Tag: Up
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘The Great Escaper’ goes up against ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
National Amusements fires up ‘BlackBerry’; MetFilm has ‘Golda’ starring Helen Mirren and ‘The Burial’.Universal’s franchise horror The Exorcist: Believer and Warner Bros’ UK drama The Great Escaper will be targeting different audiences at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, with both films opening wide.Starting in 616 cinemas, The Great Escaper stars Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson,…
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‘The Delinquents’ Trailer: Fed-Up Argentine Bank Workers Plan To Steal Their Life Back In Acclaimed New Dramedy
“Three and a half years in jail or twenty-five (thousand) in the bank”? That’s the premise, essentially, of the new Mubi dramedy, “The Delinquents,” which was one of the big hits from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section earlier this year (read our glowing review here). In short, bank workers toiling away for pennies get fed…
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Unlike Other Pixar Films, ‘Elemental’ Fails in This Major Way
Pixar has become synonymous with pathos. Starting with the “When She Loved Me” sequence from Toy Story 2, Pixar titles are expected to deliver at least one standout scene that will get audiences of all ages in tears. From the iconic opening of Up, to Anton Ego’s big speech at the end of Ratatouille, to…
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Stars Celebrating Pride 2023: Melissa McCarthy, Niecy Nash-Betts, a ‘Barbie’ Float and More of the Month’s Best Pics
June is Pride Month. It’s an annual celebration when the LGBTQ community and its allies celebrate with parties, parades, rallies and protests.Things kicked off in Los Angeles with appearances by Melissa McCarthy, Niecy Nash-Betts, Orville Peck, Grace Jones and even a “Barbie” float in the WeHo Pride parade.Here, Variety gives you a look at celebrities…
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‘Reboot’ Canceled at Hulu After Just One Season
The cast of “Step Right Up” should plan to step right up to some new projects. On Monday, Hulu canceled “Reboot,” the meta-satirical series about a sitcom reboot, after just one season.Sources tell IndieWire that “Reboot” creator Steven Levitan, best known for co-creating “Modern Family” with Christopher Lloyd, is currently shopping the show to other…
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The Saddest Movies, from ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ to ‘On the Count of Three’
If watching a movie can be compared to taking your emotions for a walk, then sad films challenges audiences with a full-on sprint. Since before Rose said goodbye to Jack or even Bambi lost his mother, tragedy has played a vital role in cinema’s most well-loved stories of every ilk.For romance, the possibility of heartbreak…
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Larry David’s Mork & Mindy Audition Would Have Fit Right In On Curb Your Enthusiasm
When we think of “Mork and Mindy,” we think of Robin Williams. The young comedian played Mork the alien in the 1978 sitcom who ends up living with a human named Mindy (Pam Dawber). Williams shines as Mork, giving the audience a patented Robin Williams experience: He delivers his lines with an energetic enthusiasm that…
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Futura review – Italian teens discuss their lives to come in subtle and complex study
This gentle film by three directors, including Alice Rohrwacher, explores social inequality, the pandemic and climate change fears of young peopleThis thoughtful documentary from a trio of Italian directors feels cut from the same cloth as Michael Apted’s long-running TV docuseries Up. Its three film-makers – the best known of them is Alice Rohrwacher, who…
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The Star Of Pixar’s Up Never Intended To Audition
Pete Docter’s 2009 animated film “Up” is perhaps one of the more unusual in Pixar’s history. After a heartbreaking opening sequence that details an entire romance between a man and a woman — one that incorporates their meeting, their courtship, their marrying, their stymied efforts of having children, their connubial bliss in a shared business,…
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Lightyear Spoiler Review: A Brand Deposit That Fails To Achieve Lift-Off
Expectations are the damnedest thing. Over nearly thirty years of making computer-animated feature films, Pixar Animation Studios has created a set of expectations that are gradually becoming impossible to overcome. Among its initial films, the studio made such wonderful original stories that seemed impossible to top. In the late-2000s, with a run of films like…