Category: Movies

“I also see how difficult it must be for you to survive…” A trailer has debuted for an intriguing film titled Thy Kingdom Come, which is premiering at the SXSW Film Festival in March in the “Visions” section. How many remember Terrence Malick’s 2012 film To the Wonder, with all the twirling? Thy Kingdom Come is a film made up of extra footage from early research on To the Wonder. In 2010, photojournalist Eugene Richards was hired by Malick to go to the town Bartlesville, Oklahoma with Javier Bardem (who plays a priest in the film) and meet some of the local residents. Some knew who he was, others didn’t. “Absolutely no one cared, in the end, who he was, except that he was there to listen.” Richards eventually got the rights back and made this 43 minute film, which screens alongside Malick’s VR project Together. First look below. ›››

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Tonight, the United Kingdom had their big night for Hollywood with the 71st BAFTA Awards, honoring the best in film from last year (2017). These awards don’t really have a major influence on the Oscars, but it’s always interesting to see who our friends across the pond select as the winners. The biggest winner of the night was Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, taking home five prizes in total including Best Film and Best British Film. The other big winners include Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch taking home Best First Feature. Plus Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney, and Gary Oldman winning in the acting categories. Baby Driver won, too. Read on for the full list of 2018 winners. ›››

Continue Reading McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ Wins Best Film at 2018 BAFTA Awards

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One of the best documentaries I’ve seen playing at film festivals this year is titled Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., a subversive profile of the controversial, badass, outspoken musician/activist known as “M.I.A.” In real life, her full name is Maya Arulpragasam, and she’s originally from Sri Lanka, an island off the southern coast of India. At first glance, this seems like a film that is another music documentary about a pop star and her rise to fame and fortune and glory. But it’s anything but that. It’s actually a much more personal, intimate story of a young woman who wants to bring attention to and raise awareness about very dire problems in the world, and injustices, and do so using the power of the microphone. But what if no one took her seriously? That’s what this film is really about. And it’s an eye-opening, alarming, invigorating documentary to watch. ›››

Continue Reading Berlinale 2018: ‘Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.’ is Not Just Another Music Doc

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“Everytime I see you, it feels good, and it hurts at the same time.” Entertainment One has debuted the first official trailer for a very bizarre, high concept indie romantic drama titled Eye on Juliet. Here’s the crazy unique pitch for this: a drone operator falls in love with a Middle Eastern woman who is being beaten by her family. She can’t really see him, because he operates a hexapod drone, but he can see her on his computer system back in America, and tries to save her. Joe Cole stars as the operator, along with Lina El Arabi as his love interest, plus a cast including Faycal Zeglat, Hatim Seddiki, and Brent Skagford. As weird as this sounds, and although it seems cheesy, this trailer actually shows some promise. He might’ve pulled this off? This already played at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, which means there’s definitely something to it. You just have to watch the trailer to get an idea and see just what this is all about. Take a look below. ›››

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“Marseilles was never free, but it will be. Change is coming.” EntertainmentOne has unveiled a new full-length official trailer for the action western film Five Fingers for Marseilles, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. We posted the teaser trailer for this “neo-western” set in South Africa just before the festival last year, now we have a full theatrical trailer. The story follows a young boy whose life is changed forever when he kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Decades later, he finally heads home but his return brings out his enemies who go after him and all of his friends. The film stars Vuyo Dabula as Tau, along with Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Anthony Oseyemi, Jerry Mofokeng, plus Kenneth Fok. This looks very cool, very gritty. I’m quite curious to check it out, still has my attention. ›››

Continue Reading Vuyo Dabula in Official Trailer for Western ‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’

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We take for granted how easy it is to travel between countries nowadays. But it wasn’t always so easy. And it might not be so easy in the future. The latest film from German filmmaker Christian Petzold (Jerichow, Barbara, Phoenix) is a feature titled Transit, which is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. The film feels similar to something Aki Kaurismäki would make, specifically his most recent film The Other Side of Hope, and even feels like it would play nice with Ai Weiwei’s documentary Human Flow. Transit is about refugees and transit papers, and the lives of people who are just trying to find a way out, a way to somewhere else. They’re just trying to move on. It’s the kind of film you need to sit on and think about for days or weeks, and not instantly process, because there’s so much more going on beyond just what’s presented on the surface. ›››

Continue Reading Berlinale 2018: Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’ is Peculiar & Fascinating

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This is for true Star Wars geeks only. The first teaser trailer for the next Star Wars spin-off movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story, was unveiled earlier this month. One fan named Daz Tibbles (follow him @daztibbles) decided to turn the trailer into an anime and start developing an anime series based on the Solo footage. He made this anime teaser in only four days time, which is very impressive. The tiny bit of footage we do get here seems to be inspired by a scene in the official teaser, but it looks like this could become its own anime series separate from the movie anyway. That is, if it were official, but it just seems to be a fan project. Still a cool tease, and something I would watch more of, for sure. Check out the trailer and follow Daz for updates. ›››

Continue Reading Check Out This Short Teaser for a Fan-Made Han Solo Anime Project

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Meanwhile, back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, director Ryan Coogler is schooling everyone on how it’s supposed to be done. The Oakland-born filmmaker made waves, huge waves, right out of the gate with his feature debut, Fruitvale Station (2013), and then again with the Rocky spin-off, Creed (2015). There’s a natural apprehension anytime an up-and-coming filmmaker steps in to take on a blockbuster project, but Black Panther, Coogler’s first endeavor into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, defiantly puts any doubts to rest. The film successfully sets a new bar for not only comic book movies, but also action movies as a whole. Smart, stylish, and with a ton at work under the surface, Black Panther is an exhilarating addition to the MCU and one more indication that Coogler is a filmmaker worth taking note of. ›››

Continue Reading Review: Ryan Coogler’s ‘Black Panther’ Sets a New High-Bar in the MCU

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“No one here tells the truth.” Arrow Films has released an official UK trailer for The Third Murder, the latest film from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who last brought us After the Storm just last year. The Third Murder premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last fall, and still doesn’t have a US release set yet. The film’s story is about a court case involving a murder-robbery suspect named Misumi, played by Kôji Yakusho, who has confessed to the crimes. However, his defense attorney, played by Masaharu Fukuyama, has other ideas about this case, which could mean the difference between life and death for Misumi. The cast also includes Hirose Suzu. This received some solid reviews out of festivals last year, and it looks like a seriously compelling legal drama that brings up intriguing questions. See below. ›››

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Dogs rule! There’s really nothing else like a Wes Anderson-directed stop-motion animated film. That is especially true for Isle of Dogs, the latest one-of-a-kind stop-motion animated creation from the mind of this master filmmaker. Isle of Dogs is a very Japanese film, set entirely in a retro-future Japan where dogs have been outlawed by cat-loving government villains. It’s endlessly imaginative, unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, with incredible detail in every single frame. So much so, that it’s almost hard to keep up with all of it – I want to pause and study each frame/set/scene before continuing. The film is amusing and funky, sometimes a bit clunky, with plenty of Anderson’s typical quirky humor and wacky characters galore. It’s so funky that some may not connect, but there’s an undeniable charm that definitely won me over by the end. ›››

Continue Reading Berlinale 2018: Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ is Stop-Motion Excellence

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