Madison Bailey and Antonia Gentry star as Lucy and Summer in Hannah Macpherson’s Time Cut. The new movie premieres today on Netflix and these interviews will contain major spoilers.
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Greg Jardin’s debut feature, It’s What’s Inside, is now streaming on Netflix! I had the opportunity to break down the movie with the writer/director and stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, Gavin Leatherwood, Nina Bloomgarden, Devon Terrell, Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Reina Hardesty, and David Thompson.
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This coming January, the producers of Barbarian will be introducing audiences everywhere to a new kind of “love” story (emphasis on “kind of”), with Companion.
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Uglies, which is based on the novel by Scott Westerfeld, is finally streaming on Netflix! I had the opportunity to speak with the author, who serves as an executive producer on the movie, along with cast members Joey King, Brianne Tju, Keith Powers, Chase Stokes, and Laverne Cox all about the adaptation. Please note: these interviews will contain spoilers.
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Jeanine Mason lends her voice to Eva in the new animated adventure trilogy WondLa, which is based on Tony DiTerlizzi’s bestselling book series, The Search for WondLa. The seven-episode first season will premiere globally Friday, June 28 on Apple TV+.
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Hot on the heels of the best movie of the year, Dune: Part Two, Legendary and WB are wasting no time at all expanding on the Dune saga! In fact, to the surprise of everyone, a new series for Max will be arriving this fall! And we got a first look at the trailer for Dune: Prophecy today.
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My biggest and most immediate takeaway after watching the world premiere of Kairos at East West Players is that I wish more stories were told in this particular manner, despite the genre or the size of the cast.
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Stone me if you must, but I’ll be the first to admit, I liked, but didn’t love, Dune: Part One. While so many considered it the best movie of the year in 2021 (which I understand), I just wasn’t as enamored by it as everyone else.
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I’ve recently come across a rather intriguing sci-fi short film called Ensouled last year at FilmQuest as an awards judge and it definitely deserves your attention if you get a chance to come across it as they continues their film festival run!
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With the highly anticipated release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two finally approaching in theaters on March 1, there’s no better time to share the official theatrical poster featuring stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
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Ever since Gravity, it’s felt like there’s been a haunting prestige movie about realistic space exploration every single year. Not long after was Interstellar. Then The Martian, Hidden Figures, First Man, Ad Astra, Stowaway, etc. For subject matter meant to be about the unknown and unexplored, this subgenre seems incredibly and abundantly well tread. And that’s quite apparent in I.S.S, the latest in a long line of astronaut-movie allegories to grace the big screen in the past decade.
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Ariana DeBose stars as American astronaut Kira Foster in I.S.S., a new sci-fi thriller that will be released in theaters on January 19.
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After the umpteenth appearance of David Tennant as the Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa has, at last, taken the wheel. In the final 20 minutes of the third Doctor Who 60th anniversary special, The Giggle, the first Black and queer actor to take on the mantle makes his debut in the most unexpected of ways, and quickly establishes himself as a Doctor who has such a light to him, and also brings a lot of empathy for others.
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Netflix’s Rebel Moon was initially planned to be part of the Star Wars universe. But, after talks fell through between Disney LucasFilm and director Zack Snyder, he and his team decided to create their own sci-fi spacesaga with their own backstory and world-building.
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Ready for another new Dune: Part Two trailer? Denis Villeneuve is continuing the saga in theaters on March 1, 2024, with the next chapter in the ongoing adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel and fans can’t wait.
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Next year, audiences will get to experience Dune: Part Two thanks to award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The film, which serves as the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s Dune, will be the next chapter in the ongoing adaptation of Frank Herbert’s influential sci-fi novel.
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Amanda Arcuri was in high school when a single voicemail from a casting director changed the entire trajectory of her life. The Toronto native first dove into the world of acting in 2014 when she landed the role of fan-favorite Lola Pacini on the acclaimed Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. What started with a casual “sure, why not?” after-school audition would eventually snowball into a full-blown career.
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How often does one get to see a sci-fi play? Better question, how often does one get to see a sci-fi play done well? This is the challenge that Moving Arts Theatre was more than able to meet in the extremely intriguing Reset, written by Howard Ho and directed by Darin Anthony. It’s also noticeably different from most of the plays I’ve seen this year, where the ethnicity of the actors were essential to play the characters they would portray and the stories that were being told. Reset utilizes diversity in such a way that went beyond these limited requirements while also being color conscious of the characters in a subtle manner. Truly, more theatre companies should do this.
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Brian Duffield wrote, directed, and produced the new sci-fi psychological thriller, No One Will Save You. The movie is officially streaming, exclusively on Hulu, and this interview will contain spoilers.
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Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon trailer is out, and it looks good!
Created by Snyder, Rebel Moon was initially meant to be part of the Star Wars universe, but was dropped due to Disney’s purchase of LucasFilm. He decided to continue with the project and spin it into his own new IP and worked with Netflix to do so.
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Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass star in Biosphere. The film, which Duplass also co-wrote and produced, is now in theaters and available on VOD.
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Denis Villeneuve is bringing the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s novel to the big screen with Dune: Part Two and it looks epic!
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Last month, Disney+ debuted an absolutely charming, but poignant movie called Crater. The movie — in some ways, the hybrid between Stand by Me and Armageddon — features an ensemble of misfit teens on a colony on the moon, who hijack a rover to explore a crater on the desolate outreaches of space.
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