Director Peter Segal had been quiet for the five years after a series of Adam Sandler hits (50 First Dates, Anger Management)?and the boxing dud?Grudge Match. Now, he’s resurfaced with the Jennifer Lopez-led?Second Act?and?The Pacifier/Spy Next Door-like Dave Bautista film,?My Spy, due this year.??With Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Dan Bucatinsky, Milo Ventimiglia, and Treat…
The tension was palpable. In the moments (and days?) following Julia Roberts? announcement that Green Book?had won Best Picture at the 91stAcademy Awards, there were almost as many cheers and celebrations as there were anxious and angry responses. While some denounced it for simplifying racial arguments and a ?White Savior? complex, others proclaimed that it…
Michael Cimino, of?The Deer Hunter?fame and?Heaven’s Gate?notoriety, shoots the gap between his Oscar wins for the first and the derision of his work for the second in Mickey Rourke’s?The Year of the Dragon. While Rourke had collaborations with Steven Spielberg (1941), Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat), Barry Levinson (Diner), and Francis Ford Coppola (Rumble Fish) under…
Before?SWAT, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, Lethal Weapon,?and?Magnum P.I.?were remade as television dramas, studios seemed fascinated with remaking old television shows into slightly more offbeat films. In between films like I, Spy,?and later films like?The A-Team?and?21 Jump Street,?Starsky & Hutch?took the old 1970s buddy cop show and twisted it, hard. Thanks to Warner Archive Collection, the Blu-ray…
Sean Anders and his wife adopted children cross-culturally, undertaking a more difficult task than making audiences laugh with?We are the Millers, She’s Out of My League,?and the?Daddy’s Home?films. Thanks to the success he had writing and directing those other films, Paramount Pictures’ greenlit Anders’ more intimate project,?Instant Family. Here, Anders told his story, and the…
In the second installment of the?Creed?saga or the seventh chapter in the?Rocky?series, depending on your perspective, Sylvester Stallone’s script finds Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed wrestling with fatherhood, marriage, and the ghosts of the past, namely?Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu’s Viktor Drago. Drago is of course the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the fighter who…
In?Wreck-It Ralph, John C. Reilly’s villainous video game character Ralph goes off script, yearning to become a hero, and befriends another video game character, Sugar Rush’s?Vanellope von Schweetz. The two of them cause problems, seek out solutions, and end up figuring out what it means to be themselves… until now. When Vanellope finally admits that…
Thirty years ago, Walt Disney Studios was experiencing a lull. Yes,?Who Framed Roger Rabbit??had done some exciting things with animation and live-action blended together, but the 1980s had only provided?The Fox & The Hound, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective,?and?Oliver & Company… After?The Little Mermaid, Disney would break off a string of successes that…
In the port city of Buenaventura, Columbia, a young man and his friends struggle to escape their poverty. Their weapon in this war is dance.? In We Are the Heat, Harvey and his crew battle corruption, drug traffickers, and other dance crews as they try to find not just a new life, but redemption from…
A Star is Born tells the story of veteran musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) who, stumbling into a bar after a show, discovers?and immediately falls in love with?struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). Having just about given up on her dreams as a singer, Ally has never had an opportunity to showcase her talent until Jackson…
