Author: David Grove
The Denver Movie Competition has introduced the winners of its annual Viewers Awards and Competition Juried Awards, with movies like “Bob Trevino Likes It” and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” taking high prizes. Following the conclusion of the forty seventh version of the competition, which ran from November 1 to November 10, Denver Movie Competition inventive director Matthew Campbell stated through assertion, “This 12 months’s Denver Movie Competition introduced us unbelievable movies, phenomenal visitors, and unforgettable experiences. The movies acknowledged this 12 months inform sturdy tales by highly effective views, offering viewers with the possibility to see themselves on…
Scale is a constant problem in cinematic science-fiction storytelling. Too massive of a scope can go away your story wanting such as you’re targeted extra on spectacle, whereas one thing extra intimate may counsel you didn’t have a price range. Author/director Jérémy Clapin’s In the meantime On Earth is an image that sees its plot and execution land someplace in the midst of that spectrum. The narrative is on the skinny aspect, however the intent and fundamental efficiency telling the story stays clear eyed.In the meantime On Earth (Pendant ce temps sur terre)(Picture credit score: One World Movies)Launch Date: November…
Adore it or hate it — and responses run the gamut — “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” was one of many greatest, buzziest TV reveals of 2024. Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s second installment of the “Monster” anthology (following the primary season about Jeffrey Dahmer) dives deep into the story of brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez (performed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch), who shot and killed their mother and father in 1989 and instructed the jury that they had been defending themselves after years of abuse. Following a November 10 screening of Episode 1 “Blame it…
There are quite a few tales all through the historical past of Hollywood of well-known roles that had been nearly performed by any person else. Will Smith himself has admitted to turning down a number of main roles in his profession. Nonetheless, it seems that an important position in Smith’s profession solely got here alongside after any person else turned it down, as a result of Ethan Hawke nearly starred in Independence Day.Hawke has really advised the story a number of occasions. It appears that evidently all these years later, he nonetheless hasn’t forgotten turning down such an enormous film.Why…
Dwayne Johnson could be essentially the most bodily recognizable film star on this planet. However his flip as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s upcoming A24 movie “The Smashing Machine” might see the wrestler-turned-actor do one thing that has evaded him till now: disappear into a job. In a brand new interview with GQ, Johnson mirrored on the extraordinary make-up course of that allowed him to change his look for the function. He defined that dropping the distinctive tattoos and bald head gave him the liberty to be any person aside from himself. “I look what I appear like,”…
There’s nothing I take pleasure in greater than talking to Star Trek actors who have been followers of the franchise earlier than becoming a member of it, and Dawnn Lewis is undoubtedly that. Many years earlier than she’d voice Captain Carol Freeman on Decrease Decks, she was watching lots of the exhibits — which at the moment are streamable with a Paramount+ subscription — after they debuted on TV. She additionally managed to befriend a number of TOS actors all through her profession, together with the late Nichelle Nichols, all of which she spoke about throughout a current interview with…
Max’s Ted Turner documentary sequence likes itself some Ted Turner. The trailer for the brand new docuseries “Name Me Ted” selects a number of phrases to bathe the media mogul with reward: “Mogul,” “Adventurer,” “Insurgent,” “Danger Taker,” “Showman,” “Philanthropist,” and “Genius.” (There was additionally “Father,” however that one isn’t very subjective.) Nevertheless it’s not simply the filmmakers who had glowing phrases about Turner, who’s 85. His ex-wife Jane Fonda in trailer known as him a “legend” and an “American hero”; U2 frontman Bono mentioned Turner was “far more rock and roll than I’m.” In all probability proper round right here…
Whereas the model new adaptation of J.Ok. Rowling’s Wizarding World won’t be part of the 2025 TV schedule, it appears to be like like some huge strikes are about to be made. It’s nonetheless very true that every thing we all know in regards to the Harry Potter TV present has us anticipating a launch sooner or later in 2026, however now the primary casting frontrunner has been introduced. If this new actor pans out as the ultimate selection for the sequence’ Albus Dumbledore, then enable me to say I believe he’s magically becoming.Apparently Selection experiences that Academy Award winner…
Marvel has dropped the trailer for the third and closing season of its animated anthology sequence “What If…?” (December 22 on Disney+, with a brand new episode debuting day by day for eight days), spotlighting extra humor and spectacle. The alternate multiverse, led by a bunch of recent characters will get pushed to wacky extremes via the exploration of various genres. One of many standouts is X-Males’s Storm because the self-proclaimed Goddess of Thunder who’s voiced by Alison Sealy-Smith, who additionally performed Storm in Disney+ sequence “X-Males ’97” (and on the unique Nineties “X-Males” cartoon sequence). She’s a little bit…
Set to hit the 2024 film launch schedule in lower than per week, followers have been desperate to see the essential verdict on Dwayne Johnson’s newest vacation blockbuster, the upcoming Purple One. Sadly for the Quick & Livid star, the early reactions have been removed from glowing. And now the information has gotten worse: Purple One’s Rotten Tomatoes rating has dropped to a brutal low, casting a shadow over Johnson’s extremely anticipated new vacation flick.The vacation-themed action-comedy, starring The Rock alongside Chris Evans, was marketed as a recent, high-energy spin on the greatest Christmas motion pictures. The plot facilities on…