” scribe Dave Callaham (Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings...
- 7/1/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
"Ding dong, it's America M-Fer!" Netflix has released one more trailer for the animated comedy America: The Motion Picture, a final red band trailer packed with profanity and violence galore. Which is befitting America's sordid history. Debuting on Netflix today - just in time for the 4th of July weekend. In this wildly tongue-in-cheek animated revisionist history, a chainsaw-wielding George Washington assembles a team of rabble rousers — beer-loving bro Sam Adams, famed scientist Thomas Edison, acclaimed horseman Paul Revere, and a pissed off Geronimo — to defeat Benedict Arnold and King James in the American Revolution. This animated movie stars "America's sweethearts" — Channing Tatum (as G.W.), Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Judy Greer, Bobby Moynihan (as Paul), Raoul Max Trujillo (as Geronimo), Killer Mike, Andy Samberg, Will Forte, and Simon Pegg (as King James). This is very similar to the original trailer, just with some added "red band" material. It may be extra dumb,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In the United States, what we teach as history and historical accuracy is somehow a hot button issue right now. Ignorant, enraged, and overwhelmingly white parents are shaking in their boots at the thought that their children may learn some hard truths about American history—that our nation was not always the moral, perpetual Good Guy badass that we present ourselves as. If these outraged, analphabetic reactionaries had it their way, we’d likely be teaching America: The Motion Picture as 100 percent fact in every red state public school across the country.
From executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and director Matt Thompson (Archer), America: The Motion Picture is a gory, loud, and exceedingly stupid animated comedy that stretches the one-note joke of “what if the Founding Fathers were dude-bros?” into a numbing 98 minutes. Using a tone similar to Archer, but without the clever quips and genre takedowns, America...
From executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and director Matt Thompson (Archer), America: The Motion Picture is a gory, loud, and exceedingly stupid animated comedy that stretches the one-note joke of “what if the Founding Fathers were dude-bros?” into a numbing 98 minutes. Using a tone similar to Archer, but without the clever quips and genre takedowns, America...
- 6/30/2021
- by Nick Harley
- Den of Geek
"I'm George Washington. Let's go start a f*&!ing revolution!" Time to celebrate 'Merica! Netflix dropped an official trailer for the animated comedy America: The Motion Picture, from Matt Thompson. In this wildly tongue-in-cheek animated revisionist history, a chainsaw-wielding George Washington assembles a team of rabble rousers — including beer-loving bro Sam Adams, famed scientist Thomas Edison, acclaimed horseman Paul Revere, and a pissed off Geronimo — to defeat Benedict Arnold and King James in the American Revolution. Who will win? No one knows, but you can be sure of one thing: these are not your father's Founding... uh, Fathers. This stars "America's sweethearts" Channing Tatum (as G.W.), Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Judy Greer, Bobby Moynihan (as Paul), Raoul Max Trujillo (as Geronimo), Killer Mike, Andy Samberg, Will Forte, and Simon Pegg (as King James). This looks totally insane in the best of ways. Can't wait to watch this and laugh my ass off.
- 6/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix released a preview of its summer slate Tuesday, including finalized release dates, footage, photos, and other announcements from a range of films. Among the highlights: details from the animated revisionist history “America: the Motion Picture” from the “Archer” team and first-look photos from Paul Weitz’ Kevin Hart-starrer “Fatherhood” and the Melissa McCarthy-produced documentary “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.”
Below find Netflix’s summer movie preview sizzle, featuring some of the highlights from the nearly three-dozen films the streamer is set to release between April and the end of August. Included in the video are clips from Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” “Fatherhood,” the Jason Momoa-starring “Sweet Girl,” the Amy Adams agoraphobia thriller “The Woman in the Window,” and more.
Netflix set a release date, announced the full cast, and revealed a first-look photo from “America: the Motion Picture,” a project that has been quiet...
Below find Netflix’s summer movie preview sizzle, featuring some of the highlights from the nearly three-dozen films the streamer is set to release between April and the end of August. Included in the video are clips from Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” “Fatherhood,” the Jason Momoa-starring “Sweet Girl,” the Amy Adams agoraphobia thriller “The Woman in the Window,” and more.
Netflix set a release date, announced the full cast, and revealed a first-look photo from “America: the Motion Picture,” a project that has been quiet...
- 4/27/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the Am dial, signed off from the “Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,” two days before Christmas, he warned the faithful in the raspy remains of his famous trumpeting baritone: “The day is gonna come, folks, where I’m not going to be able to do this anymore.”
