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In any event, when Barbarians opens with a promotional video in which Tom Cullen’s Lucas, an instantly smarmy beardo, touts a new idyllic community at a site in rural England called “Gaeta” (the Gallic word for “gateway”), one arches an eyebrow a little. And perhaps one also asks, “And where are they now, the little people of Stonehenge?
Barbarians: The guests have arrived Read More
Arthur Penn’s “Little Big Man” is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn. It mostly works. When it doesn’t — when there’s a failure of tone or an overdrawn caricature — it regroups cheerfully and plunges ahead. We’re disposed to go along; all good storytellers tell stretchers once in a while, and circle back to be sure we got the good parts.
Little Big Man: He is no hero at all but merely a survivor. Read More
In the middle of Sergio Leone’s 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West, Charles Bronson’s character Harmonica wins an auction for a farm for $5,000. However, it turns out that he will make the payment by handing over Cheyenne, with a $5,000 bounty on his head, to law enforcement
Sergio Leone: Legendary master of spaghetti westerns Read More
The Lost City is the kind of charming, star-driven, action-adventure that makes moviemaking look easy and effortless from the outside. It’s hard to imagine a world in which you pair Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum as a romance novelist and her himbo cover model on a “Romancing the Stone”-esque journey not being enjoyable.
Bullock and Tatum serve up the charm in ‘The Lost City’ Read More
The geniuses at NASA accidentally build the lunar module a little too small for an adult in “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.” In Richard Linklater’s first foray into animation since “A Scanner Darkly,” a few fast-talking NASA men (Glen Powell and Zachary Levi) recruit an average local elementary school student, Stan, to test it out for them on a top secret mission to the Moon. It’s the kind of thing kids have been dreaming about for over 50 years.
Apollo 10½: Linklater charmingly chronicles life in 1969 Houston Read More
Throughout the history of cinema, many films have been made and continue to be made. But there are some productions that refuse to rot on the dusty shelves of cinema history and are watched fondly until today, against time. Citizen Kane is one of the movies that fits this description exactly.
Why is Citizen Kane such a beautiful movie? Read More
You may know the story of the Seven Sleepers. It is the story of a community whose traces can be found in different cultures of the world, especially in the East and the Middle East, and who abandoned their people. According to the legend, seven people fleeing from the cruel ruler fall into a deep sleep of three hundred years in the cave they entered to rest.
Time Trap: The Hollywood-style Seven Sleepers story Read More
Jenna Marie Ortega was born on September 27, 2002, in Coachella Valley, California. Jenna began acting at the age of nine and has portrayed the role of Harley, a creative engineering prodigy navigating life as the middle child in a family of seven children, in “Stuck in the Middle,” a Disney Channel series told from Harley’s perspective.
Jenna Ortega Career Milestones Read More
The Harry Potter books, which started to make a sound worldwide from the first date their books were published, and actually managed to establish a secret bond between every child and even every adult who read those books at that age, It is a literary series poured from the unique pen of J.K. Rowling.
Harry Potter with the candid narration of his creator J.K. Rowling Read More
Here’s an offer few cinephiles will be able to refuse: The Godfather, often cited as one of the greatest films of all time, will receive a limited theatrical release beginning Feb. 25, Paramount Pictures announced Thursday.
The Godfather returns to movie theaters Read More