Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024

When we first meet the hero of Guy Ritchie's new Netflix series, he's not exactly what you'd expect from a Guy Ritchie hero. He's a peacekeeper for the United Nations, under orders to de-escalate tensions. Can that really last, this being a Guy Ritchie series? Doubtful.

"The Gentlemen," a...

Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024

A new entry in the "Avatar" franchise is about to soar and James Cameron has no part in it.

"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a completely different fictional world from Cameron's Pandora but the two similarly named dueling sci-fi fantasy properties have kept throwing out new entries over...

Monday, Feb. 19, 2024

Although Vince Staples has been in the limelight for more than a decade, he still thinks fame is a weird thing.

And while the Southern California rapper isn't necessarily concerned with "making the best thing" or reaping critical praise, he's willing to endure the publicity machine if it...

Monday, Jan. 29, 2024

Thirty-nine years ago, the biggest music stars in the world crammed into a recording studio in Los Angeles for an all-night session that they hoped might alter music history.

"We Are the World" was a 1985 charity single for African famine relief that included the voices of Michael Jackson...

Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024

In 2021, Sam Song Li was cast in an independent film as the ancestor of a character played by a pre-"Shang-Chi" Simu Liu. To the general public, the non-speaking cameo might seem insignificant. But for Li, it was a seminal moment.

A producer told him she picked him after looking at more...

Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

When Gustavo Zerbino watched "La Sociedad de la Nieve," the 1972 plane crash survivor felt as if he was being submerged "into boiling water," reliving the roughly 70 days he and his teammates were stranded in the snow-covered Andes mountains.

Zerbino praised J.A. Bayona's raw and...

Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023

Carey Mulligan recently realized that she's spent much of her professional career holding back.

That might be surprising to hear for an actor with two Oscar nominations, a Tony nod and a laundry list of extraordinary films and enviable roles. She just didn't get precious about it and...

Friday, Dec. 15, 2023

The two latest feature films lensed by Erik Messerschmidt, ASC have him once again in the awards season conversation--director Michael Mann’s Ferrari (Neon) which will debut in U.S. theaters on Dec. 25, and David Fincher’s The Killer (Netflix), which has been already released...

Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023

Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein's very public life as a conductor while diving into his more private marriage to Felicia Montealegre. How each side of Bernstein's existence interacts with the...

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023

There is hardly a false note in " May December, " an audaciously self-aware, mischievously funny and emotionally complex drama that defies simple categorization.

Filmmaker Todd Haynes, working from a script by newcomer Samy Burch, deftly mixes cheesy movie of the week tropes with the...

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