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15 Nov

Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Review – Rachel Zegler Makes Prequel Sing

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There is something to be said about the cycle of sci-fi films made in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. While the decades to come would be defined by Star Wars pew-pews, for a little while there, the genre was fixated almost wholly on grim cynicism, downbeat endings, and unadulterated dystopia. I’m a sucker for all that jazz, even when it’s at its silliest. That would be your “Soylent Green is people!” films or the sequels to Chuck Heston crying, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” This could also explain why I sat with a smile…
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14 Nov

5 Things Marvel Studios Should Do to Course Correct After The Marvels

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We can admit it now. The Marvels bombed.  Marvel has had some misfires before, but they usually happened only on the critical end. Audiences still rushed to see panned flicks like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Thor: Love & Thunder. But with The Marvels, audiences and critics came together to express their dissatisfaction. No one thing explains the problems. Like its predecessor Captain Marvel, bad faith reviews flooded the internet with people mad about lady superheroes, but numerous, and legitimate, other culprits led to the downfall: from superhero fatigue to a nonsense story combined with obnoxious editing, to separation…
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13 Nov

The Marvels Box Office Failure Suggests Superhero Movies Are at Tipping Point

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A little over four years ago, one of the loudest cheer moments in Avengers: Endgame was when Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel went toe-to-toe with Thanos (Josh Brolin), the long built-up big bad of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and beat him like an Army drum. Anecdotally, I can attest people were on their feet in my theater, and in that moment the Marvel Cinematic Universe, like Larson’s Carol Danvers, looked nigh unstoppable. Which makes recent developments endured by both the MCU and the larger superhero genre fairly stunning. In just a handful of months, the most popular form of escapism in…
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12 Nov

The Marvels Review: This Is No Cure for Superhero Fatigue

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There is a scene early on in The Marvels, the 33rd installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel makes a triumphant return by gliding through the cosmos of outer space with her trusty alien cat, Goose, perched imperiously on her shoulder. The feline looks as if it were a Space Bastet. This teases an interesting movie; a space opera wherein the most powerful beings in the universe are a woman and her cat. Imagine the kind of zany adventures they could have if you committed to the bit? Shortly afterward, there is another scene where a…
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11 Nov

The Marvels Proves We Absolutely Need a Full Marvel Musical

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This article contains some minor The Marvels spoilers. The heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have visited some fantastic planets. The deadly and mystical Vormir, the rat-tag assemblage on Nowhere, and Ego the Living Planet have all offered exciting new storytelling possibilities. But none capture the imagination like Aladana, visited by Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), and Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani) in The Marvels. After Carol dons a striking headpiece and warns her compatriots about the planet’s oddness, a representative arrives to greet the heroes… in song.  What follows is a brief musical number, borrowing equally from…
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11 Nov

David Fincher Movies Ranked (Including The Killer)

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David Fincher films are often described as cold. This seems frankly unfair, at least in most cases. Fincher’s films can take on a clinical and even deceptively disinterested perspective, but this coolness belies the passion that is always bubbling beneath the surface. Right down to the most meticulous of acting choices, and minute of set design details captured in a moving frame, Fincher’s movies uniformly radiate an obsessive, nigh maniacal, fervor for the art of storytelling. And it’s hot to the touch. As arguably the greatest success story of the filmmaking class who came up through music videos during the…
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10 Nov

The Killer: Tilda Swinton Walks Away with the Best Scene of the Movie

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This article contains The Killer spoilers. “Desperate for conversation.” Those are the only words uttered by Michael Fassbender’s hitman during his table-side chat with what amounts to something of a professional rival. On paper, the line is a deflection—a typically wry slice of irony shared by an assassin who in addition to being deadly is a master of the deadpan. Yet there is something to this admission in a scene where the film’s titular killer and another murderer beguilingly played by Tilda Swinton decide to share a drink. Not even appearing for quite 10 minutes in David Fincher’s latest thriller,…
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10 Nov

Marvel Needs to Leave the Fox X-Men Behind for Good

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This article contains The Marvels spoilers. Be there when it happens! So declared the final trailer for The Marvels, a 90-second spot that contains almost as many images of past MCU glories as it does shots from the actual movie it claims to promote. The trailer only slightly tips its hand toward the one thing that could be deemed universe-altering, a mid-credit sequence in which Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) awakens in another universe, tended to by a variant of her mother Maria, now in the Binary persona, and Dr. Henry McCoy aka Beast (Kelsey Grammer) of the X-Men.  The X-Men have…
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10 Nov

The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies of the 2000s

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The 2000s was a strange time for genre filmmaking and especially science fiction. While sci-fi cinema was in theory thriving, that was mainly thanks to the presence of franchises that were, in fact, their own mini-genres (like Star Wars and Star Trek). Then there were superhero films, always sort of a cousin to sci-fi, with the X-Men and Spider-Man series both exploding and the Marvel Cinematic Universe making its debut with Iron Man (2008) just as the decade came to a close. But there were some top-shelf literary adaptations as well. Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) was a flawed…
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10 Nov

Why AI Was Such an Important Fight for the Actors Guild

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After 118 days, the AMPTP seems to have finally met the Screen Actors Guild’s terms for a fair contract and a tentative deal between the parties has been reached. Like the WGA, SAG-AFTRA has been fighting for better wages, working conditions, and guaranteed protections against artificial intelligence.  While an increase in residual payments has certainly been one of the major things that SAG-AFTRA has gone back and forth with the AMPTP on, the use of artificial intelligence has been an even greater sticking point throughout negotiations. Whereas residuals have a framework based on decades of network television that SAG-AFTRA can…
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10 Nov

Upcoming TV Shows and Movies Back in Production After the Strikes

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OK it’s really over now. Like for real. As of 12:01 a.m. PT on Nov. 9, the SAG-AFTRA actors strike has officially concluded…just over a month after the WGA writers strike came to an end. The acting guild has reached what it says is an “unprecedented” one billion dollar agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) that includes streaming participation bonuses and protection against the use of A.I. There will be ample time in the weeks to come to pore over the details of SAG’s new contract and celebrate what is surely a monumental win for labor in…
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10 Nov

How Many Post-Credit Scenes Does The Marvels Have?

