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Toronto 2022 Review: THE WOMAN KING, A Grand Epic of Women in Action
Viola Davis and Lashana Lynch star in Gina Prince-Bythewood's action epic.
Now Streaming: STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Brings the Saga to Its Inevitable End
J.J. Abrams returns to direct Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega and Adam Driver in a sci-fi adventure, now streaming on Disney+.
Review: PACIFIC RIM UPRISING, Giant Robots Punch Giant Monsters, Who Cares About The Rest?
Once in a while it's good to ground oneself in this trade. Even though I am first and foremost a movie fan, there's something about going into a press screening of a film -- even one I'm pretty excited about...
Review: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, Stronger Than Ever with the Force
There’s nothing better than a great Star Wars movie. And this is a great Star Wars movie. In the interest of rightly remaining spoiler free, I’ll put forth that, generally speaking, The Last Jedi pulls off many things that The...
PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING Teaser Assembles the Jaegers
Legendary has released a short teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 monsters vs. Kaiju epic, Pacific Rim. More of an opportunity to show off some new Jaeger designs and pimp out the film's first...
Tribeca 2017 Review: THE CIRCLE, Where All Are Trapped in the Social Media Web
The subject of our hyper-connected, social media-based cultural landscape is a fruitful and relevant one for filmmakers, and one with great potential for mass audience interest, given how pervasive this is in our daily lives. David Fincher’s Facebook origin story The Social Network can be looked upon as the gold...
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Teaser Offers Space Opera at its Finest
Disney and Lucasfilm have dropped the teaser trailer for Rian Johnson's entry in the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi, which for us old school fans we'll fondly call Episode VIII. Of course, Star Wars is such a behemoth that...
Destroy All Monsters: Gay Or Straight, Finn/Poe Matters
Like most fans of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I found the relationship between John Boyega's Finn and Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron to be one of the film's most charming aspects. As soon as they'd uttered their enthusiastically mutual "nice...
Destroy All Monsters: The Power Of THE FORCE AWAKENS
Sure, within moments of the wider pop cultural world becoming aware of the fact that Rey (Daisy Ridley) wasn't just the main character of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but was indeed that kind of main character - the Luke,...
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS International Trailer: "I'm Rey. I'm Finn."
A fresh new Japanese trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens features fresh new footage that largely centers around Rey, the character played by Daisy Ridley, and includes a moment when she introduces herself to John Boyega. Good stuff. You can...
Sundance 2014 Review: IMPERIAL DREAMS Is A Taut, Effective Social Drama
About two-thirds the way through Malik Vitthal's remarkable film, the lead character makes it plain - he's just trying "to do the right thing."Back in 1989, another African American filmmaker showed how doing the right thing wasn't always easy. Spike's...
New To Netflix: Space Monsters, TKD Rock & Roll, Aging Beefcake, and More!
You have found this weeks entry for New To Netflix! Not that we are actually new to Netflix, we're just happy, able, willing to help you find out what kind of 'Twitch-y' material is coming to the big red virtual...
Sitges 2011: ATTACK THE BLOCK Review
[With Joe Cornish's Attack The Block screening tonight in Sitges we take a moment to remind you that this movie is awesome.]The sky is falling, bizarre meteor-like chunks of rock crashing to earth all around a low rent, inner city...
Hollywood Grind: ATTACK the Hype
We've displayed an unabashed love for Joe Cornish's Attack the Block since it debuted at SXSW in March, and I'm fully on board with calling it one of the most enjoyable films of the year. It's expanding into six more...
ATTACK THE BLOCK Expands To Five U.S. Cities. Vote For The Sixth!
Joe Cornish's Attack the Block rules like fucking lords! Truth. I saw it this weekend. Twice. Yes. It is that good. After a very healthy per screen average from the first six cities where the sci-fi horror comedy opened the film...
ATTACK THE BLOCK See this now.
See this now. Cowboys and Aliens can wait. Attack the Block is opening in seven measly cities around the country and it needs wider release. Attack the Block should be seen by anyone who has ever been a kid, ever...
Fantasia 2011: ATTACK THE BLOCK Review
[With ScreenAnarchy favourite ATTACK THE BLOCK playing today at Fantasia (bonus, Jerome Sable's wonderful camp-slasher-rock-opera playing in front), we revisit Todd's previous review.]The sky is falling, bizarre meteor-like chunks of rock crashing to earth all around a low rent, inner...
Get Tooled Up For The ATTACK THE BLOCK Red Band Trailer!
Soon my pets. Soon. If you live in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin or Chicago then you're in luck because on July 29th you'll be able to see Joe Cornish's Attack the Block! Don't live in...
ATTACK THE BLOCK Lands July 29th Release Date
It's a good news / bad news scenario for Joe Cornish's Attack The Block in North America. The good news is that Sony / Screen Gems have announced a theatrical release date of July 29th. Despite an enormously positive response...
ATTACK THE BLOCK Review
The sky is falling, bizarre meteor-like chunks of rock crashing to earth all around a low rent, inner city council estate. But these are no mere space rocks. They are containers, vessels carrying within them a collection of vicious alien...
