Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 11:18AM by Ben Miller
Director Rian Johnson can do what he wants these days. After helming a Star Wars movie, directors have the cache to explore different realms of entertainment. Johnson decided to go with Knives Out, an original story inspired by Agatha Christie murder mysteries. Let’s break it down with our Yes, No, Maybe So™ system...
Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 7:00PM WOULD YOU RATHER...
• Admire phalli with Russell Tovey?
• Keep warm with Kristin Scott Thomas in Scotland?
• Dance with Kaitlyn Dever & Beanie Feldstein?
• Stand in awe of plant-life with Diane Keaton?
• Sip wine in a French cafe with Rachel Bloom?
• Play with Jamie Lee Curtis and her action figure?
• Reinterpret Will Smith songs with Tom Cullen?
• Kill time with Channing Tatum?
• Go sight-seeing with Tessa Thompson
Pictures are after the jump to help you decide.
Monday, January 7, 2019 at 11:44AM by Abe Fried-Tanzer
A collection of quick interesting stats for you given that the 76th annual Golden Globe ceremony is now part of history.
• This is only the second time in documented Globes history that the winner of Best Motion Picture –Drama (Bohemian Rhapsody) didn't have a corresponding Best Director (Bryan Singer) nomination. In 1992, Scent of a Woman took the top award at the Globes, but Martin Brest wasn't nominated in Director (though he did go on to an Oscar nomination!). Clint Eastwood collected the Best Director prize at the Globes instead for Unforgiven before that film went on to win both Director and Picture at the Oscars. If history literally repeated itself here, Bryan Singer would be nominated for an Oscar (!!!) and Roma would be our eventual Oscar winner for Best Picture and Director.
More after the jump...
Monday, October 22, 2018 at 6:14PM by Nathaniel R
The return of Jamie Lee Curtis to the Halloween franchise meant big business in movie theaters over the weekend, continuing a strong October. Meanwhile A Star is Born held on to second place for a third consecutive week. It's already the highest grossing release of 2018 to never hit #1, since its surpassed the Mamma Mia sequel's gross. A lot of platform releases kicked off this week to in the rev up to awards season. More after the jump...
| Weekend Box Office (October 19-21) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
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| 1. 🔺 Halloween $76.2 *NEW* Review |
1. 🔺 Free Solo $1 on 251 screens (cum. $3.6) |
Monday, October 22, 2018 at 3:00PM Jason from MNPP here - if you went and saw David Gordon Green's Halloween this weekend did you catch that voice cameo in the classroom scene? Mirroring a near identical scene in John Carpenter's original we see the granddaughter of Laurie Strode discussing the subject of Fate in her English class, and the voice of her teacher is none other than that of P.J. Soles, aka Lynda from the first movie and a total Horror Icon. Totally! And so we feel like giving some love to P.J. today, whose seal of vocal approval must count for at least 50 million dollars of its insane opening weekend box office. Totally. Just two years before Halloween Soles memorably co-starred in Brian De Palma's Carrie as Norma, another example of "girls making really bad choices in their best friends, and so let's face them down...
PREVIOUSLY Clearly we're on a Halloween kick, having gone the Jamie Lee Curtis route last week - only this time it was Linsday Lohan who got shivved with a knitting needle in the neck, JLC taking just under 90 PERCENT of your vote on our Freaky Friday poll. Ouch, way to kick a redhead when she's down, y'all! Said Mareko:
"Lohan is indeed great in this movie—it still pains me to think of what could’ve been had she stayed focused on her talent vs. celebrity—but Curtis is the real MVP, no question. Love that the NYT stanned for her so hard in 2003, as you do, and she should’ve *easily* scored an Oscar nom over the likes of Naomi Watts and even Samantha Morton."