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This post contains spoilers for The Marvels. Let’s be honest, it’s tough times for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After mixed bag misfire Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania led into the utterly dismal waste of time that was Secret Invasion, the MCU no longer demands the attention it enjoyed before Avengers: Endgame. Not even the excellent Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 or the really good second season of Loki seems to restore confidence. All of which puts a lot of pressure on The Marvels, the last MCU movie released this year. The Marvels may be a sequel to the box…
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10 Nov

Why the World Needs PG-13 Horror Movies

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Iron straps bind an innocent security guard to a chair. He writhes and screams as a contraption comes near his face, a POV shot revealing buzzing blades, grinding gears, and a set of glowing red eyes. The security guard scrambles to set himself free, trying to control his hyperventilating long enough to shake loose one of the restraints. But it’s no good. The contraption settles on his face, drowning his screams under a mechanical mask.  No, I’m not describing one of Jigsaw’s new traps in Saw X. That movie does not shy away from eyeball-sucking vacuums or bowls of brain…
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09 Nov

Star Wars Just Canceled Another Movie Project

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Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has put the final nail in the coffin of the high-profile Star Wars movie he was developing with Loki and Doctor Strange scribe Michael Waldron. When asked at The Marvels premiere whether the film was still happening, Feige told ET, “No.” We are talking to Kevin Feige at 'The Marvels' premiere in Las Vegas and all of our questions we answered!!#TheMarvels pic.twitter.com/BPSPSGDwlS— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) November 8, 2023 This puts an end to months of speculation about whether the movie had been shelved. Rumors of the project’s cancellation swirled in April after this year’s Star…
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09 Nov

How Will The Legend of Zelda Movie Fit Into the Franchise Timeline?

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Nintendo recently confirmed that a live-action Legend of Zelda movie is in development in the most Nintendo way possible: a random and vague tweet released with little fanfare. While a Legend of Zelda movie felt inevitable following the success of the Super Mario Bros. movie, recent years have taught Zelda fans to take nothing for granted. After all, we’ve gone this long without a proper Zelda adaptation. There were no guarantees that Nintendo would come to their senses now. However, the decision to develop a Legend of Zelda movie now after all these years does raise a number of potentially…
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08 Nov

David Lynch and the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi That Might Have Been

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Imagine you’re George Lucas. Imagine that you’ve just watched a weird experimental, black-and-white movie called Eraserhead. It doesn’t make sense, but it perfectly captures the anxieties anyone faces right before becoming a parent. Also, there’s an unbelievable baby monster creature that looks unlike anything you’ve seen before.  Then imagine you watch another movie by the same director, called The Elephant Man. It’s still black and white and has its surrealistic touches, but it tells a deeply humanistic story about a man with debilitating physical deformities asserting his dignity.  What do you do next? If you’re the real Lucas, you say, “I…
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08 Nov

Culprits Fans Need to Watch The Disappearance of Alice Creed

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It’s 2010, and Gemma Arterton is describing to Empire Magazine having spent an entire day shooting kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed in tears. “Your body’s not supposed to cry that much. It is exhausting.” Martin Compston, her co-star in the crying scene, agrees in earnest and the interviewer jokes off-camera, “So what you’re saying is: feel-good hit of the summer?” Compston laughs, “Yeah, Disney Channel!” and Arterton repeats the gag, shaking her head at its ridiculousness “Disney Channel!” 13 years, a brand shift and a streaming revolution later, and Disney is now the UK home of The Disappearance…
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07 Nov

Marvel Movies Doing Badly at Box Office Shouldn’t Be Traumatic

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Marvel Studios’ long awaited sequel to Captain Marvel, appropriately titled simply The Marvels, will finally be in theaters on Thursday night. Nearly four years after the original Brie Larson-starring superhero movie grossed over $1.1 billion at the box office, the follow-up should be an event. And yet industry prognosticators and analysts have shown the movie to be tracking surprisingly soft going into its first weekend, with early estimates ranging between $70 million and $80 million for its opening weekend—the lower end of which is less than half of Captain Marvel’s $153.4 million debut in 2019. Actual ticket pre-sales, however, suggest…
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06 Nov

Whether You Like It or Not, the MCU Changed Captain Marvel for the Better

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This article contains spoilers for the first Captain Marvel movie “This can’t be right,” says a disembodied voice, over an image of an Air Force pilot, signaling to her wingman in an adjoining jet. The voice commands someone to go back further, this time to images of a little girl racing a go-cart. “Who is this person?” asks the voice, speaking for most of the viewers as well.  The confusion of the speaker, later revealed to be the Skrull Talos, comes from his expectation to see memories of Hala, the assumed homeworld of the Kree warrior Vers. He doesn’t realize…
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04 Nov

Marvel’s Potential Avengers Rethink With Robert Downey Jr. Suggests Loss of Confidence

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Anyone who’s spent any significant time reading comic books will tell you no story—or even a character’s life—ends. They just take time outs. So it apparently goes for comic book movies too following the latest bombshell report from Variety, which seems to confirm a major rethink is in progress at Marvel Studios. And this would include undoing the “ending” of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. As per the trade, in a moment of unusual commercial volatility for Marvel Studios following the anemic response to several recent films, including Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania just last February, as well as steeply declining interest…
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