Jary Baruchel & Glenn Howerton Star In This Insane Story Of The Rise & Fall Of The First Smartphone
On paper, the idea of a film about the rise and fall of the BlackBerry smartphone sounds dull as hell. A few Canadians get together, create a smartphone, and then Apple comes along and screws the whole thing up? Yawn.…
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The Batman, Elvis, Andor And Taylor Swift Earn ADG Awards Nominations
This week will be a deluge of guild and craft organization awards announcements. The Art Directors Guild revealed their nominees for their 2023 ADG Awards and there were genuinely few surprises. In the film categories, likely Oscar nominees “Elvis,” “Everything…
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Strange New Worlds Celia Rose Gooding & Melissa Navia on Season 2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds warped onto Paramount+ last year and took us back to the Enterprise before it was captained by Kirk. The fifth Star Trek series currently in production, Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount)…
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Christoph Waltz & Sam Neill Are Evil CEOs Disrupting The World Of Magic Through Corporate Strategies
What is your boss really capable of? Every employee has asked that question (be it jokingly or with serious intent) at some point, but two interns are about to experience the worst in “The Portable Door.” The adaptation of Tom Holt’s…
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An Intriguing and Twisty Look Into Satanic Panic
Most people are probably familiar with Satanic Panic, even moreso these days after the most recent season of Stranger Things which focused on the scare during the mid 1980s. But do you know where the paranoia began? No, not from…
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Amazon’s Cyberpunk Limited Series Taps ‘Station Eleven’ Director Jeremy Podeswa
Back in 2017, director Denis Villeneuve and producer Ridley Scott delivered “Blade Runner 2049,” a legacy sequel to the 1982 film that brought back Harrison Ford as the titular Blade Runner, Deckard. The events of that film left the door…
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Dr. Pershing Steps Into the Light
Episode 3 of The Mandalorian’s third season breaks free of the story styling that has been established across three seasons, shifting the focus away from Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal/Brendan Wayne/Lateef Crowder) in unexpected ways. With the aptly titled episode, “The…
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Lady Gaga Performs ‘Hold My Hand’ at 2023 Oscars – The Hollywood Reporter
Lady Gaga won over the audience at the 2023 Oscars with a stripped-down version of her Academy Award-nominated song “Hold My Hand.” The Film Academy originally said Gaga wasn’t going to perform at the 2023 Oscars, but she showed up…
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Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson Reunite For Texas-Set Apple Comedy Series
Hollywood pals Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson (“Triangle of Sadness“) led the acclaimed HBO serial killer series “True Detective,” and before the grim thriller, the pair had previously worked together on feature film comedies such as “Surfer, Dude” and Ron…
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‘Tetris’ Movie Director Jon S. Baird Discusses the Unbelievable True Story
When you think of Tetris, one of the most significant achievements in video game history, the 8-bit classic probably doesn’t evoke thoughts of the Soviet Union and the KGB. In filmmaker Jon S. Baird’s (Filfth) Tetris, starring Taron Egerton, everything…
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Followers | Film Threat
The found footage film Followers begins as a Project X-style hijinx comedy before transitioning into a drama about the pitfalls of the influencer life. Then, writer-director Marcus Harben ventures into full-on horror territory. Does the filmmaker properly maintain the tone…
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Julio Torres Debuts With A Charming Immigration Fairy Tale [SXSW]
Whimsy gets a bad rap in Hollywood. In the hands of some filmmakers, a fantastical approach can be a sign of emptiness — an attempt to obscure a simplistic or pandering narrative through layers of artifice. But the framework of…
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