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“Though he did not offer many details about the third film, Turteltaub predicted that it would inevitably have to address modern politics,” reports the New York Post. “We have to be very careful, but I don’t feel we are allowed to ignore it,” Turteltaub said. “I think we have to include that idea in the story somehow without making someone feel put off.” Expect gay stuff, the DACA chick to show the white guy Nic Cage how it’s done, and lectures about slavery and colonialism. Yep, that’s how much they hate us.

For most of the decades that I've known about My Dinner with André, the film has been a kind of in-joke. Released at the height of the art house and repertory cinema heyday, it was alternately discussed as the most ridiculous, the oddest or the most formally disciplined film made at the time. In the four and a half decades since it came out it's been embraced by both Boomers and Generation X as a gag that doubled as a secret handshake. The movie would be referenced in The Simpsons, The Far Side, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, Key &...

Hollywood has spent years peppering films and shows with transgender cast members, but Lilly Wachowski — who identifies as transgender — isn’t reaping the benefits. "The Matrix" co-creator, formerly known as Andy Wachowski, is now struggling to find financing for "The Hunted," a $10 million dystopian political thriller featuring an entirely transgender cast. “Well, if you’re excited for a brand-new all-trans movie, I’ve got terrible news for you,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere jokes. “Of course, these are the Wachowski brothers who made 'The Matrix' movies and now they’re called, in the article, the Wachowski sisters,” he explains.

Looking for Film DvD Bluray recommendations. Life is hard right now and I am looking for immersive films and shows that aren't too treacle sweet but have a bit of depth. Not violent, complex is good. Nice is good. My beloved Morse trilogy has worked, Gentlemen prefer Blonds, Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend, Harvey, the original All Creatures Great and Small, the Poiot series, Babbetes Feast, Primer, Signs, singing in the Rain, It happened one night,Mrs Miniver, Blast From the Pat, Galexy Quest, Christmas in Connecticut, An ebayer is trying to screw me over by having sent me the...

France is in the middle of the month of its deepest summer slumber. The juilletistes are back from their summer vacations but the aoûtiens are still enjoying theirs, and with them many of the businesses outside major cities and those who don't rely on tourists. Much of the country – and certainly everywhere near the water or the scenic hot spots – will appear to be running at half speed if at all, until La Rentrée kicks in at the beginning of September. It's a tradition going all the way back to the Middle Ages, when Pope Gregory IX gave...

Set almost entirely inside a late-night New York City subway car, the film follows a diverse group of passengers who are terrorized by two violent young men. As the abuse escalates, fear, prejudice, selfishness, and social divisions prevent the passengers from standing together.The Incident (1967, Film Noir/Crime Thriller - Ruby Dee, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, Thelma Ritter, Ed McMahon, Donna Mills)

The unlikely rise of Judy Holliday from Greenwich Village cabaret performer to movie star begins – if you believe Garson Kanin's account in his memoir Hollywood – with a brief conversation he had with a friend: Main Bocher, the American fashion designer, who had designed the wardrobe for Jean Arthur in the floundering out-of-town previews of Kanin's new play, Born Yesterday. Bocher mentions Holliday, at that point known to Kanin from The Revuers, a nightclub act that also featured Betty Comden and Adolph Green (and occasionally a young pianist and composer named Leonard Bernstein, who would play piano for them...

A couple of weeks ago MIT's Sloan School of Management published an article with the prosaic but to-the-point title "These are the most urgent AI risks, according to 272 experts". Artificial intelligence is a contentious topic everywhere, but the article is concerned with how it "presents business leaders with a difficult management problem: The risks are numerous and fast-moving and fall unevenly across organizations, sectors, and stakeholders." There are the well-discussed "challenges", like "the potential for discrimination and the spread of misinformation". (Note that it's apparently concerning that entities defined by their lack of emotion and pitiless logic might discriminate...

Barry Levinson's 1982 film Diner is set in Baltimore at the end of 1959, in the final days of what had been a momentous year, and just before what would be a pivotal decade. The year had begun with the success of the Cuban revolution and its recognition by both the US and Soviet governments, and Barry Gordy's founding of Motown. Pope John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council and Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in Iowa. Later in the year China abolished the Tibetan government and replaced the Dalai Lama, NASA...

