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Phantom Thread Review (2017, directed by P.T. Anderson)
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The Cleaners is a riveting documentary about how social media might be ruining the world
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. We’re in a cultural moment where the impact of social media isn’t something that we just notice when we catch ourselves heads-down in our phones or computers. It’s something that’s underscored with almost daily news stories, with each new revelation seemingly more sinister than the last.
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The Academy's Bias Against Genre Films is Overstated
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Review: Annihilation
Following his breakout hit Ex Machina, Alex Garland has returned with a new sci-fi stunner in the form of Annihilation. A hypnotic, uncompromising story with genuine thrills and chills, it stands to be one of the most impressive genre films of 2018.
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'Black Panther' Box Office Tracking To Deliver Rare $100 Million Plus Second Weekend
The Wakandan nation keeps getting richer as Black Panther is poised to deliver a rare $100 million second weekend at the box office. After opening to $202 million in its first true three-day weekend, the Marvel Studios film did little slowing down during the week. The film, in fact, broke weekday records with numbers like a $14.5 million Tuesday. The film can see a 50% drop from weekend to weekend and still top $100 million in weekend two.
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James Gunn Clarifies Original Groot Is Dead In Guardians Of The Galaxy
Bringing closure to a much-debated aspect of his beloved Guardians of the Galaxy movies, filmmaker James Gunn said today that the baby/toddler/teenage Groot seen in the second film is not the same individual as the Groot who sacrificed himself for the other Guardians in the first movie's final act.
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'Avengers: Infinity War': Josh Brolin Has Seen 30 Minutes of the Film, Calls It Amazing
Avengers: Infinity War may still be a work-in-progress, but so far the film has a thumbs up from the Mad Titan. Josh Brolin plays Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. While speaking to Flickering Myth, Brolin couldn’t say much about the film, but he’s only seen a portion of it so far and he liked what he saw. “I’ve seen 30 minutes of Infinity War and thought it was amazing,” Brolin said.
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Netflix banned from competing at Cannes Film Festival
Netflix has been banned from competing in the Cannes Film Festival, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Theirry Fremaux, the head of Cannes, told THR last week the ban is because Netflix refuses to release its films in theaters, choosing instead to debut them on its streaming service and, in some rare cases, do day-and-date releases so the film can be seen both online and off.
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Fox Searchlight Signs Guillermo del Toro to Create New Horror/Sci-fi/Fantasy Label!
You ready for the best news you’ll hear all month? Fresh off his Best Director and Best Picture wins at the Oscars for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro is one of the most in-demand filmmakers in Hollywood, and his next big move has been made. Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced today that they’ve inked a deal that’ll see Del Toro create a new genre label for the company!
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John Cusack Is Skeptical of the ‘High Fidelity’ TV Remake: ‘It’ll Suck’ If Nick Hornby Isn’t Involved
As you may have noticed over the last decade or so, reboots and remakes are all the rage these days. Though often complained about by audiences, many of them do quite well — hence why Hollywood keeps churning them out. Following the news that “High Fidelity” is set to be adapted as a TV series, John Cusack chimed in on the new project, saying “it’ll suck” if original author Nick Hornby isn’t involved.
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Ignorance in A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg frequently views the future as an end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. It never collapses into apocalypse – the Earths transcends its limitations, or transforms into a new state of sustainability. Think of the blissful coda of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which aliens flying away into the infinite cosmos isn’t a depiction of terror, but a comfortable acknowledgement of the unknown. Or ponder Jurassic Park’s ending: sublimely letting go of science’s bombardment against ethics.
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'A Quiet Place' dominates, 'Blockers' surprises and 'Ready Player One' holds up at the box office
Paramount Pictures' dark thriller "A Quiet Place" debuted in first place with $50 million in domestic weekend ticket sales, crushing the most optimistic industry expectations of $25 million, according to figures from measurement firm ComScore. The PG-13 horror flick, directed by and starring John Krasinski ("The Office"), follows a family of four forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. It scored a B-plus from audience polling firm CinemaScore and a 97% positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
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NASA Scientists Think ‘Gravity’ Is the Worst, Most Inaccurate Space Movie Ever Made
“Gravity” earned critical acclaim, a slew of awards, and more than $700 million at the box office, which is to say that Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi drama was fairly successful. One subset of moviegoers wasn’t impressed, however: NASA scientists. In a BBC video in which the women helping us conquer the final frontier list the best and worst movies set in space, “Gravity” is repeatedly cited as the most inaccurate of them all.
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The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies
Our Hollywood Taxonomy series, which just turned 3 years old, is all about the pursuit of clarity through categorization — using box office data and critical reviews to sort through long, complicated filmographies. I’ve analyzed the careers of enormous figures in the entertainment industry, iconoclastic storytellers, revered actors, compelling comedians...
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Martin Scorsese slams Rotten Tomatoes and 'the devaluation of cinema' at TCM fest
Martin Scorsese criticized aggregator websites Rotten Tomatoes and CinemaScore — and railed against “the devaluation of cinema itself” — at the Turner Classic Movies film festival this weekend. In his acceptance speech for the inaugural Robert Osborne Award at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Thursday evening, Scorsese said that the review aggregators lead films to be “instantly judged and dismissed” before audiences can see them and judge for themselves.
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Avengers: Infinity War went over budget, cost Marvel up to $450,000 per day during production
With Avengers: Infinity War setting box office records left, right and centre – including the biggest opening of all time, and the fastest movie to gross $1 billion – the accountants at Disney and Marvel Studios must be breathing a sigh of relief, as directors Joe and Anthony Russo have revealed that the superhero epic went over budget, and was costing Marvel up to $450,000 per day.
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The Boundless Potential of Thor
Chris Hemsworth's character is more popular than ever, but Marvel has just scratched the surface with 'Ragnarok' and 'Avengers: Infinity War.'
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Here's Who Died Off Screen In 'Avengers: Infinity War'
Aw, snap! Thanos’ deadly finger snap at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War” caused a number of fan-favorite Marvel characters to crumble into ash before our very eyes. But given the conceit ― Thanos destroyed half the life in the universe with that single snap ― many were left wondering: What happened to everyone off screen?
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'Black Panther' Spends 13th Weekend in Top 10; Only 5th Film in 15 Years
Most films aren’t even still playing in theaters after 13 weekends — or if they are, they’re holding on for dear life. Disney’s Black Panther, however, still ranks in the box office top 10 after 13 weekends. The film and cultural phenomenon finished in 9th place this frame , with an estimated $1.9 million. The last five films to spend at least 13 weekends in the top 10 were...
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Why Captain Marvel Won’t Feel Like Marvel’s Other Origin Stories
Marvel producer Nate Moore recently opened up to CinemaBlend and explained how Captain Marvel will feel different from other MCU origin movies.
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