Park Chan-wook started a revenge revolution with 2003’s Oldboy; that stylish, bloody-as-all-hell thriller featuring a man in a dark suit still gets made today. This month alone sees the release of two Oldboy-inspired action movies, Monkey Man and Boy Kills World. Now, Lionsgate, the finest purveyors in American Oldboy…
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If Brian Cox were the one launching cannonballs at the pyramids with Ridley Scott, it wouldn’t have gone down like it did. This revelation comes from Brian Cox himself, who launched into a veritable tirade against the director’s Napoleon at a history event panel in London this week, with some extra, seemingly…
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Overlook the training montage sequence in Monkey Man at your own pop culture and movie peril. Kid (Dev Patel) aims to avenge his mother’s death by vanquishing the police chief (Sikander Kher as Rana Singh) who raped and killed her and the false spiritual guru (Makarand Deshpande as Baba Shakti) who ordered the…
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For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the ’90s. Between our very own “Choice Awards” and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Nerf retailers flooded TV screens with images of independent youngsters with the magical ability to eat McDonald’s whenever they…
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It’s been a rough couple of decades for Golden Axe star Ax Battler, the barbarian. Following the release of his now-classic video game breakthrough, Golden Axe, Battler has descended into obscurity, presumably taking roles in Red Box geezer teasers in Moldova. But like Mickey Rourke circa 2008, Ax Battler is getting…
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Martin Scorsese is staying plenty busy, according to a new report from Variety. We already knew his next film was going to be another Shūsaku Endō adaptation about the life of Jesus Christ (a spiritual follow-up to his 2016 film Silence). But Variety’s sources say the 81-year-old is already lining up the film after…
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In a lawsuit that people will probably remember as much as they did the Beatles’ music in the movie Yesterday (or the fact that there was a movie called Yesterday about people forgetting the Beatles at all), plaintiffs Peter Rosza and Conor Woulfe have finally settled with Universal after they initially sued the…
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The full lineup for the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place in New York City from June 5 to June 16, has arrived. The list is rich with premieres and buzzy new projects, including films that star A-listers like Kristen Stewart, Dakota Johnson, Jenna Ortega, and recent Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone.
Great news for dads and dads at heart: For All Mankind is returning for another season. The alt-history series from Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, which is being called a “hit” by Apple TV+’s publicity department, will blast off for another season of soviet espionage, interplanetary union drives, and…
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For the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gabriel García Marquez’s seminal 1967 novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude is coming to the screen. The Netflix adaptation doesn’t yet have a release date (it’s set to premiere sometime in 2024), but a teaser released on Wednesday previews the story of the Buendía…
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As we’ve seen with the premieres of song-filled films like Mean Girls and The Color Purple, the “movie to musical to movie musical” pipeline is becoming an increasingly present force in our culture. Whether film or stage theatergoers like it or not, it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down any time soon. The latest film…
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Robert Durst is a good murderer and a shit criminal. “I think he would be free today if he had just kept his trap shut,” New York Times reporter Charles Bagli explains in the premiere of The Jinx – Part Two, the followup to the 2015 HBO series chronicling Durst’s history of murder allegations.
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There’s nothing scarier than childhood. Look no further than the movies (or your very own memory palace) for proof. With the upcoming release of Abigail and the recent child-adjacent scares from The First Omen and Imaginary, horror movies aren’t taking a break from ruining a few childhoods. It’s easy to see why. By…
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Do you remember the summer of 2020? You might not want to, but unless you’re particularly gifted at repressing memories, you mostly likely do. It was a season of fear, of paranoia, of guilt. It’s also the season of Stress Positions, the debut feature from writer-director Theda Hammel, in which she stars with comedian…
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If there was ever any doubt that Shōgun’s Mariko-sama was a force to be reckoned with, the penultimate episode squashes it. The enthralling installment centers on Anna Sawai’s loyal, impassioned character making the ultimate sacrifice. “Crimson Sky” takes us through Mariko’s emotional endeavors as she fights for Lord…
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[Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode six. The recap of episode seven publishes April 18.]
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The shit has hit the fan in Palm Royale. People are getting arrested, generational wealth is getting past down, babies are being born in bathtubs...it’s a mess out here. Let’s get into it.
Everyone has an opinion about the end of The Sopranos. Did Tony live, did he die, or did the cable go out? These questions have lingered over the last two decades since the show’s end, with none other than series creator David Chase offering a definitive answer to the question. But—and this is a big but—in 2010, while…
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Is it too much to give Michael Douglas what he wants? Early last year, he appeared in the much-derided Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. Though one of the year’s highest-grossing movies, Quantumania acted like a canary in the coal mine for a flailing MCU. The film somehow crossed the superhero movie Rubicon, pushing…
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As you may have surmised from the title, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead is a remake of the popular 1991 film of the same name. The original starred Christina Applegate, coasting on her sitcom fame as the dumb blonde daughter on the popular Fox show Married… With Children, as Sue Ellen Crandell, a 17-year-old…
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