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‘Finding Dory’ Gets A Twisted Review From ‘The Onion,’ Analyzing Dory’s Crippling Amnesia — Watch
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“Finding Dory” is already breaking records at the box office on its first day out. The Disney/Pixar film has taken in a massive $9.2 million in Thursday night showings in Us showings, a record total for a Pixar movie.
Critics have praised the sequel to “Finding Nemo” and overall has garnered positive reviews with journalist saying it will be a fun adventure for the whole family. Though, in an interesting twist, The Onion’s movie critic Peter K. Rosenthal is looking at “Finding Dory” from a different perspective.
Watch: ‘Piper’ Exclusive Clip: Catch a First Look At The New Pixar Short Preceding ‘Finding Dory’
In his review, the journalist points out that the sequel is a “powerful indictment of how our societies failure to adequately care for the mentally disabled places an unbearable burden on the family and friends of those afflicted.” Talking about the plot, Rosenthal notes that those »
- Liz Calvario
‘Barry Lyndon’ New Trailer: Stanley Kubrick’s Classic Film Gets Update Treatment From the BFI – Watch
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Just as vibrant and urgent as it was when it debuted in 1975, Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” is perhaps the perfect historical epic to be re-introduced to a brand new audience. Masterfully crafted and featuring a slew of all-time performances (you’ve scarcely seen the full depth of Ryan O’Neal’s talents if you haven’t seen the feature), the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning film really does hold up (and it was overlooked during its own time), and the BFI is banking on that appeal to help send a new re-release over the top.
Read More: Watch: 19-Minute Look Back At Stanley Kubrick’s Overlooked Masterpiece ‘Barry Lyndon’
In advance of the new UK re-release of the film, the BFI and Warner Bros. commissioned Ignition Creative London to craft a new trailer for the film, one that builds in a contemporary feel without sacrificing the film’s authenticity (and includes »
- Kate Erbland
Tyler Hoechlin Is The New Small Screen Superman
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We learned earlier this month that Superman would finally be making an appearance in the second season of “Supergirl.” He had been teased through the first season, and was in touch at least digitally with his cousin Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), but now he’ll be getting an arc of sorts in the series, and the […]
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Review Roundup: Critics (Mostly) Go Wild for Animal Romp
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Pets! What do they do all day? Universal’s animation arm, Illumination Entertainment, has bravely tackled this exact question with its newest offering, “The Secret Life of Pets.” Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney, the film features an all-star cast of very funny voice talent, from Louis C.K. to Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate to Hannibal Burress, Lake Bell to Ellie Kemper and many, many more to tell the story of some house pets who go decidedly off the leash on a frisky adventure that pits them against a wily pack of unhappy animals. Here’s hoping for a happy ending.
Read More: ‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Review: Talking Animals Are Fun, But Don’t Expect the Pixar Touch
The film recently bowed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where a bevy of outlets were chomping at the bit to get a first look at pets, being secret, »
- Kate Erbland
Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Edward Snowden Collaborate On Tech Video, Ask Fans To Help Create Art Project — Watch
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s production company HitRecord started a project called “Are You There, Democracy? It’s Me, The Internet,” which examines the power and influence technology can have over day-to-day democracy in modern society. HitRecord recently solicited answers from the public regarding the question, “Is technology good or bad for democracy?” Many have provided their own video responses to the question, but one special person provided his own thoughts that required a bit more attention. Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked classified information from the Nsa that revealed the true nature of their global surveillance program, gave his answer to the question in which he ultimately expressed optimism about technology’s effect on democracy.
Inspired by Snowden’s response, Levitt and HitRecord are seeking help from fans, artists, and media collaborators alike to make a short film based off Snowden’s response. The idea is to visualize and »
- Vikram Murthi
How This Indie Filmmaker Explored the World of Fan Fiction to Find His Story of an Outsider
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Editor’s Note: Texas filmmaker and Dp Clay Liford has been on multi-year journey into the world of fan fiction to make his new film “Slash,” which premiered at SXSW and is screening Sunday night as part of the BAMcinemaFest. We asked Liford to reflect on his experience of finding his story. What we got was this wonderful essay about the joys of research and exploring a sub-culture in creating a unique cinematic world.
Read More: 12 Must-See Films at BAMCinemaFest 2016
I’ve always been attracted to characters who lived on the margins. Not necessarily outsiders with a capital “O.” Not your James Dean types. More just really passionate people heavily invested in things the general population may not really “get.” As a comic book convention kid who was pretty secretive about his nerdy interests all the way through high school, I felt the insular fandom community was the perfect conduit »
- Chris O'Falt
Exclusive: Clip From Crime Saga ‘Department Q: A Conspiracy Of Faith’ Finds The Light
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If you’re looking for something to add to your binge-watching schedule, or for a meaty crime saga to help pass the upcoming July 4th weekend, IFC Films has just the thing with their “Department Q” trilogy. They are bringing the Danish films stateside, and for anyone looking to dive into some intense thrillers, this will […]
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- Edward Davis
‘Everything Wrong With Jaws’ Gently Nitpicks One of the Greatest Films Ever — Watch
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In celebration of the release of “Finding Dory,” the sequel to Pixar’s 2003 animated underwater adventure movie “Finding Nemo,” Cinema Sins has posted a hilarious nine-minute YouTube video pointing out 55 “sins” committed by the makers of “Jaws.”
