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R.I.P. Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016)
3 hours ago
The year in heartbreak continues. Just one day following the passing of Carrie Fisher, her mother Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84 after suffering a stroke. Her son, Todd Fisher, told the Associated Press the death of Carrie Fisher “was too much” for Reynolds.
“She wanted to be with Carrie,” he added to Variety.
Her career career was launched after she won the Miss Burbank contest at the age of 16, and she went on to make a splash in an early film role that remains one of her best remembered in “Singin’ in The Rain.” Reynolds would go on to be nominated for both the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress for “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” she’d win the National Board Of Review award for Best Supporting Actress in “The Catered Affair,” and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for her guest turn on “Will & Grace. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Mike Mills’ ’20th Century Women’ Is Impressive, Moving & Heartbreaking [Review]
8 hours ago
Dorothea Fields is a 50-something woman trying to raise her teenage son Jamie by herself in 1979 Santa Barbara, California. It’s a pivotal point in history. The economy is crap, Jimmy Carter is probably the right president at the wrong time, and a rebellious punk-rock attitude is festering among the young. Seeing her son slowly turn away — like all adolescents do — Dorothea takes the dramatic step of enlisting the help of her boarder, Abbie, and Jamie’s slightly older best friend, Julie, to help raise him.
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- Gregory Ellwood
‘Alien: Covenant’ Trailer Gets Recut ‘Prometheus’ Style
9 hours ago
On Christmas Day, the elves at 20th Century Fox delivered a very red-band trailer for “Alien: Covenant,” and after a preceding week of hype and anticipation and teases, the result was distinctly underwhelming. I don’t know about you, but something felt a bit off in the promo for the upcoming movie, whether it was uninspired riffs on franchise touchstones (“How about instead of a chest-burster, a back-burster!?”) and/or material that felt ripped right out of much schlockier horror movies (that shower scene is really cornball, and new rule: no more leaning over face first into creepy space plants/eggs in “Alien” movies).
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Alfonso Cuarón Reveals Banksy Nearly Worked On ‘Children Of Men’
10 hours ago
It says something about current post-Brexit, post-Donald Trump-election era that we’re living that, 10 years on from first hitting cinemas, Alfonso Cuarón‘s “Children Of Men” has gone from fanciful apocalyptic vision to having serious contemporary resonance. Set in 2027 (just 10 years away, everybody), the film tracks a man who agrees to bring safe passage to woman whose fertility, in a time when women are unable to conceive, may bear the hope for the future of the human race — certainly one with a little more promise than the bombed-out London Cuarón presents in his movie.
Continue reading Alfonso Cuarón Reveals Banksy Nearly Worked On ‘Children Of Men’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Rumor: Deadpool Will Cameo In ‘Logan’
11 hours ago
With Hugh Jackman swearing up and down that this time he’s for real done with playing Wolverine after “Logan,” it makes Ryan Reynolds‘ dreams of a Deadpool/Wolverine movie that much more distant. But perhaps this is the next best thing.
Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017
The Wrap reports that Ryan Reynolds has filmed a cameo scene, helmed by “Deadpool 2” director David Leitch, for “Logan,” and it’s expected to be a post-credit sequence.
Continue reading Rumor: Deadpool Will Cameo In ‘Logan’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
The Best & Worst Moments, Scenes, Odds & Ends And More Of 2016
11 hours ago
With Christmas come and gone, and just a few days left of 2016, we’re very nearly at the end of our month-look binge of the best and worst of the year at the movies. We’ve got a couple more features still to come, but despite the thousands of words we’ve already dropped, there’s still lots more to talk about that didn’t quite fit in one of the existing features we already had.
And so comes an annual piece we refer to as the grab-bag: a chaotic, unruly, sprawling look at basically whatever we want, with a particular focus on films, or elements of films, that we haven’t talked about elsewhere.
