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‘Jumbo’ Review: Girl Meets Tilt-A-Whirl In This Uneven Bundle Of Quirks [Sundance 2020] Love is confusing inJumbo, a messy film that wants to have its funnel cake and eat it too. Set mostly at an amusement park,Jumbofollows the awkward and shyJeanne(Portrait of a Lady on Fire’s Noémie Merlant) who has no social skills to speak of, much to the chagrin of her constantly loud, constantly horny mother Margarette (Emmanuelle Bercot). Margarette would like nothing more than for Jeanne to meet a nice guy – and one day she does....

‘Magnificent Seven’ First Look: Denzel Washington And Chris Pratt Do The Cowboy Thing Sony has yet to release a frame of footage fromThe Magnificent Sevenoutside of this year’s CinemaCon, but the first official stills from the upcoming western reveal that directorAntoine Fuquahas nailed at least one vital aspect of this film already. If you must remake an iconic film staring the likes of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, and James Coburn, you need to make sure your line-up of movie stars and character actors can stand next to that ensemble and not look completely embarrassing....

‘Men & Chicken’ Trailer: These Brothers Really Like Chickens Without a doubt, we won’t witness another comedy quite likeMen & Chickenthis year. I was lucky enough to see the film at Fantastic Fest a few months ago, following itspremiereat the Toronto International Film Festival, and it’s an offbeat story about family that grows richer and funnier with time. Below, watch theMen & Chickentrailer. Mads Mikkelsen(Hannibal) andDavid Denick(Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) star in writer-directorAnders Thomas Jensen’s strangely sweet Danish comedy....

‘Mr. Right’ Trailer: Sam Rockwell Is The Sexy Rain Man Mr. Rightpremiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The film, written byMax Landis, was met with mostly negative reviews. Landis is coming off of last year’sAmerican UltraandVictor Frankenstein, and both movies failed to connect with audiences and critics. While I’d argue the stoner love story is better than it’s given credit for,Mr. Rightlooks like another potential miss from Landis. Watch the firstMr....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets Comedian Bill Burr And ‘Insecure’ Star Issa Rae As Next Two October Hosts Saturday Night Liveis back this weekend with the show’s 46th season premiere, back in good ole Studio 8H at 30 Rock in New York City. It’s the first of five back-to-back shows in all five weekends in October, the longest run of consecutive new episodes in recent history. Chris Rock ishosting the first episodeback in the studio after last season ended with three remotely produced episodes with sketches performed from the cast members' houses....

‘Scare Package’ Review: A Hilarious And Smart Horror Anthology [Sitges 2019] Horror anthologies are a tricky thing. On the one hand, the variety of stories means you don’t have to wait long to find a segment you like. On the other hand, one or more bad segments and you lose the audience. Then there’s the overarching narrative that ties everything together and that must be equally compelling, and if you’re doing a horror-comedy, you need to balance both genres....

‘Scorched Earth’ Trailer: Gina Carano Is A Post-Apocalyptic Bounty Hunter Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. A grizzled badass without a lot to say wanders the wasteland of the post-apocalypse, dispensing justice against armies of bandits and slowly learning to care again after encountering someone who melts their icy heart. That’s the premise of many movies and it is also the premise ofScorched Earth, an upcoming sci-fi action movie that looks like it crawled out of a mid-’90s VHS bargain bin....

‘Song Of Solomon’ Limited Series In The Works From ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Director We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Toni Morrison’s Nobel prize-winning bookSong of Solomonwill soon be turned into a limited series byMa Rainey’s Black BottomfilmmakerGeorge C. Wolfe. Published in 1977, the book tells the story of Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III, a Black man living in Michigan as the son of the richest Black family in town....

‘Stan & Ollie’ Clip: John C. Reilly And Steve Coogan Get A Reality Check If there was any doubt thatSteve CooganandJohn C. Reillycould do justice to the legendary comedy duoLaurel and Hardy, that doubt is cast aside by the latest clip released from the biopicStan & Ollie. The two comedy actors do their darndest to respectfully portray two of the most famous comedians of all times, the Classic Hollywood film legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the newestStan and Ollieclip, which features Coogan and Reilly giving an impressive show of physical comedy....

‘Terminator’ Casting: Sarah Connor Could Either Be Emilia Clarke Or Brie Larson As films move and shift in and around that crazy 2015 release schedule, one that’s methodically, quietly, and steadily moving forward like a killing machine is theTerminatorreboot.Alan Taylorhasn’t evenofficially been announcedas the director, yet they’re also very close to casting one of the film’s leads: unsuspecting mother turned soldier Sarah Connor. Reports state Taylor and Paramount arenow down to two actresses:Game of Thrones’Emilia ClarkeorShort Term 12’sBrie Larson....

‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’ Trailer: Look On These Birds, Ye Mighty, And Despair There’s a new movie was coming out that starsJason Sudeikis,Danny McBride,Bill Hader,Rachel Bloom,Peter Dinklage,Sterling K. Brown,Josh Gad,Zach Woods, andAwkwafina. Exciting, right? Unfortunately not, because, as you may have deduced by now, that movie isThe Angry Birds Movie 2, a follow-up to the 2016 film which was based on the popular mobile phone game. I know that the bar isn’t always sky-high for animated movies aimed at children, but woof, this thing looks rough....

‘The Boxtrolls’ Teaser: Laika’s Next Celebrates A Very Unconventional Family With only two completed feature films under its belt, Laika’s quickly proving itself to be one of the smartest, most creative animation studios working today.CoralineandParaNormanwere wonderful stop-motion pictures gentle enough for kids, but sharp enough for adults. Now an early teaser indicates that their third release,The Boxtrolls, is shaping up to be the same way. Based on a book byAlan Snow, the film follows a community of monsters living under the streets of Cheesebridge....

‘The Dark Tower’ Producers Ron Howard And Brian Grazer Discuss The Long Journey To The New Movie The fact that a film adaptation of Stephen King’sThe Dark Towerhas finished filming and it currently being edited for an early 2017 release date still amazes me. Just two years ago, this project looked completely and totally dead, the victim of anoverly ambitious cross-media planand budgetary constraints. And now, I can write an article that can include a picture ofIdris Elbaas Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger at the top....