What kind of “sins” are we talking about? The video takes the filmmakers to task for everything from stacking actors’ names in a confusing manner (see below) to the strange way the shark decides which children to eat in the movie.
“All these tasty legs just dangling around in the water for me to eat,” the video’s narrator says. “I shall go after the kid on the raft! His mom will be the most pissed!”
Some of the 55 sins explained in the video include the way the shark seems to play with its food by dragging people on the surface of the water instead of immediately taking them under, to how Amity »
- Graham Winfrey
Nicolas Winding Refn Says Initially Nobody Liked ‘Drive,’ Plus New Clips From ‘The Neon Demon’
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Beauty, fame, celebrity, horror, blood….Nicolas Winding Refn‘s upcoming “The Neon Demon” is going to be bringing a seriously potent blend of elements when it arrives in cinemas next week, and audiences everywhere can experience the film that divided audiences at the Cannes Film Festival. And while it might seem like Refn has been actively avoiding […]
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- Kevin Jagernauth
IndieWire’s Movie Podcast: Screen Talk (Episode 102): How ‘Finding Dory’ Recaptures the Pixar Touch
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It’s been a difficult week. The tragic events in Orlando have cast a shadow on other stories in the news cycle. But at least one new release offers some respite from the grim headlines: “Finding Dory,” a new Pixar movie that recaptures some of the studio’s trademark appeal. In this week’s episode of Screen Talk, Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson debate that movie in addition to other new releases. The pair also touch on some recent panel discussions about distribution and journalism, then turn to the latest updates to the ongoing awards season buzz.
Listen to the full episode above.
Screen Talk is available on iTunes. You can subscribe here or via RSS. Share your feedback with Thompson and Kohn on Twitter or sound off in the comments. Browse previous installments here, review the show on and be sure to let us know if you’d like »
- Eric Kohn
Eastern Effects: The Fight to Save The Brooklyn Home of ‘The Americans’ Is Brought To Mayor de Blasio’s Doorstep
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When mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio was running for the highest office in New York City, he promised to build on Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy of supporting the continued growth of film and television production in the city by helping the film industry spread into the outer boroughs. With cleanup of the Gowanus Canal threatening to close Brooklyn-based Eastern Effects’ main facility – including their main sound stage and productions office that have served as the home of FX’s “The Americans” – many in the New York film industry showed up at City Hall on Wednesday to call on the mayor to deliver on those promises.
“Last Thursday the Epa made it official, our studio, which we’ve spent invested years of our lives and millions of loaned dollars, will be demolished for a temporary staging site for Gowanus Canal cleanup. We are here today to call on the city to step in and save us, »
- Chris O'Falt
‘Born to Be Free’ Documentary Hopes To Draw ‘Blackfish’-Level Attention To Beluga Whale Plight
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A new documentary funded almost entirely by a IndieGoGo campaign aims to draw attention to the brutal treatment and rapid diminishing number of Beluga whales. “Born to Be Free” will highlight the dangerous predicament of 18 Beluga whales that were captured off the coast of Russia, as well as the overall negative effects of sea mammal captivity.
Read More: Hurt by ‘Blackfish’ Backlash, SeaWorld Ends Orca Show in San Diego
The 18 animals were originally intended for U.S. aquariums including SeaWorld, but a new law prohibited the import of sea mammals and left the group of Belugas stuck living in too-small tanks in Russia. By the time the documentary catches up with the group after six years of captivity, one whale had died and the others were severely ill.
“Born to Be Free” highlights the growing demand for sea mammals all over the world and the inhumane treatment that awaits them in captivity. »
- Kate Halliwell
Damien Chazelle’s Ryan Gosling- and Emma Stone-Starring Awards Contender ‘La La Land’ Lands a Venice Premiere
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Damien Chazelle’s highly anticipated post-“Whiplash” feature, a Hollywood-centric musical with the adorable moniker “La La Land,” will open the 73rd Venice Film Festival. The Ryan Gosling- and Emma Stone-starring film will have its world premiere on August 31, and will be part of the competition slate of the fest, which runs through September 10.
The film, billed by Variety as “a tribute to the Golden Age of American musicals, also stars John Legend and Chazelle’s “Whiplash” Oscar winner J.K. Simmons. The musical centers on Gosling’s character, a jazz pianist, who falls in love with Stone’s character, an aspiring actress. Per the film’s official synopsis, their budding romance is threatened by outside forces and passions and, “as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in »
- Kate Erbland
Review: ‘Orange is the New Black’ Season 4 Will Wreck You (In the Most Important Ways)
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Year by year, things keep getting worse and worse for the Litchfield Federal Penitentiary inmates, who have become the one fucked-up TV family we always look forward to visiting. It’s as much a testament to Netflix and creator Jenji Kohan, for showcasing the show’s diverse cast of incredible actors, as it is the power of television, which lets our relationships with characters, as technically one-sided as they might be, bloom and grow.
