Category: Movie News
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‘Queen of the South’: Alice Braga on the Pressures of Being a Latina Lead in Primetime
To watch Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga) over five seasons of USA Network’s “Queen of the South” is to examine femininity both within the narco culture and within the Latino community. The show has looked at human trafficking, sex work, and rape within the confines of the cocaine business, but also cast an eye towards the…
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‘The Nevers’ Review: Joss Whedon’s HBO Fantasy Series Is Messy, Maddening — and Kind of a Hoot
“The Nevers” never tells you what “the nevers” actually means. Granted, only four episodes were screened for critics, so there could be a big reveal right around the corner, and creator Joss Whedon did put forth a rather high-sounding justification at Comic-Con 2018, but the impossibly plural root word never comes up in the show…
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Prince William, Leslie Odom Jr, Priyanka Chopra Jonas Among BAFTA Awards Presenters & Performers
Prince William, Renée Zellweger, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Leslie Odom Jr are part of the star-studded line-up set to appear at the BAFTA Film Awards on April 10 and 11.Clara Amfo will host the Ee BAFTA Film Awards opening night, on April 10, and will be joined by a panel of guests including Rhianna Dhillon…
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Regé-Jean Page ‘hurt’ to learn race was factor in rejection from Superman show
Bridgerton star responds to DC chief’s clarification over the decision not to cast him in KryptonThe actor Regé-Jean Page has addressed reports he was turned down for a leading role in the superhero TV series Krypton because of his skin colour.“Multiple sources” cited by the Hollywood Reporter earlier this week suggested the producers of Krypton…
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‘Still Life,’ ‘Fieras,’ ‘Horn’ Selected by Madrid’s Ecam Incubator (Exclusive)
Jaione Camborda’s “The Rye Horn,” Enrique Buleo’s “Still Life with Ghosts” and Eva Saiz’s “Casa de fieras” feature among a bevy of new Spanish film projects to be offered at the 4th Madrid-based Incubator.A mentorship program hosted by Madrid’s Ecam Film School, the Incubator has fast consolidated as one of the foremost development labs in…
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Palm Springs review – amusing time-loop romance is back … again
With Covid having turned all our lives into Groundhog Day, it’s perfect timing for this razor-sharp take on the genreThe Groundhog Day premise is now so familiar that it’s possible to imagine a sci-fi nightmare about someone waking up in a world where every film they watch, new and old, eerily turns out to be…
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Elizabeth Perkins on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene: ‘It would not be acceptable today’
The star of hit films in the 80s and 90s has since moved into TV. She discusses life with 10 siblings, #MeToo and why she couldn’t ask for a better lifeVeering from horror to joy and back again, Elizabeth Perkins is contemplating what it would be like if her adult children moved back home. “The…
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‘Voyagers’ Review: It’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ in Space, and in Hip Black T-Shirts
Every era gets the youth sci-fi action movie it deserves. Twenty-five years ago, Paul Verhoeven made “Starship Troopers” (1997), and whatever you thought of that self-consciously over-the-top high-cheese parable of pinup actors battling giant bugs, there’s no denying it packed a wallop that was very late ’90s — a revel in teen-idol decadence fused with…
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Ep. 613 – Godzilla vs. Kong (Guest: Max Evry from ComingSoon.net)
David, Devindra, and Jeff give updates on the Covid vaccine, moving-going, and box office performance. For the feature review, the cast is joined by Max Evry, Managing Editor at ComingSoon.net, to review Godzilla vs. Kong. The Slashfilmcast is launching a Patreon! Support us at http://patreon.com/filmpodcast. Follow Max on Twitter. Use #slashtag on Twitter to recommend…
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‘The Nevers’ Featurette: Discover HBO’s Genre-Bending Sci-Fi Fantasy Series
Right now, HBO’s upcoming series The Nevers is best known for what happened behind the scenes: namely that it was meant to be the big return to television for creator and original showrunner Joss Whedon, only for him to step away from the show in late 2020. But once audiences get a chance to actually…