For 13 terrible days in Trumpland — while the mad president that Limbaugh helped make possible was flailing for survival, while the faithful were trying to “stop the steal” of the election, and even while the Republicans...
For 13 terrible days in Trumpland — while the mad president that Limbaugh helped make possible was flailing for survival, while the faithful were trying to “stop the steal” of the election, and even while the Republicans...
- 2/17/2021
- by Bob Moser
- Rollingstone.com
While the Oscars and other awards bodies have all pushed events back on their calendar and expanded eligibility for what movies can be considered, the New York Film Critics Circle will only consider movies released in the 2020 calendar year for its annual awards.
The Nyfcc announced Friday it will vote for its 2020 awards on Dec. 18 and that only movies released in theaters or on digital platforms between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, will be considered.
Further, the date for the group’s annual Gala Awards dinner is still to be announced, and membership for 2020 members will be frozen this year, with all current members still eligible to vote, even as many critics’ jobs have been affected by Covid-19. No new members will be voted in this year.
“This is a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. But the world of movies hasn’t stopped, and already, even in this very strange year,...
The Nyfcc announced Friday it will vote for its 2020 awards on Dec. 18 and that only movies released in theaters or on digital platforms between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, will be considered.
Further, the date for the group’s annual Gala Awards dinner is still to be announced, and membership for 2020 members will be frozen this year, with all current members still eligible to vote, even as many critics’ jobs have been affected by Covid-19. No new members will be voted in this year.
“This is a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. But the world of movies hasn’t stopped, and already, even in this very strange year,...
- 9/11/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Film journalists, critics, directors, and more are showing support for writer-actress-filmmaker Amy Seimetz on social media after news surfaced she has an open restraining order against “Primer” and “Upstream Color” director Shane Carruth. Seimetz starred opposite Carruth in “Upstream Color” and the two had a relationship that ended in 2018. Seimetz filed for the restraining order against Carruth on June 12, citing years of emotional and physical abuse. One alleged incident that occurred at a hotel in 2016 found Carruth strangling Seimetz until it was hard for her to breathe.
Seimetz’s restraining order gained visibility on social media after Carruth tweeted an image of the “Upstream Color” soundtrack on vinyl with part of the restraining order document sticking out from underneath it. The photo’s timing has led many people in the film community to wonder if Carruth is trying to take attention away from the release of Seimetz’s acclaimed new film “She Dies Tomorrow,...
Seimetz’s restraining order gained visibility on social media after Carruth tweeted an image of the “Upstream Color” soundtrack on vinyl with part of the restraining order document sticking out from underneath it. The photo’s timing has led many people in the film community to wonder if Carruth is trying to take attention away from the release of Seimetz’s acclaimed new film “She Dies Tomorrow,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Carl Reiner, a comedian, actor, and director best known for his roles on the Dick Van Dyke Show and the Ocean's movies, has died.
He was 98.
Variety first reported the news.
According to reports, Reiner passed away at his home in Beverly Hills Monday night, and was surrounded by his family.
He died of natural causes, according to his assistant, who shared the news wit Variety.
Reiner's manager George Shapiro took to Twitter earlier this week to share a photo of Reiner, his daughter, and Mel Brooks.
Reiner has been a part of some of the biggest TV shows and movies around, with an IMDb page that boasts more than 400 credits to his name.
In addition to starring in The Dick Van Dyke Show, he also created it. The popular series aired from 1961 to 66 and earned Reiner several Emmy wins.
Throughout his multi-decade career, he scored nine Primetime Emmy wins.
He was 98.
Variety first reported the news.
According to reports, Reiner passed away at his home in Beverly Hills Monday night, and was surrounded by his family.
He died of natural causes, according to his assistant, who shared the news wit Variety.
Reiner's manager George Shapiro took to Twitter earlier this week to share a photo of Reiner, his daughter, and Mel Brooks.
Reiner has been a part of some of the biggest TV shows and movies around, with an IMDb page that boasts more than 400 credits to his name.
In addition to starring in The Dick Van Dyke Show, he also created it. The popular series aired from 1961 to 66 and earned Reiner several Emmy wins.
Throughout his multi-decade career, he scored nine Primetime Emmy wins.
- 6/30/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Delia Harrington Feb 13, 2020
For a mostly progressive film, Birds of Prey's choice to queer code villains Roman Sionis and Victor Zsasz is an odd and problematic one.
