Category: Movies
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Screenmancer’s Top 100 Films: Exquisite Flicks for Cinephiles Only
by Chad Aiggia, Screenmancer Staff Screenmancer has tasked me, Chad Aiggia newest staff member with a daunting assignment. Overnight deadline to pull together a Seminal Top 100 list that aligns with our mandate as a female-run film site. So my count might be off due to the rush. Of course, not being female, this adds…
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Top 10 Summer Watchlist for a Post-Choice Reality
LOS ANGELES, CA: Screenmancer presents a Top 10 list for women and girls of all ages in a post-Roe v Wade reality now that the landmark Jan. 22, 1973 legislation has fallen. Norma McCarvey, who died in 2017, was that real-life Jane Roe who stood for all her contemporaries on a cold day in January…
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WOLFS is Clooney and Pitt’s codependent caper movie
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Not since Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction have we seen such talent able to steam-clean a crime scene? Actually George Clooney and Brad Pitt have their own unique high-profile fixer moment coming soon. You heard that right. And no, the verdict is not in on WOLFS, the new Clooney…
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Yes, there is a Global Movie Day, third time is a charm in February
LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced talent participating in its third annual Global Movie Day, to be held online across the Academy’s social channels on Saturday, February 12, 2022. The day was established by the Academy for film fans around the world to celebrate their favorite movies and…
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Bradley Cooper is a vintage carny with Cate Blanchett in del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY
by Screenmancer Staff Here’s a deliciously strange first look at fantasy Director Guillermo del Toro’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY from Searchlight Pictures, to be released wide Dec. 17 in theaters. Is uncanny carny Bradley Cooper a con man who can bend minds? Or will his cat-like co-star Cate Blanchett, a wily shrink, be the first to punch…
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Before she was an Avenger, yikes ScarJo is BLACK WIDOW
by Screenmancer Staff When BLACK WIDOW opens in July, look out Scarlett Johansson because Rachel Weisz is on your tail. “One thing’s for sure,” Black Widow says, “I’m done running from my past.” Of course, she hits a high rise office building after that, chased by scary Russiabots (or whatever) who have cancelled Perestroika to…
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More stress, why not: THE TOMORROW WAR is coming
by Screenmancer Staff Yeah so, 30 years in the future you get drafted retroactively from the past to save the world? Such is the plot of THE TOMORROW WAR from Amazon Prime if you are Chris Pratt and company. This impending battle for mañana will have a “global premiere” on July 2. Just in time…
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Dive into the VFX in Tom Hanks’ GREYHOUND & Hanks wrote it too
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent What can’t Tom Hanks do? He can MC a Presidential inaugural celebration, and apparently write a top-flight screenplay for recent release GREYHOUND, where he stars as a Navy veteran facing Nazi U-boats. You have to assume he used one of the vintage typewriters from his collection, right? Maybe not. But now they’re…
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OVID.tv offers timely films on Democracy ahead of US Presidential Election
by OVID Staff Can a small scrappy streaming service engage creatively with the times we live in? We think that we can. Today OVID.tv is adding several new films to its line-up as it launches a collection of twenty-one films – most only on OVID – that address the notion and nature of democracy (and…
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The Reel Thing: Kubrick’s 2001, AITAF Veterans Day Benefit PM Q&A, 11/11
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent It’s been a while since the obelisk fell among the primates in Stanley Kubrick’s seminal film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. And whist there are many Hollywood insiders who whisper his involvement in a “staged moon landing” let’s face it, George Méliès faked a moon landing in 1902 with Le Voyage…
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Bill Duke touts politically relevant MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON for #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You’ll probably recognize actor/writer/producer, multi-hyphenate Bill Duke from numerous movies and TV shows. And he’s here now as an AFI alum to share the politically impactful, and still relevant, Frank Capra film MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. This Jimmy Stewart classic has all the key human elements. It’s senatorial…
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Film legend Leonard Maltin shares three secrets of CITIZEN KANE for #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If you’ve attended the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, you’ll know that The Maltin Modern Masters Award in honor of legendary author/critic Leonard Maltin is a coveted prize in Hollywood. Leonard Maltin has dedicated his life to researching not only the cinema classics, but also the contemporary Best Pictures,…
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CLEMENCY movie free thru 7/31 & Alfre Woodard joins BLM Global co-founder Patrisse Cullors
Curated by Screenmancer Staff New York, NY: From today through Friday, July 31st, NEON has made the critically acclaimed film CLEMENCY available to stream for free on Apple TV, Amazon and Fandago Now, Redbox On Demand, Spectrum, Xfinity, Verizon FIOS, Dish, Cox and Altice. CLEMENCY is also currently streaming on Hulu. Actor Alfre Woodard will join writer/activist/co-founder of the Black…
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Lena Dunham Does Nora Ephron’s Legacy Proud with SLEEPLESS for #AFIMOVIECLUB
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Some may consider Lena Dunham of HBO’s “Girls” an over-sharer when it comes to intimate details, but you’ll be surprised to learn she is a huge fan of the demure rom-com genre. Specifically where Tom Hanks (lately recovered from MyCorona) and Meg Ryan are concerned. Dunham does the late…
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Elizabeth Moss Inhabits Writer Shirley Jackson in SHIRLEY, So Apropos of Now
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent We interrupt this Pandemic to bring you Elizabeth Moss in SHIRLEY from NEON, about “The Lottery” writer Shirley Jackson. On June 19, 1948, The New Yorker published Jackson’s odd story about a town that gets stoned, but not how you think. And with this enigmatic introduction to SHIRLEY, from Director…
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