Disney/Marvel Studios It’s no secret that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been enduring somewhat of a crisis in recent years. In simple terms, it got to the point where we simply had too much of the MCU and it was getting ridiculous (as were the box office profits, which had…
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20th Century Studios In Ridley Scott’s 2012 sci-fi film “Prometheus,” a group of astronauts travel to a distant planet, guided there by a series of ancient cave paintings discovered on Earth. It seems that tall, godlike aliens visited Earth many thousands of years ago and left a map…
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20th Century Studios Disney didn’t exactly have a banner year (by Disney standards anyhow) in 2023. None of the studio’s films topped $1 billion last year which, again, is not the marker for success. However, for a studio with as many reliable franchises as Disney has, it’s notable,…
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Lionsgate You can’t please everyone, as the saying goes, but it isn’t every day that a jilted filmmaker fires shots — both publicly and directly — at a major property that’s just released in theaters. Most would probably avoid courting such headlines, but Alex Proyas isn’t like most…
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Magenta Light Studios Major spoilers for “Strange Darling” follow. Director J.T. Mollner’s indie horror flick “Strange Darling” has finally opened in U.S. theaters with the wind of good publicity at its back. In a fascinating career pivot, “Strange Darling” was shot on 35mm film by actor Giovanni Ribisi…
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Lionsgate While the summer movie season has been generally strong for the last couple of months, this past weekend was a bumpy ride so far as new releases were concerned. MGM’s “Blink Twice,” the feature directorial debut of Zoe Kravitz, did well enough for itself with a $7.3…
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Bleecker Street This post contains spoilers for “Logan Lucky.” Steven Soderbergh rarely ever misses. The director almost retired some time back with the intention of 2013’s “Behind the Candelabra” being the final film he would helm, but thankfully, that did not come to pass. The script for “Logan Lucky”…
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Paramount In 2017, an unexpected bit of news arrived: Quentin Tarantino was going to make a “Star Trek” movie — an R-rated “Star Trek” movie, to boot! While Tarantino has always written his own scripts, his proposed “Star Trek” movie would change things up — Tarantino would pitch…
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Cannon Film Distributors Tobe Hooper’s 1985 sci-fi vampire film “Lifeforce” is one of the stranger genre exercises of its era. It was produced by the Cannon Group, an exploitation movie house founded in Israel by B-movie luminaries Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, so it comes with a schlocky…
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Hulu Among the barrage of true crime stories available across pretty much every medium of entertainment, from film to television and especially podcasts, “Only Murders in the Building” stood out as a breath of fresh air. Thanks to the dynamic, hilarious duo of Steve Martin and Martin Short…
