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Each look in “Cruella” is a reminder that fashion doesn’t retain just one meaning; it is a medium through which meaning is constantly in flux — an artistic portal in conversation with the past to reinvent the present.
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Cage spends too much time listening to exposition and waiting for the surprisingly listless plot to push him into the next weird occurrence.
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If your film is a commercial film, it has to reinvent its genre of choice, be constantly talked about by the press and audiences and/or have a hefty studio campaign budget standing behind it to even stand a chance at getting nominated. And then you’ll still lose to stuff such as “The Shape of Water.”
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Lockhart will be bringing the Boston Pops to the Hearst Greek Theatre on April 21 for a night of tribute to his famed predecessor.
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“Best Picture” is a massive concept that is not properly captured by the rules and logistics in place because it transcends them.
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Christopher Nolan may have received that coveted nomination, but the industry’s unwillingness to celebrate him remains to a significant degree.
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It’s the height of summer, but theaters around the Bay Area are currently resplendent in a wide variety of amazing pictures right now, from tentpole superhero movies to quiet, meditative micro-budget films
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We learn hardly any names — no backstories, no motivations. But war leaves little time for dialogue, and the wordless understanding between the soldiers, while one we may not be privy to, establishes a new way of telling war stories — one that focuses not on an “us vs. them” but on survival by any means.
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On the off-chance this short film I made with my friends in high school sounds cool, just know that it wasn’t.
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The No. 1-seeded contenders, “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Blade Runner,” rode their all-time classic force through to the final four.
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