Category: New Releases
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Escape behind THE LOST CITY scenes with Sandy, Channing… and Brad Pitt?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Sandra Bullock fans can rejoice that America’s Sweetheart is back in a pure escapism romp for these tough times; that would be THE LOST CITY from Paramount Pictures. Opening this coming week, with March dates below, THE LOST CITY is sort of “Romancing the Stone” meets Indiana Jones meets…
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500 Days of Summer’s Marc Webb on for intricate supernatural film DAY DRINKER
NEWS: Marc Webb ((500) Days of Summer, The Amazing Spiderman) will direct Day Drinker, a genre-bending supernatural thriller centered on the bond between an enigmatic stranger and a bartender mourning the loss of her lover. Set in coastal France, Portugal, and Spain, Day Drinker is an epic tale of love, friendship, and revenge. The film is an original story written by…
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GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS just went to the Moon via metaverse
NEWS: Super and Decrypt Studios just partnered to produce a live metaverse premiere of SUPER ’S newest documentary GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS. In a tongue-in-cheek riff on the popular meme, yesterday’s screening took viewers “to the moon” to watch the film at a drive-in theater on a rocky landscape orbiting planet Earth. Director Jonah Tulis took…
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Sam Mendes shoots EMPIRE OF LIGHT, Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth
Searchlight Pictures announced today the start of principal photography on Sam Mendes’ (1917, Skyfall, American Beauty) feature film EMPIRE OF LIGHT, starring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Academy Award winner Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke and Tanya Moodie. Tom Brooke and Hannah Onslow join the previously announced cast. Produced by Academy Award nominee Pippa Harris…
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NO VACANCY is Sean Young teamed up with Dean Cain for a higher cause
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Talking to Sean Young is always an adventure, mostly because she is a great storyteller and writer in her own right, and today is no exception as we chat for a hot-take on her new movie NO VACANCY with Dean Cain (“Superman”). “I just got in from Costco, putting…
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You can watch UPROOTED: THE JOURNEY OF JAZZ DANCE on HBO MAX
LDR Creative and WarnerMedia OneFifty present ground-breaking documentary UPROOTED: THE JOURNEY OF JAZZ DANCE, from visionary filmmaker Khadifa Wong on HBO Max. The documentary traces the origin in Africa and follows the evolution through each decade and genre while exploring and commenting on the political and social influences that shaped the artistry of today. (This…
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RPGs or Role-Playing Games 101, and Shield Maidens to come from Mongoose
by Screenmancer Gamer Since the first RPG (Dungeons & Dragons) was unleashed upon the world in the mid-seventies, most tabletop roleplaying games have shared many common elements. Each player creates a character and writes down their stats on a piece of paper or some sort of digital sheet. Ask any tabletop role player what their…
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Film Fest 919 fetes NC’s own Ariana DeBose, her Oscar nom & Contenders
by Screenmancer Staff Film Fest 919 (FF919) lived up to its “Catch the Films Before They Catch On” motto with advance buzz on films featured at their 2021 Festival that have received Oscar nominations, including Audience Favorite winner King Richard, plus Flee, Spencer, The Hand of God, The Lost Daughter, The Worst Person in the…
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When Lincoln met Douglass, or Apple TV+’s 4-part Lincoln’s Dilemma, coming Feb. 18
Apple TV+ just dropped the trailer for the new four-part documentary series “Lincoln’s Dilemma,” a 21st-century examination of a complicated man in the context of his times. With never-before-heard stories about Lincoln, as well as close-up perspectives of him as a man, the docuseries shines a light on a side of Lincoln rarely seen –…
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George Clooney intros Jackson Browne for his endearing film THE TENDER BAR
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Who doesn’t want to see Director George Clooney introduce a Jackson Browne song from his new movie THE TENDER BAR? Browne’s “My Opening Farewell” is a featured attraction of this film. How about Clooney introducing an actual performance by Jackson Browne… wait for it. Meanwhile you can see J.R.…
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Spotlight: Riz Ahmed & Aneil Karia’s THE LONG GOODBYE on 2022 Oscar Shortlist
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If we wind the clock back to last year’s Award Season, SOUND OF METAL starring Riz Ahmed as a hearing-impaired rock drummer blew away the uninitiated as the band-fronter film picked up six Oscar®️ nominations and won two for Best Editing and Best Sound. Notable among the nominations was…
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Ben Affleck’s TENDER BAR premiere snap take & set-styled Hollywood afterparty
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Even though this joke – “A termite walks into a bar, and asks ‘where is the bar tender?’” – wasn’t in the movie, on Sunday, Dec. 12 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, J.R. Moehringer’s film-memoir THE TENDER BAR had a showing for an enthusiastic packed audience. It even had a star-studded…
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CYRANO’s Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett & Kelvin Harrison Jr. dazzle in London
by Screenmancer Staff What would French poet and playwright Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1868 – 1918), better known simply as Edmond Rostand, think of his 1897 creation “Cyrano de Bergerac” in the hands of filmmaker Joe Wright? If he’d seen Wright’s screen rendition of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” no doubt Rostand would have applauded…
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BEING THE RICARDOS’ Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, cast, stroll LA’s red carpet
by Screenmancer Staff There’s so much to love about the Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz romance revisited in BEING THE RICARDOS, with the LA premiere at the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum being no exception. Slated for theatrical release on Dec. 10, the star cast made their way down the newly minted Academy Museum’s red…
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NIGHTMARE ALLEY’s Bradley Cooper, star gallery, from Alice Tully Hall premiere
by Screenmancer Staff Last night at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, NIGHTMARE ALLEY lead Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, and Director Guillermo del Toro showed up, with more of the cast, to wry smiles at the opening of this novel-adapted film about a carnival grifter who pierces the veil to nibble on the hapless1940’s upper…
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