Browsing: movies

At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps for that alone Maggie Gyllenhaal is deserving of some kudos. Unfortunately everything else about her woefully misguided take on The Bride of Frankenstein invites ridicule rather than recognition, to the extent that watching The Bride! evoked a deep feeling of second-hand embarrassment. How could a filmmaker who showed such promise with The Kindergarten Teacher and The Lost Daughter deliver such a spectacular misfire?Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale reanimate the titular Bride and Frankenstein’s Monster (who goes by ​‘Frank’ in 1936, still kicking 117 years…

Loss of Balance (2024) by Wiktor Bojanowski – A Sharp Portrait of Ambition Inside the Acting Classroom top of pagebottom of page

It seems today that all you see is AI in movies and AI on TV, and now the latter applies to Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s Ted series.Season 2 of MacFarlane’s Peacock comedy series based on the creator’s Ted film franchise only premiered last night (March 5), but it’s already going viral thanks to the actor’s creepily realistic portrayal of former president Bill Clinton.MacFarlane used AI to transform himself into an unmistakable ‘90s-era Clinton, whose voice the director-producer previously imitated a number of times over the years on his long-running adult animated show Family Guy.The scene featuring MacFarlane’s uncanny Clinton transformation…

Nobody truly wins in war, and sci-fi television understands that better than most. The concept of war has long existed since the dawn of time. These days, sci-fi series have used distant planets, futuristic empires, and alien civilizations to explore the same war conflicts that feel deeply human. Stripping away national borders and traditional bureaucracy, pushing war beyond the conventions of Earth gives a new perspective and complexity on how war is conducted. Whether it’s fighting against the Empire or leveraging on the innocent, these sci-fi stories show that peace is rarely pursued without bloodshed. Characters are often forced to…

Steven Spielberg’s The Dinosaurs has surged to the top of Netflix’s domestic streaming chart, giving the critically acclaimed director another major streaming success. Netflix has released hit after hit when it comes to documentaries, docuseries, and docudramas in recent years. From true crime and natural history to social commentaries, the streaming platform has done it all. Within the last decade, the company has released incredibly popular projects such as A Friend, A Murderer, The Social Dilemma, and now The Dinosaurs. The Dinosaurs is a Netflix miniseries produced by Spielberg. The four-part documentary is narrated by Morgan Freeman and follows the…

The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, in which four generations of life play out within the confines of a rural farmhouse in north Germany. Over the course of a century Schilinski flickers between the lives of Alma (Hanna Heckt), Erika (Lea Drinda), Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) and Lenka (Laeni Geiseler), charting their young lives at the turn of the century, the midst of the Second World War, the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s and the present country respectively. Between childhood games and the first blush of romantic feeling,…

Why it is trending: The Bobby Lees’ New Self is igniting buzz across the punk world as the band’s Epitaph debut delivers their most expansive and ferocious sound yet, amplified by heavyweight production and their ever-explosive reputation.The Bobby Lees have never been a band that ease their way into a room — they detonate. Formed in 2017 in Woodstock, the trio — Sam Quartin (vocals/guitar), Macky Bowman (drums), and Kendall Wind (bass) — quickly built a reputation for furnace-blast live shows and bottled-lightning studio recordings. Their uncompromising intensity has earned admiration from icons like Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, and Henry Rollins, placing them…

The end is never the end in the world of intellectual property. As long as fans are loud and annoying enough, and someone thinks there is more money to be made, even a long-canceled television show can return in some form or fashion.Typically, that form or fashion is another television show; a revival or a reboot or hey, even an animated version. (You ever see The New Adventures of Gilligan? That lovable scamp is never getting off that island!) Once in a while, though, the fanbase for a show gets so loud and so annoying that a studio will shunt it from television to…

While Fool Me Once is certainly Harlan Coben’s most-watched TV show, even grasping Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched TV shows of all-time list at one point, there are a few of his series that have remained under the radar. Among them is Stay Close, a 2021 eight-episode drama series on Netflix that’s full of twists and turns, and has scored an impressive 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. The series, which has Coben’s signature style with mind-bending mystery, is the perfect weekend binge for anyone looking to be gripped from beginning to end. The story is all about how the past can come…

ScreenRant is hosting an early screening and Q&A of 20th Century Fox and Hulu’s Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. The action comedy tells the story of two gangsters, Nick (Vince Vaughn) and Mike (James Marsden), and the woman they love, Alice (Eiza González), trying to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s a time machine involved. The Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice screening will take place on Wednesday, March 18, a little over a week before it comes to Hulu and Disney+ on Hulu. Not only does the…