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11 Feb

Is It Better to Watch the MCU in Chronological Order?

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This article contains some major MCU spoilers. Everybody loves the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Well, maybe not everyone. A lot of people do. We wouldn’t be on year 15 of this mega-franchise flourishing if it wasn’t for a lot of people loving it. With so many movies and shows, there comes a time when somebody just wants to watch a whole bunch of Marvel from beginning to end. Maybe it’s somebody watching it for the first time. Maybe somebody just wants to revisit the expanded universe. When it comes to starting out, most would tell you to start with Iron Man.…
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10 Feb

Jurassic World: Dominion Trailer Raises Mystery About Blue the Raptor

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“Life finds a way.” Those famous words from Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm in the original Jurassic Park have been quoted, paraphrased, and meme-ified ad infinitum. But they take on a new ominous meaning in the first full trailer for this summer’s anticipated Jurassic World: Dominion. Heralded as the “epic conclusion of the Jurassic era,” the trailer nonetheless appears to tease a whole new era for this franchise that’s ready to begin as soon as we meet everyone’s favorite velociraptor: Blue. The carnivorous dinosaur won hearts and minds for a species of predators that was the essential villain in the 1993…
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10 Feb

How Z100 Dominated New York Radio

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Scott Shannon is the King Kong of rock and roll radio. The new feature-length documentary Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York describes how he arrived in New York to save a bottom-place radio station, and turned it into a major media force. “Coming to you live from the top of the Empire State Building,” like every other New York station sharing the city’s antenna, Z100 was one of the eight wonders of the radio world. The DJs broadcast from the swamps of New Jersey, when the Meadowlands might as well have been Skull Island, on-air talent…
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09 Feb

Death on the Nile Review: Kenneth Branagh on Slow Boat to Murder

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Count us among those surprised when director Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express was an unexpected hit at the box office, raking in $352 million worldwide. Considering that the adaptation, like this weekend’s Death on the Nile, was a period piece based on source material probably either unknown or musty to modern audiences (as well as coming from an author now considered quite problematic in some ways), Branagh’s largely traditional take on the classic mystery (adapted previously for the big screen in 1974) managed to land with moviegoers. That’s mainly because it…
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09 Feb

How Douglas Trumbull Changed Movie History

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It’s no exaggeration to state that filmmaking, especially in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, might not be what it is today without the pioneering work of the legendary Douglas Trumbull. The director and visual effects designer, who passed away on February 8 at the age of 79, had a hand in creating the screenscapes for some of the most influential genre films of all time, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner. He pioneered techniques that allowed those films and many others to visualize the vastness of space, the magnificence of…
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08 Feb

Oscars 2022: Full List of Nominees

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The 94th annual Academy Awards are here. Almost. With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcing the nominees live on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 8, we’re here to share with you all the Oscars 2022 contenders. Going into the big morning a lot of eyes are on a number of fan and critical favorites. And if you’re rooting for Jane Campion’s deconstructionist Western, The Power of the Dog, you had a very wake up call with the film over-performing and surprising with 12 nominations, including a surprise second nomination in Best Supporting Actor for Jesse Plemmons, who…
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08 Feb

Pulp Fiction and the Trouble with ‘They Wouldn’t Make It Like That Today’ Arguments

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They wouldn’t make a film like that now. It’s a sentiment as old as the movies themselves, with folks ever eager to note how the next generation of storytellers is not telling stories in the same way that the last one(s) did. Sometimes there is a kernel of truth at the root of this argument. After all, does anyone doubt Mel Brooks when he says he couldn’t make Blazing Saddles now as he did nearly half a century ago? But by and large, these arguments appear to be couched in nostalgia—a wistfulness which naturally occurs when comparing the icons of…
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07 Feb

Nightmare Alley Has One of the Great Film Noir Endings in Cinema

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This article contains Nightmare Alley spoilers. In its original form, film noir was an anomaly: a dark rain cloud cast in silhouette across the otherwise sunny landscape of 1940s American pop culture. At a time when censors insisted on black and white morality, and clean, unambiguous entertainment, noir was a subversive sneer, reflecting the cynicism bubbling underneath. As with the often doomed fools who led movies like Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), and In a Lonely Place (1950), noir filmmakers saw a fatally flawed world outside the studios’ backlots, and even in the glow of post-war America.…
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07 Feb

What Does the New Madame Web Movie Mean for the Spider-Verse?

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When there’s casting news about an upcoming superhero movie, the hoped response is something along the lines of a fist pump and some level of, “Hey, awesome!” You’re always going to hit on a character somebody’s interested in. I mean, I for one was excited about Vin Diesel as Bloodshot until I actually watched the movie. There were certainly enough Jack Kirby fans psyched about Eternals. People were hyped about John Cena as Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad the moment he was announced. But when news hit that Dakota Johnson is set to star in a movie about Madame Web?…
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05 Feb

Nightmare Alley (2021) vs. Nightmare Alley (1947): What Are the Differences?

