Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill is thanking The Mandalorian director Peyton Reed for an "unexpected opportunity." Reed was able to direct two episodes of season 2, including the season finale, which has gotten a lot of attention from Star Wars fans. Din Djarin was able to accomplish his mission, as Baby Grogu left with a Jedi to begin his training. It was a bittersweet moment for fans, who are now wondering if the duo will ever be reunited. … [Read more...] about Star Wars Legend Thanks The Mandalorian Finale Director for Unexpected Opportunity
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Avengers: Endgame Directors Probably Wouldn’t Have Done Cherry Without Tom Holland
For the Russos, working with Holland was familiar territory, after the three collaborated extensively for years in the MCU, right from Holland's debut as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War leading into Avengers: Endgame. For the filmmaking duo, the decade they put in working on Marvel movies is what allowed them to work on something like Cherry. … [Read more...] about Avengers: Endgame Directors Probably Wouldn’t Have Done Cherry Without Tom Holland
Mahesh Manjrekar Booked For Allegedly Slapping, Abusing A Man In An Incident Of Road Rage
According to reports, the complainant Kailash Satpute had dashed into Manjarekar's car from the back "mistakenly" while on the way to Solapur. Talking about the incident as described by the complainant, Inspector Bhausaheb Patil told Indian Express, "The incident took place on Friday night, on Pune Solapur highway. Near Yavat, Manjrekar's car was hit by complainant's car. The incident was followed by a heated argument between them. The complainant Satpute has claimed that he was slapped and abused by Manjrekar. We have registered a non-cognizable offence." … [Read more...] about Mahesh Manjrekar Booked For Allegedly Slapping, Abusing A Man In An Incident Of Road Rage
Jodie Foster Says ‘The Mauritanian’ Reflects The Residual Effects Of America’s Post-9/11 Transformation
I’m not sure if this is true of the real Nancy, but my Nancy in the movie, she’s wary, and she’s like, “A lot of my clients are guilty and I’m still going to defend them, but I’m going to dig for whatever’s under the woodwork.” She’s guarded in terms of her personal connections with her clients, because she knows she’s there for a very specific mission. But this case is a special case for her, the case she’ll never forget. And listen, I always say, even though I dress like her in the movie, and we look a little bit alike, the real Nancy is a lot nicer than my Nancy. No, way nicer [laughs]. … [Read more...] about Jodie Foster Says ‘The Mauritanian’ Reflects The Residual Effects Of America’s Post-9/11 Transformation
‘Soul’: Film Review | London 2020
Once again, in true Pixar style, the story is constructed in such a way as to offer both a jaunty adventure in which the hero has a time-sensitive goal that must be met and a parable about more intangible themes, like mortality, the purpose of life, loss, skill and what makes us what we are. There are explainers on YouTube in circulation that posit that all Pixar and Disney movies are part of one big narrative universe. But Soul seems less about filling out details in a fictional landscape than limning a kind of cartoon humanist non-denominational cosmology — a mix of Christianity and Buddhist notions filtered through C.S. Lewis' 1945 novel The Great Divorce and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), with a bit of What Dreams May Come (1998) psychedelic kitsch thrown in for good measure. … [Read more...] about ‘Soul’: Film Review | London 2020