Tag: Speed Racer
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Alex Garland’s Men Is The Best Live-Action Version Of Attack On Titan
Live-action anime adaptations never really work. With incredibly few exceptions (like the Wachowski’s excellent “Speed Racer“), there’s too much that is difficult to translate from one medium to another, from the cultural specificity, to the medium itself. There is a specific tone that works in animation, but rarely does in live-action, a mix of silliness…
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Apple TV+ Orders Speed Racer Series From J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot
You didn’t think Tom Cruise was the only one with a patent on the phrase “the need for speed,” did you?Both filmmaker J.J. Abrams and Apple TV+ remain incredibly busy these days. The producer extraordinaire has his fingers in a number of different pots through his Bad Robot production company, although we most recently heard that his “Demimonde”…
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‘Elvis’ Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Deliriously Awful Biopic Is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at 4,000 M.P.H.
“It doesn’t matter if you do 10 stupid things so long as you do one smart one,” Colonel Tom Parker advises us near the start of Baz Luhrmann’s utterly deranged musical biopic about the King of Rock & Roll, but even a ratio that forgiving would still leave “Elvis” roughly 370 “smart ones” short. If…
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‘The Matrix 4’: Sci-Fi Action Sequel Becomes A Mini ‘Speed Racer’ Reunion As Lana Wachowski Adds Christina Ricci To Cast
Actress Christina Ricci is venturing down the rabbit hole for her “Speed Racer” co-director Lana Wachowski as she has officially landed a mysterious part in “The Matrix 4,” despite the sequel wrapping production months ago. Her name magically appeared in a Warner Bros. press kit for the fourth installment outlining the film’s cast and was…
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‘The Matrix 4’ Reunites ‘Speed Racer’ Co-Star Christina Ricci with Director Lana Wachowski
The Matrix 4 is coming to theaters and HBO Max this winter, but we barely know anything about it, and that includes the official title for the sci-fi action sequel. However, thanks to an update to the press kit by Warner Bros. Pictures, we now know about an additional cast member that we hadn’t heard…
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Christina Ricci Joins ‘The Matrix 4’
Christina Ricci has joined the cast of “The Matrix 4.”An updated press kit from Warner Bros. on the untitled film includes Ricci’s name in the all-star cast, which features Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jonathan Groff and Neil Patrick Harris, to name a few. No details were…
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How Making ‘Speed Racer’ Was Like Film School for Chad Stahelski & David Leitch
If you haven’t seen Speed Racer, the 2008 big-screen adaptation of the popular, influential anime from filmmakers The Wachowskis (The Matrix), you simply must experience it. It’s a wild, candy-coated fever dream of spectacle, technology, and huge heart. It looks like no other movie you’ve ever seen, I promise you that. And in our Collider…
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Adam McKay’s Marvel Dream Project Would Be a Silver Surfer Movie
If Adam McKay wants to take a break from the political satires about the housing crisis and Dick Cheney, he has a dream fallback project at Marvel: a “Silver Surfer” movie.The “Vice” director spoke to Josh Horowitz on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast this week and said he would “do anything” to make a movie…
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The 7 Best Movies New to Netflix in April 2018
Spring is here, love is in the air, and everyone is finally ready to go back outside, but Netflix’s April offerings are giving us at least seven more compelling reasons to stay on the couch for at least another few weeks. This month brings an eclectic mix of new movies to the streaming platform, from…