Cinema – TV

Regina King’s directorial debut stood out at this year’s Venice film festival. There’s the intriguing subject matter: it’s an adaptation of Kemp Powers’s dramatisation of a real-life meeting between Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke after Clay’s surprise win over Sonny Liston in February 1964. But there’s another reason: it’s the first film directed by an African-American woman to be selected in the festival’s history. At the event on […]

Like the song said, let's get down to business: "Mulan" is big, sumptuous entertainment. It's good, but not great, transforming the story associated with the 1998 animated musical into a song-free, live-action movie that's more adequate than transcendent -- a perfectly reasonable family-viewing investment that's worth seeing, but not necessarily a must-buy. The "buy" part, and business half of the show, can't be separated from the movie itself. After several […]

Hollywood deals out dozens of what it is pleased to label “event movies” every year, but never in that institution’s history has there been an event movie like Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. The event it marks is not just the movie’s release but also America’s return to something like normal life. No motion picture of any consequence has hit theaters since mid March, and so to see Tenet feels like a patriotic duty, or at […]

"Doctor Strange" director Scott Derrickson tweeted a warning to viewers advising them against going to any movie theaters, despite Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" being released in most US theaters on September 3.Derrickson, who clarified he was speaking to his "fellow Americans," tweeted: "Don't go see 'Tenet' or any other movie in a theater. There, I said it."Derrickson also tweeted a link to an article by The A.V. Club that featured experts warning viewers against going […]

Fans can expect four DC Universe Movies to be released in 2021, as revealed by host Matt Bomer during IGN’s exclusive DC FanDome panel for Superman: Man of Tomorrow. The DC Universe Movies slate for 2021 includes two original productions and one two-part film that adapts an iconic DC Comics storyline. Fans can expect more details -- including casting and exact release dates -- closer to the movies’ releases. Their first release will […]

Recently, the backstory of the "ta-dum" sound we hear before a Netflix-produced movie or TV show begins was finally revealed. Netflix Vice President Tod Yellin explained that it was created by Academy Award-winning composer Lon Bender, and before that was chosen, there was going to be the sound of a goat bleating (meant to serve as a nod to MGM's lion's roar).  While Netflix primarily remains a streaming service, they also release some […]

Jared Leto accidentally let slip the name of the new Tron movie last night, in his excitement on announcing he's fully on board the forthcoming sequel. Though he later deleted the tweet, and republished it without the movie's title, his original message made it clear the movie's name is Tron: Ares. His announcement said: “I am so very excited and proud to confirm that YES – I will be starring in TRON. We […]