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Brianne Tju, Benjamin Wadsworth, Uriah Shelton, Ali Gallo and Peter Giles in Marcus Dunstan’s UnhumanPhoto: Paramount Pictures If you’re a fan of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, scribes of the later Saw sequels and the Feast trilogy, you know what to expect from them: gore, vomit, red filters, and maybe a half-clever plot twist. If … Read More “A Review Of Marcus Dunstan’s Unhuman” »
The tasteful (yet lavish) covers. Image: ©Alan Lee for the Folio Society’s edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The three books of the trilogy will be quarter-bound in leather, with cloth sides featuring new illustrations by Alan Lee, the English artist who did conception art for Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation, and who … Read More “Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien Special Folio Society Book Set” »
Today’s update is a quick one, with two more new disc reviews, two rather significant pieces of release news, and some additional release news as well. First, the reviews… Dennis has turned in a look at Ronald Neame’s Gambit (1966) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, which stars Michael Caine and Shriley MacLaine. And … Read More “Get Back delayed, Ghostbusters Ultimate update, House of Gucci, Belfast, The King’s Man & more” »
It’s January 1969, and the Beatles are unrecognizable from the wide-eyed mop-tops who appeared on the Ed Sullivan show just five years prior. Their popularity is unrivaled. They’ve stopped touring and fame is exacting its price. Now comes a self-imposed stress: they’ve given themselves three weeks to record 14 songs that they’ll play to a … Read More “Half-century old footage shows Beatles writing and recording in documentary “Get Back”” »
Image: Amazon Studios You’ve seen The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. You might have even seen An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies. But you’ve never seen this. In 2022, audiences are going back to Middle Earth for…The Lord of … Read More “Amazon Lord of the Rings Title Revealed: The Rings of Power” »
Watching Peter Jackson’s documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” streaming on Disney+ was a split experience — utterly pedestrian but transplendent and deeply moving. It was tedious slogging through eight hours of interrupted rehearsal takes, repetitive chit-chat and countless cigarettes, bottles of beer and slices of marmaladed toast consumed in London recording studios during 1969’s opening weeks. Dramatic cinema — … Read More “Beatles doc brings us back to that shared place we once belonged” »
Image: The Sandman promotional image/Netflix Look, let’s be real: Pandemic notwithstanding, we’re not going to the movies like we used to. A lot of the kinds of dramas we used to buy tickets for have migrated to TV and expanded in scope, and as a result, TV’s gotten…pretty good. This year’s slate of new movies … Read More “26 New Shows to Stream in 2022” »
Though she appears in the majority of the studio footage that makes up Peter Jackson’s three-part Get Back documentary, Yoko Ono doesn’t play a major role in the actual events captured in the series—namely, The Beatles’ breakup. In fact, Ono mostly just sits around sewing, reading Beatles books and newspapers, or, from time to time, … Read More “Yoko Ono retweets article on how Yoko Ono didn’t break up The Beatles” »
The Beatles ain’t changing their image for anyone — not even Disney. The British rock group teamed up with director Peter Jackson to release their long-awaited musical documentary, “Get Back,” now streaming on Disney+. The series includes several scenes featuring smoking and explicit language; however, the group refused to have them removed. The three-part show … Read More “Disney wanted to erase swearing, smoking” »
The songwriting was on the wall for The Beatles long before they officially called it quits. In fact, the Fab Four almost split up midway through the making of their final album, 1970’s “Let It Be,” in January 1969. “And then there were two,” says Paul McCartney when only he and Ringo Starr show up … Read More “The Beatles almost broke up while making their last album ‘Let It Be’” »