The ostensible premise of The Godfather, the film version of which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is that American society is so prejudiced against Italians that extraordinary men such as Vito and Michael Corleone have no choice but to turn to crime. In a way, then, author Mario Puzo was a kind of goombah Ibram X. Kendi, director Francis Ford Coppola the dago Ava DuVernay, and The Godfather the guinea 12 Years a Slave. If you doubt my claim, consider two scenes. In the first, Michael, back from hiding in Sicily, finally decides to get married (again) and so...

Like all those musicians who say they formed bands because they bought the first Velvet Underground record, there were at least two generations of photographers who chose their profession because they saw Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 so-called "murder mystery" starring David Hemmings as Thomas, an arrogant and successful photographer in what was about to be called "Swinging London". Deputized to stand in for all those photographers is the American Robert Whitman, who recalled in a 2018 interview that "in those days people were very conservative; you couldn't look like this and get a job. I never wanted to wear a...

The trailer for I Play Rocky, the Sylvester Stallone biopic about how Rocky was made, dropped today onto the Internets.This looks as solid as they come. How Stallone wrote and starred in that movie is quite an inspirational tale and this looks like something that we need right now.Go check it out!

During filming of We're Not Dressing, a 1934 musical comedy that came out a month before Carole Lombard ascended into the top rank of screwball comedy heroines with Twentieth Century, her co-star Bing Crosby discovered that the actress had a rather extreme reaction to her one notable phobia. As recalled by Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years 1903-1940, Crosby had to slap Lombard in one scene. "At her request, he refrained during rehearsal, but when the scene was filmed, she responded violently. Howard Hawks liked to take credit for creating Lombard as a comic...

When Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865 the Civil War was nearly over. After recalling the circumstances of his first inaugural address, given precisely four years earlier and just before the nation fell into civil war, he told the crowd with characteristic understatement that "the progress of our arms...is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all." After the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation two years previous and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery by the House of Representatives just two...

The movie, written and directed by German filmmaker Uwe Boll, is an inconvenient truth that the globalists don't want their people to see: an accurate portrayal of Muslim atrocities against white Europeans and, worse (to them), with a hopeful ending.

I had never heard of Citizen Vigilante, Uwe Boll's new film starring Armie Hammer, until a few days ago. That's when I read that this movie has been effectively banned in Germany and the United Kingdom. Something about it encouraging violence against migrants. But then Elon Musk made Citizen Vigilante available to watch for free on his X (formerly Twitter) platform. Something that would avoid the censorious thought police and let the people see and decide on their own. Which only made the German and British governments even more furious. Rush Limbaugh called it the "Streisand Effect": trying to keep...

The collaboration between director Michael Powell and writer/producer Emeric Pressburger began on the eve of World War Two and built up a considerable head of steam making films for and about that war. Some were obvious propaganda (Contraband, 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft is Missing) while a couple were far too idiosyncratic to match any workable definition of propaganda (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale). Blimp was so at odds with the British government's idea of what aided the war effort that Churchill himself ordered the military not to assist the filmmakers during its production....

Here are 100 reasons to love the comedy writer, director and star who’s celebrating a milestone on Sunday. No. 1 He started a novel titled “Springtime for Hitler.” No. 2 He turned that into a play. No. 3 He turned that play into a flop film titled “The Producers.” No. 4 He won a screenplay Oscar for that flop … No. 5 … turned that flop into a Broadway hit … No. 6 … then tried to destroy “The Producers” on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” No. 7 He never did a serious movie because to him comedy was serious. No. 8...

People are tired of paying more to scroll longer. Streaming was supposed to make movie night easier. Somehow, it made it exhausting. When every app wants more money, the old DVD shelf starts looking sane again. BRIEFING Grant here. Streaming literally revolutionized the way we all consume entertainment. Gone were the days of cable boxes and trips to Blockbuster. Instead, from the comfort of your own home, you got to choose exactly what you wanted to watch. But this convenience over the years has morphed. It's become more expensive and more complicated, and people are starting to yearn again for...

What would happen if Civil War broke out in the United States again in 2026? Thankfully, with modern AI technology, we no longer need to wonder.