Sometimes I watch a movie just by chance or default rather than actively planning on it. This was the case with Suzume, the latest from writer/director Makoto Shinkai (Weathering With You, Your Name). The art style appealed to me, but I went in without prior knowledge, including the director’...
Read MoreThe writers’ strike may have shuttered Saturday Night Live for a while, but the landmark sketch show will have its story told soon. Deadline exclusively reports that Jason Reitman will be directing a movie about the first episode of Saturday Night Live, which was once a comedy show. Reitman is wri...
Read MoreThe big news today is that the Writers’ Guild of America is officially on strike. Their list of demands of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, includes various forms of “more money,” but that’s not all they want. Other proposals include mandating more writers f...
Read MoreToday, an international trailer came out promoting Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Check it out here: This is very similar to the last trailer, with just a couple of extra clips sprinkled in. It’s still very good and displays the deft balance of comedy and drama the first film excelled at...
Read MoreSylvester Stallone is going mountain climbing again. The action star is set to return in a sequel to Cliffhanger, one of his 90s action movies. Directed by the great Renny Harlin, Cliffhanger starred Stallone as a mountain rescue ranger with a troubled past who gets trapped on a mountain with a team...
Read MoreIt appears Marvel has a casting couch. On a recent episode of the podcast Brotherly Love, hosted by the Lawrence Brothers (people who didn’t grow up in the 90s are excused from knowing who they are), actor Matthew Lawrence tells a story about a harrowing Hollywood experience when he was auditionin...
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