Nearly midway through FX’s 10-episode epic, “Shōgun,” the marooned “anjin” (aka pilot) John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) has grown irritated, once again, with the customs of his Japanese hosts. Speaking to his assigned interpreter, Mariko (Anna Sawai), the anjin (as he’s most often referred) can’t understand why his tendered consort won’t express herself; why a grieving mother and widow is so …
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What are The Watchers doing just on the other side of the window? They’re applauding. In the first teaser trailer for twisty thriller “The Watchers” — the directorial debut from Ishana Night Shyamalan, M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter — Dakota Fanning plays a woman lost in the Irish woods who suddenly finds herself trapped alongside three other strangers. Each evening, the …
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“I’ve been married four times now,” Jennifer Lopez says to the camera during the opening minutes of “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” “and I’m sure people watching from the outside are like ‘What is this girl’s fucking problem?’” If nothing else, this semi-candid EPK of a film — which chronicles the making of “This Is Me… Now: A Love …
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The last thing TV needs right now is another reboot. So when it was announced in January that Jon Stewart would be returning home to “The Daily Show,” hosting the show on Mondays through the 2024 election and becoming an executive producer full-time on the program, I found myself curious what the response would be from longtime fans. During his …
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Let’s rewind back to November 2023, the very first weekend after the historic Screen Actors Guild strike ended. Back then, star Da’Vine Joy Randolph shared with IndieWire that she was already at ease with how “The Holdovers” would be received, despite only director Alexander Payne being able to promote it during its first couple of months of screening. “I knew …
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The good news for streaming? It’s still growing! The bad news? The growth is not nearly as fast as it had been. Streaming subscriptions increased by 10.1 percent in 2023, according to market researcher Antenna’s new State of Subscriptions report; hey, double-digit growth is always nice! It’s a bit less nice, however, when you compare it with the 21.6 percent …
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The original “Road House” screenwriter is entering the octagon with Amazon Studios and MGM — in a legal battle, at least. Screenwriter R. Lance Hill, who uses the pen name David Lee Henry, has filed a lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and parent company Amazon Studios for copyright infringement, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times. Hill wrote the screenplay …
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The release of Denis Villeneuve‘s “Dune: Part Two” is the first bona fide cinematic event of 2024, with many early reviews hailing the strike-delayed sequel as a bigger, bolder addition to the acclaimed saga that Villeneuve launched with the first film. The film is set to complete Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s first “Dune” novel while setting up a potential …
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The new Academy realignment that splits the Short Films and Feature Animation branch into separate Animation and Short Films branches has been met primarily with enthusiasm. According to animation and live-action short Academy members and other industry insiders, this change was long overdue. Both animation and live-action shorts deserve their own dedicated branches after experiencing tremendous growth, box office success, …
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The SAG Awards are huge — in Canada. Netflix live-streamed the Screen Actors Guild’s event on Saturday, and though the awards show did not make the Top 10 in the U.S. (or globally), it did in exactly one country: Canada. As a matter of fact, it made the Top 9 (at number nine) there. We don’t know exactly how the …
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