Ewan McGregor’s Ramon Sionis, Aka Black Mask, has received near-universal praise for his performance as the intense, megalomaniacal villain in Birds of Prey, while Chris Messina’s Victor Zsasz has been applauded for a role deviating from his usual leading man fare. The pair have an obsessive dynamic where one feeds off of the other, though from scene to scene it’s unclear who is the parasite and who is the host.
Another fixture of this critical appraisal? Descriptors like flamboyant, campy and preening. The Chicago Sun-Times hits him with “flashy...preening and pouting.” Rolling Stone describes Zsasz as Sionis’s “boytoy.” That Star dropped any pretense and called him Liberace. That is to say, even those who aren’t explicitly...
For a mostly progressive film, Birds of Prey's choice to queer code villains Roman Sionis and Victor Zsasz is an odd and problematic one.
Ewan McGregor’s Ramon Sionis, Aka Black Mask, has received near-universal praise for his performance as the intense, megalomaniacal villain in Birds of Prey, while Chris Messina’s Victor Zsasz has been applauded for a role deviating from his usual leading man fare. The pair have an obsessive dynamic where one feeds off of the other, though from scene to scene it’s unclear who is the parasite and who is the host.
Another fixture of this critical appraisal? Descriptors like flamboyant, campy and preening. The Chicago Sun-Times hits him with “flashy...preening and pouting.” Rolling Stone describes Zsasz as Sionis’s “boytoy.” That Star dropped any pretense and called him Liberace. That is to say, even those who aren’t explicitly...
- 2/13/2020
- Den of Geek
Critics are underwhelmed with “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” saddling the finale to one of the biggest franchises of all time with just a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. They called the film a “safe,” “sour” or even “convoluted” end to the Skywalker saga.
It’s still early, and the score could change, but the review embargo for the film broke just after midnight on Wednesday, and with 119 critics reporting at time of writing, the current score places it below not just the previous “Star Wars” films “The Last Jedi” and “The Force Awakens,” but even behind “Solo” and “Rogue One,” though it’s just ahead of “Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” which has just a 53% score.
“Rest assured that there’s nothing in this final ‘Star Wars’ that would prompt the eye-rolls or the snickers of Episodes I-iii; Abrams is too savvy a studio player for those kinds of shenanigans,...
It’s still early, and the score could change, but the review embargo for the film broke just after midnight on Wednesday, and with 119 critics reporting at time of writing, the current score places it below not just the previous “Star Wars” films “The Last Jedi” and “The Force Awakens,” but even behind “Solo” and “Rogue One,” though it’s just ahead of “Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” which has just a 53% score.
“Rest assured that there’s nothing in this final ‘Star Wars’ that would prompt the eye-rolls or the snickers of Episodes I-iii; Abrams is too savvy a studio player for those kinds of shenanigans,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Welcome to this review of Impact Wrestling’s Over Drive, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have another random show that probably won’t do squat to make you care about the once-proud Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling. That’s a shame, because Tna used to be number two in wrestling. I hope this is good/it’s gonna suck/Han Solo’s last name is really stupid.
Match #1: The North defeated Cylar Andrews and Sam Adams
My Opinion: 2.9 out of 5 – The North were good here, but this was a Forrest Gump kinda thing. Life is like a box of chocolates and I like chicken wings.
Match #2: Clutch Adams defeated Blk Jeez, Evander James, Façade and DeSean Pratt – 5-Way Dance For The Ppw Title
My Opinion: 2.8 out of 5 – Jeez and Façade were the thing to take away from this match. How has neither man been...
Match #1: The North defeated Cylar Andrews and Sam Adams
My Opinion: 2.9 out of 5 – The North were good here, but this was a Forrest Gump kinda thing. Life is like a box of chocolates and I like chicken wings.
Match #2: Clutch Adams defeated Blk Jeez, Evander James, Façade and DeSean Pratt – 5-Way Dance For The Ppw Title
My Opinion: 2.8 out of 5 – Jeez and Façade were the thing to take away from this match. How has neither man been...
- 11/13/2019
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
One of the big questions facing “Joker” after its shocking Golden Lion win at the Venice Film Festival was how film critics and journalists would respond to the film when it touched down at the Toronto International Film Festival. The comic book film’s Venice victory proved to be hugely controversial on social media, leading some to think critical backlash was going to be inevitable at Tiff. Warner Bros. can rest easy as “Joker” made its Tiff debut to more rave reactions and Oscar buzz for Joaquin Phoenix’s transformative lead performance.
