Entertainment

Alex Garland’s Annihilation has been met with some skepticism pre-release, thanks to concerns about the movie whitewashing the racially diverse cast of the source material and Paramount selling all international rights to the movie to Netflix. The reviews are in, however, and they promise a movie that is trippy, scary and above all, well worth watching. Calling the movie “a ferocious, feral, female-centric update of fearsome monster classics like The Thing and Alien,” The Hollywood Reporter’s own Todd McCarthy wrote that Annihilation “looks […]

I was all about revisiting the 1960s TV series “Lost in Space” until the movie arrived in 1998, and then I was all about letting go of “Lost in Space.” But maybe Netflix will justify its forthcoming foray into the world of the space family Robinson with the help of a twist: Actress Parker Posey will star as the scheming Dr. Smith. In the original series, Smith (“Oh the pain!”) […]

As expected, cinematographer Roger Deakins took the top prize for “Blade Runner 2049” at the 32nd annual ASC Awards at Hollywood & Highland. It was his fourth ASC award, besting the other four Oscar nominees: Bruno Delbonnel (“Darkest Hour”), Hoyte van Hoytema (“Dunkirk”), Dan Laustsen (“The Shape of Water”), and Rachel Morrison (“Mudbound”), the first female from her branch nominated by the ASC and the Academy. But can Deakins finally earn the elusive Academy Award after 14 […]