A prequel film to the Hunger Games series is in the early stages of development, and Lionsgate hopes to start production in the first half of 2022. Based on Suzanne Collins’ book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” the film will be about Coriolanus Snow at 18, years before he […]
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‘Black Widow’ Reviews, Spoilers, and Where to Watch: Marvel Film Gets James Bond-Like Response, Major Weakness Revealed
Marvel’s first movie theater return after two years is becoming a smashing hit. Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Four officially kicks off with “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff’s own solo film. Based on the “Black Widow” reviews so far, the film is action-packed, exhilarating, and just as spy-movie-esque as the “James Bond” […]
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Producers Finance Film Selling NFTs; Paper Maps Popular Despite GPS
CryptoCorner Two producers are raising startup money for their first movie with an online Bitcoin campaign. The team hopes to cover all expenses and maybe make a little seed money for their next project by selling NFTs based on their feature film, The Underground Sistine Chapel. The 80-minute film is […]
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After 14 Months Of Movies At Home, A Film Critic Returns To The Cinema
It had been two weeks and three days since my second vaccine shot and 429 days since I’d been to the movies when I walked back into the old, familiar lobby of the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Thursday night for its reopening. Things look a little different now than they […]
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What a Century-Old Film Found in Permafrost Says About Race in the U.S. Today
White protesters clash with police outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1920. Left photo by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/ Washington Post via Getty Images; right: still from “Buried News” In 1978, a Pentacostal minister and occasional backhoe operator in Dawson City, Yukon, was digging through the […]
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a virtual tour through film, music, books, food and art
Photograph: Starcevic/Getty Images At a community dinner in Santa María la Ribera – one of Mexico City’s first suburbs, built in the late 1800s just west of the old centre – I met a European contortionist. He was in his 70s and used a wheelchair. Circus work had first brought […]
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Why Sia’s dangerous film doesn’t deserve a Golden Globe
Neurotypical Maddie Ziegler portrays an autistic teenager in ‘Music’ (Hanway Films) I’m going to crush you now and make you feel safe,” says the smiling adult man to the distressed teenaged girl, 15 minutes into Sia’s new film Music. He then sits astride her chest and assures viewers: “I am […]
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Must-See Movies From The 2021 Sundance Film Festival
The masses couldn’t go to Utah for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, so Sundance went to the masses. What is normally an 11-day frenzy became a virtual one-week symposium with an abbreviated lineup and far less Hollywood glitz. Anyone could buy tickets and watch the movies from home, democratizing an […]
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival to include film about deaths along border
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in its 11th year partnering with Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts, is returning to San Diego virtually in February. Because the festival has moved to a digital platform due to the ongoing pandemic, from February 2 through 8, viewers from across the United […]
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Thom Browne Unveils Full Children’s Line With Film at Paris Fashion Week
Think Thom Browne suits couldn’t get any more shrunken? Think again. On Sunday, during the brand’s slot on the Paris Men’s Fashion Week calendar, the designer surprised viewers expecting to see his fall men’s collection with a film featuring an ethnically diverse group of children sporting miniaturized versions of his […]
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Young Voices Speak Through Film At 11th Annual BHERC Youth Diversity Film Festival Online on BHERC TV – Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel
Young Voices Speak Through Film At 11th Annual BHERC Youth Diversity Film Festival Online on BHERC TV Festival group photo with Host actress Olivia Tillman “This is US”, BHERC Founder Sandra Evers-Manly, Director Billie Green, Brotherhood Crusade Cherisse Bremomd Weaver and student filmmakers(Photo credit: Cazzie Burns) The Black Hollywood Education […]
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How to Make a LIDAR-Driven Motorized Film Carrier
Despite what some people think about LIDAR for cars, in the near future it is foreseeable that this technology will take its rightful place in our daily lives. Not just for cars but with almost anything and everything. We have already seen Apple’s new iPad and iPhone utilizing this technology. […]
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‘Soul’ Writer Mike Jones on His Winding Path from Film Journalism to Pixar
In Pixar’s “Soul,” jazz pianist Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) struggles to escape the afterlife after an injury endangers his upcoming gig. The movie is written by Pete Docter (“Inside Out”), Kemp Powers (“One Night in Miami”), and Mike Jones, who also makes his Pixar debut as a lead producer. Jones […]
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How a Queer Icon Made the Holiday Film of the Year
For DuVall, seeing Happiest Season be called a “gay holiday rom-com” is complicated. “It’s like, it’s this movie, but it’s this,” she said, drawing boxes in the air again. “So it’s not really this.” Yet, even with the baggage, the film has become shiny, tinsel-laden proof of how mainstream queer […]
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Wes Montgomery will be subject of 2023 documentary film
CLOSE Indiana Avenue, the center of Black life and culture in Indianapolis in the first half of the 20th century was a fount of jazz music talent, including luminaries like Wes Montgomery and “Slide” Hampton. Here’s how that amazing story happened. Wochit The first film documentary based on the life […]
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Zappa film a ‘Frank’ look at visionary iconoclast who had his musical epiphany as a teen in San Diego
Over the decades since Frank Zappa’s death in 1993, his family has been approached by an array of filmmakers who wanted to make a definitive documentary about the legendary music maverick and his genre-blurring legacy. More than a few were obsessive Zappa fans who hoped to gain access to his […]
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Winamac trail gains national status. Will it help? Plus, Warren Miller ski film returns. | Life
The very rural 22-mile Panhandle Pathway out of Winamac is now a national trail. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced in October that the paved trail now joins more than 83,000 miles of routes for paddling, cycling, hiking and other activities in what’s called the National Trails System — more […]
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The Bragg Brothers’ A PIECE OF CAKE TO Stream at HollyShorts Film Festival This Month
A Piece of Cake will be screening at the HollyShorts Film Festival from November 9th to November 15th, Austin and Meredith Bragg’s short film A Piece Of Cake, produced by the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), shares a story of a father who goes to drastic measures for his daughter’s birthday. […]