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The first season of the Disney+ Star Wars show The Mandalorian has concluded. And damn, it hit like a ton of bricks. As some have complained that some episodes haven't moved quick enough, this one is pure fire. From front to back, we're given action that lets us know that there are actual stakes with this extension of the universe. Not everyone is going to survive. And that's okay. At long last, Star Wars feels like its getting a makeover that gives weight to the violence on screen. As the first ever live action show set in the galaxy far, far away, the pairing of Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau's work has proven to be nearly impeccable. In only eight short episodes, they've revitalized Star Wars fandom with something we can rally behind as The Rise of Skywalker continues to cause a
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“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.” Steeling her resolve with a sharp breath and a self-assured nod of the head, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) gathers her nerves and confidently struts headlong into a den of vipers, that parlor of patriarchy known as the publishing house. Her ink-stained hands give the lie to her claim that she's shopping around stories "for a friend," and she squirms uncomfortably while the myopic editor (Tracy Letts) slashes her story to ribbons, only to offer her $20 for his final cut. Knowing better than to look a gift horse in the mouth, she takes the offer, as that's the best a young woman of her station is
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With only 8 days behind it, the latest Star Wars movie is hurdling through space towards a great worldwide box office haul. Even though fans are still quite divided over the last entry in the Skywalker franchise, Disney is looking at an excellent tally that will definitely solidify Episode IX as another successful December movie. While it's still trailing the numbers from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, the JJ Abrams directed sci-fi fantasy flick has already crossed the $500 million mark in only 8 days of worldwide release. As of today, it's already at $518 million and still counting. The film raked in $32 million in U.S. ticket sales on Christmas day alone, bringing its current domestic gross to $258 million already. Looking at social media trends and commentary, it seems
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CG animated films are a dime-a-dozen these days – littered in between the big Pixar or DreamWorks releases are generally far less ambitious films from smaller studios, generally short on story and with the barest hint of character development and seemingly extant only for marketing potential (which usually ends up relatively nonexistent anyway). So, it’s difficult to get excited when yet another animated family film hits theatres, particularly around the holidays. 20th Century Fox’s Blue Sky Studios, the creators of the Ice Age and Rio franchises, is banking on its newest release, Spies in Disguise, to work up some hype this holiday season.There have been plans to flesh out Lucas Martell’s 2009 animated short, Pigeon: Impossible for several years, but the resulting feature has very little
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Today, it's being reported that FX is in the early developmental stages of adapting the classic Stephen King novel Carrie to a short run event series. With King properties once again a hot commodity in the film and television world, it appears that the story of Carrie White will once again find itself being remade with an extended look at the teenager's life. This time it will be a limited show that will be hosted on the cable outlet. There is no word yet on the time frame in which the show will make its way to the station but Variety has word that it's in the very beginning process. Carrie has seen multiple film versions including the 1976 classic, the 2002 made for TV movie, and a 2013 remake that starred Chloe Grace Moretz in the classic role. This new version of Carrie joins a sl
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Uncut Gems (2019) opens with an ethereal trip through the cosmos via the facets of a gem that transitions to a colonoscopy and this visual reinforces the film's main theme: in the grand scheme of the universe one’s life means nothing--it's all shit.Adam Sandler (in one of the greatest roles of his career) plays Howard Ratner, a Jewish jeweler who owns a store in New York, and who is also addicted to gambling. He owes a huge amount of money to some loan sharks and the narrative of the film follows him around as he places more and more bets trying to win a huge payoff that will enable him to finally pay everyone what they are owed. The Safdie brothers seemed to be obsessed with exploring chaos theory, more specifically "the butterfly effect" which is the idea that a
