The organizers of SXSW announced on Friday that it will hold its film competition digitally after the main festival was canceled over coronavirus health risks. Jury members will judge competition entrants online this year, via links and uploaded submissions, festival director Janet Pierson told theThe Hollywood Reporter. “This was going …
Read More »Long May She Reign: How Regina King Conquered Hollywood
On the Sunday morning before Christmas, Regina King shows up alone at the Villa Carlotta in L.A. That is, unless you count her dog, Cornbread, a 14-year-old Lab-Akita mix with yellow fur, one brown eye and one blue, and a walk that says he’s still too proud to start limping. …
Read More »'Onward' Review: Pixar's Elf-Family Fantasy Is Light on Company's Magic
Even when a new Pixar movie isn’t up to, well, Pixar’s regular high standards, there is still animated magic to be had. That’s the case with Onward, a sweet-silly-slapdash tale about two pointy-earred elves: shy, introverted, teenaged Ian Lightfoot (voiced by Spider-Man Tom Holland) and his blustering, bumbling older brother …
Read More »Best Movies to See In March: 'Mulan,' 'Onward,' 'The Hunt'
Summer used to be the time for blockbusters, but the slow creep of all-summer-movies-all-year-long means that we know get a new Pixar film, a live action adaptation of a Disney classic and a sequel to a 2018 horror hit in…March. Also this month: a buddy film involving two frontiersmen and …
Read More »Watch Octavia Spencer Star as Madame C.J. Walker in New Series Trailer
Octavia Spencer portrays Madame C.J. Walker, America’s first self-made female millionaire, in the new Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madame C.J. Walker. The four-part limited series hits the platform on March 20th. As seen in the trailer released on Tuesday, Walker notably became an entrepreneur in …
Read More »John Turturro Returns to the Bowling Alley in New Trailer for 'The Jesus Rolls'
John Turturro reprises his role as The Big Lebowski‘s bowling alley arch-nemesis, Jesus Quintana, in the new trailer for the spin-off movie, The Jesus Rolls, out February 28th. Along with starring in the film, Turturro wrote and directed it. The trailer opens with Jesus getting out of prison and the …
Read More »'Sex Education' Returns With a Chlamydia Outbreak in Season 2 Trailer
Sex Education makes its return to Netflix on January 17th, and a new Season 2 trailer is out now. Otis (Asa Butterfield) is still an awkward teen at Moordale Secondary and his mother, Dr. Jean F. Milburn (Gillian Anderson), continues to make his life even more cringeworthy in her job …
Read More »'A Quiet Place II' Trailer Picks Up the Pace — and the Scares
A Quiet Place is back and the stakes are higher than ever as the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) head out into the world — or whatever is left behind. The post-apocalyptic nightmare will hit theaters on March 20th. The trailer for A Quiet Place II kicks …
Read More »'Schitt's Creek' Final Season Trailer Boasts Laughs, Tears and Romance
The trailer for the sixth and final season of Schitt’s Creek teases emotional farewells and plenty of awkwardness ahead of its premiere next month. The final season will run for 14 episodes on Pop TV, beginning on January 7th at 9 p.m. ET. “Yes, there will be blood,” a voice …
Read More »'Cats': A Broadway Musical Adaptation Straight Outta the Litter Box
Attention, moviegoers searching for the worst movie of the year: We have a late-breaking winner. Cats slips in right under the radar and easily scores as the bottom of the 2019 barrel — and arguably of the decade. Even Michael Bay’s trash trilogy of soul-destroying Transformers movies can’t hold a …
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