Actor Wes Studi heard that director Michael Mann was putting together a little bank robbery picture called Heat. According to Wes Studi himself, he proactively called Michael Mann’s office to land the role of Detective Sammy Casals. His passion for the character and project led to his Last of the Mohicans director casting him again in another great role that allowed him to show off some range. This allowed Wes Studi to go beyond the “leather and feathers of period dramas” even though he excels in those too. He stole the show in Best Picture Dances with Wolves and his character didn’t even have a real name, the credits call him “Toughest Pawnee”. And he is probably the only actor who can get away with asking Daniel Day-Lewis to sign his autograph… with his left foot.
He has worked alongside some of the most talented artists in the...
He has worked alongside some of the most talented artists in the...
- 5/17/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
As random and arbitrary as Netflix's Top 10 can appear, it starts to become more predictable upon closer inspection. Like the media rental stores of ancient times (which were essentially the streaming services of their epoch), new Netflix originals inevitably rank high before dwindling off in the same way that Blockbusters would initially stock their shelves with roughly 10,000 copies of the latest tentpole. Along those same lines, viewers frequently play catchup right before a show returns by marathoning its previous season(s), which is how a cult Syfy comedy series like "Resident Alien" ends up charting seemingly out of the blue.
Then there are the under-the-radar titles that find their way onto Netflix only to be discovered anew by its users, much like a customer perusing the aisles of their local video rental shop and stumbling upon some previously ignored movie featuring one of their favorite actors. So it is...
Then there are the under-the-radar titles that find their way onto Netflix only to be discovered anew by its users, much like a customer perusing the aisles of their local video rental shop and stumbling upon some previously ignored movie featuring one of their favorite actors. So it is...
- 3/26/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Bodies is a British sci-fi murder-mystery series created by Paul Tomalin. Based on the DC Vertigo comic and graphic novel of the same name written by Si Spencer, and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, and Phil Winsdale. The Netflix series follows four different detectives in four different periods trying to solve the same murder in London. Bodies stars Stephen Graham, Amaka Okafor, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Kyle Soller, Tom Mothersdale, and Synnove Karlsen. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar shows you could watch next.
Altered Carbon (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Altered Carbon is a high-concept sci-fi series created by Laeta Kalogridis, but at the heart of the first season of this series is a murder mystery which should be interesting for the fans of Bodies. Based on a 2002 cyberpunk novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the Netflix series is set...
Altered Carbon (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Altered Carbon is a high-concept sci-fi series created by Laeta Kalogridis, but at the heart of the first season of this series is a murder mystery which should be interesting for the fans of Bodies. Based on a 2002 cyberpunk novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the Netflix series is set...
- 3/24/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
On Monday evening, Lily Gladstone expressed her gratitude for fans’ support following the 2024 Oscars.
“Feeling the love big time today, especially from Indian Country. Kittō”kuniikaakomimmō”po’waw – seriously, I love you all,” she posted on X (formerly known as Twitter). “(Better believe when I was leaving the Dolby Theater and walked passed the big Oscar statue I gave that golden booty a little Coup tap – Count: one).”
The Killers of the Flower Moon star, who was up for best actress, was believed to be a frontrunner for the Academy Award. However, it ended up going to Emma Stone for her role in Poor Things.
Feeling the love big time today, especially from Indian Country. Kittō”kuniikaakomimmō”po’waw – seriously, I love you all ❤️
(Better believe when I was leaving the Dolby Theater and walked passed the big Oscar statue I gave that golden booty a little Coup tap – Count:...
“Feeling the love big time today, especially from Indian Country. Kittō”kuniikaakomimmō”po’waw – seriously, I love you all,” she posted on X (formerly known as Twitter). “(Better believe when I was leaving the Dolby Theater and walked passed the big Oscar statue I gave that golden booty a little Coup tap – Count: one).”
The Killers of the Flower Moon star, who was up for best actress, was believed to be a frontrunner for the Academy Award. However, it ended up going to Emma Stone for her role in Poor Things.
Feeling the love big time today, especially from Indian Country. Kittō”kuniikaakomimmō”po’waw – seriously, I love you all ❤️
(Better believe when I was leaving the Dolby Theater and walked passed the big Oscar statue I gave that golden booty a little Coup tap – Count:...
- 3/12/2024
- by Tatiana Tenreyro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like LeVar Burton, Wes Studi, and many other actors before him, Bob Odenkirk turned to Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Finding Your Roots for help researching his past. The erstwhile star of Better Call Saul was born in Berwyn, Illinois, a working-class suburb of Chicago, but grew up in the much more affluent Naperville. Odenkirk confesses to Gates Jr. that he always felt out of place in what became his hometown. He was part of a large, Irish Catholic family, with a distant father and a mother who struggled to put enough food on the table, but would do anything for her seven kids.
- 1/30/2024
- by Danette Chavez
- Primetimer
Lily Gladstone was FaceTiming her parents when her best actress Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon was announced.
They were both up to watch the announcement, the actress, who portrays Mollie Burkhart in the Apple film, says.
“My mom had the camera flipped around, and she was filming the TV,” Gladstone recalls to The Hollywood Reporter. “And I told her, ‘No mom, I don’t want to learn from like watching it through your phone. I wanna learn on your and dad’s faces.’ Sure enough, I could barely hear my name through the phone, but their reaction told me that it was a nod.”
With her nomination, Gladstone became the first Native American acting nominee in Oscars history. While she may be the first, the actress is certain she won’t be the last and argues that the honor isn’t just for her — it belongs to several people.
They were both up to watch the announcement, the actress, who portrays Mollie Burkhart in the Apple film, says.
“My mom had the camera flipped around, and she was filming the TV,” Gladstone recalls to The Hollywood Reporter. “And I told her, ‘No mom, I don’t want to learn from like watching it through your phone. I wanna learn on your and dad’s faces.’ Sure enough, I could barely hear my name through the phone, but their reaction told me that it was a nod.”
With her nomination, Gladstone became the first Native American acting nominee in Oscars history. While she may be the first, the actress is certain she won’t be the last and argues that the honor isn’t just for her — it belongs to several people.
- 1/23/2024
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Get ready for an emotionally charged journey into the past as “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Season 10 Episode 3, titled “Fathers and Sons,” airs on PBS at 8:00 Pm this Tuesday, January 16, 2024. In this poignant episode, actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi, both of whom experienced growing up without their fathers, delve deep into the exploration of their family histories.
As the renowned Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides them through the intricacies of their genealogy, viewers can expect a profound exploration of the impact of absent fathers on the lives of Burton and Studi. The episode promises a captivating blend of personal narratives, genealogical discoveries, and the universal quest for understanding one’s roots.
