579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Kathleen Kennedy Masterpieces, Ranked
Gizmodo,
We’ll never understand how certain pockets of the internet vilify Kathleen Kennedy. Since Kennedy became the president of Lucasfilm in 2012, she’s been instrumental in bringing one of the most famous franchises in the world back to prominence on the big screen and beyond. Under Kennedy we finally got to see what… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. explains how making Iron Man was a little bit indie
AV Club,
A little over four years ago (!), Martin Scorsese made a now-infamous pronouncement: Marvel movies are “not cinema.” In fact, they’re more like theme parks, in the Killers Of The Flower Moon director’s eye. That first shot kicked off a war as virulent as the one the Avengers had to fight against Thanos himself. It’s… Read more...
Marisa Abela debuts her Amy Winehouse (speaking) voice in first Back To Black teaser
Amy Winehouse is the next late, great artist to get the biopic treatment, after films like Elvis, Maestro, and Rocketman have made it a pretty significant trend in recent years. Winehouse’s meteoric rise and tragic death will be told through the lens of director Sam Taylor-Johnson, whose film Nowhere Boy, an… Read more...
Pixar's pandemic films are heading to theaters. Other studios should follow suit
2020 is a forgotten year at the movies. Namely because the movies and, more specifically, movie theaters barely existed. After Trolls: World Tour broke the dam for movies to bypass theaters and go straight to VOD, the words “day-and-date” emerged as a new form of distribution. Movies would simultaneously go live on… Read more...
The Book Of Clarence review: An adventurous homage to biblical epics
In The Book Of Clarence, writer and director Jeymes Samuel (The Harder They Fall) imagines a 13th apostle who lies his way into being a disciple of Jesus. Set in Jerusalem in the year 33, the film follows a charming small-time crook talented in the art of hustling. He’s not a believer in God, but rather someone who… Read more...
2023 Emmys predictions: Who will win—and who should win
The latest Primetime Emmy nominations, which cover work that aired from June 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023, offer an embarrassment of riches. The period boasts the final seasons of Succession, Barry, Reservation Dogs, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Ted Lasso; the successful sophomore returns of The White Lotus, Abbott… Read more...
Max dumps Julia after two seasons
Max no longer loves Julia, with the streaming service announcing tonight that it’s killing off the series—about the life and times of culinary superstar Julia Child—after two seasons on the network. Created by Daniel Goldfarb, and showrun by Chris Keyes, the show starred Sarah Lancashire as Child and David Hyde Pierce… Read more...
Star Trek races to announce it's getting a new movie too, okay?
Although there’s been a fair amount of ink spilled, over the last few years, about the ways Disney’s Star Wars movie franchise kind of fell off a cliff in the immediate aftermath of The Rise Of Skywalker, it’s worth remember that Star Trek has had it a hell of a lot worse. Although Trek’s television fortunes are doing… Read more...