Continue reading The Best & Worst Moments, Scenes, Odds & Ends And More Of 2016 at The Playlist. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
‘The Expendables 4’ Coming To Theaters In 2018
12 hours ago
After the third installment in 2014, the question was up in the air about what to do with “The Expendables” franchise, which, laughable as it may be, has earned over $800 million worldwide across three movies. One idea that was tossed around and didn’t really go anywhere was launching an event series on Fox, in which formerly famous TV stars would come together for a probably hokey adventure. Instead, it looks like we’re going to get yet another movie.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
First Look: Robert Redford & Jane Fonda In Netflix’s ‘Our Souls At Night’
12 hours ago
As a big fan of the novels by Kent Haruf, I’m really wary of his work being adapted. Granted I can’t vouch for Hallmark‘s 2004 take on “Plainsong,” but generally speaking, the author’s work hinges on small moments, with heartbreak and drama unfolding in the everyday modulations of regular life. And bringing that to the big screen, or Netflix, where emotional beats are often decorated by performances and score selections and more, could bring the wrong tone to the source material.
Continue reading First Look: Robert Redford & Jane Fonda In Netflix’s ‘Our Souls At Night’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Logan’ Gets Serious In New Poster & Images From The Film
13 hours ago
Wolverine is returning for the last time on the big screen (as least as played by Hugh Jackman), and it’s going to be gritty, serious, and adult, landing with an R-rating. The first forty minutes of the movie, which has been shown to select press and screened at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, is already generating some strong buzz. And 20th Century Fox and the team behind the movie are doing their part to continue the sell that this final chapter with Hugh Jackman ain’t for kids.
Continue reading ‘Logan’ Gets Serious In New Poster & Images From The Film at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Oli Lyttelton’s Top 15 Films Of 2016
14 hours ago
I promised my editors that I’d ease off on the ‘2016 was awful’ intros to our year-end features. That said, fuck 2016, right in the eye. It’s been a crappy twelve months personally and politically (though happily not professionally), and for the first six months or so, cinematically too.
But fortunately, the movies came through, and the late summer and fall pulled things back to, if not a classic year of film, at least one with a variety and diversity of great movies of every kind.
Continue reading Oli Lyttelton’s Top 15 Films Of 2016 at The Playlist. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Zal Batmanglij Talks The “Hypermasculinity Meets Hyperfemininity” Finale Of ‘The Oa’
14 hours ago
**Spoilers ahead**
A show about life, death and the afterlife that also involves dance (though that term itself is a bit reductive), Netflix‘s “The Oa” is certainly one of the most ambitious sci-fi/fantasy shows (again, it fits those boxes but also expands beyond them) to arrive in quite some time. If the secretive nature of its production and launch started the buzz, the series finale has truly got people talking.
Continue reading Zal Batmanglij Talks The “Hypermasculinity Meets Hyperfemininity” Finale Of ‘The Oa’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Scarlett Johansson Tops Forbes List Of The Top-Grossing Actors Of 2016
15 hours ago
A few weeks back, Forbes dropped their list of the most overpaid actors in Hollywood, using a curious formula that only included movies released through June. It meant that the list was heavy with A-list stars, and someone like Will Smith made the list, even though he starred in “Suicide Squad” which made some impressive money at the box office. It seemed engineered to ensure big names would make the list, and so it goes for the site’s ranking of the Top-Grossing Actors Of 2016.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Jim Jarmusch Explains Why “The Auteur Thing Is Nonsense”
15 hours ago
The title of “auteur” is a mantle that some directors will gladly wear, owning the authorship and imprint they have on their movies. And arguments can be made for many filmmakers, from Alfred Hitchcock to David Fincher and beyond, falling comfortably into that category. But there are others who rejection the notion and title, and one of them is Jim Jarmusch.
The independent director and pioneer undoubtedly has a distinctive body of work, and this year’s lovely “Paterson” is yet another entry in his lengthy filmography of movies that could truly be directed by no one else.