For those seeking a touching and insightful exploration of family dynamics and the resilience of the human spirit, “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Episode 3 is a must-watch at 8:00 Pm. Tune...
As the renowned Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides them through the intricacies of their genealogy, viewers can expect a profound exploration of the impact of absent fathers on the lives of Burton and Studi. The episode promises a captivating blend of personal narratives, genealogical discoveries, and the universal quest for understanding one’s roots.
For those seeking a touching and insightful exploration of family dynamics and the resilience of the human spirit, “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Episode 3 is a must-watch at 8:00 Pm. Tune...
- 1/9/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Last month, we learned that five James Cameron movies would be receiving news 4K releases in the month of December: Titanic, The Abyss, Aliens, True Lies, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water. Titanic got its 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition 4K Uhd release on December 5th, while 4K digital releases for The Abyss, Aliens, True Lies, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water follows on December 12th. Next up, on December 19th, we’re getting special edition physical media releases of Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water. “Avatar will be released in a 4K Collector’s Edition, 3D Blu-ray bundle, and also as a Limited Edition Steelbook (exclusive to Best Buy), while Avatar: The Way of Water will have its own 4K Collector’s Edition.” In anticipation of those releases, we’ve gotten our hands on an Exclusive clip from the Avatar bonus features, and you can check...
- 12/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Daniel Fienberg’s Top 10
When we look back on television in 2023, it’s almost certain to stand out as a year of transition.
The cyclical conclusion of what we’ve come to know as Peak TV intersected with an unprecedented, production-halting strike by two key industry guilds wanting proper compensation and protections against whatever is coming next.
None of this meant there was a lack of new programming, mind you, but it led to unusually staggered release windows and more high-profile unscripted and international offerings than ever before. Plus, there was a run of series finales for some of the more acclaimed shows of the past decade, climaxing in that wild week in which Succession, Barry and Ted Lasso all ended.
It’s too soon to necessarily know what TV will look like in 2024 or 2025, but I’m confident the basic answer will be “different,” and not just because so...
When we look back on television in 2023, it’s almost certain to stand out as a year of transition.
The cyclical conclusion of what we’ve come to know as Peak TV intersected with an unprecedented, production-halting strike by two key industry guilds wanting proper compensation and protections against whatever is coming next.
None of this meant there was a lack of new programming, mind you, but it led to unusually staggered release windows and more high-profile unscripted and international offerings than ever before. Plus, there was a run of series finales for some of the more acclaimed shows of the past decade, climaxing in that wild week in which Succession, Barry and Ted Lasso all ended.
It’s too soon to necessarily know what TV will look like in 2024 or 2025, but I’m confident the basic answer will be “different,” and not just because so...
- 12/14/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg and Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the latest installment of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., 18 well-known personalities are accompanied by three non-celebrity guests, selected through a nationwide casting call. This season delves into their profound ancestral histories and unravels family mysteries, marking the tenth anniversary of the PBS series hosted by the esteemed scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The star-studded Season 10 features actors Valerie Bertinelli, Danielle Brooks, LeVar Burton, Michael Douglas, Lena Dunham, Brendan Fraser, Tracy Morgan, Ed O’Neill, Bob Odenkirk, Anthony Ramos, Wes Studi, and Jesse Williams, comedian Iliza Shlesinger, and musicians Ciara, Sammy Hagar, Alanis Morissette, and Dionne Warwick, along with journalist Sunny Hostin. Check out the trailer above for a look at what’s to come. PBS Guiding the exploration of extensive family trees and ancestral narratives alongside Dr. Gates are DNA expert CeCe Moore (chief genetic genealogist for Parabon Nanolabs and host of ABC’s The Genetic Detective) and genealogists Nick Sheedy,...
- 11/9/2023
- TV Insider
Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest Martin Scorsese film and as expected it’s brilliant. The revisionist western crime drama film is co-written by Eric Roth and it is based on a book of the same name by David Grann. The crime drama film revolves around a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s after oil was found on tribal land. Killers of the Flower Moon stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone. So, if you also loved Killers of the Flower Moon here are the 10 best similar movies you could watch next.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros.
Synopsis: The names ricochet through Western lore. Jesse James (Brad Pitt) was the most notorious outlaw of his time, wanted by the law in ten states yet celebrated as a Robin Hood in newspapers and dime novels.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros.
Synopsis: The names ricochet through Western lore. Jesse James (Brad Pitt) was the most notorious outlaw of his time, wanted by the law in ten states yet celebrated as a Robin Hood in newspapers and dime novels.
- 10/23/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
You may have noticed that there’s been a lot of talk about Lily Gladstone and her Indigenous heritage and what that fact will mean for her chances in the Academy Award Best Actress race as her epic feature “Killers of the Flower Moon” from director Martin Scorsese preps for liftoff in wide theatrical release this Friday (October 20). Gladstone is running a solid second place behind Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) in the Gold Derby combined Oscar odds for her much-praised performance as Osage Nation member Mollie Burkhart in the tragic fact-based saga.
Gladstone herself is of Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage and raised on a Blackfeet Nation reservation in Montana. One would presume this fact won’t work against the actress in 2024 as it might have in, say, 1954 or even ’74. And in fact it was only earlier this year that Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win Best Actress...
Gladstone herself is of Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage and raised on a Blackfeet Nation reservation in Montana. One would presume this fact won’t work against the actress in 2024 as it might have in, say, 1954 or even ’74. And in fact it was only earlier this year that Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win Best Actress...
- 10/17/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
This article contains spoilers for Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 10.
With the premiere of its final episode, FX’s Reservation Dogs has officially been sent off that good way. The season 3 finale, titled “Dig,” is filled with indelible moments that neatly wrap up three superb seasons and prepare the titular Rez Dogs for a glorious future to come.
Amid all that excitement, however, is one little in-joke that the less attentive viewer may have missed. As the town of Okern, Oklahoma gathers in the local church to pay their respects to departed Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman), several well-wishers assemble around the medicine man’s casket. One of those mourners is local constable/lighthorseman Big (Zahn McClarnon).
“Thank you for changing my life, brother,” a tearful Big says to Fixico before placing a hardcover book in his coffin.
Upon a closer inspection, the book is titled Man Moon. It also...
With the premiere of its final episode, FX’s Reservation Dogs has officially been sent off that good way. The season 3 finale, titled “Dig,” is filled with indelible moments that neatly wrap up three superb seasons and prepare the titular Rez Dogs for a glorious future to come.
Amid all that excitement, however, is one little in-joke that the less attentive viewer may have missed. As the town of Okern, Oklahoma gathers in the local church to pay their respects to departed Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman), several well-wishers assemble around the medicine man’s casket. One of those mourners is local constable/lighthorseman Big (Zahn McClarnon).
