3 posts tagged ‘paul king’
Doctor Who's Holiday Time, the DCEU's Sendoff, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week
Gizmodo,
It’s the final week of 2023, but the news hasn’t stopped quite yet. As the year wound down, the io9 crew found time to look back on the year’s events, say goodbye (and possibly hello?) to some old friends, and return to some haunts we left behind. Check them out here!—James Whitbrook Read more...
Wonka's Surprisingly Sweet Box Office Helped Cure Warner's Aquaman Blues
We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers—especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant’s Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothée Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit. Read more...
The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies
AV Club,
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) is not what one might call a conventional filmmaker, crafting his films with deadpan line delivery that enhances the surreal quality of their premises to lay bare fundamental truths of the human experience. His previous collaboration with… Read more...