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Kong: Skull Island · Film Review King Kong goes to war in the Vietnam-themed monster mash Skull Island · Movie Review · The A.V. Club

A.A. Dowd10 years ago010 mins

Against a bright orange sun, a giant gorilla towers in silhouette, helicopters buzzing around his head like angry insects. It’s as if that artist who paints monsters onto thrift-store paintings got his hands on the Apocalypse Now poster. Airlift out this most striking and revealing image, however, and Kong: Skull Island would still announce its subtext with all the subtlety of,…

Outrage at inclusion of gay character in film about woman-buffalo romance | The Chaser

The Chaser10 years ago04 mins

The Disney film studio is in damage control this week, as news spreads that its live action remake of Beauty and the Beast may contain a gay subplot, in what is being described as a first and now a last for any high budget children’s film. Conservative pundits and cinemas alike are protesting the “unnatural”…

Watching movies with your stupid children · What Are You Watching? · The A.V. Club

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky10 years ago8 years ago08 mins

Icons End icons [if lte IE 8]> What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old. The fact is that almost everything I’ve watched in the last week, I’ve already written about, and the rest is under embargo. So…

Watch Luke Evans and Josh Gad in the First Clip of “Gaston” – Beauty and the Beast Movie Clips

ALYSSA BAILEY10 years ago01 mins

Behold, proof straight from Disney that Luke Evans’ Gaston and Josh Gad’s LeFou will be everything you’d hoped they’d be in the live action Beauty and the Beast movie out next month. The studio released the first look at the song “Gaston”, and it’s the best: Advertisement – Continue Reading Below But what’s most incredible…

What We Lose When We Give Awards to Men Like Casey Affleck

Sady Doyle10 years ago08 mins

White men in entertainment can get away with anything. That one, soul-deadening lesson has been drilled into women’s heads recently. We saw reality TV star Donald Trump caught, on tape, sexually harassing a female colleague and giggling about “grabbing [women] by the pussy”—and we saw America elect him president a few weeks later. We found…

We Love the Final Trailer for Kong: Skull Island So Much, We Want to Marry It

Germain Lussier10 years ago02 mins

I have zero doubts that this final trailer for Kong: Skull Island, released less than two weeks before the film’s release, is filled with spoilers. But I really don’t care. It is simply one of the most insane, monster-filled, action-packed trailers we’ve seen in a long time and we love it. Kong: Skull Island opens…

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Builds Tension for Its Trailer and Then Ruins It Completely

Katharine Trendacosta10 years ago01 mins

GIF It’s nice that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has enough self-awareness to recognize how ridiculous it is to pretend that every single moment of this movie is an epic, end-of-the-universe adventure. Sometimes, Drax just needs to eat. As much as trailers for trailers are usually annoying and mostly just a snippet of the…

Matt Reeves Is Officially Directing the Next Batman Movie

Germain Lussier10 years ago03 mins

It’s been a tumultuous few weeks behind the scenes of the upcoming Batman film, but now it’s official. Warner Bros. announced that Matt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and this summer’s War for the Planet of the Apes, is directing a standalone Batman film. “I…

I’m an Arab actor who’s been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I’m done | The Independent

Amrou Al-Kadhi 10 years ago09 mins

Voices I’m an Arab actor who’s been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I’m done My first film job at the age of 14 – Steven Spielberg’s Munich – featured me as an Islamic terrorist’s son. When I complained about…

Logan Director Wants to Keep the Wolverine Train Rolling with X-23 Solo Film

Beth Elderkin10 years ago03 mins

Hugh Jackman might be hanging up his claws after Logan, but director James Mangold is determined to keep the Wolverine saga going with X-23. Mangold recently told We Got This Covered that he’d love to work with Dafne Keen on a follow-up film, showing Laura’s transition into becoming the new Wolverine. As you might know,…

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Kong: Skull Island · Film Review King Kong goes to war in the Vietnam-themed monster mash Skull Island · Movie Review · The A.V. Club

Outrage at inclusion of gay character in film about woman-buffalo romance | The Chaser

Watching movies with your stupid children · What Are You Watching? · The A.V. Club

Watch Luke Evans and Josh Gad in the First Clip of “Gaston” – Beauty and the Beast Movie Clips

What We Lose When We Give Awards to Men Like Casey Affleck

We Love the Final Trailer for Kong: Skull Island So Much, We Want to Marry It

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Builds Tension for Its Trailer and Then Ruins It Completely

Matt Reeves Is Officially Directing the Next Batman Movie

I’m an Arab actor who’s been asked to audition for the role of terrorist more than 30 times. If La La Land cleans up at the Oscars, I’m done | The Independent

Logan Director Wants to Keep the Wolverine Train Rolling with X-23 Solo Film