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This weekend saw the finale for the Skywalker saga hit cinemas with a massive opening that still fell short of the last two previous entries. Falling behind The Force Awaken's domestic opening of $247.9 million and The Last Jedi's $220 million, the newest film directed by JJ Abrams is coming in short but still seeing a huge opening tally. As of right now, it's being reported that The Rise of Skywalker will take in an estimated $175 million. While many will definitely blame Rian Johnson's choices during The Last Jedi, it is normal for a third entry to see dwindling opening weekend receipts. With a resounding positive reaction from the fandom (the total opposite of Jedi), the trilogy bookend will most likely continue gaining traction with return viewings. If fans really like the movie,
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Most teenagers would have a tough time portraying the complexities of the human experience through media, having not lived through enough highs and lows to depict it earnestly. The same cannot be said for 18-year-old Canadian filmmaker Harley Chamandy, who’s made quite a name for himself during the few years he’s been creating films. His short film The Final Act of Joey Jumbler is able to pack a gamut of raw emotion and social commentary within its short 11-minute running time, and is a prolific piece for someone his age.Inspired by the real-life story of the lead actor Alain Boucher’s young daughter with leukemia, the film follows a day in the life of Joey Jumbler, a party clown that is forced to smile in his profession when his heart wants to do anything but that. We f
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Star Wars week continues as The Rise of Skywalker is dominating multiplexes and the film discourse. Viewers everywhere are heading out to theaters to see the end of the Skywalker saga are being treated to a multitude of trailers for what is coming in 2020 but none are as tantalizing and mysterious as the trailer for Christopher Nolan's latest film, Tenet. And in the tradition of Nolan's films since The Dark Knight, he has managed to have six minutes of the film prepared for your viewing pleasure. That's right, if you head out to see TROS on an IMAX screen, you are treated to six minutes of Tenet. Shot on IMAX and 70mm, the footage will not screen anywhere else. If you want to see the footage, you better go get your tickets for Star Wars and see this on the big screen. Folks who
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It seems like there's been a massive reprise for Stephen King content the past couple years. With both chapters of IT being massive theatrical successes and some of his written properties being translated to television and Netflix, there has been no shortage of new things for us to enjoy as fans. Now, it's been announced that his sequel to The Shining will be seeing a super long director's cut when it gets released on streaming on January 21st and blu-ray on February 4th. The new cut will be extended to 180 minutes which is 28 minutes longer than the theatrical version. It will also be available on 4K UHD in February. This updated cut will feature "new, altered, and extended scenes" that were specifically added back in by director Mike Flanagan. Warner Bros. did not release any other
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Once upon a time – 1939, to be exact – T. S. Eliot wrote a charming slim volume of poetry called Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, a collection of novel verses that loosely tell the tale of a race of cats known as “Jellicles”. Based upon this whimsy, Andrew Lloyd Webber penned a musical simply named Cats– which, since the 1980s, has had its share of performances and reimaginings, of which, Tom Hooper’s new musical fantasy dramedy is perhaps the strangest and most discombobulated. For those unfamiliar with the narrative of Cats, for the term “story” is too kind a word for what happens here, it is fairly hopeless to understand. Essentially, the group of Jellicle Cats are about to hold their Jellicle Ball, a yearly event wherein an ancient matriarch of the feline clan, Old Deuteronomy (Da
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Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 published world famous horror novella Viy (or The Viy) might well be the most well-known piece of Soviet fantasy folklore in literary as well as cinematic history. In addition to directly influencing Italian gothic horror maestro Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, Viy spawned four Russian cinematic adaptations, a South Korean film and a Serbian film starting in the early 1900s lasting through the mid-2010s. The version the Movie Sleuth will be looking at came in 1967 as Viy and is generally regarded as Russia’s very first full-blooded horror film. Up until recently, the only way to see this largely overlooked yet celebrated European horror oddity was through non-English friendly releases which weren’t translated but nonetheless presented a got
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Here we go again. Another rambling review of a terrible Star Wars movie by a die hard fan boy. Are you ready?Episode I -The Phantom Menace: Because everything needs an explanation. After years of waiting, fans were finally given the first prequel they had been waiting for, The Phantom Menace. Boy, were we let down. Instead of a return to the glory of the '70s and '80s, Star Wars Episode I is a two hour exercise in a grown man showing off his brand new, over used techie toys while forgetting what his very own franchise was initially about: story. Centered on Lucas' love for all things CGI and weighed down dialogue, the movie sold out every show but ultimately let the starving fan base down. Seeing the movie multiple times in theaters when it was first released
