The Millennium Falcon may be the key to uniting fans once more. Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues to divide fans on subjects as broad as the nature of belief, the importance of continuity in a franchise that’s existed for four decades and whether or not there is gravity in space — spoilers: science says that there’s also no sound in space but that’s never bothered anyone before now. But perhaps […]
Avengers: Infinity War big bad Thanos was named the most anticipated movie villain of 2018 in an online poll. Josh Brolin plays the Marvel comics supervillain, called the “biggest and baddest” of MCU bad guys by Kevin Feige. Even the combined strength of the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy may not be enough to stop Thanos when he gets his hands on the all-powerful Infinity Gauntlet. Past MCU villains have not exactly fired up Marvel fans, […]
If Baby Driver taught folks anything this year, it's that finding just the right song at just the right moment is like kismet. You can't predict it, but when it happens you have to let it wash over you. Typically these jolts of joy occur to individuals listening alone, but every so often they happen to the public at large. Maybe it's a music cue in a movie, maybe it's Lady Gaga […]
Guardian writers pick their ones that got away this year, from mournful Swedish house music to sun-drenched soul. iLoveMakonnen – Love ft Rae Sremmurd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxo3xSRctb4 Makonnen Sheran may be most famous for his voguish, trap-flecked R&B, but he’s never been afraid to leave his comfort zone. Even so, Love, which featured rap duo Rae Sremmurd, marked a major left turn for the Atlanta-based artist. Produced by Mike Will Made It […]
With the end of a year comes time for reflection. In Hollywood, that manifests itself in the form of an awards season leading up to March’s Oscars ceremony. Along the way, countless film performances inevitably get lost in the shuffle, missing out on whatever it takes to land the biggest nominations. Some have been overshadowed in awards chatter by other players in their own films, while others are the stars […]
Marlene Dietrich made the tux luxe for all. Born in Berlin as Marie Magdalene Dietrich, she became a star during Hollywood’s Golden Age. The image she’s best remembered is her turn in a man’s tux with top hat and white tie in Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film Morocco. Google is remembering Marlene Dietrich’s 116th birthday—and her gender-defying tuxedo—with today’s (Dec. 27) doodle. Her boundary-pushing performance—Dietrich, playing a cabaret singer, kisses a woman […]
The feverishly debated decision behind The Washington Post‘s 1971 publication of top-secret information in the Pentagon Papers comes to life in the new movie The Post, in which Meryl Streep plays legendary publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks takes on the role of the gruff but brilliant executive editor Ben Bradlee. As Graham, Streep plays a leader who decides to publish the incendiary information about the Vietnam War amid great pressure, in […]
A look at the release calendar teases heists, horrors, hijinks – and, yet again, more superheroes than you can shake a stick at. There are extravagant blockbusters and shoestring indies, oddball discoveries and cozy comforts, and we are here for all of it. Well – most of it. Some of it we're more here for than others. Below, a list of our ten most highly anticipated films of the next […]
Warning: This story contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. Rian Johnson made several fresh, unconventional choices in his helming of the divisive Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but one scene in particular has forced some movie theaters to intervene. The scene in question features what Star Wars VFX supervisor Ben Morris has called a franchise first. Deciding to sacrifice herself to save the Resistance, Holdo (Laura Dern) crashes her ship at light-speed directly into a First […]
