The 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar was recently re-released in China, and revenues from the People’s Republic have seen the movie overtake Avengers: Endgame and reclaim its position as the highest-grossing film of all time. This tidbit about box office statistics has resulted in a flurry of news coverage, but hidden …
Read More »Gina Carano is showing how to beat cancel culture by making a movie with Ben Shapiro. Others must go independent and follow suit
Earlier this week, a crisis public relations consultant told The Hollywood Reporter that publicists have told their clients to “steer clear of politics, especially anything leaning right.” This, of course, follows the dismissal of Carano from ‘The Mandalorian’ for a social media post that compared the treatment of modern-day conservatives …
Read More »Ben Shapiro’s first ‘movie for conservatives’ isn’t bad, but he needs to show it somewhere other than his right-wing echo chamber
Run Hide Fight, written and directed by Kyle Rankin, is a new action thriller film that tells the story of Zoe Hull, a female high school student fighting back during a school shooting. The movie, which stars Isabel May as Zoe and Thomas Jane as her father Todd, is basically …
Read More »New movie Pieces of a Woman is a story of forgiveness… so why is Netflix so keen to cancel its star, Shia LaBeouf?
Pieces of a Woman, the new arthouse film starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf that is garnering some Oscar buzz, premiered on Netflix on January 7. The film, written by Kata Wéber and directed by Kornél Mundruczó tells the story of a Boston couple who suffer a traumatic home birth …
Read More »Move over, Hollywood! China overtook US as world’s biggest movie box office in 2020, set to keep title PERMANENTLY
Box office revenues in China were not spared from the Covid-19 crisis, as the country was the first to impose lockdowns to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The usually busy weekend before Christmas saw ticket sales falling by 30 percent from a year ago, to around $71.5 million. …
Read More »Forget the racial politics, Pixar’s first black-led movie, ‘Soul’, isn’t about being black – it’s about being human
‘Soul’, the new film from esteemed animation studio Pixar that premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on Christmas Day, has attracted a lot of attention for featuring the first black protagonist in the company’s history. The film tells the story of Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a good-hearted jazz musician (who …
Read More »George Clooney’s new eco-disaster movie The Midnight Sky tries to be everything but ends up being only a disaster
Christmas season is when movie studios put out prestige films and big box office contenders. In normal times, people flock to theatres during the holidays because they’re off work and it gives them something to do with family or, in some cases, to avoid family. This year with coronavirus closing …
Read More »Staffers quit Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission Impossible’ movie project after star goes full-on KAREN with second Covid rant – report
The second meltdown came on Tuesday night, after news broke of an earlier on-set rant by Cruise that was caught on tape, the Sun newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person involved in the movie. The 58-year-old actor stars in the film, which is the seventh installment of “Mission Impossible,” and …
Read More »‘Sickening’ & ‘crass’: First Covid-19 pandemic movie ‘Songbird’ triggers critics by targeting power-hungry governments
“This movie about a pandemic, made entirely during the pandemic, is not something anybody needs right now…or ever,” reads a review of ‘Songbird’ from The Ringer, which promises the movie will “make you sick.” ‘Songbird’, shot in June and released digitally today, is one of the most notable releases of …
Read More »Pre-teen twerking movie ‘Cuties’ reveals that Netflix can’t stop sexualizing children
The upcoming movie has the internet furious after both promotional material and a synopsis was revealed by the streaming giant. As per its original description – which has now been altered to appease the mob – it follows an 11-year-old who starts to “explore her femininity” after becoming “fascinated with …
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