‘Making Waves’ Review: Remember To Bow To Your Sound Masters, Film Students [Tribeca] When I was going through film school, I grimaced when I was assigned the audio position. Whether I held the recorder or the boom mic, I remember feeling low. But soon, I learned that gathering sound was integral as I hovered the boom mic to an air vent or the whistling grass. I am proud to call myself “once an Audio Kid....
‘No Time To Die’ TV Spot Kicks A Few Faces, Reveals A Few Plot Details Excuse me, do you have time to die? If not, I understand – but you might want to make time to watch thisNo Time to DieTV spot, because it’s loaded with new footage. That footage includesAna de Armaskicking some fool in the face – and honestly, isn’t that enough? There also appears to be some new insight into the plot of the film, which has Bond working with old enemies....
‘Oldboy’ Poster Artist Gets Screwed, Asks Spike Lee For Help Sometimes we’ll post concept art for posters, and sometimes that art gets pulled, or doesn’t get used in favor of more bland compositions. People always wonder why, and while the answer is often complicated we’re rarely flush with all the details. Here’s a case where we now know a lot, thanks to the artist in question. You may remember that early this year poster designs forSpike Lee’sOldboyhit the internet....
‘Rebel Ridge’, From Director Jeremy Saulnier, Adds Don Johnson And More Alongside Star John Boyega Rebel Ridge, a newJeremy Saulnier-directed Netflix movie starringJohn Boyega, just added a bunch of familiar names to its cast.Don Johnson,James Badge Dale,Zsane Jhe,James Cromwell, andErin Dohertyhave all now joined the film, which is being described as a “high-velocity thriller.” Not much more is known beyond that, but a new Jeremy Saulnier movie is always worth paying attention to....
‘Robin Hood: Origins’ Adds Jamie Foxx As A “Battle-Hardened” Little John Jamie Foxx, last seen ferrying Quevenzhané Wallis around town in theAnniereboot, is preparing to take on another classic character. He’ll play the Little John toTaron Egerton’s Robin Hood in the upcomingRobin Hood: Origins, which as you’ve probably gleaned from the title is the “gritty origin story in the vein ofThe Dark Knight” version of the classic English folk tale.THRbroke news of the Jamie Foxx Robin Hood casting....
‘Room 104’ Review: ‘My Love’ Closes Out An Uneven First Season (Each week, we’ll kick off discussion aboutRoom 104by answering one simple question: what’s the strangest thing in Room 104?)Room 104finishes its first season with a sentimental love story starring a long-married elderly couple. Charlie and Lorraine have a long history with Room 104, dating back to their wedding night a half century ago. Their latest visit ends up serving as a neat bookend to their saga....
‘Superintelligence’ Review: Maybe Melissa McCarthy Should Stop Letting Ben Falcone Direct Her Movies The first thing you should know about the new filmSuperintelligenceis that it’s being distributed by the WarnerMedia empire. Second, you should know that WarnerMedia does not have ownership inThe Late Late Show with James Corden, though the very existence ofSuperintelligencewould seem to imply otherwise. Ostensibly, this comedy is about an average citizen being thrown into a situation where only she can save humanity from a mysterious artificial intelligence....
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Actor Alan Ritchson Says “Everything You Read Online Is Wrong” Alan RitchsonpromisesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesis better than people think. The actor,who is playing Raphaelin theMichael Bay-produced,Jonathan Liebesman-directed film, toldThe Hollywood Reporter"everything you read online" about the film “is wrong.” He said “people assume they know what it’s going to be about, and those people are wrong,” then promised “it’s gonna look way better than anyone can imagine....
‘The Crow’ Remake Will Finally Open In 2019 (Maybe) The long-delayedThe Crowremake has a new release date and it’s in the fall of2019.Justice LeaguestarJason Momoawill take on the role of the resurrected anti-hero, based on the comic written byJames O’Barr. ACrowremake has been flapping its wings around Hollywood since at least 2008.Bladedirector Stephen Norrington was set to helm a new take on the character, which was previously adapted into a 1994 film directed byAlex Proyas....
‘The Great Gatsby’ Pushed From Christmas 2012 To Summer 2013 The year-end prestige movie season was looking especially thick this year, with Peter Jackson’sThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Tom Hooper’sLes Misérables, Kathryn Bigelow’sZero Dark Thirty, and Quentin Tarantino’sDjango Unchainedall clamoring for a piece of the box office. As of today, however, one filmmaker who’ll be sitting out that bloodthirsty competition isBaz Luhrmann. Warner Bros. has just moved Lurhmann’sF. Scott FitzgeraldadaptationThe Great Gatsbyfrom December 25 intoSummer 2013in a surprising but understandable move....
‘The Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series Adds 20 More Actors To Its Sprawling Cast The Lord of the Ringsis becoming the one show to hire them all. The latest casting news from the Amazon Studios series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novels features a whopping 20 (!) actors who are joining the sprawling cast of the show. That joke that there are only five British actors and they’ve all worked together may have just been shattered byThe Lord of the RingsTV series, which seemed to have hired so many Brits that they’ve had to tap into the well of New Zealand, Sri Lankan, and Australian actors for its ambitious adaptation of Tolkien’s beloved series....
‘Triple 9’ Trailer And Buzz: How Does John Hillcoat’s Star-Studded Crime Thriller Shake Out? What do you get when you combineJohn Hillcoat, the talented director ofLawlessandThe Road; an A-list ensemble cast that includesWoody Harrelson,Casey Affleck,Chiwetel Ejiofor, andKate Winslet; and more dirty-cop tropes than you’re able to shake a stick at? The answer isTriple 9, a gritty crime thriller that lands in theaters next weekend. The Black List script byMatt Cookcenters on a group of corrupt officers blackmailed by the mob into pulling off an insane heist....
‘Unlocked’ Trailer: Noomi Rapace And Orlando Bloom Are On The Run It’s been a long time since the originalBournetrilogy, and terrorism thrillers – even last year’s continuation of that franchise,Jason Bourne– don’t have quite the same appeal that they used to. I don’t know if it’s because we’re too far from the events of July 08, 2025, or if these movies can sometimes feel too fresh because we’re sadly never far enough from the latest devastating attack somewhere in the world, but a low-level B-movie about preventing a terrorist attack doesn’t feel like the norm anymore....
