We’re zapping into science fiction territory and back into “re-adaptation” conversations this month for Revenge of the Remakes. Don Siegel and Philip Kaufman bring vastly different approaches to their Invasion of the Body Snatchers films, uniformly citing Jack Finney’s 1954 novel “The Body Snatchers” as their source. Kaufman isn’t directly remaking Siegel’s film but acknowledges
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Roadside Attractions has released the trailer for Lee, its upcoming biographical drama, starring Kate Winslet. It’s based on American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on September 27. “Lee begins in the late 1930s, as Hitler amasses power in Germany. Miller (Winslet) leaves her world and her artistic circle
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Netflix has released the trailer for Geek Girl, its newest British coming-of-age comedy starring Emily Carey as Harriet Manners. The series is scheduled to make its debut on May 30. “Harriet Manners’ life is turned upside down when she’s thrust into the world of fashion. Tightly wound agents, off-beat designers, impossibly high heels, a cute supermodel with a great
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May the 4th is a big day for Star Wars, but it’s not the only movie worth celebrating. The day also marks the release of iconic writer/director John Hughes’ directorial debut, Sixteen Candles. Not only did the film kickstart his directing career, but it was also the first of many coming-age films he came to
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The Mystery Writers Association have announced their winners for the best mystery fiction and nonfiction. Books honored with the Edgar Award were published in the prior year. This is the 78th annual award. In addition to a slate of awards for the books themselves, several other honors are bestowed at the Edgar Awards presentation. R.
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Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation
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The Fall Guy is Universal Picture’s latest action-comedy flick starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Loosely based on the 1981 TV show of the same title, Gosling plays Colt Seavers, a stuntman for Hollywood action star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), while Blunt plays his girlfriend Jody Moreno, a camerawoman. One day, Colt gets hurt in
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Kendrick Lamar has dropped another Drake diss song, ‘6:16 in LA’. Arriving just days after the six-minute ‘Euphoria’, the Al Green-sampling-track is only available on Lamar’s Instagram, and it’s produced by Jack Antonoff and his Red Hearse bandmate Sounwave. Check it out below. “Are you finally ready to play Have You Ever? Let’s see/ Have
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Signature Entertainment dropped the trailer for the upcoming rom-com This Time Next Year, based on Sophie Cousens’ New York Times bestselling novel of the same name. It will arrive June 3, 2024.  “Flung together at a New Year’s Eve party, Minnie and Quinn quickly realize they share a connection — they were born on New Year’s Day of the same year,
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Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Brag is Coming From Inside the House Book Riot’s Kelly Jensen has spent the last few years becoming a leading name in book banning coverage, and we couldn’t be prouder to see her named as one
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In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on May 3, 2024: Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism has arrived. The Future Nostalgia follow-up was promoted with the singles ‘Houdini’, ‘Training Season’, and ‘Illusion’. “A couple years ago, a friend introduced me to the term Radical Optimism,”
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