“There’s an argument to be made that we have heard everything we ever need to hear from John Galliano,” said Wendy Ide in The Observer. He is the flamboyant British designer who was “ignominiously sacked” as creative director of Dior in 2011, after footage emerged of him “booze-sodden” in a Paris bar, “spewing an antisemitic […]
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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’: List Of Social Media Influencers Featured In Hulu Docuseries
NewsOne Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty Onyx Collective debuted its upcoming Hulu docuseries, “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” at SXSW Festival over the weekend. The company also announced some of the Black Twitter contributors in the series. Check out a teaser trailer for the upcoming series below. The Prentice Penny-directed docuseries is based upon […]
Read MoreCopa 71 review: ‘incendiary account’ of the women’s 1971 World Cup in Mexico
From “raucous crowds” and “widespread television coverage” to a “semi-final ending in a full blown punch-up”, this story “needs to be seen to be believed”. That was how Kathryn Batte described the 1971 Women’s World Cup football tournament in Mexico in the Daily Mail. And Kevin Maher in The Times called it an “incendiary account” […]
Read MoreThe Oscars’ Spectacle of Seriousness
If there was a common theme to the films featured at this year’s Oscars, it was precisely this sort of psychic slippage, whether expressed through characters catching a glimpse of a broken world beyond their ostensible purview (Poor Things); ones ensnared within contentious cultural heritages (Past Lives, American Fiction); or else trying to reconcile their […]
Read MoreMovies to watch in March, from ‘Dune II’ to ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’
This month’s movie releases bring a lot of pomp and circumstance. A high-concept sci-fi adaptation is already doing big box office numbers, while a pop star’s wildly successful concert documentary is finally available to stream. There’s also a steamy queer romance, a doc detailing the life of one of history’s most famous painters and a […]
Read MoreIndigenous language film fest returns with 16 submissions
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Indigenous Education Program hosted its Second Annual Indigenous Language Film Festival last Thursday, Feb. 29, featuring 16 films made by 52 people. The film festival, which premiered at three separate showtimes on Thursday, can be streamed on YouTube under the title “2024 Indigenous Language Film Festival – KPBSD Noon […]
Read MoreWicked Little Letters: sweary comedy that ‘could have been a gem’
“Just over 100 years ago, the genteel Sussex town of Littlehampton was rocked to its core” by a barrage of “obscene letters sent anonymously to respectable townsfolk”, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail. “You’re a sad, stinky bitch,” declared one. “You stink of common shit,” claimed another. A culprit was arrested and a trial […]
Read More007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum
007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The road-legal version of the Jaguar movie car has been enhanced with numerous improvements 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Jaguar C-X75, originally introduced in 2010, has gone down in history as one of the greatest concepts that never reached […]
Read More007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum
007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The road-legal version of the Jaguar movie car has been enhanced with numerous improvements 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Jaguar C-X75, originally introduced in 2010, has gone down in history as one of the greatest concepts that never reached […]
Read MoreIs Bridget Jones still relevant in the 2020s?
Bridget Jones is returning to the big screen, 23 years after Helen Fielding’s heroine first burst into our lives with her chardonnay and oversized granny pants. The fourth movie in the saga will be based on Fielding’s 2013 novel “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy”, which saw her raising young children as a single mum […]
Read MoreDune: Part Two – the next Star Wars?
It’s only February and already the movie event of the year is here, with early viewings of “Dune: Part Two” generating impressive reviews. Critics “truly love” the follow-up to 2021’s “Dune”, starring Timothée Chalamet, said Screen Rant, “to the point where comparisons to ‘Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back’ are already being […]
Read MoreThis Is Me… Now: Jennifer Lopez’s ‘fun mess’
“‘You may think you know my story,’ Jennifer Lopez intones in the prologue to her new film, ‘but you’ve never heard it from me before.’” “This Is Me… Now” is presumably her attempt to rectify that, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph. Billed as a “narrative-driven cinematic odyssey”, and released to coincide with Lopez’s […]
Read MoreDune: Part Two Is a Masterwork of Complexity
Villeneuve is for the most part scrupulously faithful to the source material, which makes his most significant departures interesting and worth lingering on. The biggest is to compress the story chronologically so that Paul’s sister Alia, conceived weeks before the end of Part One, remains in utero at the end of Part Two (Herbert and […]
Read MoreDune: Part Two Unleashes the Terrible Power of Paul
Villeneuve is for the most part scrupulously faithful to the source material, which makes his most significant departures interesting and worth lingering on. The biggest is to compress the story chronologically so that Paul’s sister Alia, conceived weeks before the end of Part One, remains in utero at the end of Part Two (Herbert and […]
Read MoreOn the Screen: ‘Orion and the Dark’ is resonant, weird
Dreamworks Animation have been perhaps too quietly plugging away and putting out great stuff for decades. Despite some breakout hits like “Shrek” or “How to Train Your Dragon,” their films don’t seem to receive the same amount of reliable attention as those put out by Disney or Illumination. Case in point, I wholly missed that […]
Read MoreA ‘deplorable tactic’: why film studios are pitting influencers against critics
Film critics are up in arms after an embargo was imposed on their reviews of “Dune: Part 2” while social media influencers were encouraged to share their thoughts on it immediately. As reviews of films on TikTok – “MovieTok” as it has become known – and other platforms become ever more influential, studios are increasingly […]
