Month: August 2023

EXCLUSIVE: There was a lot of noise surrounding the red state-beloved, $163M-grossing summer surprise hit, Sound of Freedom, this morning with Newsweek reporting that one of the pic’s 6,678 crowdfunders was arrested for child kidnapping by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police. Now just to be clear, we’re talking one person who contributed an unidentified amount
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Death is the ultimate leveler. It comes for everyone in the end, no matter your station in life. Never is that more unsettlingly apparent than in 1988’s The Blob, directed by Chuck Russell from a script he co-wrote with Frank Darabont. The creature feature lets loose a gelatinous pink blob of goo upon the small town of Arborville, California,
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American-Canadian actor and dancer Raoul Trujillo was 51 years old when he took on the role of Zero Wolf — the cold-hearted Mayan leader who plunders Jaguar Paw’s village and sells them as human sacrifices — in Mel Gibson‘s one-of-a-kind adventure film “Apocalypto” back in 2006. Joining Trujillo in the action-packed film included Rudy Youngblood
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Wes Anderson’s arthouse oasis, Asteroid City, will stream on Peacock on Friday, Aug. 11, 57-days after opening in theaters. The Focus Features absurdist comedy, which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and stars Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carrell, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hanks, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Norton among several others has grossed
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Public libraries are synonymous with children today, with story times and an inviting children’s section considered essential features. Arguments for increasing or maintaining library funding often reference the library’s role in literacy education for kids as well as the many happy memories even adults who no longer frequent the library still hold for childhoods spent
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“Barbie is really important for us,” beamed Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on the conglom’s Q2 earnings call about what will be the first pic to hit $1 billion under his reign. In celebrating the pic’s success, he indicated that the movie would hit streaming service Max in the fall. However, on a long
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The biggest complaint about 2018’s The Meg, an American and Chinese co-production loosely based on author Steve Alten’s novel, was that it lacked bite. The PG-13 action vehicle for Jason Statham brought the B-movie sense of fun, but it was too restrained regarding the megalodon carnage. Meg 2: The Trench answers the first film’s criticisms, though not in the way
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