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You just knew I was going to pull out “the list.” Over these last few years, I’ve been updating a list of all the filmmakers who have publicly criticized Marvel movies. We can now add Martin McDonagh’s name to this very impressive list that includes Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Denis Villeneuve, Bong Joon-ho, Lucrecia Martel, David Cronenberg, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, David Fincher, Paul Verehoeven, Terry Gilliam, Ridley Scott, Jane Campion, James Mangold, Luc Besson, William Friedkin, Ken Loach, and John Woo Contribute Hire me...

Burton says in the sitdown interview, “If somebody asked me or the kids I grew up with, ‘what do you remember about about Dumbo?’ It’s him getting wasted, getting drunk on champagne. Politically, that’s stuff you can’t do these days.” Politically? Of course you can still do that stuff. It’s just that, quite frankly Mr. Burton, you have been handcuffed by your masters over at the mouse house. The film needed that kind of edge but it had none of it....

The full title of Anderson’s film is “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,” Although not a great deal is known about the plot, the film does have a host of Anderson regulars and newcomers, including, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, and Owen Wilson. I, for one, can’t wait to see what one of cinema’s most original voices has up his sleeves....

Why you should enroll in film school This question is not as simple as it sounds. The fact that you can learn to make movies yourself. There are many talented directors who came into the profession from the outside. Among them, for example, are such legends as Stanley Kubrick and Akira Kurosawa. And given how much it costs to go to film school, it’s important to know firmly why you’re going there....

Are you kidding me?! Instead of just embracing the endless array of streaming content available at our fingertips during this crisis, an oasis of counterprogramming that includes “The King of Staten Island,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” “Bad Education,” “The Assistant,” “The Invisible Man,” among others, the Academy is rather opting to call it a year? Did they not get the memo that Netflix has a hell of an Oscar-bait lineup ready to go?...

Dolan has been a polarizing figure for many cinephiles these last few years. After surprising the film world, in his mid-20s to boot, with well-received fare such as “Laurence Anyways,” “Mommy,” and “Tom at the Farm,” the way he has concocted his movies ever since has been polarizing at best for critics and audiences. It all started with 2016’s “It’s Only the End of the World,” a film that won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes but not without being dubbed one of the worst movies to ever be awarded at the festival....

Jeffrey Wells spoke to an “industry guy” who claims that his wide inner circle of Academy voters “are mostly talking about CODA.’” This aligns well with last night’s stunning CODA victory at the Screen Actors Guild awards. Another filmmaker claims that “CODA has the heart factor going for it, despite its plodding execution at times. ”Power of the Dog” has zero support from the industry. It hasn’t won any guild awards....

A member of the Venice jury that gave “Joker” the top prize was Mary Harron, best known as the director of “American Psycho.” In an interview published earlier today, Harron spoke to Vulture about the 20th anniversary of her controversial Christian Bale-starring drama and explained the reasons why the Venice jury decided to give “Joker” the Golden Lion. Harron is no stranger to controversy as even upon the release of “American Psycho” in the spring of 2000, she and the film were attacked by notable feminists for its violence against women....

The hand ends up becoming a character of its own. Disembodied, it escapes from a medical lab’s refrigerator and spends the rest of the movie desperately trying to reunite with its owner. Wait until you see it try to fend off pigeons, rats and dogs to reunite with pizza-delivery boy Naoufel (Patel), who has fallen in love with librarian Gabrielle (Shawkat). This turns into a sweet-natured yet stalker-ish romance. Naoufel is painfully shy but decides to take a job as a carpenter’s apprentice just so that he can be in the vicinity of his crush, who happens to be the carpenter’s niece....

Former Academy head honcho and producer Sid Ganis was quoted at Telluride as saying that he believed Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” “to be one of the best films he’s ever seen in his life.” One has to wonder about Ganis’ current-day movie tastes since “Belfast” is a rather overemotional family drama that, at times, reminded me of a token “Leave it to Beaver” episode. Based on Branagh’s own childhood in Ireland, “Belfast” delivers a hazy tackling of the social and political issues going on in northern Ireland back in 1969, including the civil war between Protestants/Catholics and the strenuous marriage of his parents....

