The stand-up comic turned Silicon Valley star teams up with Judd Apatow to tell the charming story of how he met his wifeIf you?re a comic keen to express, in great detail, the many difficulties of your everyday life on screen, then congrats ? Hollywood wants to hear your story, even if a mass audience often doesn?t. The critical success of Louie has led to shows from Tig Nataro, Marc Maron, Pete Holmes, Cameron Esposito, Maria Bamford and Aziz Ansari, all riffing on versions of themselves with mixed, and sometimes under-seen, results. It?s become a strangely overpopulated sub-genre of late, and a feature-length film based on the early days of standup-turned-sitcom star Kumail Nanjiani arrives at a time when it feels as necessary as another superhero reboot. Related: Kumail Nanjiani: 'For a long time, there was one famous American brown actor' Continue reading...
Veteran director takes over after Lego Movie co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller fired two days ago after clashing with studio headsThe Da Vinci Code?s Ron Howard has replaced The Lego Movie?s Phil Lord and Chris Miller as director of the Han Solo spin-off movie, the much-anticipated new instalment of the Star Wars standalone series.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Howard joined the film two days after Lord and Miller were sensationally fired over ?creative differences? with the film?s producers Lucasfilm. Reports have suggested clashes with veteran scriptwriter Lawrence Kasdan were at least partly responsible. Continue reading...
Bullitt collides with Barry White in the British director?s most ambitious project to date. Wright and his stars Ansel Elgort, Jon Hamm and Lily James explain why this noisy heist is a Hollywood ?unicorn?
Edgar Wright is in remarkably, unfathomably good spirits. It?s day 23 of a high-pressure shoot for Baby Driver, the director?s latest and biggest film, and Wright is standing on a closed-off portion of a highway in Atlanta, overseeing a frenetic car chase on a scale that easily surpasses anything he?s made before.Wright is casually propped up against one of the many vehicles on the road, wearing a boater and looking like the postcard embodiment of an Englishman abroad. As he excitedly talks about the world he created on paper coming to life, Jamie Foxx walks past in a boilersuit. ?Everything is fun with Jamie Foxx around,? Wright says, beaming at his Oscar-winning star. ?We have Gladys Knight and the Pips playing, so we good,? Foxx replies, one earphone in. Continue reading...
Attitudes have changed since Anne Bancroft?s predatory seduction of hapless Dustin Hoffman, but this rereleased classic remains a hugely pleasurable experience If ever a movie captured the audience?s imagination with its musical soundtrack, it was The Graduate, that irresistibly watchable 1967 classic, now rereleased in cinemas, starring as Anne Bancroft as the sexy and jaded fortysomething Mrs Robinson, who seduces 21-year-old Ben, played by the young Dustin Hoffman ? that muddled young man whose sentimental education begins only after he graduates college. Simon and Garfunkel?s eerie and sublime The Sound of Silence perfectly captures both Ben?s alienation and bewilderment about what he should do with his life, and then his postcoital disenchantment and self-loathing. And Here?s to You Mrs Robinson, with its gentle reassurance that Jesus loves her, provides a note of final gentleness and forgiveness for this character that is really nowhere in the script. It is, incidentally, very different from Billy Paul?s woozily sensual soul song Me and Mrs Jones, which came out four years later. Continue reading...
Tonally it jerks from syrupy to shrill, filled with A-list actors working without conviction or connection. This is a film to be studied in What Not to Do classesIt had the star-wattage and the slick presentation, the money behind it, the talent on screen, the entire infrastructure of a major studio available to keep everything on course, and you have to wonder why The Book of Henry went so catastrophically wrong. Related: The Book of Henry review ? icky revenge weepie pours syrup over everything Continue reading...
Documentary honours film fans who laboured to restore setting for 1966 spaghetti western?s climactic sceneAfter more than 50 years, several fistfuls of euros and countless wheelbarrow journeys, one of the most famous graveyards in cinema history has been rescued from oblivion and is to be honoured in a new documentary.Sad Hill cemetery is the setting for the climax of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, when Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach face off against each other to the strains of Ennio Morricone. Continue reading...
One day the film-maker hopes to project movies on to the clouds. But for now he?s launching a drive-in unlike any otherGlastonbury is a lot of things: Britain?s biggest music festival, a hedonistic wonderland, a rally stop for Jeremy Corbyn. However, it?s unlikely anyone would think of it as a cineaste?s paradise.Ok, perhaps that?s a little unfair. The festival?s resident cinema, the Pilton Palais, celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, and has seen some notable premieres, most recently of Asif Kapadia?s Amy Winehouse doc. Film, however, has generally been relegated to a supporting role. Continue reading...
Actor seeks money over eight articles that defamed her in May 2015, including $5.89m in special damagesRebel Wilson?s ?extraordinarily large? special damages claim should be thrown out because she has failed to prove she suffered losses as a result of a series of defamatory magazine articles, a court has heard.Wilson is seeking $5.893m in special damages ? which would cover the loss of one film role ? and general damages of $1.2m, bringing total damages sought to an ?extremely conservative? $7.093m. Continue reading...
A study released by the Creative Artists Agency showed that, from 2014 to 2016, films with more diverse casts outperformed others at the box officeA new study by the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) says that films with more diverse casts perform better at the box office than less diverse ones, confirming what people and actors of color have been saying for years.The data, which studied 413 films released between January 2014 and December 2016, catalogued the ethnicity of the top 10 actors per film, noting that those with at least a 30% non-white cast have tended to financially outperform films that fail to reach that threshold. Continue reading...
Studio and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller part ways during production as directors say ?for once the cliche creative differences is true?The directors of the forthcoming Star Wars Han Solo spin-off have parted ways with the studio midway through the film?s production.Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had left the production due to ?different creative visions? for the film, which stars Alden Ehrenreich as a young version of beloved Star Wars character Han Solo. Continue reading...
The Stronger trailer has been released and it will make you do three things. 1) Remind you of how amazing Jake Gyllenhaal is. 2) Make you cry. 3) Give you reason to imitate a Boston accent.
Josh Hartnett has been doing a lot of TV and indie movies in recent years, but there was a time he was a Hollywood heartthrob and was landing a-list opportunities.
The world of the Cars movies is a bizarre one that looks remarkably like our own considering that it's only inhabited by sentient automobiles. It turns out that one way our worlds are similar is in its choice of superhero movies.
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