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Michelle Yeoh Must Save the Multiverse, Do Her Taxes in Everything Everywhere All at Once Trailer: Watch
Michelle Yeoh is an exhausted Chinese American woman tasked with not only saving the whole multiverse but also doing her taxes in the bonkers trailer for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The new film from A24 is directed by the duo behind Swiss Army Man, Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) and comes to theaters on March 25th. The trailer for Everything Everywhere All at Once opens with Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) zoning out before a distant voice snaps her back to reality. “Mrs. Wang, are you with us?” a wigged Jamie Lee Curtis asks over a mountain of paper receipts. “Now you may only see a pile of receipts, but I see a story,” she says. “I can see where this story is going, and it does not look good.” At these stressful words, unseen hands suddenly pull Evelyn throug...
Return of the Jedi, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and WALL-E Among 2021 National Film Registry Honorees
The Library of Congress unveiled its annual list of new additions to the National Film Registry on Tuesday. Only 25 films make the cut per year, and the 2021 selection boasts some beloved classics spanning from 1902-2008. Among those are Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), WALL-E (2008), and many more well-deserving must-sees. Each year, the Librarian of Congress selects films for the National Film Registry from thousands of public nominations, with input from members of the National Film Preservation Board and Library film curators. Some other additions for 2021 include What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, the 1962 psychological horror-thriller starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Fantasy geeks will be pleased to see The Lord o...
Mads Mikkelsen’s Grindelwald Revealed in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore First Trailer: Watch
Another dose of magic is on the horizon: Warner Bros. has unveiled the trailer for The Secrets of Dumbledore, the next installment in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. A prequel to the beloved Harry Potter series, the film will hit theaters on April 15th, 2022. As its title implies, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore follows the tribulations of future Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore (long before The Boy Who Lived received his acceptance letter). The clip shows Dumbledore (Jude Law) assembling a team of wizards, witches, and one Muggle in an effort to stop dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) from seizing control of the wizarding world. With Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) leading the efforts, they encounter a slew of magical beasts as Gr...
Spider-Man: No Way Home Review: A Daring Narrative Feat With a Lot to Say About the Web-Slinger
The Pitch: It’s very very hard to make specific references to much of what happens in Spider-Man: No Way Home without spoilers. But at one point, while discussing the memory spell that Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has agreed to perform for Peter Parker (Tom Holland), Peter voices his concern over his beloved MJ (Zendaya) forgetting that he’s Spider-Man. Doctor Strange then points out that if MJ is only Peter’s girlfriend because he’s Spider-Man, then what does that say about their relationship? It’s perhaps the smartest thing Doctor Strange says in the entire movie, and evaluating No Way Home leads to a similar dilemma. What director Jon Watts and writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers have done with this film is an unprecedented piece of corporate-produced art. But attempting to ...
Golden Globes 2022 Nominees Revealed: See the Full List
On Monday morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed the nominees for the 2021 Golden Globes. The 79th annual entertainment awards are set to be given out on January 9th, 2022, and Snoop Dogg was on hand to help reveal the nominated TV and film projects. Belfast and The Power of the Dog ran away from the nomination pool with seven nods each, including Best Motion Picture, Drama; Best Director (Kenneth Branagh and Jane Campion, respectively); and Best Screenplay (again for Branagh and Campion). Jamie Doran and Ciarán Hinds from Belfast will compete against each other in the Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture category, where they’re also up against The Power of the Dog’s Kody Smit-McPhee. Caitriona Balfe (Belfast) and Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog) are also c...
Black Coffee Joins Forces With Moroccan Filmmaker Hicham Hajji for EDM Film, “God Is A DJ”
Iconic South African DJ and dance music producer Black Coffee is teaming up with Moroccan filmmaker Hicham Hajji for an upcoming film set in the world of EDM. Black Coffee is an executive producer on the movie, God Is A DJ, which will focus on a Jewish man and Moroccan imam who team up as a masked DJ duo. Although they have their suspicions of each other, they must overcome them to take on their local nightclub circuit. “With a minority driven cast, the film aims to bring this niche music to the world through the minorities that understand it,” Hajji told Deadline. Hicham Hajji. H Films Recommended Articles According to Black Coffee’s IMDb page, God Is A DJ will be the Grammy-nominated artist’s second film in which he serves as executiv...
