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04 Mar

After Yang Review: A24 and Colin Farrell Robot Movie Will Make You Cry

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We’ve all surely thought about it from time to time: What would happen if we lost the technological tools that are now such an ingrained part of our everyday lives? How would we survive and work without the internet? What happens when we lose our smartphone? Can we live in a house where we have to turn lights on and off or adjust the thermostat instead of having Alexa do it? After Yang, the second full-length movie from director Kogonada (after his acclaimed 2017 feature debut, the John Cho-starring Columbus) addresses these questions in far more emotional and existential terms.…
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04 Mar

The Batman Ending Explained

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This article contains major The Batman spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. We’ve witnessed this scene before in a Batman movie. A Dark Knight and his feline companion stand by a motorcycle, parting ways for what feels like forever—but probably won’t be. It’s the final scene in Matt Reeves’ sinewy The Batman, and it echoes a similar moment from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Catwoman asks Batman to come with her and give up on this hellhole they call a city; he refuses. Yet for all the similarities, the context is wholly different. In Nolan’s final Batman movie,…
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03 Mar

The Batman Review: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever Made

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Noir is a term thrown around a lot with a character like the Batman. This makes sense; the Dark Knight’s roots lie in the pulpy detective stories of the 1930s—he even first appeared in Detective Comics #27—and that era of crime fiction eventually gave way to the noir movement. Yet despite that phrase being used often to refer to previous Batman stories, cartoons, and even as a publishing gimmick where DC re-released old graphic novels in black and white print, very few of these tales are true noir. In noir, the hero knows (or eventually learns) he can never win,…
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03 Mar

Nosferatu and the Unholy War to Bury a Classic 100 Years Ago

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She is the Bride of Dracula. That is what they whispered whenever Florence Balcombe Stoker stepped into public view. Once an ethereal beauty whose features could capture Oscar Wilde’s imagination, if not his true ardor, the widow of author Bram Stoker spent the final decades of her life being haunted by her husband—but not his ghost; it was his vampire that refused to give her rest. Today, Florence is chiefly remembered as the architect behind what some might call the greatest act of attempted vandalism in cinematic history. She did, after all, pursue with the tenacity of Abraham Van Helsing…
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03 Mar

The Weekend Away Ending Proves You Should Keep Buying Cheap Crap Online

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This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s The Weekend Away If you’re the kind of person who tends to umm and ahh about whether you really do need that new piece of budget tat that’s sitting in your online cart before you commit, Netflix’s The Weekend Away is here to encourage you to be more enthusiastic about clicking “buy now” in the future with its Chekhov’s necklace ending. The new thriller movie, which stars Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester and Luke Norris (Poldark), is now available for the streaming service’s large base of murder-mystery junkies to gleefully consume, and follows depressed mom…
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02 Mar

West Side Story: The Brilliance and Tragedy of Its Disney+ Release

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A funny thing happened on the way to Oscar-voting season: the internet discovered Steven Spielberg made a West Side Story movie. Forgive the glibness, but it certainly felt that way over the last week when Film Twitter was inundated by stunned reactions to a certain tweet which revealed just a single snippet of Spielberg’s lively cinematic remake of the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical. In the clip a solitary, mind-numbingly complex dolly and crane (or drone?) shot follows a group of characters that include Maria (Rachel Zegler) and Anita (Ariana DeBose) as they enter a school gymnasium to attend…
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02 Mar

Hellbender: The Real-Life Origin of the Shudder Horror Movie

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This article contains spoilers for Hellbender. The new Shudder horror movie Hellbender introduces a new type of movie monster in the form of a witch/demon/apex predator hybrid. But the creation also comes from a surprising place of truth for The Adams, the family of filmmakers who make up Wonder Wheel Productions. In the film, 16-year-old Izzy (played by Zelda Adams) lives in isolation with Mother (Zelda’s real-life mom, Toby Poser) because she has a rare immune disorder. Or so she is told. After befriending Amber (sister Lulu Adams), Izzy questions the reality of her disease. And when she eats a…
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01 Mar

Amazon Prime Video New Releases: March 2022

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Look, not every month is gonna be full of bangers. Amazon Prime Video’s list of new releases for March 2022 is extremely light but still has a couple of good options for streaming obsessives. The biggest title this month is undoubtedly The Boys Presents: Diabolical on March 4. This series presents eight different stories set in The Boys‘ universe, all offered up by different writers. Since each of the eight mini-episodes are animated, it’s probably fair to say this is The Boys‘ Animatrix. Call it the “Anivought”. Read more TV The Boys Season 3: Herogasm Will Be The TV Event…
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01 Mar

Disney+ New Releases: March 2022

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It’s been a grueling three months since Marvel fans had a hit of the MCU in the form of Spider-Man: No Way Home and even longer since the last Marvel Disney+ series (Hawkeye). Thankfully that unbearable drought will be coming to an end with Disney+’s list of new releases for March 2022. This month is highlighted by the arrival of Moon Knight on March 30. Oscar Isaac stars as the latest Marvel hero, a man with a fracturing personality and awesome power imbued by the Egyptian god Khonshu. Tonally, this seems like a really divergent take from the studio and…
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01 Mar

HBO Max New Releases: March 2022

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Been meaning to check out some Oscar-nominated films before the 94th Academy Awards on March 27? Well does HBO Max have some good news for you! HBO Max’s list of new releases for March 2022 is filled with classic films, new originals, and yes: plenty of current Oscar nominees. Two Best Picture nominees roll out on HBO Max on March 2: Steven Spielberg’s epic musical adaptation West Side Story and Japanese drama Drive My Car. Those two contenders will be followed by Dune on March 10 and King Richard on March 24. Read more Movies Oscars 2022: Predictions and Analysis…
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01 Mar

