Trailer: Cars 3
Posted on January 8, 2017 at 3:57 pm
Here’s the first look at Pixar’s “Cars 3,” coming to theaters in June.
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Trailer: James Baldwin and I Am Not Your Negro
Posted on January 8, 2017 at 7:10 am
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of this manuscript.
Now, in his incendiary new documentary, director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. “I Am Not Your Negro” is a timely journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Where You’ve Seen Them Before: Martin Scorsese’s “Silence”
Posted on January 7, 2017 at 3:20 pm
Martin Scorsese worked for thirty years to bring Shusaku Endo’s book Silence to the screen. It is finally in wide release this week, with an outstanding cast including:
Andrew Garfield is best known as “Spider-Man,” but he also co-starred in “Social Network” as Eduardo Saverin and most recently starred in “99 Homes” and “Hacksaw Ridge.”
Adam Driver, who lost 30 pounds for this part, appeared recently in both a prestige art-house film (a poet in Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson”) and the biggest of the big-budget studio films (Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”). A former Marine and a Juilliard graduate, he had a starring role in Lena Dunham’s “Girls” and sang with Justin Timberlake and his “Force Awakens” co-star Oscar Isaac in the Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
Tadanobu Asano may be familiar to American audiences from the “Thor” films or “47 Ronin.”
Liam Neeson is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, an Oscar winner for “Schindler’s List,” and an action star in the “Taken” films. This week he stars in both major nationwide releases, with a motion capture/voice performance in “A Monster Calls.” You can see him in “Love Actually,” “Leap of Faith,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Kinsey,” and “Rob Roy,” and you can hear him as the voice of Aslan in the “Narnia” films.
Trailer: Despicable Me 3
Posted on January 6, 2017 at 3:17 pm
I love the idea of Trey Parker as a villain stuck in the 1980’s, shoulder pads, Rubik’s Cube, and Michael Jackson’s “Bad.” Can’t wait for “Despicable Me 3.”
Norman Lear Reboots One Day at a Time on Netflix
Posted on January 6, 2017 at 10:03 am
Twenty years after his last series premiered on television, 94-year-old Norman Lear is back with a reboot of one of his most popular series, showing that he is, as ever, not just a reflection of contemporary culture but willing to push it. The creator of such iconic television series as “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son” now brings us a new version of “One Day at at Time,” the then-innovative show about a newly divorced woman raising two daughters. The entire first season is streaming on Netflix, and the story is now about a Latina family, a nurse who is a military veteran (Isabella Gomez), her mother, played by EGOT-winner Rita Moreno, and her daughter and son. And yes, there is a wisecracking handyman named Schneider, which Lear said was the hardest part to cast “and most fun.”
In an interview with Vulture, Lear and co-creator of the series Gloria Calderon Kellett talked about the “creator’s paradise” in working with Netflix, the benefits of not having to write around breaks for commercials, and, a Norman Lear touch, including a middle aged, liberal white male character (the nurse’s doctor boss) to provide an opportunity for a spirited exchange of perspectives.