Sorry, But the Story Part of West Side Story Sucks
The Pitch: On a very literal level, Steven Spielberg‘s West Side Story is a technically perfect film. Every detail on screen, from the period-accurate production design to the costumes to the choreography and sound design, is flawlessly rendered by some of today’s best artisans, and regular Spielberg collaborator Janusz Kamiński’s cinematography is unmatched, using the full frame at all times, playing with depth of field and brilliant lighting choices in ways that only enhance the cast’s brilliant performances. There is so much to admire about this new take on West Side Story, especially how it makes up for the 1961 original by casting actual Latinos in key roles, and takes a bilingual approach to the dialogue that adds to the authenticity. The problem, unfortunately, is that all of this i...
Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, and Benny Safdie Join Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
More details are unfurling about Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming World War II drama about the making of the atomic bomb. This week, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, and Benny Safdie have officially joined the cast of the biopic, which is set to hit theaters July 21st, 2023 through Universal Pictures. Oppenheimer tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb during World War II. Pugh will play Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party of the United States with whom Oppenheimer has an off-and-on affair. Safdie will play “father of the hydrogen bomb” Edward Teller, who was part of a research initiative called the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb. Malek will play an as-yet-unnamed scientist. Pugh, Malek...
R.I.P. Lina Wertmüller, First Woman to Be Nominated for Best Director Oscar Dead at 93
Lina Wertmüller, the Italian filmmaker who in 1977 became the first woman to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, has died at the age of 93, Deadline reports. She passed away at home in her birthplace of Rome. Wertmüller had a long career in entertainment. After graduating from drama school in Rome, she began working in theater, where she had roles in set design, publicity, and puppeteering. She toured for years with an avant-garde puppet group. In the 1960s, Wertmüller set her sights on film and worked closely with the director Federico Fellini. She served as an assistant director on his 1963 film 8 1/2 before her directorial debut, The Basilisks, arrived that same year. Advertisement Related Video Wertmüller rose to international acclaim in the 1970s with films like T...
Michael Sheen Says He’s Turned Himself Into a “Not-For-Profit” Actor
Michael Sheen has Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA Award nominations to his name, and now, he’s decided to pass along his wealth. The Good Omens actor says he’s “essentially turned [himself] into a social enterprise, a not-for-profit actor” in an essay penned for The Big Issue. “I’ve realized in the last few years that I want to be one of those people who help other people the way so many people helped me,” Sheen wrote. “I don’t want to just be someone who enjoys the fruits of what other people have done and then pull the drawbridge up and go, well I’m alright Jack, I’ve had a nice time.” The actor continued: “I’m at the stage of my life and career where I have a window of opportunity that will probably never be this good again. I’m able to get people in a room, I can open doors. I ...
Roger Taylor: Sacha Baron Cohen Would Have Been “Utter Shit” as Freddie Mercury
It seems nearly impossible that anyone could accurately portray an artist as legendary as Freddie Mercury, but according to Roger Taylor, Sacha Baron Cohen was a particularly bad fit for the job. In a recent interview with Classic Rock magazine, the Queen drummer said the comedian would have been “utter shit” had he wound up portraying Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. “I think he would have been utter shit. Sacha is pushy, if nothing else,” Taylor said. “He’s also six inches too tall. But I watched his last five films and came to the conclusion he’s not a very good actor.” “I might be wrong there,” he backtracked. “I thought he was an utterly brilliant subversive comedian, that’s what he’s great at. Anyway, I think Rami did a brilliant job in an almost impossible role.” Related Vid...
Meryl Streep Thought Her Don’t Look Up Co-Stars Were Literally Calling Her a Goat
Everyone seems to know Meryl Streep is the GOAT — except for the three-time Oscar winner herself. The actor’s Don’t Look Up co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Jonah Hill spent much of the movie’s press cycle referring to her lovingly as the Greatest of All Time, but Streep wasn’t aware of the acronym. As a result, she thought they were literally calling her a goat. “The whole week I’m saying, ‘You know, working with Meryl’s the best, she’s the GOAT, she’s the GOAT,’” Hill told Jimmy Fallon in a recent appearance on The Tonight Show. “And then today, we’re doing a press conference, and she’s like, ‘You know, Jonah is so comfortable with me, he’s been calling me a goat all week!’” Lawrence also discussed the mix-up in a talk show appearance of her own. While guesting on The Late...