Michael Veale, a technology policy researcher at University College London, told VICE’s Motherboard that he actually reached out to Netflix after people were joking around on social media about the darker intentions of the Bandersnatch release. But actually Veale saw these jokes as being dead-serious and believed Netflix could easily and viably do such a thing. “People had been speculating a lot on Twitter about Netflix’s motivations,” Veale told Motherboard, “I thought it would be a fun test to show people how you can use data protection law to ask real questions you have....

Setting the stage for a tense confrontation with the police, Boyega’s Brown-Easly is thinly created, a distanced enigma who decides to perpetrate an Atlanta bank siege in 2017. Reading the Wikipedia entry for this real-life story is more exciting than watching its cinematic interpretation. The film fares better when the chief negotiator, a fellow Marine vet played by the late, great Michael Kenneth Williams, comes into the equation. It’s the final performance from the actor known best for his visceral work in “The Wire....

READ MORE: Breaking Bad Movie Is Happening, and Possibly Shooting This Month Slash Film then confirmed my suspicions; Yes, the upcoming “Breaking Bad” project, titled “Greenbrier,” would be about Jesse Pinkman and would pick up immediately after Pinkman escaped in the series finale. “If Vince Gilligan asked me to do it, then sure, absolutely,” Cranston admits. “This idea, from what I’m told, gets into those, at least a couple of the characters that were not completed as far as their journey....

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The Producers Guild of America gave Sian Heder’s “CODA” its top film prize. This now sets up Apple Studios to win Best Picture come Oscar night. “CODA” has clearly struck a chord in Hollywood. Apple Studios could be the first streaming service to win the Oscar for Best Picture, despite Netflix persistently trying to attain this feat for the last 7 years. It could also become the first Sundance-premiered movie to win the top prize....

Of course, nothing can cleanse the stench of Lady Gaga winning Best Actress. This was a pure PR move on the part of the New York critics, oh, and a chance for their kids to meet Gaga at the ceremony … Best Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice PizzaBest First FilmThe Lost Daughter Best Animated FilmThe Mitchells vs The MachinesBest ActorBenedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the DogBest Actress Lady Gaga, House of Gucci Best Non-Fiction FilmFlee Best Supporting ActressKathryn Hunter, The Tragedy of MacbethBest Supporting Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog Best Foreign Language Film The Worst Person in the World Contribute Hire me...

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Indian superstar Aamir Khan will star as Forrest Gump in a Bollywood remake of the Tom Hanks-starring, Oscar-winning classic. The Hindi version will be called Lal Singh Chadha and will be directed by Advait Chandan. I would comment on the casting choices and the director helming the project but, in God’s honest truth, and I know this a movie site, I have absolutely no knowledge or insight of Bollywood talent....

Those pesky voters within the Writers Guild of America have decided that 29 of the 30 best written movies of the 21st century are American. The sole exception? 2019’s “Parasite” (#4). You gotta laugh. Hey, don’t get me wrong, the below are a mighty fine bunch of films, but the all-American bent is blasphemous. I don’t see “A Separation,” “Y Tu Mamá También,” “Pain and Glory,” “Burning,” “Toni Erdmann,” “Cache” “Oldboy” and many more scripts worthy of the top 30....

Director Jason Reitman will direct and co-write “Ghostbusters: Afterlife’,” which is said to be set in the original universe. The production is targeted to start this year with a planned Summer 2020 release date. Reitman had previously told Entertainment Weekly that the new movie will ignore the 2016 reboot directed by Paul Feig, and will be a direct continuation of the 1984 original. Reitman is the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the original movies....

Netflix thinks they have a contender in Rian Johnson’s sequel to the ultra-popular 2019 murder-mystery. So much so that they will be trying something they haven’t in a long while: a full-scaled theatrical release. In fact, the “Knives Out” sequel has been dated as being available on the streaming platform December 23rd. I’m told a late November release in theaters is being planned. That’s practically a month before it is available for free on Netflix....