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Remember that 2006 movie Idiocracy? The one where Luke Wilson plays an average underachiever who wakes up 500 years in the future, only to realize that he’s now the smartest person on Earth? And everyone else is dumb — like, really dumb? Well, that movie is cruel and terrible and you should be ashamed for…
How To Be Werner Herzog What A Six-Hour MasterClass™ Can (And Can’t) Teach You About Making Movies I have found that when I tell people I love Werner Herzog, the sentiment is easy to misinterpret. It can sound like banal garden-variety hipster fandom of a public eccentric. It has become hard not to view Werner as a…
It’s been a rough year, and the 2016 Emmys had everything we needed: surprises, laughs, and an incredible hosting job from Jimmy Kimmel. But what makes a really great awards show is what happens between awards and acceptance speeches, and Sunday’s broadcast was one of the most amusing and character-driven programs in years. From sandwiches…
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Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari.ABC As Jimmy Kimmel noted in his opening speech at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, this year marks the most inclusive ceremony ever, with a wide variety of nonwhite creators and performers nominated throughout the night. Among those nominees were Master of None co-creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, who…
Image via Fox Searchlight I don’t watch footage of violent encounters on Facebook, but I happened to catch the footage of the murder of Philando Castile not long after it had been posted. I thought it had to be a trailer for a movie or something similar. There was no way a death would play…
Throwing statistical fuel on what is quickly becoming a show-biz conflagration, a just-released study on gender inequality in Hollywood finds that women directors are disadvantaged from the very beginning of their careers — and the disadvantage only grows. And as its lead author put it, “when money moves in, women get pushed out.” The study…
Awe-inspiring visual effects have always been a major part of the “Star Wars” franchise, and December’s “The Force Awakens” was no exception. Throughout the years, the franchise has used some of the best technologies available to turn the fictional galaxy far, far away into an onscreen reality. There are scenes in the films created entirely using computer-generated…
© Lakeshore Entertainment Kate Beckinsale is being hunted on all sides in the gritty first teaser for Underworld: Blood Wars. The quest for power among the vampires, lycans and all of their hybrid enemies is bloodier than ever before in the upcoming sequel – and only a Death Dealer can battle them all. Advertisement – Continue Reading…
For two years, the film Academy has been hit with fiery criticism over its all-white Oscar acting nominees. So when Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation premiered to cheers at the Sundance Film Festival in January and sold for a record $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight, it looked like a savior Academy voters could…