Synopsis : Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic — content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and…
Walt Disney Studios has released a full trailer for the live-action film, “Pinocchio,” directed by Robert Zemeckis, which is an adaptation of its own classic 1940 cartoon feature of the same name based on the book by Carlo Collodi. The story sees an old Italian wood carver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named…
As its title promises, Three Minutes: A Lengthening extends the lives of its unsuspecting characters far beyond the realm of individual memory, offering a poignant and sensitive tribute to so many lives erased by the Holocaust. Bianca Stigter’s cinematic masterwork of style and sensibility now becomes a most worthy addition to the pantheon of films…
Disney is in negotiations with Hawkeye directors Bert & Bertie to helm its next feature film based on one of its classic theme park rides, Big Thunder Mountain. Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free are producing, and Kieran and Michele Mulroney (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) are writing the script for,…
Japan Society Announces Fall Monthly Anime & Classics Lineup, including Oshii’s Angel’s Egg, Okamoto’s Kill! and more! Japan Society announced its fall lineup for Monthly Classics and Monthly Anime, kicking off on September 2, 2022 with a 35mm screening of Kihachi Okamoto’s satirical chambara, Kill!. 2006 anime classic Tekkonkinkreet will screen on September 16, featuring…
Who among us has never felt like an outsider? I believe that most people have, at one time or another, felt odd. And now, Netflix is sharing a scary new trailer of “Wednesday” series. The streamer unveiled the first trailer of “The Addams Family” spinoff show. When writers Al Gough and Miles Millar’s pitch for “Wednesday”…
When it comes to history, historians explain what they know, but there are hundreds of thousands of people other than what is written about in the history books. Director Masaaki Yuasa understands such an idea and it inspires as fantastic a film as “Inu-oh.” Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-oh” brings to life an anime based on “The Tale…
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE SELECTIONS FOR THE 60th NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) announces the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 60th New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place September 30–October 16 at Lincoln Center and in venues across the city. “If there is one…
Sometimes the most enticing modern stories that reflect on contemporary societal dilemmas are driven by elements of the most classic folklores. That’s certainly the case with Netflix‘s newly released fantasy television show, The Sandman, which is in part inspired by the classic eponymous mythical spiritual being who brings people good dreams. The Sandman‘s overall story…
Legendary actor and singer Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73, according to a statement posted by her husband, John Easterling. Newton-John had been a star of the first magnitude for half a century, having turned in stellar performances in films like as Grease that helped define the exuberant pop-music scene of the…
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