“‘Joker’ doesn’t reinvent the comic book movie, but it’s certainly the scariest one — a taut psychological thriller with a few horror movie twists,” IndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn wrote after the film’s first Tiff screening. “Joaquin Phoenix, though, yikes: Looks like he stepped out of ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,’ or maybe he’s still trapped there.
“‘Joker’ doesn’t reinvent the comic book movie, but it’s certainly the scariest one — a taut psychological thriller with a few horror movie twists,” IndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn wrote after the film’s first Tiff screening. “Joaquin Phoenix, though, yikes: Looks like he stepped out of ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,’ or maybe he’s still trapped there.
- 9/10/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Alvin Sargent, who won Oscars for writing Ordinary People and Julia and was nominated for Paper Moon, has died of natural causes in Seattle. He was 92. Sargent also won WGA Awards for all three of those films and received the guild’s career honor, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in 1991.
Sargent penned more than two dozen feature screenplays from the 1960s into the 2010s, most recently The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). His feature credits also include What About Bob? (1991), Other People’s Money (1991) and Unfaithful (2002).
He began his screenwriting career in television, penning episodes of such 1960s drama series Ben Casey, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Run for Your Life. He also wrote episodes of ABC’s short-lived Paper Moon spinoff series in which Jodie Foster played the role that won Tatum O’Neal a Supporting Actress Oscar.
Born on April 12, 1927, in Philadelphia, Sargent had...
Sargent penned more than two dozen feature screenplays from the 1960s into the 2010s, most recently The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). His feature credits also include What About Bob? (1991), Other People’s Money (1991) and Unfaithful (2002).
He began his screenwriting career in television, penning episodes of such 1960s drama series Ben Casey, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Run for Your Life. He also wrote episodes of ABC’s short-lived Paper Moon spinoff series in which Jodie Foster played the role that won Tatum O’Neal a Supporting Actress Oscar.
Born on April 12, 1927, in Philadelphia, Sargent had...
- 5/11/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
After M. Night Shyamalan’s 2016 film “Split” was revealed to be set in the same universe as his 2000 superhero thriller “Unbreakable,” the director brings all the characters together in “Glass.”
The heroes and villains of the previous two movies return in “Glass.” Bruce Willis plays David Dunn, the security guard with super strength; Samuel L. Jackson is Elijah Price a.k.a. the evil genius Mr. Glass who has bones as fragile as his nickname; and James McAvoy returns as Kevin Wendell Crumb, the villain from “Split” who has 24 different personalities.
In his review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman bemoans the lack of mystery and discovery that made the first two films so special. “The movie, watchable as it is, is still a disappointment, because it extends and belabors the conceits of ‘Unbreakable’ without the sensation of mystical dark discovery that made that film indelible,” he said.
“Glass” hits theaters on Jan.
The heroes and villains of the previous two movies return in “Glass.” Bruce Willis plays David Dunn, the security guard with super strength; Samuel L. Jackson is Elijah Price a.k.a. the evil genius Mr. Glass who has bones as fragile as his nickname; and James McAvoy returns as Kevin Wendell Crumb, the villain from “Split” who has 24 different personalities.
In his review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman bemoans the lack of mystery and discovery that made the first two films so special. “The movie, watchable as it is, is still a disappointment, because it extends and belabors the conceits of ‘Unbreakable’ without the sensation of mystical dark discovery that made that film indelible,” he said.
“Glass” hits theaters on Jan.
- 1/9/2019
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
This past weekend Michael Moore’s new movie Fahrenheit 11/9, about how the world as we know it in the Trump age came to be, didn’t set the box office on fire in the manner of his previous incendiary screed against the Bush administration, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). And speaking as someone who doesn’t watch box-office predictions like a hungry hawk, I didn’t really expect it to. A report I heard on NPR Monday morning said that it ranked #8 with Us ticket-buyers with $3.3 million, which was, as they spun it, “one of the highest debuts for a political documentary ever,” though far short of the $23.9 million raked in by Fahrenheit 9/11 on its opening weekend. In assessing the underwhelming weekend for Moore’s newest film, the Hollywood Reporter pointed out that “While it’s true Fahrenheit 11/9 posted one of the biggest bows ever for a political doc, it is only the...
