It’s been seven years since Ben Affleck directed a movie (or seven years since a movie he directed was released, to be more accurate), and Air shows us what we’ve been missing. This movie is excellent, a relentless, endlessly human, and distinctly American story about people who broke the rules ...
Read MoreAccording to a Deadline exclusive report, Ripley, a limited series starring Andrew Scott, is moving from Showtime to Netflix. The series was slated for a late 2023 release on Showtime. The 8-episode adaptation of the famous series of crime novels by Patricia Highsmith has landed at Netflix following...
Read MoreThe Super Bowl is coming up soon, but a different sport is making internet waves today. Amazon Studios has released a trailer for Air, its upcoming dramatization of Nike’s relationship with Michael Jordan. Air stars Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, a Nike salesman who stumbles on an idea to save the f...
Read MoreUniversal Pictures dropped the bomb today as they released a teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie Oppenheimer. Nolan’s first film after his split with Warner Bros., Oppenheimer depicts the creation of the atomic bomb by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues in what became kno...
Read MoreA spy and a superhero may help develop the atomic bomb. Deadline reports that Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. are in talks to join Christopher Nolan’s next movie, Oppenheimer. Based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film is about Oppenheimer an...
Read MoreFor one reason or another, the Studio Ghibli movies from 2008 onwards tend to be ones I never saw (The Wind Rises, From Up on Poppy Hill) or that I saw once and didn’t like at all. The latter category pertains to Ponyo (2008), Hayao Miyazaki’s loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid by Hans Chris...
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