“Thank you for changing my life, brother,” a tearful Big says to Fixico before placing a hardcover book in his coffin.
Upon a closer inspection, the book is titled Man Moon. It also...
- 9/28/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 10.
Many television shows try to be about community. Hell, one series tried so hard that it violated Seo best practices to just go ahead and name itself Community. I would wager, however, that no TV program ever has better understood the concept of community, nor articulated what it means more effectively than FX’s Reservation Dogs.
The series, which just finished its three-season run on Hulu, began as a simple comedy following four Indigenous teens in their small reservation town of Okern, Oklahoma. Just as those teens – Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) – grew to realize that their world was much bigger than pilfered potato chips and petty rivalries, so too did Reservation Dogs grow.
Throughout its richly-realized third season, Reservation Dogs has carefully and empathetically communicated how little the youth sometimes realize that they need their elders.
Many television shows try to be about community. Hell, one series tried so hard that it violated Seo best practices to just go ahead and name itself Community. I would wager, however, that no TV program ever has better understood the concept of community, nor articulated what it means more effectively than FX’s Reservation Dogs.
The series, which just finished its three-season run on Hulu, began as a simple comedy following four Indigenous teens in their small reservation town of Okern, Oklahoma. Just as those teens – Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) – grew to realize that their world was much bigger than pilfered potato chips and petty rivalries, so too did Reservation Dogs grow.
Throughout its richly-realized third season, Reservation Dogs has carefully and empathetically communicated how little the youth sometimes realize that they need their elders.
- 9/28/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
My favorite scene in “Dig,” the series finale of FX’s Hulu series Reservation Dogs, finds Devery Jacobs’ Elora joining D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai’s Bear sitting by Old Man Fixico’s casket.
Bear is meditating on nothing less than the impermanence of life, which is also what Elora wants to discuss. Specifically, she has to tell Bear that she’s exiting their hometown, departing Okern and going to college. She knows, though, that Bear’s mother (Sarah Podemski’s Rita) has recently told him she’s taking a job in Oklahoma City. Everybody is leaving Bear, and Elora worries about how her friend will take the news.
The emotion is bursting out of Elora. She wants to explain, to apologize, to justify. Bear asks her to pause. She looks at him with concern. He looks down. Pondering. She’s wondering if Bear’s about to break down. We’re wondering if...
Bear is meditating on nothing less than the impermanence of life, which is also what Elora wants to discuss. Specifically, she has to tell Bear that she’s exiting their hometown, departing Okern and going to college. She knows, though, that Bear’s mother (Sarah Podemski’s Rita) has recently told him she’s taking a job in Oklahoma City. Everybody is leaving Bear, and Elora worries about how her friend will take the news.
The emotion is bursting out of Elora. She wants to explain, to apologize, to justify. Bear asks her to pause. She looks at him with concern. He looks down. Pondering. She’s wondering if Bear’s about to break down. We’re wondering if...
- 9/27/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This post contains spoilers for the series finale of Reservation Dogs, which we recapped here. The finale is now streaming on Hulu.
Why?
This seems to be the most pressing question for Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo. The Indigenous teen comedy just finished its third and final season, having only improved as it’s gone along. Everyone watching seems to think that this is one of the great shows they’ve ever seen, and this is one of the great final seasons. So why would Harjo want to end things now,...
Why?
This seems to be the most pressing question for Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo. The Indigenous teen comedy just finished its third and final season, having only improved as it’s gone along. Everyone watching seems to think that this is one of the great shows they’ve ever seen, and this is one of the great final seasons. So why would Harjo want to end things now,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: It’s all about connection in Season 2 of Disney+’s Launchpad.
The collection of live-action shorts is set to debut on September 29, and Deadline has an exclusive look at the posters for all six — Project Cc, The Ghost, The Roof, Beautiful, Fl, Black Belts and Maxine.
Three of the posters are above, and the remainder are below.
Launchpad Season 2 is a collection of live-action shorts from a new generation of dynamic filmmakers. This season showcases six writers, five directors and one writer-director from underrepresented backgrounds who were given the opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions.
Continuing the goal of Disney’s first season of Launchpad, which was to diversify the types of stories that are being told by giving access to those who historically have not had it, the second installment focuses on the theme of “connection.”
‘Beautiful, Fl,’ ‘ Black Belts’ & ‘Maxine’
Here are more details about...
The collection of live-action shorts is set to debut on September 29, and Deadline has an exclusive look at the posters for all six — Project Cc, The Ghost, The Roof, Beautiful, Fl, Black Belts and Maxine.
Three of the posters are above, and the remainder are below.
Launchpad Season 2 is a collection of live-action shorts from a new generation of dynamic filmmakers. This season showcases six writers, five directors and one writer-director from underrepresented backgrounds who were given the opportunity to share their perspectives and creative visions.
Continuing the goal of Disney’s first season of Launchpad, which was to diversify the types of stories that are being told by giving access to those who historically have not had it, the second installment focuses on the theme of “connection.”
‘Beautiful, Fl,’ ‘ Black Belts’ & ‘Maxine’
Here are more details about...
- 9/21/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
As is always the case with “Reservation Dogs,” Season 3’s sixth episode, “Frankfurter Sandwich,” is full of surprises.
The 30-minute installment begins with the uncles — Big (Zahn McClarnon), Brownie (Gary Farmer) and Bucky (Wes Studi) — on a rescue mission for Cheese (Lane Factor). By the end, all three grown men are sobbing, mourning their past mistakes and the friend they lost as the perfectly fine Cheese watches in confusion.
It’s an episode that emotionally keeps viewers on their toes. In other words, for director Blackhorse Lowe, it’s classic “Reservation Dogs.”
“It’s very much in character with what ‘Rez Dogs’ is, which is very much about community, home and letting go of your guilt and finding peace and forgiveness within yourself — but also just love for community itself,” Lowe said of the episode.
In the episode, the uncles take Cheese for a camping trip in an attempt to...
The 30-minute installment begins with the uncles — Big (Zahn McClarnon), Brownie (Gary Farmer) and Bucky (Wes Studi) — on a rescue mission for Cheese (Lane Factor). By the end, all three grown men are sobbing, mourning their past mistakes and the friend they lost as the perfectly fine Cheese watches in confusion.
It’s an episode that emotionally keeps viewers on their toes. In other words, for director Blackhorse Lowe, it’s classic “Reservation Dogs.”
“It’s very much in character with what ‘Rez Dogs’ is, which is very much about community, home and letting go of your guilt and finding peace and forgiveness within yourself — but also just love for community itself,” Lowe said of the episode.
In the episode, the uncles take Cheese for a camping trip in an attempt to...
- 9/1/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
This article contains spoilers for Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 6.
“We’re just men, you know. We don’t know everything. We make mistakes. We don’t know shit.”
