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Romance is part of the essential fabric of the comic book movie. Where would Christopher Reeve’s Superman have been without Margot Kidder’s vivacious Lois Lane in the Richard Donner and Richard Lester films – the flawed, human counterweight to the tedious perfection of everyone’s favorite big blue alien boy scout? Would the early Sam Raimi…
These days there are three ways you can look at the relative success of a Marvel movie: as a part of the MCU, as an adaptation of the existing character, and as a film in its own right. In the case of Doctor Strange, it’s particularly appropriate that your perception of the movie will shift…
How the genre has attracted an unprecedented number of female directors – and why these artists are elevating scary movies to a whole other level From ‘Babadook’ to ‘Raw’: The Rise of the Modern Female Horror Filmmaker Female horror fans are hardly unicorns. Quite the opposite – we go to the movies to…
Just eight months after Seth-Grahame Smith departed Warner Bros. stand-alone Flash film, director Rick Famuyiwa is following suit. Famuyiwa, best known for directing 2015’s Sundance hit, Dope, confirmed to Variety today that he had left the project. Famuyiwa cited differences in creative vision for the film between himself and the studio. The director said that…
At first glance, Trolls looks like a lower-rent Smurfs, a sticky-sweet concoction based on a paper-thin premise, designed as a 3-D marketing campaign to push the kids some toys they don’t need right before the holidays. This was helped along, of course, by a ubiquitous Justin Timberlake song that has been pummeling us all…
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Logan In Theaters – March 3, 2017 Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen Directed by James Mangold SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/FOXSubscribe Connect with Logan Online: Visit Logan on our WEBSITE: http://fox.co/Logan Like Logan on FACEBOOK: http://fox.co/LoganFB Follow Logan on TWITTER: http://fox.co/LoganTW Follow Logan on INSTAGRAM: http://fox.co/wponx About 20th Century…
“The Birth of a Nation” arrives amid a resurgence in movies about slavery. Credit Illustration by Keith Negley Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the summer of 1831, Nat Turner’s slave insurrection ripped through Southampton County, Virginia, leaving scores of white men, women, and children dead. The rebels were captured and tried in Jerusalem, a few…
Nate Parker as “Nat Turner” in THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Jahi Chikwendiu/FOX Searchlight movies Difficult ‘Birth’ How the troubling gender politics of Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ were sidelined by two years of #OscarsSoWhite .share Back in January, Nate Parker was The Savior. Anointed with prizes by both the audience and the…
Nate Parker has made a series of demonstrably foolish public statements in the months leading up to the release of The Birth of A Nation, a film that postures itself as a revolutionary story about Nat Turner’s Virginia slave revolt. As Parker trudges his way through a promo trail for a film that many agree…