June 2016
Badass Intensity and Holy Cool: A Warren Oates Retrospective
By EntertainerIn 2000, director Richard Linklater helped assemble a retrospective for cult filmmaker Monte Hellman as part of that year’s South by Southwest festival. For the screening of Hellman’s best-known work, the 1971 existential road race film...The Purge: Election Year
By EntertainerNRA members will love lousy pseudo-political horror-thriller "The Purge: Election Year." In fact, the tagline for "Election Year" might as well be "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "Election Year"...Video: Cannes Interviews with Joel Edgerton, George Miller and More
By EntertainerOur final video segment from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival features more exclusive clips from films, many of which still have yet to be released. Far Flung Correspondent Katherine Tulich interviews jury president George Miller as well as actor Joel...Beyond Imagination: How “Independence Day” Changed the Blockbuster
By EntertainerTwenty years ago, Roland Emmerich’s “Independence Day” changed blockbusters forever in the span of four minutes. After teasing audiences with 45 minutes of mounting tension as city-sized spaceships entered Earth’s atmosphere...The Legend of Tarzan
By EntertainerSometimes you have to wonder how certain movies get made. I have no special knowledge of the production of “The Legend of Tarzan.” But I have to imagine that the movie spent such a long time in the development process that no one...#279 June 28, 2016
By EntertainerSheila writes: Terrence Malick has spent his career capturing the beauty of waving treetops, sunsets, reflections on water, shadows and sunlight. Vugar Efendi has put together a beautiful and hypnotic video, weaving together the natural scenes in...Book Review: "The Art & Making of Independence Day: Resurgence"
By EntertainerWith a second-place finish in its opening weekend to “Finding Dory,” a lower opening frame than the original did in 1996 dollars ($41 million vs. $50 million), and less critical support (34% on Rotten Tomatoes vs. 62% for the original),...The Political Idealism of Gary Ross
By EntertainerWho is America’s most successful political filmmaker? While most would argue divisive names like Spike Lee or Michael Moore, I’m going to nominate Gary Ross. You know his films: “Big,” “Dave,”...A Beautiful Movie About Farting: The Daniels on “Swiss Army Man”
By EntertainerDan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo that goes by the name “The Daniels,” nabbed some of the most divisive headlines out of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival after the premiere of their comedy “Swiss Army Man,”...Thumbnails 6/28/16
By Entertainer1."Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family": Essential commentary from the "Master of None" creator at The New York Times.“Xenophobic rhetoric was central to Mr. Trump’s campaign long before the attack in Orlando. This...
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