Super Bowl TV Spot + Making Of Featurette for 'A Quiet Place: Part II'

"There are people out there… People worth saving." Ready for some football monsters! Paramount Pics has released the "Big Game" TV spot for A Quiet Place: Part II, the sequel to John Krasinski & Emily Blunt's sci-fi monster thriller A Quiet Place from 2018....

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First Full Trailer for Justin Lin's 'Fast Saga' Sequel 'Fast & Furious 9'

"Your whole live you pushed yourself to be faster than Don…" Universal has unveiled the first official trailer for Justin Lin's Fast & Furious 9, the latest installment in the never-ending "Fast Saga". No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past....

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VAMPYR and more on the Criterion Channel

DB here: Busy times! I’ve gone back to teaching this semester, and we’re revising Film History: An Introduction. So we’ve been kept us from posting as often as we’d like. For the moment just let me signal the newest additions to our Observations series on...

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Oscars by the numbers

Director Chris Butler: “Well, I’m flabbergasted!” with producer Arianne Sutner. Kristin here: The Oscars are looming large, with the presentation ceremony coming up February 9. But did they ever really go away? As I’ve pointed out before, Oscar prediction has...

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Bo Burnham on the Unrepeatable Audacity of ‘Promising Young Woman’

Promising Young Woman is a movie that will have you clawing at your armrests mere seconds after letting a high crack of laughter escape your throat, and while you’re reacting one way, the folks around you might be reacting in the exact opposite. With a film by...

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Sundance 2020: 'The Truffle Hunters' Doc Takes Us into Piedmont

There's nothing else like truffles! The aromatic Tuber delicacy is a specialty in Italy, a high-priced item that is not easy to find. The Truffle Hunters is an exquisite, lovable, utterly sublime documentary that takes us deep into Piedmont to meet some of the...

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No, We’re Not About to See ‘Contagion’ Come True

You may have seen the news that everyone is starting to stress-watch Steven Soderbergh‘s Contagion. The surface parallels are indeed striking: 1. In the film, emerging virus Meningoencephalitis Virus One (MEV-1) infects patient zero, Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow),...

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The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts Reviewed and Ranked

There are people who want the short film categories removed from the Oscars. Admittedly, they’re sort of the bastard children of the Academy Awards and more separate in focus than any other categories. Few of them, especially outside of the animated short category,...

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What’s New to Stream on Netflix for February 2020, and What’s Leaving

Some people spend their days arguing over the merits of Netflix, but the rest of us are too busy enjoying new movies, engaging series, and fun specials. It’s just one more way to re-watch the movies we already love and find new ones to cherish, and this month...

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‘Run Sweetheart Run’ Is a Horror Film With Purpose That Fails On Both Counts

Horror has always been political, regardless of what some genre fans might think, but that pairing is at its best when the horror remains the priority. Offer your commentary on the class divide, but don’t forget the thrills, chills, and latex (The People Under...

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Holy Hell, ‘Possessor’

They say apples don’t fall far from the tree, and it turns out that’s doubly true for apples that taste like perverted technology and disrupted human flesh. Brandon Cronenberg‘s latest arrives seven years after his feature debut (Antiviral, 2012), but while Possessor...

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Review: 'Gretel & Hansel' is a Chilling Fairytale Packed with Witchcraft

When I ask around, nearly everybody knows the story of a brother and sister, who wander in the dim forest until they reach deliciously smelling house made of ginger cookies, candy, and other treats. A fairytale, as one should know, created mostly for kids to...

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Sundance 2020: Lonely Island's Time Loop Comedy 'Palm Springs'

The Lonely Island boys are back with one of the best films they've ever made! Palm Springs is a hilarious, easy-to-love romantic comedy revolving around a time loop concept. I was not expecting to see a new Lonely Island comedy like this showing up out of nowhere...

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Another Funny UK Trailer for Ski Vacation Comedy Remake 'Downhill'

"Pete ran! Pete left us…" Searchlight Pictures has debuted a new official UK trailer for the film Downhill, an English-language remake of the beloved dark comedy Force Majeure made by Ruben Östlund. This just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and it's actually...

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Second Trailer for Renouncement Drama 'Burden' with Garrett Hedlund

"I'm praying for some kind of sign… If this ain't a sign, then I don't know what is." Two years later this is finally being released. 101 Studios has debuted the second trailer for indie drama Burden, a film about the KKK and a former Klansman who gives up his...

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Sundance 2020: Internet Streaming Killer Film 'Spree' is Intense Ride

We're driving ourselves insane! Spree is a wild ride of a film that takes that sentence and makes it literal - we follow a young rideshare app driver who gets addicted to internet popularity and goes on a crazy killing spree. It's the definitive "HOLY F**K" film...

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