Slowly but surely, television is moving back to its original state and what the streaming era should have always embraced: weekly releases. As streaming series like Ahsoka, Only Murders in the Building, and others have proven, the weekly release model is usually the way to go when it comes to maximizing the potential of episodic storytelling.
And yet, some TV experiences can benefit from a binge – or at least a back-to-back screening. The most recent and brilliant example is Reservation Dogs‘ profoundly perfect double feature of “House Made of Bongs” and “Frankfurter Sandwich.”
Those watching Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 5 “House Made of Bongs” on Aug. 23, 2023 had no reason to believe that it would merely the first part of a whole. This flashback...
“We’re just men, you know. We don’t know everything. We make mistakes. We don’t know shit.”
Slowly but surely, television is moving back to its original state and what the streaming era should have always embraced: weekly releases. As streaming series like Ahsoka, Only Murders in the Building, and others have proven, the weekly release model is usually the way to go when it comes to maximizing the potential of episodic storytelling.
And yet, some TV experiences can benefit from a binge – or at least a back-to-back screening. The most recent and brilliant example is Reservation Dogs‘ profoundly perfect double feature of “House Made of Bongs” and “Frankfurter Sandwich.”
Those watching Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 5 “House Made of Bongs” on Aug. 23, 2023 had no reason to believe that it would merely the first part of a whole. This flashback...
- 8/31/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Reservation Dogs Season 3, Episode 6, “Frankfurter Sandwich.”] Reservation Dogs‘ final season continues to impart some sage wisdom in the latest episode, “Frankfurter Sandwich,” as Cheese (Lane Factor) is whisked away by elders Big (Zahn McClarnon), Bucky (Wes Studi), and Uncle Brownie (Gary Farmer) for an educational fishing trip. As with past seasons, this Cheese-centric episode focuses on the youngest member of the titular friend group as he approaches a new challenge in his early life. The installment begins with Cheese fighting off zombies, which turns out to be a video game fantasy from his virtual reality headset. Denying visits from Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Elora (Devery Jacobs), Cheese’s “grandmother” Irene (Casey Camp-Horinek) calls on Big, Bucky, and Uncle Brownie to help get the teen out of the house. During their fishing trip, the men show Cheese ways to pass the time in nature and try to...
- 8/30/2023
- TV Insider
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “Frankfurter Sandwich,” now streaming on Hulu.
A fascinating thing happens in the first scene of “Frankfurter Sandwich.” As Cheese’s adoptive grandmother Irene encourages him to leave the house and spend time with Elora and the others, she calls him “Chebon.” This is the nickname that Maximus insisted on being called by during the events of “House Made of Bongs,” where we learned that he and Irene were part of the same friend group as teenagers. But it...
A fascinating thing happens in the first scene of “Frankfurter Sandwich.” As Cheese’s adoptive grandmother Irene encourages him to leave the house and spend time with Elora and the others, she calls him “Chebon.” This is the nickname that Maximus insisted on being called by during the events of “House Made of Bongs,” where we learned that he and Irene were part of the same friend group as teenagers. But it...
- 8/30/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Reservation Dogs Season 3, Episode 5, “House Made of Bongs.”] Reservation Dogs continues to explore new avenues in its final season, bringing viewers back in time to the 1970s with its latest episode, “House Made of Bongs.” Set in 1976, the episode shines a light on the friendship between Cheese’s (Lane Factor) “grandma” Irene (Quannah Chasinghorse), Bucky (Mato Wayuhi stepping in as a younger Wes Studi), Uncle Brownie (Nathan Alexis subbing for Gary Farmer), Elora’s (Devery Jacobs) grandma Mabel (Shelby Factor), and their pal Maximus (Isaac Arellanes), who was introduced as an elder in Season 3’s second episode, “Maximus” (in which Graham Greene portrayed the character). This twisty episode with a Dazed and Confused vibe offers some clarity regarding Maximus’ ultimate severing from the group after an acid trip goes wrong. Fresh out of school for the summer, Maximus is different from his friends in that he plans to spend the...
- 8/23/2023
- TV Insider
When Chris Eyre’s “Smoke Signals” won the audience prize in Sundance 25 years ago, the director thought the kudos would soon lead to a landslide of opportunities for Native talent. Amid a flourishing independent film scene, the road trip dramedy won acclaim and awards as the first feature written, directed and produced by Native filmmakers. But it took two decades, and a pivot to television, for Native voices to finally get a wider chance to be heard.
More than two decades later, Eyre is now an executive producer and director on AMC+’s Navajo noir series “Dark Winds,” based on the Tony Hillerman mystery novels. Longtime Hillerman fans Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin also serve as executive producers. “Dark Winds” premiered in 2022 as a wave of TV Westerns was proving massively popular, and yet, it’s very different from shows like “Yellowstone,” “Joe Pickett,” and “Justified” with its focus on a Native cast,...
More than two decades later, Eyre is now an executive producer and director on AMC+’s Navajo noir series “Dark Winds,” based on the Tony Hillerman mystery novels. Longtime Hillerman fans Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin also serve as executive producers. “Dark Winds” premiered in 2022 as a wave of TV Westerns was proving massively popular, and yet, it’s very different from shows like “Yellowstone,” “Joe Pickett,” and “Justified” with its focus on a Native cast,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Writer and creator Sterlin Harjo promised that the Season 3 finale of “Reservation Dogs” would serve as the perfect ending to the FX series on Hulu. It’s a bold claim in a culture that often sees fans ripping finales and their writers apart. But if the first few episodes of Season 3 are any indication, it’s more than likely our beloved Rez Dogs will get as close to perfect as possible.
From the first four episodes of the final season available for review, it’s clear the writers know exactly what the viewers want: Surreal spirits and quirky side characters guiding and challenging the young crew. Storytelling that manages to weave together the silly and absurd with some of the harsh realities Native populations have had to face over generations (the atrocities and aftermath of Indian boarding schools get called out on more than one occasion this season). And of course,...
From the first four episodes of the final season available for review, it’s clear the writers know exactly what the viewers want: Surreal spirits and quirky side characters guiding and challenging the young crew. Storytelling that manages to weave together the silly and absurd with some of the harsh realities Native populations have had to face over generations (the atrocities and aftermath of Indian boarding schools get called out on more than one occasion this season). And of course,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Priscilla Blossom
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The pandemic thriller Yesteryear has wrapped production and confirm they rounded out the cast with Jesse Garcia (Flamin Hot), Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner), Timothy V. Murphy (The Lone Ranger), Tiffany Chu (Ms. Purple), Yusuke Ogasawara (In Full Bloom), Crystal Echohawk (Founder of IllumiNative) and Chester Gregory (Hairspray).
