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Star Wars will be an inclusive franchise and its future will include gay characters, according to J.J. Abrams, speaking earlier this week at the Oscar Wilde awards at Bad Robot Productions. The Daily Beast noted that as The Force Awakens has been the first film in the franchise to utilize black and female leads, Abrams’…
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Start Article Post Content At a certain point in “Gods of Egypt,” an extravagantly silly foray into Afroasiatic mythology from the director Alex Proyas, one wounded deity begs another to show him mercy — a futile request as far as his enemy is concerned, but one that may strike a more receptive chord with the…
Photo A glowing threat in “Gods of Egypt.” Credit Lionsgate Bosomy damsels and brawny slabs; cheering digital crowds; a lachrymose sphinx; a bedazzled Geoffrey Rush; a galactic cruise ship; an Egyptian god played by the Dane Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; the sword-and-sandals enabler Gerard Butler; a smoky monster that from one angle looks like a fanged doughnut…
Gods of Egypt is so ridiculous that I wish they would have just gone all the way with it. I’m not entirely sure what “all the way” with it means in this context. Making it a fully animated movie? Performing the whole thing while standing on their hands? Letting Tommy Wiseau direct? Converting it to…
Even months in advance, the director, Alex Proyas, had to apologize for the movie’s mainly white cast (it is, after all, set in ancient Egypt). In the last few days Gods has been bashed by nearly every review out there—here’s a roundup of some choice quotes: Here, at the New Republic, Will Leitch said that, “Gods…
Go ahead, commit cannibalism! Slaughter your neighbors and feast on their still-warm flesh. Nobody can judge you, because the mere existence of the film Gods of Egypt has dissolved all social contracts, and eliminated forever all concepts of good and evil. The moment I walked out of a screening of Gods of Egypt, I set…
In 1979, six women directors banded together to challenge the male-run Hollywood machine—then the industry tried to erase them. On the eve of the Oscars, the Original Six share important truths about the industry. Nell Cox lives on the Upper West Side in one of those kooky apartments you see only in Nora Ephron movies—quaint…
This author is of the mind that an opinion piece should make the opinion in question crystal clear, so here it is: The idea of an R-rated “adults only” movie about Superman is a perversion. That usage of “perverse” is, of course, not intended to be taken in the actionable sense; the idea in question…
“[One] root of this is probably salaries: the fact that most male actors make more money than their female counterparts, plus the trend that the female directors who do work make ‘smaller’ movies,” says producer Alicia Van Couvering (Tiny Furniture, Cop Car, Drinking Buddies). “Men get used to making money on more and bigger…