Monday, Jun. 26, 2023

The theatrical requirements for movies vying for the Oscars top prize are getting a little tougher.

Starting with the 97th Academy Awards in 2025, best picture hopefuls will have to spend more time in theaters to qualify for film's top prize. The changes, announced by the Academy of...

Thursday, Jun. 22, 2023

A powerful, shapeshifting teenage girl and a disgraced knight-in-training suspected of killing a beloved queen are at the heart of " Nimona," a vibrant and irreverent animated adventure set in a futuristic fantasy kingdom.

It is a familiar story — a society governed by ancient rules and a...

Friday, Apr. 14, 2023

While he’s adamant that nothing beats the in-theater movie experience, director Steven K. Tsuchida also embraces what he deems a substantive silver lining in streaming cinema as his second Netflix feature, A Tourists’ Guide To Love, is scheduled to break next week (4/21). “On day one...

Friday, Apr. 7, 2023

Bojan Bazelli, ASC has a wide range of lensing experience spanning features, TV, commercials and music videos. But other than Mr. and Mrs. Smith all the way back in 2005, a genre that’s since eluded him over the years has been the romantic action comedy. So when director Jeremy Garelick...

Thursday, Apr. 6, 2023

Lewis Capaldi's first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy nomination for the singer-songwriter. Besting that with his sophomore album was daunting enough, but then he agreed to allow a Netflix documentary crew to follow him. Capaldi says, with...

Tuesday, Apr. 4, 2023

In these days of rage — from hate-tweeting threads to public confrontations — one thing is pretty clear: "Beef" is on the menu.

Served up by Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, the new television show created by Lee Sung Jin drops Thursday on Netflix. The 10-episode "Beef" follows an epic feud...

Friday, Mar. 31, 2023

You would have a hard time defending the limp plotting, the bland action-adventure set pieces or the Agatha Christie-light whodunit twists of the first "Murder Mystery." And, yet, it was kind of good.

"Murder Mystery," one of Netflix's most-streamed films, was chock full of exotic...

Sunday, Mar. 5, 2023

A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful stand-up special, streamed live on Netflix, in which the comedian bragged that he "took that hit like Pacquiao."

The 58-year-old comedian on Saturday night performed his...

Friday, Feb. 10, 2023

Among the prime challenges posed by All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix) to make-up and hair designer/SFX designer Heike Merker were:

  • Doing justice to an ambitious period piece that takes us back to World War I.
  • Capturing the authentic look and feel of war’s
  • ...
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023

Pamela Anderson was always a bit of an open book in interviews. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she didn't have to talk about everything. She didn't know that she could draw her own line in the sand if a question made her feel uncomfortable....

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