Garcia and Gregory will portray truth seekers running a podcast called Revolutionary Radio next door to Alma as they dive into a world of conspiracy. Cassidy will portray Alma’s insightful colorful therapist. Murphy will play a strange man with whom Alma has a violent yet playful encounter. Chu will portray the sultry Olivia, who influences Alma to partake in Only Fans. Echo Hawk will portray Alma’s angelic mother through flashbacks in memory.
From writers and producers, Adam VillaSeñor and star Q’orianka Kilcher, Yesteryear follows Alma Deswood (Kilcher), a struggling, young Native American actress who psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic,...
Garcia and Gregory will portray truth seekers running a podcast called Revolutionary Radio next door to Alma as they dive into a world of conspiracy. Cassidy will portray Alma’s insightful colorful therapist. Murphy will play a strange man with whom Alma has a violent yet playful encounter. Chu will portray the sultry Olivia, who influences Alma to partake in Only Fans. Echo Hawk will portray Alma’s angelic mother through flashbacks in memory.
From writers and producers, Adam VillaSeñor and star Q’orianka Kilcher, Yesteryear follows Alma Deswood (Kilcher), a struggling, young Native American actress who psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
The official trailer for season three just makes it even more difficult to prepare to say goodbye to FX’s Reservation Dogs. There’s so much story left to tell, but hopefully, the third and final season will give our favorite characters the sendoff they deserve.
Returning to lead the cast in starring roles are Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai as Bear Smallhill, Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, and Lane Factor as Cheese. Created by executive producers Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, the final season of the half-hour comedy also features Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi, Kaniehtiio Horn, Sarah Podemski, and Tamara Podemski.
The ensemble also includes Graham Greene, Dallas Goldtooth, Jon Proudstar, Lily Gladstone, Richard Ray Whitman, Kirk Fox, Jana Schmieding, Lil Mike, and FunnyBone.
The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy will kick off season three with back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 exclusively on Hulu.
Reservation Dogs Season 3 Plot,...
Returning to lead the cast in starring roles are Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai as Bear Smallhill, Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, and Lane Factor as Cheese. Created by executive producers Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, the final season of the half-hour comedy also features Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi, Kaniehtiio Horn, Sarah Podemski, and Tamara Podemski.
The ensemble also includes Graham Greene, Dallas Goldtooth, Jon Proudstar, Lily Gladstone, Richard Ray Whitman, Kirk Fox, Jana Schmieding, Lil Mike, and FunnyBone.
The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy will kick off season three with back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 exclusively on Hulu.
Reservation Dogs Season 3 Plot,...
- 7/6/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The Rez Dogs return home for a final confrontation of the soul. FX released the official Reservation Dogs Season 3 trailer on Thursday, teasing the last season of the hit show created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series focuses on Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs), Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Cheese (Lane Factor), four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma looking for purpose and opportunity in a world that’s often against them.
After spending two seasons gathering funds to travel to California in honor of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer), the crew accomplished their mission but needed clarification about their next steps. In the Reservation Dogs Season 3, the foursome returns home. Well, except for Bear, who breaks from the group to embark on a soul-searching journey alongside the spirit of a long-passed warrior (Dallas Goldtooth) and a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene). Meanwhile, Elora...
After spending two seasons gathering funds to travel to California in honor of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer), the crew accomplished their mission but needed clarification about their next steps. In the Reservation Dogs Season 3, the foursome returns home. Well, except for Bear, who breaks from the group to embark on a soul-searching journey alongside the spirit of a long-passed warrior (Dallas Goldtooth) and a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene). Meanwhile, Elora...
- 7/6/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Road trips, bathroom wisdom, revenge, healing and… Bigfoot?! The final season of Reservation Dogs promises all of that and more.
When Season 3 returns Wednesday, Aug. 2 on Hulu, the Rez Dogs find themselves stranded in Cali and have to figure out their way back home. “After making it back to Okern, Elora (Devery Jacobs) considers the idea of college, Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) comes across a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) grows more invested in healing her community and Cheese (Lane Factor), well, he still lives with his grandmother who’s not his grandmother,” reads the official description.
When Season 3 returns Wednesday, Aug. 2 on Hulu, the Rez Dogs find themselves stranded in Cali and have to figure out their way back home. “After making it back to Okern, Elora (Devery Jacobs) considers the idea of college, Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) comes across a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) grows more invested in healing her community and Cheese (Lane Factor), well, he still lives with his grandmother who’s not his grandmother,” reads the official description.
- 7/6/2023
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
FX has released its first look at the final season of “Reservation Dogs.” Season 3’s trailer may mark the end of an era for Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s dry comedy, but based on the video, this last season also marks the start of something new for its central characters.
Since its premiere in 2021, “Reservation Dogs” has always been about the liminal space between childhood and adulthood. The series started with Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) forgoing his friends’ plan to ditch the reservation after his persistent Spirit (Dallas Goldtooth) persuaded him to improve his home rather than abandon it. This first trailer hints that the ending of that personal growth is right around the corner.
“The path to healing is often found in opportunities to help others,” Spirit cryptically tells Bear.
Last season ended with these friends stranded in California. Season 3 will pick up as they figure out a way back home.
Since its premiere in 2021, “Reservation Dogs” has always been about the liminal space between childhood and adulthood. The series started with Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) forgoing his friends’ plan to ditch the reservation after his persistent Spirit (Dallas Goldtooth) persuaded him to improve his home rather than abandon it. This first trailer hints that the ending of that personal growth is right around the corner.
“The path to healing is often found in opportunities to help others,” Spirit cryptically tells Bear.
Last season ended with these friends stranded in California. Season 3 will pick up as they figure out a way back home.
- 7/6/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
The Rez Dogs are heading back home for their final hurrah. FX has released the official trailer for the third and final season of “Reservation Dogs,” the acclaimed FX on Hulu dramedy series.
Created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, with Harjo serving as the series showrunner, “Reservation Dogs” focuses on four teenagers — Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) — who were born and raised in a small Indigenous reservation in Oklahoma. The first two seasons of the show focused on the group’s quest to raise money to travel to California, a long-time dream of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer). The Season 2 finale saw the crew finally succeed in their goal, making it to the beaches of Los Angeles and saying an emotional goodbye to Daniel.
Their move proves to be temporary, however, as the trailer for Season 3 opens with the foursome traveling back home.
Created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, with Harjo serving as the series showrunner, “Reservation Dogs” focuses on four teenagers — Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) — who were born and raised in a small Indigenous reservation in Oklahoma. The first two seasons of the show focused on the group’s quest to raise money to travel to California, a long-time dream of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer). The Season 2 finale saw the crew finally succeed in their goal, making it to the beaches of Los Angeles and saying an emotional goodbye to Daniel.
