579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
May December review: An intoxicating portrait of an emotional predator
AV Club,
From its very first shot Todd Haynes’ May December announces itself as a wildly intoxicating, intentionally strident provocation. Close-up images of Monarch butterflies and their surrounding manicured flower gardens are scored by the theme from Joseph Losey’s 1971 film The Go-Between. The archly dramatic music lends a… Read more...
YouTube Now Sells the AI Soul of Your Favorite Musician
Gizmodo,
YouTube is licensing out the voices and styles of popular artists with its first set of AI music experiments, announced Google in a blog post Thursday. Dream Track will allow creators to make short, AI-generated songs, using the voices of artists like Charlie Puth, T-Pain, and John Legend. Read more...
Thanksgiving review: Eli Roth serves up a gory feast
Horror fans have been waiting more than a decade for Thanksgiving, director Eli Roth’s holiday slasher about a killer in a pilgrim mask terrorizing a small Massachusetts town. Ever since Roth’s fake trailer for the film showed up in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, we’ve been wondering what the… Read more...
Shang-Chi, the Guardians, and Jeff Goldblum get the hypothetical treatment in What If…? season 2 trailer
Out of all its various TV and cinematic tributaries, the Marvel Cinematic Universe can only truly cut loose, canon-wise, in one place: Disney+’s animated What If…?. (Even if the first season of said show did eventually give in to the urge toward serialization that infects the entire project.) Mostly, though, the show… Read more...
Netflix cancels Shadow And Bone, four other shows
This summer’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes might be officially over, but that doesn’t mean the spree of studios killing off series in connection to them has fully abated. Hence news from Deadline tonight, which reports that Netflix has axed five different shows in one fell swoop. Read more...
Yes, we're all seeing those "Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic" rumors, too
Can we start this with a question, one intended with no disrespect to Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, or, god help us, Ioan Gruffudd, Miles Teller, or poor, cameo-trapped John Krasinski? Read more...
Dominic Monaghan on Attending Fan Conventions
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Avengers: The Kang Dynasty loses its director
As far as big cinematic tentpoles go, few look as wobbly, at least from the outside, as Marvel’s upcoming plans for 2025 and beyond’s “Phase Six.” Parent studio Disney has already been doing a bunch of schedule shifting this month, bumping lots of movies back by several months, and clearing out the Marvel 2024 film… Read more...