Posted on August 8, 2017 at 12:34 pm
Vincent van Gogh’s life and paintings inspired a remarkable new animated film created out of 66,960 individual oil paintings. Here’s a peek behind the scenes.
Posted on August 1, 2017 at 2:04 am
Comedy legend Carol Burnett is coming to the world’s leading internet TV network in 2018 with the original unscripted comedy A Little Help with Carol Burnett. Carol and her guests panelists — four to eight-year-olds will reveal how a different generation solves life’s biggest dilemmas.
In each of the 12 half-hour episodes, both celebrities and everyday people will bring their real-life issues to a gaggle of kids who dish back hilarious, hard-hitting guidance–all in front of a live studio audience.
“Someone once asked me how old I am inside,” said Burnett. “I thought about it, and came up with, ‘I’m about eight.’ So it’s going to be a lot of fun playing with kids my age.”
A Little Help with Carol Burnett is a Netflix Original, produced by dick clark productions.
Posted on July 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
Luke Evans (recently Gaston in “Beauty and the Beast”) plays the remarkable William Marston, psychiatrist, lawyer, inventor of the lie detector, and creator of Wonder Woman.
For more background, read my interview with Noah Berlatsky and Jill Lepore’s terrific book about Marston.
Posted on July 19, 2017 at 4:00 pm
This looks like a great movie about a terrible movie. Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” is a legendary catastrophe of a film, sometime referred to as the “Citizen Kane” of terrible movies. In “The Disaster Artist,” James Franco directs and stars in the story of how that movie was made. This new trailer looks terrific.
Posted on July 16, 2017 at 11:52 pm
I could not be more excited about seeing one of my all-time favorite books brought to screen by one of my all-time favorite directors. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is a magnificent story of a brave girl named Meg who has to save her scientist father (Chris Pine). He disappeared while testing a theory about traveling through space. The book was rejected at first by publishers because it did not fit into any one category — it has adventure and science fiction and romance and questions of faith and philosophy. Meg, like Jo March and Mary Lennox, is smart, strong, and brave — and, crucially, succeeds because of her faults, not in spite of them. I interviewed L’Engle’s granddaughter on the 50th anniversary of the book.
And now Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) is directing the movie version. This early glimpse of the film, which will be out next spring, looks thrilling. The trio of otherworldly creatures wonderfully named Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who, are played by Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling.
I hope she signs up to do the whole series.
