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The Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Raya And The Last Dragon,’ ‘Minari,’ ‘The Father’ & More

May 25, 2021 2:32 pm

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spla...

’12 Monkeys’: Terry Gilliam Says Studio Wanted Nicolas Cage For Bruce Willis’ Role

Rafael Motamayor

January 9, 2021 12:14 pm

News

This month marks the 25th anniversary of "12 Monkeys," one of the best time-travel movies ever made, and one of Bruce Willis's best performances in a film, but things could have gone very differently. In a new...

’12 Monkeys’: The Pandemic Thriller Turns 25… Mid-Pandemic

Jason Bailey

December 29, 2020 11:56 am

Essays, News

The 25th anniversary of Terry Gilliam’s “12 Monkeys” would be worth noting no matter when it fell – it remains a modern sci-fi masterpiece, beautifully juggling big ideas, time-travel paradoxes, breathless act...

Roger Deakins Wins Top ASC Award For ‘Blade Runner 2049’

Jordan Ruimy

February 18, 2018 1:40 pm

Awards, News

Roger Deakins. A legendary cinematographer who has absurdly never won an Oscar, despite being nominated 14 times. His latest nod is for "Blade Runner 2049," the painterly sci-fi sequel from director Denis V...

‘Mudbound’s’ Rachel Morrison Makes History As First ASC Awards Nominee

Gregory Ellwood

January 9, 2018 4:37 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The American Society of Cinematographers announced the 2018 nominees for the ASC Awards. Like many guild honors it's seen as a precursor for the equivalent category at the Academy Awards and this year that's go...

The 20 Best Brad Pitt Movies

Oliver Lyttelton

May 24, 2017 1:43 pm

Features, News

Netflix has had no difficulty (thanks to their pots and pots of cash) in attracting big names to the streaming service. They convinced Kevin Spacey and David Fincher to enter the TV world, they’ve virtually mon...

The 10 Best Films Of 1995

Oliver Lyttelton

March 27, 2017 12:54 pm

Features, News

This week sees the release of “Ghost In The Shell,” but you could be forgiven for mistaking it for something that came out twenty years ago. It comes from a British commercials director, has a William Gibson cy...