December 28, 2024 9:12 pm

Author name: Suzanne

Samaritan

“25 years ago the world’s greatest superhero vanished,” according to the poster for Prime Video’s “Samaritan.” The narration by Sam (Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton) that opens the film gives us the Cliffs Notes version of how he did. Samaritan had a nemesis, a twin brother named—you guessed it—Nemesis. As kids “they were freakishly strong,” Sam tells […]

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Growth in Discomfort: Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

“I love the theatre!” exclaims a young churchgoer in writer/director Adamma Ebo’s debut feature, “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.,” based on her brilliant 2018 short film of the same name. It turns out that what appeared on the surface to be a spiritual channeling experienced by the girl was little more than play-acting. Indeed,

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A Difficult Journey: Why I Flew Across the Country to See Lawrence of Arabia

It seemed like a good idea at the time. I started seeing 70mm film festivals pop up all over the country this summer. The Somerville Theatre near Boston had its 70mm and widescreen festival in June. While that was happening, the Music Box Theatre’s 70mm fest went on in Chicago. Last month, the American Cinematheque

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Explorer

We do not talk about explorers much these days. The stories of Columbus, Magellan, Sir Edmund Hillary, Shackleton, Perry, Armstrong, and Aldrin may still dazzle us, but these days it’s more about scientists sending technology, not humans, into the sky and the oceans to report back to us. Mount Everest was a front-page story of astonishing

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#440 August 30, 2022

Matt writes: In past years, the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual Ebert Director Award has been given to such revered talents as Martin Scorsese, Claire Denis, Ava DuVernay, Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda, Denis Villeneuve, Chloé Zhao and Taika Waititi. This year, the accolade will be presented to Oscar-winner Sam Mendes in-person at the 2022 TIFF Tribute Awards gala fundraiser on Sunday, September 11th, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel

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National Cinema Day to Offer $3 Movie Tickets on Saturday, September 3rd

The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit branch of the National Association of Theatre Owners, has named this Saturday, September 3rd, National Cinema Day, a one-day event that will see participating locations sell movie tickets for prices as low as three dollars. This special effort aims to reinvigorate moviegoing will occur at more than 3,000 theaters across the U.S.,

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AMC+’s Pantheon is Challenging Animated Sci-fi for Adults

The intersection of technology and humanity has been a theme of fiction, film, and even television for generations now. Embedded in the DNA of AMC+’s first animated drama series, “Pantheon,” premiering on Friday, September 1st, one can pull out material that owes a debt to everything from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “Ghost in the

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Batgirl Directors Open to Making More DC Movies in the Future

Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are holding their heads high after Warner Bros. Discovery controversially scrapped the $90 million-budgeted film earlier this month. The filmmakers have since received support from Marvel boss Kevin Feige and other Hollywood colleagues after WBD’s unprecedented move. ​   ​Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are willing to

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