New on Netflix: March 2022 Releases

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Netflix’s list of new releases for March 2022 is packed with just about everything a streaming enthusiast might need. This month sees the usual arrival of Netflix original offerings. The big draw is undoubtedly the premiere of Bridgerton season 2 on March 25. Say what you will about the beloved period drama, but more corgis in the world is never a bad thing. Also arriving in March are He-Man and the Masters of the Universe season 2 (March 3), Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources (March 18), and Toni Collette mystery series Pieces of Her (March 9). Additionally, Netflix appears to…
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28 Feb

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in March 2022

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Spring has sprung. Depending on what part of the country (or world) you’re in that’s either true or a deceptive lie no matter what scientists say about the equinox. But whether temperatures are really starting to thaw for you or it’s another six, long, cold weeks of winter, there’s one thing we can all depend on: streaming content. And like the veritable Bo Burnham once said on a Netflix project last year, daddy’s made your favorite with a slew of genuine classics and plenty of crowdpleasers, new and old, coming to the service. Enjoy a preview of the best of…
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27 Feb

How Ghostbusters Director Ivan Reitman Changed Horror Movies Forever

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When Ivan Reitman passed away on Feb. 12, 2022 at the age of 75, the Canadian producer, director, and screenwriter was justifiably remembered as one of the driving forces of cinematic comedy for more than four decades. After all, he produced National Lampoon’s Animal House–one of the classic farces of its time–in 1978, before moving on to direct a string of other well-remembered entries in the genre, including Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), and Dave (1993), while producing films such as Space Jam (1996), Private Parts (1997), and Old School (2003). Of course Reitman is best…
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26 Feb

West Side Story: Steven Spielberg Reveals He Wanted to Cut ‘I Feel Pretty’

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The West Side Story song “I Feel Pretty” is one of the most popular pieces of the American songbook. Over the decades, it’s been played at birthday parties, weddings, and even in Adam Sandler movies. Yet it’s no secret that the song has its share of critics, chief among them being its late great lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who for decades would sheepishly admit he was embarrassed by the song. In the most recent Broadway revival of the Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim musical, iconoclast stage director Ivo van Hove even cut “I Feel Pretty” altogether (much to Sondheim’s delight). As it…
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26 Feb

Harvey Dent Is the Unsung Hero of The Dark Knight

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“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” It’s a sentiment and phrase which has taken on a life of its own in the 14 years since Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent said it in The Dark Knight. Written in its time by the brothers Jonathan and Christopher Nolan as a way to succinctly (and heavy-handedly) foreshadow Dent’s downfall, these words have entered the public consciousness, often quoted by people who do not realize they’re borrowing a line from a superhero movie. That’s because despite being one of three central pillars that make…
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26 Feb

The French Dispatch’s Best Story Finds the Violence Between Art and Commerce

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Vincent van Gogh’s painting Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear sold for $71.5 million at a November 1998 Christie’s auction. The artist created it after dropping a package off at a brothel for a woman named Rachel, telling her to “guard this object with your life.” That was in December 1888. Van Gogh was an unknown artist at the time. Adrien Brody plays a similar art curator to those at Christie’s in Wes Anderson’s anthology film, The French Dispatch. The first vignette in the three-story film exhibits how commerce in the art world is a cut-throat business, especially when it’s personal. The…
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26 Feb

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – A Guide to the Ringbearers

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The information that’s been coming out about Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings prequel series has started to give us a much clearer idea about what sort of things we might see. We know that the timeline has been compressed so that the series will cover all the major events of the Second Age of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, and we know that the forging of the Rings of Power will be at the heart of the series. But what are the Rings of Power, and who wields them? Read on for our brief beginners’ guide to these MacGufffins at the…
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25 Feb

How Thor: Love and Thunder Can Bring Thor Closure in MCU Phase 4

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This article contains MCU spoilers. The longevity of Chris Hemsworth’s Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken many by surprise. When Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans made Avengers: Endgame their swansong, many figured Hemsworth would join them. Instead, he’s becoming the first solo character to reach a fourth solo cinematic installment with Thor: Love and Thunder. Even more surprising was the news that Natalie Portman was coming back to the MCU to bring the story of Jane Foster lifting Mjolnir to the big screen. As much as I want to see more from Taika Waititi’s rendition of what…
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25 Feb

The Untold Stories of The Green Mile

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Director Frank Darabont’s 1999 film version of Stephen King’s The Green Mile, which is out this week for the first time on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, remains a popular but somewhat divisive entry in the King cinematic canon. The picture was Darabont’s follow-up to another King adaptation, 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption, with Green Mile adapting a serialized novel King released in six paperback installments over six months in 1996. The tale is set on death row (called “the green mile” because of the flooring) at a Louisiana prison in the 1930s where officer Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) and his team…
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25 Feb

From Kick-Ass to The King’s Man: Ranking Matthew Vaughn’s Best Action Scenes

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We are living in the superhero age of cinema, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a golden age of action cinema. Among the biggest directors working today, the best action tends to fall outside of the superhero genre, driven by a handful of action auteurs of which Matthew Vaughn is one of the very best. In honor of The King’s Man recent streaming launch on HBO Max and Hulu, we’re ranking Vaughn’s best action scenes of all time. Were does your favorite fall on our list? 9. X-Men: First Class Finale Charles Xavier versus Erik “Magneto” Lehnsherr. It’s a conflict…
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