- 9/26/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Do you care what Jim Gaffigan’s beer preferences are? I really don’t. His whole schtick is that he’s a goofy, uncool dad, so whatever brewski he likes to crack open after mowing the lawn and coaching T-ball is none of my concern. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale? Sam Adams Boston Lager? Bud Light Lime-a-Rita? Whatever, man. But…...
- 9/19/2018
- by Kate Bernot on The Takeout, shared by Laura M. Browning to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Roald Dahl Rankings
by Sam Adams
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
When it comes to Roald Dahl adaptations, there’s Wes Anderson‘s, and then there’s everyone else’s. Stop-motion animation was a logical step for one of the movies’ great miniaturists, and the animal-kingdom setting softens the harshness of Dahl’s worldview, which on screen often hardens into grotesquerie and cynicism. Like most of Anderson’s movies, “Mr. Fox” hides serious melancholy beneath its lacquered surface, just as Dahl’s whimsy mingles with the macabre.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Watched with adult eyes, Mel Stuart’s candy-coated adventure looks awfully threadbare in spots, but the movie got one thing gloriously, unequivocally right in casting Gene Wilder as its impish misanthrope. Like an Everlasting Gobstopper, Wilder’s always changing, from light to dark, sweet to sour, and if the movie sometimes struggles to keep up with him, Stuart was...
by Sam Adams
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
When it comes to Roald Dahl adaptations, there’s Wes Anderson‘s, and then there’s everyone else’s. Stop-motion animation was a logical step for one of the movies’ great miniaturists, and the animal-kingdom setting softens the harshness of Dahl’s worldview, which on screen often hardens into grotesquerie and cynicism. Like most of Anderson’s movies, “Mr. Fox” hides serious melancholy beneath its lacquered surface, just as Dahl’s whimsy mingles with the macabre.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Watched with adult eyes, Mel Stuart’s candy-coated adventure looks awfully threadbare in spots, but the movie got one thing gloriously, unequivocally right in casting Gene Wilder as its impish misanthrope. Like an Everlasting Gobstopper, Wilder’s always changing, from light to dark, sweet to sour, and if the movie sometimes struggles to keep up with him, Stuart was...
- 9/13/2018
- by Sam Adams
- The Wrap
Network: IFC. Episodes: 77 (half-hour). Seasons: Eight. TV show dates: January 21, 2011 — March 23, 2018. Series status: Cancelled. Performers include: Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Returning guests include Kyle MacLachlan, Kumail Nanjiani, Angel Bouchet, Sam Adams, Kristine Levine, Chloë Sevigny, Pat Boyle, John Levenstein, Henry Cottrell, Jana Lee Hamblin, Andrew Dhulst, Dana Millican, Katie O'Grady, Jaime Langton, Kyle Stoltz, and Jeff Goldblum. TV show description: From creators Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, and Jonathan Krisel, the Portlandia TV show is a satirical comedy featuring sketches that take a self-aware poke at life in Portland, Oregon. Brownstein and Armisen star as various characters, many of which recur on the series. Most of their characters utilize wigs, makeup, and costumes...
- 3/23/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe are ecstatic about the news of our favorite Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new project Memoria entering production. The latest: Tilda Swinton is aboard. The Film Stage has the report.Is the wait for Orson Welles' posthumously completed feature The Other Side of the Wind nearly over? It would seem so. Variety reports that composer Michel Legrand has joined the project to provide the score. Orson Welles for 2018 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or!Recommended VIEWINGYou're likely aware that American cinema's most controversial stylist has a new film arriving in cinemas this week. But have you seen this completely lovely set of interviews with the films cast (and titular dogs)?William Friedkin, the iconoclastic director of The Exorcist, has a most exciting new (exorcist themed) film: the documentary The Devil & Father Amorth.In a completely different register,...
- 3/21/2018
- MUBI
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Why U.S. Audiences Are More Comfortable With Subtitles Than Ever” — Scott Foundas at Variety chronicles the rising familiarity with foreign-born directors and multiple languages showing up in Hollywood movies. It’s less about the collective psyche of Americans, and more about studios coming to terms with the fact that we’re mostly not idiots who can’t read good and want to learn to do other things good, too. The main lesson is that if you make a subtitled movie, and it makes a billion dollars, studios stop caring about subtitles all that much. “Right the First Time” — Pinging off of Showgirls now being reconsidered as a misunderstood masterpiece of satire, Sam Adams at CriticWire asks the survey crowd about movies that everyone judged correctly the first time around. Heaven...