Their move proves to be temporary, however, as the trailer for Season 3 opens with the foursome traveling back home.
- 7/6/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
"If you're gonna fish, don't do it alone." Blue Fox Ent. has revealed an official trailer for an indie film titled Mending the Line, directed by Joshua Caldwell. This premiered at a few festivals in 2022, and is opening this summer. Mending the Line is a story about finding something to make living worthwhile. John Cotler, a wounded veteran, returns home still carrying the demons of war, hauntingly disturbed by the everyday expectations of friendships and love interests. In Livingston, Montana, he meets Ike, a surly, headstrong fly-fisherman more than twice his age, and Lucy, a talented photographer turned librarian who reads aloud to veterans, both struggling in their own way. Colter wants only to re-enlist, to have something to die for. But the real challenge is finding something to live for. Brian Cox stars with Sinqua Walls, Perry Mattfeld, Chris Galust, Patricia Heaton, & Wes Studi. This looks better than it sounds,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired North America rights to the indie drama Mending the Line, starring Golden Globe winner Brian Cox (Succession) and Sinqua Walls (White Men Can’t Jump), slating it for release in theaters nationwide on June 9th.
The story follows Colter (Walls), a marine who has just returned home after being wounded in Afghanistan on his last patrol. His doctor (Patricia Heaton) at the Va hospital introduces him to a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) who has been treated at the facility for decades and teaches him to fly fish, hoping it will help the young man deal with his physical and emotional trauma.
Mending the Line opened the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival and later played the San Diego Film Festival, where it won the Valor Award, given to a military-themed film that conveys the impact of war while unfolding the emotional layers and the human condition of fighting a war.
The story follows Colter (Walls), a marine who has just returned home after being wounded in Afghanistan on his last patrol. His doctor (Patricia Heaton) at the Va hospital introduces him to a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) who has been treated at the facility for decades and teaches him to fly fish, hoping it will help the young man deal with his physical and emotional trauma.
Mending the Line opened the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival and later played the San Diego Film Festival, where it won the Valor Award, given to a military-themed film that conveys the impact of war while unfolding the emotional layers and the human condition of fighting a war.
- 5/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Almost 30 years after the original, Heat 2 is in the works from writer-director Michael Mann, with Adam Driver in talks to star as Neil McCauley.
As Deadline reports, Warner Bros. — which distributed the original Heat — is in negotiations to develop Heat 2 based on the novel of the same name Mann published last year (order here). The book, co-authored by Meg Gardiner, is both a prequel and sequel of sorts to the original story, offering storylines involving Heat characters that occur before and after the events of the original film. Driver will play a young McCauley (first portrayed by Robert De Niro), meaning his casting relates to the prequel aspect of the story.
No other actors have been officially linked to Heat 2, but its dual storylines open the door to several more names. While De Niro originally portrayed the career criminal McCauley, Al Pacino played Lieutenant Vincent Hanna, the LAPD cop who...
As Deadline reports, Warner Bros. — which distributed the original Heat — is in negotiations to develop Heat 2 based on the novel of the same name Mann published last year (order here). The book, co-authored by Meg Gardiner, is both a prequel and sequel of sorts to the original story, offering storylines involving Heat characters that occur before and after the events of the original film. Driver will play a young McCauley (first portrayed by Robert De Niro), meaning his casting relates to the prequel aspect of the story.
No other actors have been officially linked to Heat 2, but its dual storylines open the door to several more names. While De Niro originally portrayed the career criminal McCauley, Al Pacino played Lieutenant Vincent Hanna, the LAPD cop who...
- 4/4/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Film News
Exclusive: Annette Bening has been tapped to narrate the documentary War Unfolding from Sypher Studios, with Eliza Bennett, Rachel Bloom, Gary Cole, Abigail Cowen, Laura Dern, Monique Edwards, Michael C. Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Paul Walter Hauser, Thurn Hoffman, Richard T. Jones, Jay Lee, Erick Lopez, Sandra Seacat, Wes Studi and DeWanda Wise among those set to appear in the film from director John B. Benitz.
Based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the film tells the story of Carroll, who travels the world to seek out the greatest war letters ever written. Over the past 25 years, he has preserved more than 200,000 correspondences from troops, veterans and their families, dating from the American Revolution to the present day. The letters, performed in filmed readings by War Unfolding’s cast, capture unvarnished stories and...
Based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the film tells the story of Carroll, who travels the world to seek out the greatest war letters ever written. Over the past 25 years, he has preserved more than 200,000 correspondences from troops, veterans and their families, dating from the American Revolution to the present day. The letters, performed in filmed readings by War Unfolding’s cast, capture unvarnished stories and...
- 3/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Q’orianka Kilcher, best known for her work on “Yellowstone” and 2018’s “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” has been cleared of all felony insurance fraud charges stemming from a disability benefits case.
A Los Angeles judge threw out the case, which saw Kilcher charged with two counts of workers compensation fraud related to allegations of her collecting more than 96,000 in disability benefits while continuing to work.
“Today, I am beyond grateful that my case has been dismissed – tomorrow my journey begins to help raise awareness and demand more transparency for worker’s rights within the workers comp system,” Kilcher said in a statement. “I want to thank my attorneys, Camille Vasquez and Steve Cook, for their steadfast belief in my innocence – without their advocacy, we would not be here today. Finally, I want to thank my family, friends, fans, and fellow industry peers whose support has kept me going.
A Los Angeles judge threw out the case, which saw Kilcher charged with two counts of workers compensation fraud related to allegations of her collecting more than 96,000 in disability benefits while continuing to work.
“Today, I am beyond grateful that my case has been dismissed – tomorrow my journey begins to help raise awareness and demand more transparency for worker’s rights within the workers comp system,” Kilcher said in a statement. “I want to thank my attorneys, Camille Vasquez and Steve Cook, for their steadfast belief in my innocence – without their advocacy, we would not be here today. Finally, I want to thank my family, friends, fans, and fellow industry peers whose support has kept me going.
- 2/10/2023
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
With Oscar nomination voting beginning on Jan. 12, it’s not hard to figure out who the favorites are in most categories. (Here’s one rundown.) But for voters who want to look beyond the obvious picks — which should really mean all voters — TheWrap’s awards team would like to suggest a handful of our favorites that deserve a look before casting your ballots.
There are plenty of other deserving candidates out there, too, but here are 14 of our picks.
Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” (Searchlight Pictures)
As a widowed teacher seeking fulfillment of a different sort in her retirement years, Thompson deflects any possibility of cliché with her inimitable dexterity as she gives a performance for the ages—supple and moving, easily stacked up next to her many acclaimed roles of the last 30 years. Just because she’s one of the...
There are plenty of other deserving candidates out there, too, but here are 14 of our picks.
Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” (Searchlight Pictures)
As a widowed teacher seeking fulfillment of a different sort in her retirement years, Thompson deflects any possibility of cliché with her inimitable dexterity as she gives a performance for the ages—supple and moving, easily stacked up next to her many acclaimed roles of the last 30 years. Just because she’s one of the...
- 1/9/2023
- by TheWrap Staff
- The Wrap
It’s 1830 on the snowy New York campus of the United States Military Academy and a young cadet has been found hanged. The coroner and others will eventually discover that the man’s heart has been stolen from his chest and a portion of a note, yet to be deciphered, has been hidden away, clutched in the dead man’s hardened grip. Not to worry: Christian Bale is on the case. The Pale Blue Eye stars Bale as Detective Augustus Landor, the kind of guy whose reputation (a dead wife,...
- 1/6/2023
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
With Il Buco, Michelangelo Frammartino returns to the Calabrian countryside 12 years after Le Quattro Volte. Oscillating between a shepherd slowly dying and a nearby cave-diving expedition, Frammartino and cinematographer Renata Berta capture the movement inside their static frames with elegance. A soccer ball is kicked back and forth over the cave entrance, upping the stakes of an errant kick, burning magazine pages float down into the darkness illuminating the cave depths for the explorers and the audience—Il Buco is an experiential ode to death as the final frontier. – Caleb H.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Contemporary Japan
A new series focusing on recent(ish) Japanese cinema features exclusive streaming homes for films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda,...
Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
With Il Buco, Michelangelo Frammartino returns to the Calabrian countryside 12 years after Le Quattro Volte. Oscillating between a shepherd slowly dying and a nearby cave-diving expedition, Frammartino and cinematographer Renata Berta capture the movement inside their static frames with elegance. A soccer ball is kicked back and forth over the cave entrance, upping the stakes of an errant kick, burning magazine pages float down into the darkness illuminating the cave depths for the explorers and the audience—Il Buco is an experiential ode to death as the final frontier. – Caleb H.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Contemporary Japan
A new series focusing on recent(ish) Japanese cinema features exclusive streaming homes for films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
13 years after “Avatar” first premiered, “Avatar: The Way of Water” is finally here.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” — the second film in James Cameron’s planned series of five “Avatar” movies — finds Jake Sully, Neytiri and their family fully integrated into the universe of the Na’vi. With Pandora under siege of the American military, the family must adapt to a new home as they leave their community for its protection.
If you need a refresher on how we found Jake as a member of the Na’vi in the first place, here’s where to the first “Avatar.”
Where is “Avatar” streaming?
You can stream “Avatar” for free on Disney+ or rent it for 3.99 on Prime Video, YouTube, Apple TV, Google Play, Redbox or Vudu. It is, of course, also available to purchase on 4K Digital or Blu-ray for pristine quality, although the Disney+ version is 4K and looks pretty stunning.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” — the second film in James Cameron’s planned series of five “Avatar” movies — finds Jake Sully, Neytiri and their family fully integrated into the universe of the Na’vi. With Pandora under siege of the American military, the family must adapt to a new home as they leave their community for its protection.
If you need a refresher on how we found Jake as a member of the Na’vi in the first place, here’s where to the first “Avatar.”
Where is “Avatar” streaming?
You can stream “Avatar” for free on Disney+ or rent it for 3.99 on Prime Video, YouTube, Apple TV, Google Play, Redbox or Vudu. It is, of course, also available to purchase on 4K Digital or Blu-ray for pristine quality, although the Disney+ version is 4K and looks pretty stunning.
- 12/16/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
AARP is out with the nominees for its 21st annual Movies for Grownups Awards for the best films, TV and filmmakers of 2022. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans leads with the way with six noms, followed by fellow awards-season favorites Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Woman King are next with five each, and Tár and She Said with four apiece.
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All of those pics except She Said also will vie for Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups along with Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick and Women Talking. Spielberg also is up for Best Director alongside James Cameron...
Related Story 2022-23 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For The Oscars, Golden Globes, Guilds & More Related Story 'Everything Everywhere', 'Fabelmans', 'Babylon' Lead Critics Choice Award Nominees For Film Related Story 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Star Stephanie Hsu Relishes Success That Came "By Following People That I Love Working With"
All of those pics except She Said also will vie for Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups along with Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick and Women Talking. Spielberg also is up for Best Director alongside James Cameron...
- 12/15/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” led all films in nominations for AARP The Magazine’s annual Movies for Grownups Awards, which were announced on Thursday morning.
The semi-autobiographical film based on Spielberg’s childhood received six nominations, one more than “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Woman King,” which received five.
Those three films are competing in the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category alongside “Elvis,” “Tár,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Women Talking.”
Acting nominees included Cate Blanchett for “Tár,” Emma Thompson for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Tom Cruise for “Top Gun: Maverick,” Brendan Fraser for “The Whale” and Bill Nighy for “Living.”
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The semi-autobiographical film based on Spielberg’s childhood received six nominations, one more than “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Woman King,” which received five.
Those three films are competing in the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category alongside “Elvis,” “Tár,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Women Talking.”
Acting nominees included Cate Blanchett for “Tár,” Emma Thompson for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Tom Cruise for “Top Gun: Maverick,” Brendan Fraser for “The Whale” and Bill Nighy for “Living.”
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- 12/15/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that might bring to light some emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp, and we’re highlighting the handful of 2022 debuts that most impressed us.
Below one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres, and many are available to stream here. In years to come, take note as these helmers (hopefully) ascend.
The African Desperate (Martine Syms)
One of the most exciting directorial debuts of the year, Martine Syms’ The African Desperate is an electrifying ride through a day in the life of Palace Bryant (Diamond Stingily). An Mfa grad on her final day of academia, she navigates...
Below one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres, and many are available to stream here. In years to come, take note as these helmers (hopefully) ascend.
The African Desperate (Martine Syms)
One of the most exciting directorial debuts of the year, Martine Syms’ The African Desperate is an electrifying ride through a day in the life of Palace Bryant (Diamond Stingily). An Mfa grad on her final day of academia, she navigates...
- 12/8/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Dale Dickey’s first ever lead role is as a careworn woman waiting for a missed connection in a Colorado campsite
Veteran American character actor Dale Dickey gets the first lead role of her screen career in this tender emotional vignette: it is as sad as a country song. She plays Faye, a middle-aged woman on her own who is camping on a dusty site by a lake in the Colorado mountains. Faye is evidently waiting for a letter: the postman keeps showing up and telling her there’s nothing for her. But she won’t move until she gets this important message from a certain someone from her past who wants to meet up.
Faye conveys this to a group of people who, in a quirky-deadpan way, wonder if she wouldn’t mind moving her trailer so that they can dig up a dead relative and re-bury him somewhere else.