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This article contains spoilers for both versions of Nightmare Alley. “Mister, I was made for it,” versus “Mister, I was born for it,” sums up the major psychological distinction between the 1947 Nightmare Alley and Guillermo del Toro’s 2021 remake. Neither line from the end of their respective movies is in the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham. That book concludes just short of the revelation or confession (depending on the actor who says it). Bradley Cooper’s Stan Carlisle finds it downright hilarious that he is about to become a geek. Tyrone Power’s The Great Stanton only grants himself temporary…
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05 Feb

Roland Emmerich Is Not a Fan of Disaster Comedy Don’t Look Up

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Roland Emmerich knows his way around a movie where the Earth (almost) gets destroyed. He practically reinvented the disaster genre when he obliterated the White House in Independence Day and then laid waste to NYC multiple times, from 1998’s Godzilla to 2012. And decades before the new popular disaster movie on Netflix, Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, Emmerich was making a cautionary spectacle out of climate change with 2004’s The Day After Tomorrow. Which is why when we sat down to speak with Emmerich ahead of his latest world-threatening event film, this weekend’s Moonfall, we felt intrigued to hear his…
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05 Feb

Scream 6: What We Want Out of the New Sequel

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Scream 6 (or whatever it may be titled) is officially happening. This is hardly a surprise after the fifth Scream film, confusingly titled just Scream, surpassed all pandemic and January expectations by opening to $33.9 million over MLK Day weekend. Still, it was nice to get a confirmation Thursday that the sixth entry is greenlit and moving ahead with Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet returning to direct, and James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick once again writing the screenplay. That creative team did a solid job of filling the shoes of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson last time, and…
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05 Feb

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Who’s Who In The Character Posters?

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Those cunning marketing bods at Prime Video sure know what they’re doing. They’ve released 23 character posters for their new Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power – but there are no name labels on the posters, and we can’t even see the characters’ faces, just their hands and a bit of a robe. And so we will all spend the next few weeks picking the posters apart, trying to work out who we’re looking at – which, considering we only really know three characters who will definitely be appearing (Sauron, Galadriel, and Celebrimbor, the forger of the…
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03 Feb

Moonfall: How Roland Emmerich Got NASA and Conspiracy Theorists to Team Up

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This pandemic is like something out of a Roland Emmerich movie. It’s an observation that the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow has heard a lot in recent years. The way he tells it, even he made a joke about current events feeling like one of his films—except in slow motion. That said, getting through the last few years, and coming out on the other side with a finished film like this week’s sci-fi epic, Moonfall, was its own kind of space odyssey, complete with twists, turns, and even a proverbial moonshot. “I started preparing the movie,…
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03 Feb

The Exorcist: How One Deleted Scene Can Change a Movie’s Meaning

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It’s astonishing to think that a few judicious edits, a deletion of seconds here, or a few minutes there, can sometimes change the entire meaning, theme, and even narrative trajectory of a motion picture. But it happens more often than you may think: look at movies like Aliens, The Abyss, or Blade Runner–just to name a handful–where such excisions literally made a movie-defining difference. That’s what happened with The Exorcist too. That religious chiller is still renowned as the greatest horror movie of all time, and it starts a run on Netflix this week. When director William Friedkin made The…
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02 Feb

SXSW Film Festival Reveals The Lost City, Nic Cage, and FX’s Atlanta as Headliners

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The SXSW Film Festival is returning to its in-person roots with a vengeance next month. After several years of going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SXSW will be the year’s first major festival and conference event to return its focus to live festivities when it launches from March 11 to March 20. And with Wednesday’s reveal of its full film line-up, what a significant return that will be. Previously, SXSW already announced the intriguing Everything Everywhere All at Once will be the opening night film. That A24 release looks to combine the recently popular sci-fi concept of “multiverse theory”…
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02 Feb

Roland Emmerich: Marvel and Star Wars Are ‘Ruining Our Industry’

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The disaster film has changed a great deal since Roland Emmerich first blew up the White House in Independence Day more than 25 years ago. Back then the genre had fallen relatively dormant following the glory days of Irwin Allen’s own golden age for cinematic mass destruction. But from the moment Emmerich’s on-screen aliens gleefully detonated the White House during a Super Bowl commercial in 1996, American and global audiences alike were ready for a new breed of spectacle. Since that defining summer movie, Emmerich’s seen the genre ebb and flow, soar with humor and, in later years, reach for…
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02 Feb

What Watchmen Predicted in Zack Snyder’s Justice League Universe

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The world of superhero movies was in a different place during the summer of 2008. Back then, Christian Bale was still Batman, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still considered a relatively risky gamble as it launched Phase One, and Zack Snyder hadn’t released a superhero movie. Not yet. As a director synonymous today with foreboding capes and cowls, and the breed of zealotry such an on-screen interpretation can elicit from fans, Snyder was still a Warners wunderkind in ’08: the guy who directed the surprise 2006 blockbuster 300 and was about to debut his most ambitious film to date, Watchmen.…
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01 Feb

The Most Controversial Movies Streaming Right Now

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Are you looking for a light and breezy flick to stream at home? Well, you may want to look elsewhere. The movies we’ve compiled below test the merits of the phrase “all publicity is good publicity.” Whether controversial due to violent or explicit content, on-set occurrences, or tackling weighty topics like race or religion, the following films were lightning rods for conversation around the time of their release, sometimes overshadowing the quality of the films themselves. Thankfully, all of these disputed movies are readily available to modern audiences right now, allowing us to see whether all of the hubbub surrounding…
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01 Feb

Hulu New Releases: February 2022

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The new year is continuing apace at Hulu. The streamer’s list of new releases for February 2022 is highlighted by one very interesting project. Pam and Tommy is set to premiere on Feb. 2. Perhaps the Groundhog Day release date is intentional as the show will cover a particular moment of celebrity, sex, and exploitation from the early ’90s that seems to have repeated itself over and over. Sebastian Stan and Lily James star as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson and the series follows the events and fallout of their homemade sex tape being stolen and unleashed on a nascent…
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