- 4/23/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Portland, Ore. — In the last season of "Portlandia," the mayor of this sustainability-obsessed city vanished in shame after he was singled out as Portland's "No. 1 electricity hog," Portland went into a blackout, cats barked, creepy music played, and a bizarre Australian who calls himself "Birdman" told guests at a bed and breakfast "there is no civilization."
Carrie and Fred – about the only characters in "Portlandia" with any grip on reality – tracked down the mayor at a compound in the wilderness where he was leading a band of savages, a la Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now."
"Do you come as assassins?" asks the muddled mayor, played by Kyle MacLachlan.
It's impossible for Fred and Carrie to get through to him, until they reveal that Seattle – Portland's archrival for hipness and progressivism – is about to take over their fair city.
"Under the cover of darkness, they might erect a Space Needle in Portland,...
Carrie and Fred – about the only characters in "Portlandia" with any grip on reality – tracked down the mayor at a compound in the wilderness where he was leading a band of savages, a la Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now."
"Do you come as assassins?" asks the muddled mayor, played by Kyle MacLachlan.
It's impossible for Fred and Carrie to get through to him, until they reveal that Seattle – Portland's archrival for hipness and progressivism – is about to take over their fair city.
"Under the cover of darkness, they might erect a Space Needle in Portland,...
- 6/12/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Aw, I still want to see Kermit sitting on one of The Voice's swivel chairs.
News
First, Merlin is cancelled, now EW reports that the third season of Sherlock will be delayed. New episodes aren't expected to air until late 2013 in the U.K. and 2014 on PBS. This isn't a good week for slashwink fans.
The internet has been abuzz about a vlog featuring Two and a Half Men's Angus T. Jones calling his TV series "filth" and asking viewers to stop watching it. When I first saw the headlines, I was ready to cheer Jones, but it turns out he's offended by the show from a religious conservative perspective (he seems to be one of those people who thinks any entertainment that offends them comes directly from Hell's Ministry of Propaganda), and he made his plea on a vlog with a homophobic past.
Southfork Ranch will open...
News
First, Merlin is cancelled, now EW reports that the third season of Sherlock will be delayed. New episodes aren't expected to air until late 2013 in the U.K. and 2014 on PBS. This isn't a good week for slashwink fans.
The internet has been abuzz about a vlog featuring Two and a Half Men's Angus T. Jones calling his TV series "filth" and asking viewers to stop watching it. When I first saw the headlines, I was ready to cheer Jones, but it turns out he's offended by the show from a religious conservative perspective (he seems to be one of those people who thinks any entertainment that offends them comes directly from Hell's Ministry of Propaganda), and he made his plea on a vlog with a homophobic past.
Southfork Ranch will open...
- 11/27/2012
- by LyleMasaki
- The Backlot
Vsc and Mvd Entertainment Group announce the North American release of the IFC comedy series "Portlandia: Season One" on DVD and a DVD/Blu-Ray combo December 6, 2011, showcasing all six, season one episodes and extensive bonus materials.
The series stars "Saturday Night Live"'s Fred Armisen and musician/actress Carrie Brownstein, who together co-created the series with director Jonathan Krisel.
The series of comedy shorts feature recurring characters including an organic farmer/cult leader, members of an adult hide and seek league, owners of a feminist book store, a militant bike messenger and an artsy couple who attach cut-outs of birds to everything.
Armisen and Brownstein encounter the bike-riding 'Mayor of Portland' (Kyle MacLachlan), who appears in three, season one episodes, with a cameo from the real mayor of Portland (Sam Adams) playing assistant to MacLachlan's mayor. Additional guest stars include Selma Blair, Steve Buscemi, Heather Graham, Aimee Mann,...
The series stars "Saturday Night Live"'s Fred Armisen and musician/actress Carrie Brownstein, who together co-created the series with director Jonathan Krisel.
The series of comedy shorts feature recurring characters including an organic farmer/cult leader, members of an adult hide and seek league, owners of a feminist book store, a militant bike messenger and an artsy couple who attach cut-outs of birds to everything.
Armisen and Brownstein encounter the bike-riding 'Mayor of Portland' (Kyle MacLachlan), who appears in three, season one episodes, with a cameo from the real mayor of Portland (Sam Adams) playing assistant to MacLachlan's mayor. Additional guest stars include Selma Blair, Steve Buscemi, Heather Graham, Aimee Mann,...
- 10/31/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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