Director and producer Ivan Reitman has died at the age of 75. Reitman is best known as the director of many popular comedies in the 1970s and 1980s, including 1979’s Meatballs, 1981’s Stripes, and of course 1984’s Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel. Ivan Reitman was arguably more prolific as a producer, with some of his…
Source: Variety (H/T Indiewire) For years, the Academy Awards have been accused of being out of touch with the tastes of mainstream moviegoers, with probably one of the most notable examples being a lack of a Best Picture nomination for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. In the latest example of Academy tastes versus popular opinion,…
Source: Oscars.org The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were made this morning in a video announcement hosted by Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross. Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog led the nominations with 12, which includes nods for Best Picture, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for both Jesse Plemons and…
Source: The Hollywood Reporter As is typical on the eve of the Academy Award nominations, the Razzie Awards released their nominations for the worst of the worst of 2021. Usually, I don’t like to give the Razzies the time of the day, since I think it’s in poor taste to publicly mock films as bad,…
I may have only seen the latest film earlier this week, but Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment have greenlit a sixth entry to the Scream franchise. Since its release on January 14, 2022, the new Scream, directed by Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, has earned a global gross of more than $106.7 million. The…
The virtual DC FanDome convention happened this weekend, which included the debut of trailers for a number of DC film productions, including The Suicide Squad and the “Zack Snyder Cut” of Justice League. Probably the most anticipated of these trailers was the first trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Batman. The latest reboot of the Batman…
Oscar-winning Italian film composer Ennio Morricone has died at the age of 91. I thought that the best way that I can pay tribute to him to share some of my favourite Morricone themes from films that include The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Thing, and…
It is with great sadness that I report that character actor Dick Miller has passed away at the age of 90. Miller first became known by his work with cult filmmaker Roger Corman, particularly his lead role as Walter Paisley in 1959’s A Bucket of Blood. It was Dick Miller’s work with Roger Corman that lead to Corman’s…
Clint Eastwood makes a return to the big screen in The Mule. A decade ago, it was thought that 2008’s Grand Torino would mark Clint Eastwood’s final time in front of the camera. However, we would end up returning four years later in 2012’s Trouble with the Curve and here he is returning again in the crime drama The…
Taking some R&R for the next few days, but first a few of the latest movie news headlines. It is being reported that actor Topher Grace had to contact police after receiving a threatening phone call in reaction to Grace’s role of KKK leader David Duke in Spike Lee‘s BlackKkKlansman. The caller reportedly told Grace that…
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