Classic Movies: Golden Age Movie Classics
The Snow White story has been retold in movie adaptations dozens of times (including earlier this year, when Chris Hemsworth starred in the spinoff The Huntsman: Winter’s War). Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Snow White may truly take home that honor: The fair princess is the latest Disney […]
Read MoreSTAR TREK BEYOND SYNOPSIS Star Trek Beyond, the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her intrepid […]
Read MoreWith an introduction from Charles M. Schulz himself, this wonderful Fandango Movieclips exclusive featurette shows your favorite Peanuts characters from their humble beginnings as a black and white comic strip through to their big screen debut in state-of-the-art 3D animation in The Peanuts Movie. Snoopy, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Linus and the rest of the beloved […]
Read MoreThis is director Frank ‘s classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it’s Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously contemplating suicide. High […]
Read MoreCourtesy of IFC Films Great films about ballet, from “The Red Shoes” to the recent doc “Ballet 422,” have always staged an elegant choreography between form and content, but Nelson George’s documentary about Misty Copeland, the groundbreaking African-American dancer, is disappointingly flat-footed. Over its 75-year history, New York’s prestigious American Ballet Theatre had never promoted […]
Read MoreCourtesy of Toronto Film Festival An old family estate reveals a fresh family scandal when a globe-trotter decides to revisit the house where he grew up in Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s “Families.” Featuring Mathieu Amalric as a loosely fictionalized version of the fastidious director, this tony character drama marks Rappeneau’s most personal film to date — and […]
Read MoreIt’s a sad commentary on our turbulent geopolitical times that the peak of the Cold War is now viewed with some pangs of nostalgia. In 1957, the globe was split down the middle, with the threat of Soviet and American nukes hanging over every potential crisis and negotiation. Perhaps there was some comfort in the […]
Read MoreGuillermo del Toro tries his elegant best to shake the cobwebs from a musty old genre but still ends up telling a very traditional and predictable haunted house yarn in Crimson Peak. The gifted fantasy/sci-fi/horror specialist has made a film that’s very bloody, and bloody stylish at that, one that’s certainly unequaled in its field […]
Read MoreAfter playing the ruthless, meth-dealing Walter White, Bryan Cranston wants to break bad again — this time, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ‘You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to do some big superhero villain in some Marvel classic,’ he told the U.K.’s Metro. But, there’s one casting condition: Cranston wants to play a […]
Read MoreCourtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Don Cheadle flails about trying to channel the spirit of late jazz-trumpeting legend Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” a biopic that rejects typical genre conventions to the point of chasing itself down lame, tangential paths. A passion project for its star, who also directed, co-wrote and co-produced the feature, this […]
Read MoreThe new Coen brothers film about Hollywood stars features an all-star Hollywood cast including George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. Hail, Caesar! follows Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood fixer tasked with keeping comprimising news about his clients out of the press, but his job becomes more difficult when Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), the […]
Read MoreIf you love horror comedies with a nostalgic flair for time-travel classics, you’re in luck. The Final Girls centers on Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her late mother (Malin Akerman), who was a famous horror star in the 1980s. When Max is drawn into the cinematic world of her mother’s best-known film, the pair must fend off the […]
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