Nicole Kidman will receive an award at Palm Springs on her way to a likely Oscar nomination.
I apologized in the title, and I apologize again here, for propagating the deluge of Christmas themed romantic and family slop on the various streaming services. Recently this is providing much needed work for Lindsay Lohan, albeit Lohan does not appear the one below, there are apparently Mean Girls references contained therein. It being a slow week in key art, and this poster caught my eye not from utter incompetence, but rather peak banality. Design studio Concept Arts has done work in the past for Dennis Villeneuve’s Dune and Blade Runner: 2049 movies, Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, and if you go back far enough The Coen’s Brother’s iconic poster for Miller’s Crossing. They know what they are doing here, with this generic poster for…
A review of the new show from the creator of Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, and Tulsa King.
A sharp, stylish commentary on the lack of Asian representation in ’90s media.
If there was a Guinness World Record for the most jacked-up Santa in a big-budget, Hollywood-financed, holiday-themed action-comedy, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) would win hands down and biceps curled for his committed portrayal of Father Christmas (aka, St. Nick, aka Santa Claus) in Jake Kasdan’s (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zero Effect) otherwise disposable, forgettable Red One. Simmons’ Crossfit-loving, hyper-trophied Santa not only unironically loves those fading odes to crass commercialism, American shopping malls but also works out obsessively in his private gym back at the North Pole, relying on his personal security guard and nominal head of ELF (Enforcement Logistics and Fortification), Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson), to spot him when he goes big on bench-pressing free weights….
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we gush (and hush) over Gwyneth Paltrow with our past, present, and future guest Cory Everett, creator of Cinephile: A Card Game and the ever-expanding […]
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Allen Sunshine (Harley Chamandy) Directed with a sense of tranquil serenity and grounded maturity one might be accustomed to finding in the work of a seasoned director, Allen Sunshine is, quite […]
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We’re now just about a month away from the U.S. release of Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The feature took Venice Film Festival by storm, picking up the festival’s top honors with the Golden Lion, and now ahead of its December 20 release from Sony Pictures Classics, […]
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With it now being three years since Killers of the Flower Moon wrapped and one year since its release, Martin Scorsese has been away from a proper film set for some time. As the director prepares for his 82nd birthday this weekend, he has once again confirmed plans for his next features. In an interview […]
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(Check our Chris Reed’s A Real Pain movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Jesse Eisenberg follows up his 2022 directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, with another carefully realized character study filled with […]
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