Synopsis : A sweeping historical romance created to celebrate Toei’s 70th anniversary, The Legend & Butterfly casts megastars Takuya Kimura as Oda Nobunaga and Haruka Ayase as his wife, Nohime. While Oda Nobunaga is one of Japan’s most well-documented historical figures, virtually no information about Nohime remains, and The Legend & Butterfly fills this mystery…
@Photo by Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures – © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Barbie may be a blockbuster in the West, but not so in the Middle East, where local censorship restrictions have made the film cinema non grata in several countries. Over the years, thousands of film lovers in…
The profound, deep friendships featured in canine cinema have long made the genre a beloved classic among families – until the dogs decide to revolt against their owners and instead pledge their loyalty to other pets who also no longer feel appreciated by humans. The titular dogs in the upcoming adventure comedy, Strays, are subverting…
Director Maite Alberdi emotionally captured the hearts of audiences at Sundance 2020 with “The Mole Agent.” The film went on to garner an Oscar nomination and was shown to audiences around the globe. Now, she made her surprisingly well-made documentary, “The Eternal Memory,” which won the top prize for the World Cinema Documentary at this…
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot still has Cleopatra in her sights, even though the producers seem to be taking their time in bringing the picture to the screen. After all, it’s been a solid sixty years since the last epic production of Cleopatra—the iconic 1963 film that starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. But Gadot…
There’s no doubt about it, we’re in the midst of a vampire resurgence. While there have been a slew of vampire films in its wake, Twilight seemed to kill the bigger budget bloodsucker flicks for a bit. 2023 finds life coming back to the dead though. Sure, there are plenty of films still in production,…
@Evil Does Not Exist Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American distribution rights to Evil Does Not Exist, a new feature by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning 2021 film Drive My Car had also been a Sideshow/Janus property. In announcing the deal, the two distributors said in a joint statement: “Hamaguchi is a…
Synopsis : Directed by two-time Oscar® nominated filmmaker Steve James (HOOP DREAMS, LIFE ITSELF), A COMPASSIONATE SPY is a gripping real-life spy thriller about controversial Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Recruited…
The Hollywood writers’ and screen actors’ strike continues to wreak havoc. Today it was announced that the 75th Emmy Awards ceremony—originally scheduled to air on September 18—has been postponed until January 15, 2024. Also, the date for the Creative Arts Emmys have been moved from September 9 and 10 to January 6 and 7. That…
Acclaimed folk rock singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez died on Tuesday in Detroit at the age of 81. The death of the musician, who was most remembered in recent years for being the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, was first announced on the Sugarman.org website. The following statement, which did not indicate a cause…
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