Read More: Why Netflix Renewed ‘Orange is the New Black’ for Three Seasons
Like any relationship allowed to blossom, the potential for heartbreak is real. This year, that’s more true than ever.
Season 4 begins moments after the transcendent beauty of the Season 3 finale, picking up with the creation of bunk beds in the dorms. “Orange” thus immediately takes on the issue of prison overcrowding by immediately doubling the occupancy of the prison without additionally addressing »
- Liz Shannon Miller
31-Minute Condensed Cut Of ‘The Day The Clown Cried’ Offers Biggest Look Yet At Jerry Lewis’ Notorious Film
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The story around Jerry Lewis‘s allegedly terrible and near-unwatchable Holocaust drama “The Day The Clown Cried” is the stuff of legend. The movie, filmed but never fully completed or released, has been described by the very few who been able to view it, as an artistic folly that widely misses the mark. Telling the story of […]
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Vote for Project of the Week: Will It Be ‘Black Kungfu Chick,’ ‘Novela,’ ’37 Days’ or ‘In the Wake of Ire’?
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The winning filmmaker will become a candidate for June Project of the Month. That winner will be in the running for Project of the Year.
The three projects up for this week’s Project of the Week are listed below, with descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers. You can vote at the bottom of the page.
Black Kungfu Chick: After a young girl from South Los Angeles fails a class the summer before she graduates, she learns kungfu from her premed teacher to protect her community from local menaces.
Novela: A frame-by-frame animation about a woman who tries to emulate the life of her favorite soap opera protagonist.
37 Days: When Maria, a young pregnant woman is fired, she goes on a birth strike. A short film about a dream set in Athens, Greece.
In the Wake of Ire: When an apocalyptic virus threatens to turn her father into a violent monster, »
- Steve Greene
‘David Brent: Life on the Road’ Trailer: Ricky Gervais Revives His ‘Office’ Character For Mock Rock Doc
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Ricky Gervais revives his most iconic character David Brent from the influential BBC series “The Office” in the new film “David Brent: Life on the Road.” 12 years after the initial documentary, the former paper salesman returns to the limelight in a “rock ‘n’ roll documentary” as Brent goes on a self-funded tour with his band Foregone Conclusion, all the while still a traveling salesman. The trailer promises plenty of cringe-worthy, painful humor that was a staple of the original series as Brent’s lack of filter or self-awareness puts him and the band in uncomfortable situations. Will Brent finally come to terms with the pitiful reality of his own life or will he keep riding high on delusion touring the country as a “rock star.” Watch the trailer below to find out.
Read More: Ricky Gervais Returns as David Brent in First Look at New ‘The Office’ Film, ‘Life on »
- Vikram Murthi
Why William Shatner Joined a Group of U.S. Military Veterans to Make a Zombie Comedy
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What do U.S. military veterans know about making movies? If the early success of the zombie comedy “Range 15” is any indication — kind of a lot, actually.
Billed as the first film to be produced by and star primarily U.S. military veterans, the movie claimed the Best Film Award at the GI Film Festival last month and has already generated more than $500,000 in its first week at the box office, showing on more than 550 screens through the crowdsourcing company Tugg, which lets individuals choose a film they want to pay to see in theaters. The film first hit theaters on Wednesday, June 15.
Watch: Veterans Face the Emotional Aftermath of Combat in Exclusive ‘Searching For Home’ Trailer
“Range” combines more than two dozen U.S. military vets with Hollywood actors William Shatner, Sean Astin, Keith David and Danny Trejo in a story about a zombie apocalypse that threatens to destroy the U. »
- Graham Winfrey
Film Acquisition Rundown, Week of June 13: Miramax Hits High Note for ‘Whitney’ Doc, Wolfe Is Going to ‘Akron’ and More
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Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Miramax has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Whitney” from director Kevin Macdonald and will reteam with frequent partner Roadside Attractions to handle the U.S. theatrical release. The forthcoming documentary feature about the career of the late legendary singer Whitney Houston will be produced by Simon Chinn, along with his Lightbox Media partner and Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn and producer Lisa Erspamer. Executive producers on the film are Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall from Altitude Film Entertainment, who are handling international sales and introduced the project to buyers at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where the project sold out.
– Wolfe Releasing has acquired gay coming-of-age family drama “Akron” and has secured all worldwide rights (except U. »
- Kate Erbland
Tilda Swinton Plays Twins In Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Okja,’ More Plot Details Revealed
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The films of Bong Joon-Ho have never lacked for imagination and style. However, for his upcoming “Okja,” he might be taking his all-star cast along for the ride in what may be his most out there movie yet. Read More: Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Okja’ Starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal And Paul Dano Has Started Filming We already know […]
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- Charles Dean
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