‘The Nice Guys’ is the Superhero Antidote We All Need
It probably says something about how far we’ve wandered into Superhero Of The Week territory that Shane Black’s The Nice Guys is being positioned, by critics and analysts, as risky summer...
View ArticleEnjoy Some Goosebumps With the First Trailer for the Ryan Gosling/Emma Stone...
It’s not like we weren’t already looking forward to La La Land, for all sorts of reasons: it’s the new feature from Whiplash writer/director Damien Chazelle, it reunites ridiculously well-matched...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Nice Guys,’ ‘Midnight Run’
This week’s two biggest new releases on disc would make a fine double feature: buddy action comedies with a brain and a surprising amount of heart. Also on the shelves this week are a lost gem from...
View ArticleIt’s Emma Stone’s Turn to Sing in Another Lush ‘La La Land’ Trailer
The first trailer Damien Chazelle’s La La Land featured a romantically melancholy song sung by star Ryan Gosling, while he and Emma Stone courted and twirled one another around a series of beautifully...
View Article20 Must-See Movies for Fall 2016
Summer post-mortems are being written, fall festivals are beginning, lame Labor Day movies are on deck: yes, the signs are all here that the summer movie season is over, and fall – aka “Good Movie...
View ArticleTom Hanks Likes ‘La La Land’ So Much, He’s Promoting It Instead of His Own Movie
Tom Hanks further cemented his reputation as Hollywood’s Nicest Guy ™ by stopping a Q&A for his own movie to sing the praises of another. The location was the famously chummy Telluride Film...
View Article‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Gets a Release Date and a Seemingly Straightforward Title
Sicario/Arrival director Denis Villeneuve’s much anticipated (and for some, skeptically anticipated) sequel to Blade Runner has just, after much talk, gotten a release date and title. It’ll be coming...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in December
Well folks, it’s the home stretch – the end of the calendar year, and thus the end of awards eligibility season, so studios and indie distributors alike are bringing out their big guns. This month’s...
View Article‘La La Land’ Is Pure Joy, In Handy Cinematic Form
In 1977, director Martin Scorsese followed up the critical and (unexpected) commercial success of Taxi Driver with an even riskier and more ambitious picture. His idea – the kind of thing that could...
View ArticleThe Year in Film: 2016’s Best Movie Moments
As often happens this time of year, I’m looking over the vast, long list of movies that entertained, intrigued, and invigorated us all this year, and I’m struck by the embarrassment of riches – and not...
View ArticleWatch: Ryan Gosling Meets Rick Deckard in ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Teaser
The first teaser for Blade Runner 2049 to actually tease anything substantial has been released, and in the 1:45 clip, we get a look at both Harrison Ford’s reprised character, Rick Deckard, and Ryan...
View ArticleRyan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman Are in an...
I’m assuming that headline either made you dizzy with glee or nauseated with annoyance. There is, indeed, a new Terence Malick trailer, and that Terrence Malick trailer looks exactly like a Terrence...
View ArticleExclusive Supercut: The Early Roles of Your 2017 Oscar Nominees
For many an actor, an Academy Award nomination (and, even better, a win) is the culmination of a career of very hard work — and often thankless work at that, doing bit parts and one-liners, background...
View Article10 SXSW Movies We Can’t Wait to See
AUSTIN, TEXAS: Yes, it’s that time of year again. The SXSW Film Festival (and the larger SXSW Conferences and Festivals) kicks off today here in Austin, and for the sixth straight year, Flavorwire is...
View Article‘Song to Song’ Continues Terrence Malick’s Odd Descent Into Inscrutability
“I don’t like to see the birds in the sky because I miss you. Because you saw them with me. Come save me from my bad heart.” – Rooney Mara, Song to Song “This is fucking ponderous, man, ponderous!...
View ArticleThe 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘La La Land,’ ‘The Girl With...
I was gonna make some lame joke about how La La Land is out this week on disc but when you open it up it turns out it’s Moonlight, and then decided it wasn’t worth the trouble, and look at that, I was...
View ArticleThe Trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Is Here, and...
If the idea of a Blade Runner sequel by not-Ridley Scott rightfully deserved skepticism, the announcement that it’d be directed by Arrival‘s Denis Villeneuve probably at least tempered the skepticism...
View ArticleSee New Footage of a Cruel and Beautifully Lit Future in ‘Blade Runner...
The Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049 just got a second trailer, so you can now see many of the same exquisitely stylized scenes…from slightly different angles, and a slightly more robust...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Ryan Gosling
Welcome to season 43 of Saturday Night Live! We keep our recaps short and sweet so you can get busy watching the videos we post weekly. SNL has added some new blood to its cast and writing team,...
View Article‘Blade Runner 2049’ is a Daringly Different Sci-Fi Sequel
There’s a sequence late in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 when Ryan Gosling is wandering through a vintage casino, and he comes upon a hologram Elvis in the showroom. Don’t ask how or why, it...
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