There’s a long tradition of family collaboration on Coen productions — Joel Coen and his wife of four decades, Frances McDormand, met when she auditioned for 1984’sBlood Simple, which was the debut for both her and the Coen brothers, and she won the first of her three Best Actress O...
Don’t worry about winning, and don’t even try to be good. Just get back up on that damn thing. Other people can take a nice long break after a streak. But Manic Impressives need to be back in the saddle as soon as possible. If we lie around in the dirt too long, we’re li...
Although Ben-Adir is not Jamaican —“[It] was okay as long as the family was in support of it,” he says — both Jamaican-born actors and performers of Jamaican descent make up the lion’s share of the film’s cast. Important secondary characters include Jamaican singer Sevana as ...
“Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window,” which was released in theaters on Dec. 8 in Japan, is also shrouded in the shadows of war in the second half of the film. Although “Godzilla Minus One” was a live-action movie released in November, the story is set immediately after J...
s first anime feature and aims to continue the recent domestic financial hot streak of these titles. The impressive figures that thisDemon Slayerinstallment is following up on make it clear thatanime films have become a quasi-savior for domestic movie theaters in the 2020s. But how did we ...
That is only 13 movies less a year….but then you have to realize that most of the movies I see at theaters these days are computer animated kid movies that my little girls want to see. 10. So will I ever top watching 1,418 in a year again? Probably not…..that comes to an ...
Now, the question remains how well will Miyazaki’s film hold out long term? Spirited Away still reigns supreme as the studio’s highest-grossing opener, and it is the company’s top-grossing picture period. To date, Spirited Away has earned more than 31 billion yen at the box office. ...
“Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train,” currently showing on numerous screens nationwide, recently toppled Japan's long-reigning all-time box office king “Spirited Away” to take the top spot. Minami Ichikawa, a managing director of major film distributer Toho Co., spoke about why the movie...
Tom Cruiseis looking for a co-pilot — and it could be you! Ahead of the release ofTop Gun: Mavericklater this month, the long-awaited sequel to the hit 1986 film, Paramount has launched an interactive website calledWhatsMyCallSign.comthat puts users right in the pilot seat. ...
Work for the civil rights of an oppressed group is always an ongoing process, and the Stonewall riots were just one part of the long and difficult process of expanding the rights of LGBTQ people in the U.S. But the riots are considered a pivotal and instrumental event in that process. Ne...