Tag: Film

2023: the year of superhero fatigue

Good news, Martin Scorsese. The era of Hollywood being dominated by superhero movies may be coming to an end.  For more than a decade, comic book films have been ubiquitous and fairly reliable moneymakers, but the genre has suffered a series of shocking failures in 2023 that raise questions about its future. Can superhero films […]

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The Cost of Overcorrecting on Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam

His reputation changed in the early 2000s, as more historians and Americans started to look beyond Vietnam in assessing his tenure. The tide started to turn as much more attention was focused on the sheer breath of domestic accomplishments that he left behind. Lectures, books, films, and television reintroduced Americans to the nation’s thirty-sixth commander […]

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Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: Accidentally a Comedy?

Perhaps this is the perspective that Scott, an 85-year-old Englishman, learned in school; certainly the script (written by David Scarpa, who previously collaborated with Scott on All the Money in the World) seems to have more respect for the Duke of Wellington, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat who handed Bonaparte his final defeat, than it does for […]

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6 great Thanksgiving movies to watch this holiday

There is no shortage of films about Halloween and Christmas. But what about Thanksgiving? Considering Christmas movies are usually released in November, the beloved holiday often gets overlooked. Still, there are some great Thanksgiving movies out there, which bring the joy — but mostly the stress — of the overstuffed day to life.  ‘Mistress America’ […]

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This $5,000 Hyundai Sonata Looks Like It Came From A Sci-Fi Series – Because It Did

This $5,000 Hyundai Sonata Looks Like It Came From A Sci-Fi Series – Because It Did | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Extensive visual modifications turned a 2012 Hyundai Sonata into a prop vehicle that is no longer street-legal 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> For aspiring sci-fi movie-makers maker on a budget, here’s your golden […]

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A Movie About Elon Musk Is In The Works, Who Do You Think Should Play Him?

A Movie About Elon Musk Is In The Works, Who Do You Think Should Play Him? | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> After a hotly contested fight, A24 has won the rights for Walter Isaacson’s biography, and will produce a biopic directed by Darren Aronofsky 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Well, it was inevitable. The […]

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Hollywood actors’ strike ends with deal to ‘protect members from the threat of AI’

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass After 118 days, the longest strike by actors in the history of Hollywood has ended with a new deal valued at $1 billion that includes new protections against AI, according […]

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Alexander Payne’s School for Sad Sacks

Paul Hunham (Giamatti, again) certainly has elements of those characters. When we meet him, he is grading papers with his signature harshness, muttering about the “lazy,” “vulgar” “philistines” in his class. Hunham is the longtime, much despised Ancient Civilization teacher at Barton, where he was once a student. The school proves a daunting, frigid character […]

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Alexander Payne’s School for Sad Sacks

Paul Hunham (Giamatti, again) certainly has elements of those characters. When we meet him, he is grading papers with his signature harshness, muttering about the “lazy,” “vulgar” “philistines” in his class. Hunham is the longtime, much despised Ancient Civilization teacher at Barton, where he was once a student. The school proves a daunting, frigid character […]

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Priscilla Confronts a Creepy Elvis

In Priscilla, Coppola leaves off-screen those tribulations of the Elvis myth—the death of his doting mother, Gladys; greedy exploitation at the hands of prescription-happy physicians and Colonel Tom Parker—that tend to excuse him as a victim, a truth that Presley’s memoir “Elvis and Me” is careful not to deny. Priscilla’s Elvis is an insecure jock, […]

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Runway’s Gen-2 update is blowing people’s minds with incredible AI video

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Runway, the well-funded New York City-based generative AI video startup, updated its signature text/image/video-to-video model Gen-2 today, and many of its users are collectively freaking out over how good it is. Numerous AI filmmakers […]

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Movies to watch in November, from ‘The Marvels’ to ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, as a wave of Oscar contenders finally begin opening to the public. Several highly anticipated tentpole films are also headed your way, including the return of a dormant — but beloved — 2010s franchise. These are the biggest movies to watch in November 2023:  ‘Priscilla’ (Nov. 3) […]

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“Killers of the Flower Moon” Is a Groundbreaking Achievement

There’s no vanity in De Niro’s or DiCaprio’s performance; they are loathsome, petty, and thoroughly unworthy of the people whose trust they are betraying. Scorsese extensively researched and consulted with the Osage to ensure an accurate and three-dimensional portrayal of their society. Those efforts are on full display, but some (including the film’s Osage translator) […]

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“Navajo Police: Class 57” Takes a Long Look at an Impossible Job

It’s hard to escape the thought that the police are part of the cycle of violence. At the close of its second episode, Class 57 splices together footage of recruits being hazed and learning hand-to-hand combat with an introduction in what to expect on the job from victims of domestic violence (to begin the seminar, […]

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Hollywood actors remain on strike over AI, endorse ‘NO FAKES ACT’

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More While the Hollywood writers’ strike has officially ended with new protections against AI in screenwriting, there is no such luck for their creative counterparts, the actors, whose union the Screen Actors Guild – American […]

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The best horror franchises of all time

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Local documentary ‘Rebuilding Brown’ to show at Homer Theatre

“Rebuilding Brown,” a documentary depicting the restoration of an historical homesteading cabin by lifelong Alaskans Anne Coray and Steve Kahn, will open at the Homer Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. The film, sponsored by the Alaska Historical Society, first showed at Kenai Peninsula College on Oct. 6 during the Society’s annual meeting. […]

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