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Who Should Be the Next James Bond?
Yesterday on the Awards Radar Podcast (listen here), Myles and I discussed several of the options being bandied about to take over the role of James Bond from Daniel Craig. I also posted yesterday a piece here about potential Bond directors, but today, it’s 007 himself that’s the focus. They’ll get the crew behind the […] More
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Film Review: ‘Extraction 2’ Raises the Action Stakes to Be a High Octane Dad Movie for Netflix
A bigger dad movie than the original, Extraction 2 is perfectly suited to be hitting Netflix on Father’s Day weekend. After all, this is the sort of film, and hey, now the sort of franchise, that dads really dig on. This is a big budget yet no frills action flick that prioritizes getting your blood […] More
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Film Review: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Tells Parts of a Compelling Tale
As far as smaller scale passion projects go, George Miller is still taking a pretty big swing with the fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing. It’s only small compared to something like Mad Max: Fury Road. The movie has noble ambitions and some great talents involved, but while the artistry is here, the execution […] More
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Film Review: ‘Beast’ Finds Idris Elba Fighting to Save His Family (And Against the Script)
There’s a lean and mean nature to Beast that works far better than you might expect. The tension and thrills of a fight for your life is depicted with a fair amount of visceral effectiveness. At the same time, Beast is also the type of film that throws all logic and intelligence out the window […] More
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First Trailer for ‘Beast’ Sees Idris Elba Punch a Lion
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur, and starring Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, and Riley Keough, the movie will release on August 19th. More
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First Trailer for ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Releases Online as the Film Debuts at Cannes
The movie, directed by George Miller, and starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, will release in theatres on August 31st. More
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Film Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ is Yet Another Middle-of-the-Road Video Game Movie
Back in 2019, when the first trailer dropped for the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie, many people went into it with many low expectations. Some were surprised that it wasn’t half bad, but some also thought it fell into a similar category to that of Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, where charm and humor didn’t necessarily make […] More
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Film Review: ‘Sing 2’ Has the Music But Not the Story to Succeed
Sing was a huge smash, so a sequel was downright inevitable. The obvious challenge with a follow-up to Sing was where to take the plot. Do you go bigger? Do you just sort of traffic in the same sort of material? Sing 2 opts to do both, which makes for strange bedfellows. A film that […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Harder They Fall’ Oozes Modern Cool in the Old West
Westerns usually fall into one of two categories these days. They either try to be a classical throwback, or more commonly, they try to be revisionist. We’ve seen the revisionist western in numerous forms over the years, including procedurals like Copland and even comic book far like Logan. Interestingly, the new film The Harder They […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Suicide Squad’ is an Instant Classic from James Gunn and Cinematic Nirvana
Wow. For a few weeks now, the buzz had steadily been building that James Gunn had really pulled off something special with The Suicide Squad. Well, now I can add to the chorus of early raves. This is a magnificent achievement, literally as good as it gets for comic book films. Far more than just […] More
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‘The Suicide Squad’ Gets a Stylish New Trailer
David Ayer‘s 2016 film Suicide Squad proved to be an almost universally disliked movie amongst both audiences and critics alike. But when it was announced last year that Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker James Gunn would be in the director’s chair for a brand new reboot titled The Suicide Squad that promised to right the […] More
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R-Rated Antics Ensue in ‘The Suicide Squad’ Red-Band Trailer
Ready for some anti-hero gore? James Gunn is prepared to bring it to you this summer. Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, and many other high-profile actors star in Gunn’s “soft reboot” of 2016’s Suicide Squad called (get ready) The Suicide Squad. The movie is set to hit theaters and HBO Max on August 6. […] More
