Local View: Hollywood’s new film genre is cruel, bizarre, nasty From the column: "The filmmakers seem motivated by a desire to be avant-garde and artistic in the eyes of their peers, ... (and they are getting) lots of award nominations." ... 05/10/2024 - 8:14 am | View Link
5 takeaways from Restaurant Wars on "Top Chef" in Wisconsin Maybe even more than the finale, Restaurant Wars is the episode every "Top Chef" fan looks forward to each season. Faced with opening a restaurant in basically a day with a team of collaborators who ... 05/10/2024 - 2:54 am | View Link
Pretty, Pretty Good Finale If you’re a long-time HBO viewer, it’s hard not hear the carnivalesque theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm (“Frolic” by composer Luciano Michelini) directly after the network’s name materializes out of the ... 05/9/2024 - 11:40 am | View Link
Maple Leafs Were Better, But Not Good Enough…Things Need to Change The Toronto Maple Leafs showed the effort to win their series, but it still wasn’t enough as major changes could be coming. 05/5/2024 - 5:52 am | View Link
Good but not good enough: a look at how the Maple Leafs got here and why it’s time for change When you brand your players the “Core Four” and split $50M a year between them you are advertising that there are big expectations for this group. Money ... 05/5/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
Director Wes Balls first installment in the Planet of the Apes film franchise didnt monkey around over its opening weekend. In fact, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes exceeded expectations as the sci-fi adventure ascended to become the No. 1 movie as its theatrical run begins. The long-range box office forecast predicted the Kingdom would make somewhere between $40 million and $50 million domestically, but it ended up hauling in an estimated $56.5 million instead (per The Numbers).
Chris Hemsworths appearance as Dementus in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has allowed the actor to spread his wings into a more villainous role than fans are used to seeing him play. However, it seems that after many years, the role has also put him on the radar of director George Miller.
Wes Ball is set to follow up Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes by taking the helm of the live-action adaptation of Nintendos Legend of Zelda franchise, and the director has revealed the immense pressure that comes with the project. While adapting any beloved property is a tricky matter, the massively successful animated Super Mario Bros.
It's an inevitable but nonetheless mournful moment for cinema tonight, May 11, as the groundbreaking filmmaker and producer Roger Corman has died at the age of 98. The director was still working right up to the end, and never truly stopped over the past 70 years. Corman directed roughly 50 movies and produced literally hundreds (more than 500, by some estimates), and was a trailblazer for independent film, often working outside the Hollywood system to produce wild, subversive, or nasty movies beloved by many.
It's been five years since one of the most acclaimed American directors released a film, perhaps because it was an anomaly in his career and one of his worst-reviewed movies. That would be Jim Jarmusch with the 2019 film, The Dead Don't Die. The movie stands out from most of Jarmusch's work as a slightly bigger project with special effects and $3 million of marketing, not to mention its young megastars like Selena Gomez, Adam Driver, and Austin Butler.