Read MoreA former ‘Star Wars’ actor is at the center of a Disney free speech lawsuit
There is a disturbance in the Force, and it comes in the form of a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company. Gina Carano, a former actor in the “Star Wars” universe, is suing the Mouse House over her firing nearly three years ago. Carano, who played former Rebel trooper Cara Dune on the “Star Wars” […]
Read MoreThe Taste of Things Is More Than an Ode to Pleasure
Dodin’s buddies, with their high-flown allusions to politics, art, and literature—i.e., the fact that baked Alaska was invented by a Frenchman named Balzac of no relation to the novelist—are good company, for him and for us, and The Taste of Things has a gently rollicking comic tone whenever they’re around: They’re like professional appreciators (as […]
Read MoreThe rapturous cinematic power of real cooking in ‘The Taste of Things’
Cooking takes as long as it takes. An obvious concept but one easily forgotten during today’s era of 30-second jump-cut videos on TikTok and Instagram. A long-braised stew can be aped in a quickfire video. Its slow, hours-long descent into deliciousness, however, cannot be enacted in seconds. It was inevitable then that movies, those longer-form […]
Read MoreThe Messy Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
In Albee, strong emotions and dissatisfactions emerged from the marrow of intelligent, passionate, sometimes monstrous (and very often hilarious) men and women. Albee’s upbringing made him the perfect person to write about the deep pathological weirdness of American family relationships. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1928, Albee never knew the identity of his biological parents […]
Read MoreThe Drama of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Spilled Into Real Life
In Albee, strong emotions and dissatisfactions emerged from the marrow of intelligent, passionate, sometimes monstrous (and very often hilarious) men and women. Albee’s upbringing made him the perfect person to write about the deep pathological weirdness of American family relationships. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1928, Albee never knew the identity of his biological parents […]
Read MoreValentine’s Day rom-coms to watch on 14 February
Pretty Woman The only reason this “Cinderella story for sex workers” works, said Caroline Madden on Slashfilm.com, is because of Julia Roberts’ “enchanting performance”, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. The 1990 movie could have tipped into “misogynistic stereotype” but Roberts gives the character of Vivian “many dimensions”. It is no “nuanced exploration of sex […]
Read MoreWatch The Trailer For Drive To Survive, Season 6 Premieres February 23
Watch The Trailer For Drive To Survive, Season 6 Premieres February 23 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Despite Max Verstappen’s dominance, the 2023 F1 season was full of intrigue and drama, and Netflix is ready to remind you of it all 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Netflix’s much-loved documentary series following Formula One’s biggest […]
Read MoreThe Zone of Interest Confronts the Act of Looking Away
Such was Höss’s moral stupor and mental denial that he claimed to not have mistreated a single prisoner, let alone killed one. He simply went about carrying out orders, “a cog in the wheel of the great extermination machine created by the Third Reich,” he said. In the film, we see him welcoming two gentlemen […]
Read MoreThe Zone of Interest Is Not a Film About Auschwitz
Such was Höss’s moral stupor and mental denial that he claimed to not have mistreated a single prisoner, let alone killed one. He simply went about carrying out orders, “a cog in the wheel of the great extermination machine created by the Third Reich,” he said. In the film, we see him welcoming two gentlemen […]
Read MoreOn the screen: Anticipated spy flick falls flat in unmemorable ‘Argylle’
Perhaps the only person I can blame for my disappointment with “Argylle” is myself. From the first trailer, something about “Argylle” captured my imagination — it came in highly anticipated — but when credits rolled, I was left far from satisfied. “Argylle” is the latest film by director Matthew Vaughn — who previously helmed the […]
Read MoreThe Color Purple review: Alice Walker’s epistolary novel gets the musical treatment
“It’s been two weeks since ‘Mean Girls’, and here we go again,” said Kevin Maher in The Times: another “film adaptation of a stage musical adaptation of an original, much-adored movie”. And beneath it all, there is Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. But in this version, “Walker’s poetic prose, religious themes and epistolary structure” have […]
Read MoreMovies to watch in February, from ‘Argylle’ to ‘Drive-Away Dolls’
Just in time for Valentine’s movie dates, February brings everything from a controversial spy flick, a Sony Spider-verse entry, and a musical experience from J.Lo. Here are some movies to look forward to this February. ‘Argylle’ (Feb. 2) The buzz around Matthew Vaughn’s forthcoming spy adventure has largely surrounded one still unanswered question: Who wrote […]
Read More2024 Best Picture nominees back when they were books
Reverse-engineer half of 2024’s Oscars Best Picture nominees and you wind up with a handful of eminently readable fiction and nonfiction from more than 200 years of English-language writing. Ready to get flipping? ‘American Fiction’: ‘Erasure,’ Percival Everett Percival Everett, in the world of writers’ writers, is a kingpin. His fans read his work repeatedly […]
Read MoreThe End We Start From review: post-apocalyptic Jodie Comer thriller
In the post-apocalyptic drama “The End We Start From”, Jodie Comer gives a startling performance as an unnamed new mother who goes into labour in her London home just as the house begins to flood as a result of incessant rain, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail. “Waters are breaking in more ways than […]
Read MoreThe People Who Watch Movies on 2x Speed
Photo: izusek via Getty Images Recently I struck gold in a Catford charity shop, and walked out with ten DVDs for £5. Among my haul was Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet, which I threw on as soon as I got home, eager to watch young Leo – dressed in an impeccable Hawaiian shirt – drop to […]
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