Continue reading Jim Jarmusch Explains Why “The Auteur Thing Is Nonsense” at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Once Again The Most Pirated TV Show Of The Year
16 hours ago
It figures that the most popular TV shows will be the ones that are most pirated, but it’s still a bit surprising that for the fifth year running, “Game Of Thrones” remains at the top of the list of the most stolen series.
HBO‘s juggernaut has captured a global audience, and the network is certainly aware that many viewers are finding other ways to watch the show without buying a subscription.
Continue reading ‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Once Again The Most Pirated TV Show Of The Year at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Carrie Fisher Adores Her Mother And Is Uniquely Self-Deprecating: An Unpublished October Interview
27 December 2016 1:27 PM, PST
I spoke to Carrie Fisher on the phone in October. It was pretty damn exciting even if it was just in the context of a piece about her new documentary for the La Times. I mean, how many times in your life do you get to talk to Princess Leia herself?
Of course, it’s sad that everyone has to be reminded, but she was so much more than that iconic character.
Continue reading Carrie Fisher Adores Her Mother And Is Uniquely Self-Deprecating: An Unpublished October Interview at The Playlist. »
- Gregory Ellwood
Face The Future With New Images From ‘Blade Runner 2049’ & ‘Ghost In The Shell’
27 December 2016 1:25 PM, PST
Sci-fi fans are going to have some big movies to feast on in 2017, with some major franchise and properties hitting the screen. And outside of “Star Wars: Episode VIII,” few will be bigger than “Blade Runner 2049.”
The sequel to Ridley Scott‘s stone cold classic sees Denis Villeneuve behind the camera, and while he feels the pressure, he says that in a strange way, it’s also fueling the creative spark of the movie.
Continue reading Face The Future With New Images From ‘Blade Runner 2049’ & ‘Ghost In The Shell’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Carrie Fisher Had Finished Her Scenes For ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’
27 December 2016 12:47 PM, PST
It feels a bit crass to talk about the future of the “Star Wars” franchise just hours after learning of the death of Carrie Fisher, but it’s undeniably a question that many will be wondering about as the new year approaches and “Star Wars: Episode VIII” draws closer on the horizon. And it sounds like Fisher had finished her work on Rian Johnson‘s forthcoming film.
Continue reading Carrie Fisher Had Finished Her Scenes For ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
The 25 Best Movie Music Moments Of 2016
27 December 2016 12:13 PM, PST
Howard Hawks once defined a good movie as one with “three good scenes and no bad ones.” Whether or not you think he’s right — and he’s not massively wrong — it’s often the moments that make the movies for us, and there’s no better way to make a moment memorable than with some music.
Read More: The 25 Best Films Of 2016
From the chorus lines of Busby Berkeley and “The Sound Of Silence” in “The Graduate” to Chuck Berry in “Pulp Fiction” and “Where Is My Mind” in “Fight Club,” movies and cinema are intrinsically linked together, with songs made indelible by scenes in films, and scenes made by indelible songs.
Continue reading The 25 Best Movie Music Moments Of 2016 at The Playlist. »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Robert Carlyle Says He Was “Crying” Reading The Script Of ‘T2 Trainspotting,’ Plus New Images From The Film
27 December 2016 11:58 AM, PST
It’s been 20 years since “Trainspotting” put director Danny Boyle and the cast on the map, sold a boatload of soundtracks, and captured the energetic despair of a generation. Revisiting that same ground two decades on in “T2 Trainspotting” is a challenge, but it really sounds they got it right as the script even left Begbie in tears.
Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017
“I was crying,” Robert Carlyle told Empire.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ VFX Breakdown Highlights Heavy Use Of CGI
27 December 2016 11:28 AM, PST
There is nothing small about the films of Zack Snyder. Heavily stylized, for better or worse, the director puts a strong thumbprint on the movies he makes, but particularly as of late, post-production has been an important tool in putting together his movies. It’s not a surprise that this year’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice” featured CGI, but you might be surprised at just how much digital paintwork was slapped onto the movie.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
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