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KRAVEN THE HUNTER FEATURETTE – Making a Villain : Aaron Taylor-Johnson

©Courtesy of Sony Pictures It’s impossible to find a comic book where Kraven, the Spider-Man foe, is portrayed in a heroic light. So it’s evident that he won’t be receiving the heroic treatment in Sony Pictures’ Kraven the Hunter movie this December. Sony Pictures released a newly released featurette which shows his sinister side as…

The World According to Allee Willis : Exclusive Interview with Director Alexis Spraic and Allee Willis’ Partner Prudence Fenton

©Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures  The World According to Allee Willis : Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to…

‘Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes,’ A Riveting Doc Driven By Women

NBCUniversal brings to the silver screen the first doc about legendary Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart endorsed by his estate. Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes, is the latest work by BIFA-winning, IDA-nominated, and BAFTA Breakthrough-selected filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson. The motion picture provides an inside look at the icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, narrated in Bogart’s own words. We retrace…

Conan O’Brien to Host 97th Academy Awards

© 2020 Team Coco   Comedian and late-night television host Conan O’Brien will be emceeing the 97th Oscar ceremonies scheduled for Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. He will replace Jimmy Kimmell, who had hosted the program for the past two years as well as in 2017 and 2018. Over…

Surveilled | Official Trailer | HBO : Investigated by Ronan Farrow

©Courtesy of HBO Documentary The new trailer for HBO’s Serveilled shows a disturbing aspect: your cell phone is being used to spy on you without your knowledge. An Israeli cyber-intelligence firm’s software, which created a disturbing scenario, is being investigated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow in the new HBO documentary Surveilled. Here’s the synopsis…

DOC-NYC: ‘Gaucho Gaucho’ Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (Video Interview)

Filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw received a lot of attention for their 2020 documentary, The Truffle Hunters, which took a look at a number of men in their 70s and 80s in Piedmont, Italy, who (as the title implies) spend their time trying to find rare and valuable white truffles. It premiered at that…

Lady Gaga Reportedly Will Appear in Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’

©A Star is Born Lady Gaga will reportedly be appearing in the second season of Wednesday, a horror-inflected TV show starring Jenna Ortega in the title role. Launched on Netflix in 2022, Wednesday focuses on the character of Wednesday Addams of The Addams Family, the offbeat television show from the 1960s. Back in January of…

THE LAST SHOWGIRL | Official Teaser / Starring Pamela Anderson

©Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl has debuted its first trailer from Roadside Attractions, and the question is what it is all about if you stay in Vegas for long time. Pamela Anderson and Shelley, who star in the film, find themselves in a crossroads with their stage production on its last…

Gladiator II Video Review: Above the Line vs Below the Line Episode 46

24 years ago, filmmaker Ridley Scott tackled his first Roman epic with Gladiator, a movie that won five Oscars, including Best Picture and an Oscar for Russell Crowe for his performance as Roman General turned gladiator, Maximus.  Few people thought we’d ever see the sequel that’s been bandied about ever since those Oscar wins, but…

Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker Will Be Key To ‘Star Wars’ Franchise’s Future

©Courtesy of Disney Daisy Ridley, who will reportedly appear as the character of Rey Skywalker in several upcoming Star Wars films, is attracting notice as a major force in the franchise. According to an anonymous source quoted in The Hollywood Reporter, Ridley “is the most valuable cinematic asset, in some ways the only one, Star Wars…

The Fire Inside Featurette : Introducing Claressa “T-Rex” Shields

Amazon has released a new trailer for the boxing biopic The Fire Inside, written and produced by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins. Rachel Morrison, who was cinematographer for Mudbound and Black Panther, will direct the feature that brings boxing legend Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields’ life story to the big screen. Morrison made cinematic history as the…