6 posts tagged ‘studio ghibli’
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...
Year-end roundtable: Warner Bros. Discovery's 12 months on fire
AV Club,
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
The Boy And The Heron takes the weekend box office, with Godzilla Minus One not far behind
It’s an exciting weekend for international cinema at the U.S. box office, with two Japanese films hitting the top three in American theaters—one live-action and one animated! The top spot went to the animated one, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, which opened with $10 million (and on 1,000 fewer screens than… Read more...
The Boy & the Heron Flies to Break a North American Box Office Record
Up to release, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s newest film The Boy & the Heron has had a lot of discussion centering around what it’s potentially meant to be. Is it actually Miyazaki’s for real, final film? Was it really the best idea to not really promote it or even give any idea as to what it’s about? The answer… Read more...
The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies
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...
Dig in! 20 of the most unforgettable food scenes in movies
It’s time again to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with friends or family and remember what you’re thankful for. Here at The A.V. Club we’re thankful for movies with amazing food scenes that help us work up an appetite. In that spirit, we’ve come up with a list of food-related scenes (in no particular order) that… Read more...