Veteran American character actor Dale Dickey gets the first lead role of her screen career in this tender emotional vignette: it is as sad as a country song. She plays Faye, a middle-aged woman on her own who is camping on a dusty site by a lake in the Colorado mountains. Faye is evidently waiting for a letter: the postman keeps showing up and telling her there’s nothing for her. But she won’t move until she gets this important message from a certain someone from her past who wants to meet up.
Faye conveys this to a group of people who, in a quirky-deadpan way, wonder if she wouldn’t mind moving her trailer so that they can dig up a dead relative and re-bury him somewhere else.
- 12/7/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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Jon Frosch Here we go again! One thing I’ve come to appreciate about the epic slog known as Awards Season is the opportunity to champion — and occasionally straight-up bully people into watching — things that are not “in the conversation.”
So many performances seem almost algorithmically rigged to seduce the Academy (hammy, hair/makeup/accent-heavy portrayals of real people, like Jessica Chastain’s Oscar-winning take on Tammy Faye Messner last year). Consequently, the months leading up to the Academy Awards can feel like a trudge toward the inevitable. It’s frustrating to see less showy, more interesting turns languish in remote corners of the streaming world or specialty market.
That’s where we come in! Not to glorify critics, who have their own blind spots and biases and, as anyone who’s spent time on Film Twitter knows, can be downright insufferable. But...
Jon Frosch Here we go again! One thing I’ve come to appreciate about the epic slog known as Awards Season is the opportunity to champion — and occasionally straight-up bully people into watching — things that are not “in the conversation.”
So many performances seem almost algorithmically rigged to seduce the Academy (hammy, hair/makeup/accent-heavy portrayals of real people, like Jessica Chastain’s Oscar-winning take on Tammy Faye Messner last year). Consequently, the months leading up to the Academy Awards can feel like a trudge toward the inevitable. It’s frustrating to see less showy, more interesting turns languish in remote corners of the streaming world or specialty market.
That’s where we come in! Not to glorify critics, who have their own blind spots and biases and, as anyone who’s spent time on Film Twitter knows, can be downright insufferable. But...
- 12/6/2022
- by Jon Frosch, David Rooney and Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Who would have expected that Derek Zoolander himself would end up becoming one of today's most prominent dramatic storytellers? In recent years, Ben Stiller has set his comedic aspirations aside for an emphasis on prestige television. He directed the entirety of the riveting prison break miniseries "Escape at Dannemora" and the psychological thriller "Severance." If you've been paying attention, it's been clear that Stiller is a creative storyteller who knows how to surprise an audience. It's only a surprise to see the new direction in his career because he's always been making us laugh so much.
In the late 1990s, a group of comic actors known as the "Frat Pack" began to dominate mainstream comedy. While the careers of Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Steve Carrell, Jack Black, and Paul Rudd were fairly consistent, Stiller managed to mix in a variety of independent projects alongside mainstream studio films. Although...
In the late 1990s, a group of comic actors known as the "Frat Pack" began to dominate mainstream comedy. While the careers of Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Steve Carrell, Jack Black, and Paul Rudd were fairly consistent, Stiller managed to mix in a variety of independent projects alongside mainstream studio films. Although...
- 11/21/2022
- by Liam Gaughan
- Slash Film
It's been a while since Hollywood's star factory cranked out a genuine, organic sensation quite like Timothée Chalamet. He's the rare marquee name who can command attention off the screen with his vivacious personality as well as hold it on-screen with his acting talents. It's possible to point to previous celebrities and thespians he recalls, but what's most remarkable about the rise of Timothée Chalamet is that he feels like something entirely new and unexpected to behold. He's at the forefront of a new generation of leading men who are out to deconstruct and demolish traditional ideas of what on-screen masculinity can and should be.
In under a decade since his big-screen debut, he's already forged a formidable path through the industry that is breaking new ground for those to follow behind him. Though he charged onto the scene for most with 2017's "Call Me by Your Name," the role...
In under a decade since his big-screen debut, he's already forged a formidable path through the industry that is breaking new ground for those to follow behind him. Though he charged onto the scene for most with 2017's "Call Me by Your Name," the role...
- 11/20/2022
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slash Film
Jason Momoa has been acting since 1999 when he first donned those iconic red swim trunks on TV’s Baywatch: Hawaii as a beardless 19-year-old. It took a lot of roles before the Hawaiian-born Aquaman actor got his big break as Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones. While he’s often typecast as something of a brute, the actor best known for maiming folks with his sword is ready for his comedic debut in Netflix’s fantastical family-friendly film, Slumberland.
So it’s the perfect time to look back at a TV and movie career that’s benefited just as much from Momoa’s offscreen charm as it has from his considerable time in the gym. Momoa’s most admirable use of his fame just might be the way he uplifts and inspires indigenous communities across the world. Momoa gives viewers an awful lot to love about his characters, even when...
So it’s the perfect time to look back at a TV and movie career that’s benefited just as much from Momoa’s offscreen charm as it has from his considerable time in the gym. Momoa’s most admirable use of his fame just might be the way he uplifts and inspires indigenous communities across the world. Momoa gives viewers an awful lot to love about his characters, even when...
- 11/19/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Sony Pictures has debuted a new trailer for its upcoming feature ‘A Love Song.’
Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveller biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito (Wes Studi), a figure from her past who is navigating his own tentative and nomadic journey across the rugged West. Like the country music that has traditionally channelled the heartbreak and resilience of Americans in search of themselves and others — on the road, in the margins, and off the beaten path— writer-director Max Walker-Silverman weaves a spare, lyrical and ultimately joyful refrain out of the wondrous and transformative act of being alone.
Also in trailers – Teaser trailer drops for series ‘A Town Called Malice’
The film hits cinemas on December 9th.
The post “So, just getting away from things…?” Sound Trailer drops for ‘A Love Song’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveller biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito (Wes Studi), a figure from her past who is navigating his own tentative and nomadic journey across the rugged West. Like the country music that has traditionally channelled the heartbreak and resilience of Americans in search of themselves and others — on the road, in the margins, and off the beaten path— writer-director Max Walker-Silverman weaves a spare, lyrical and ultimately joyful refrain out of the wondrous and transformative act of being alone.
Also in trailers – Teaser trailer drops for series ‘A Town Called Malice’
The film hits cinemas on December 9th.
The post “So, just getting away from things…?” Sound Trailer drops for ‘A Love Song’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 11/17/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Uplifting drama about recovering war veterans partnered with US Marine Corps Entertainment Media Liaison Office, US Department of Defense.
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Uplifting drama about recovering war veterans partnered with US Marine Corps Entertainment Media Liaison Office, US Department of Defense.
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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