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After the financial failure of the 2017 Power Rangers movie, the future was unclear. Although it was actually a pretty cool retread for the popular brand, it didn't really receive the hype that it deserved and died a quick cinematic death due to low box office returns. Earlier this year it was reported that Paramount was looking at rebooting or relaunching the Rangers in a new film series. This weekend, word is breaking that Paramount has partnered with Hasbro (the official owners of the franchise) to bring them back to cinemas in a new movie which will once again reboot. After the last failed attempt, Saban sold the Power Rangers to Hasbro for $522 million. Early reports are saying that the newest revitalization will be more in the realm of Stranger Things and will go for a re
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With the massive success of The Mandalorian and fans finally putting some of their in them ternet fury behind, it looks like Disney+ is rather hot to get another live action show onto the platform. There are rumors swirling tonight that Lucasfilm has already secretly begun production on a show that no one has even heard about yet. Before The Mandalorian premiered, Making Star Wars' Jason Ward let on that the central focus of the first season of that show would center on a child of the same species as Yoda. Now, when talking to Inverse, he had this to say:"A new Star Wars show is starting about now that nobody even knows about. I’m hearing it’s a Lucasfilm-Marvel venture with both companies teaming up to bring a Star Wars show to the small screen.”Supposedly, the
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After an awesome five weeks that really set up the core idea, The Mandalorian is back this week with another action packed episode. Picking up right after chapter five, The Prisoner sees our armor clad bounty hunter joining forces with a pack of unruly galactic mercenaries on the prowl for a new package. What unravels is another slick entry in the continuing saga of Mando and his little friend, Baby Yoda. Although, they begin to sidestep some of the core elements that made the first few episodes so grand, it remains some of the best Star Wars projects we've had since Rogue One. Stepping outside the boundaries of the Skywalker saga really seems to work for the entire franchise. Instead of retreading old water, The Mandalorian is its own thing with obvious fan service thrown in fo
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Based on a true story, Richard Jewell might be one of Clint Eastwood’s more dynamic movies in the last ten years. Set during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, a security guard with a desire to return to the police force, Richard Jewell, is doing his routine when he discovers a suspicious backpack under a bench in Centennial Park. With little time to spare, he helps to evacuate the area until the incendiary device inside the bag explodes. Jewell manages to save hundreds of lives with his quick action and a national spotlight is shined upon him. He is getting TV interviews and book offers headed his way. Things are turning around for Jewell until the FBI names him the prime suspect in the bombing.Richard Jewell is a compelling look at a shameful period in American history. Paul Wal
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Perhaps some people will look at the subject matter of Bombshell (2019) and think that because these women chose to work at a conservative news station that they somehow deserved the sexual harassment they received. Does Fox News espouse horrible values? Yes, it does. Does that mean that the public should turn a blind eye to harassment that goes on there? Should women be punished for having to take jobs at less than ideal work environments?Bombshell primarily is about the real life 2016 sexual harassment scandal that surrounded Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow). The film begins with some light fourth-wall breaking a la The Big Short (2015) which has news anchor Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) giving the audience a tour of the Fox News building and explaining t
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Here we are. Only one episode left to go before the conclusion of 2019's best television offering. When first announced, many questioned whether a Watchmen television series could work at all. Considering its iconic legacy and unrelenting respect in the comic book community, no one was sure that this could be pulled off by anyone including one of the people behind Lost. By now, we can surely say undoubtedly that it works in more ways than one. Mad respect goes out to all those that work on this series. Continuing to expand on the mythos of Alan Moore's original work, HBO partnered with Damon Lindelof has succeeded greatly at transitioning and continuing the Watchmen story into an amazing show that gets better week by week. With one of the biggest questions finally being answered duri
