Rafael Motamayor, Author at The Playlist

TIFF: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Wins 2020 People’s Choice Award And Becomes The Frontrunner For This Year’s Awards Season

September 20, 2020 12:40 pm

And there we have it. After going home with the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, Chloé Zhao‘s "Nomadland" just took the coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto Internation...

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‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Star Morfydd Clark Says The Show Is “Continually Mind-blowing”

Rafael Motamayor

September 20, 2020 11:38 am

News

We live in an age where big properties are announced with huge fanfare, only to go quiet for a few months before we finally start hearing details. But few projects got as much fanfare as Amazon Studios' "Lord ...

Jessie Buckley Thinks ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ Shouldn’t Be Explained

Rafael Motamayor

September 20, 2020 11:00 am

News

Jessie Buckley is having a very interesting year. Even if she started 2020 with a role in the disastrous "Dolittle," her role in Charlie Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" has been praised by critics, a...

Harry Styles Set To Join Lily James In LGBTQ+ Romance Drama ‘My Policeman’

Rafael Motamayor

September 20, 2020 9:40 am

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Harry Styles is in final negotiations to star alongside Lily James in a feature adaptation of Bethan Roberts' LGBTQ+ novel "My Policeman" for Amazon Studios. READ MORE: CW Teams With Diablo Cody & Greg ...

Jim Caviezel Confirms ‘Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel Is Still Happening, Calls It “The Biggest Film In World History”

Rafael Motamayor

September 19, 2020 3:14 pm

News

It seems Jesus will return, with a vengeance. Where "The Passion of the Christ" became a huge box office juggernaut, amassing nearly $400 million at the domestic box office and still holding the title of the h...

Keanu Reeves Says New Matrix Movie Is An Inspiring ‘Love Story’

Rafael Motamayor

September 19, 2020 2:34 pm

News

There are many ways one could describe "The Matrix" trilogy, action-packed, revolutionary, cyberpunk, confusing. But a "love story?" Well, things may change when "The Matrix 4" arrives in theaters, because Kea...

Liam Neeson Defends ‘The Phantom Menace’ And Praises Jar Jar Binks Actor Ahmed Best

Rafael Motamayor

September 19, 2020 1:39 pm

News

The reception to "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" has been nothing less than fascinating. Originally mixed, to say the least, the film angered older fans of the franchise, but has not started to be re...

Robert Pattinson Kept His ‘The Devil All The Time’ Accent A Secret Until His First Take

Rafael Motamayor

September 19, 2020 12:40 pm

News

There is a long tradition of British actors doing American southern accents, both good, bad, and plain weird. From Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc accent from "Knives Out" and Jude Law in, well, anything he does. ...

‘The Flash’: Barbara Muschietti Says Film “Restarts Everything”

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 5:02 pm

News

We don't know many things about the upcoming "Flash" movie, but we know two key things: it involves the multiverse, and a lot of Batmans. Now, thanks to producer Barbara Muschietti, we know something else, tha...

‘Pieces Of A Woman’: Vanessa Kirby’s Venice Winner Sells To Netflix In Worldwide Deal

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 4:16 pm

News

The same day Vanessa Kirby wins the award for Best Actress at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for her portrayal in Kornél Mundruczó's drama "Pieces of a Woman," Netflix closes a worldwide distribution deal for t...

‘Moonbase 8’ Teaser: John C. Reilly And Fred Armisen Star In Yet Another Astronaut TV Comedy

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 3:26 pm

News

Space is the final frontier, we know that already, but what we didn't know but should have anticipated is the rise in space-centered TV comedies in 2020. The TV equivalent of twin films (like when "Deep Impact...

Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Wins The Golden Lion At The 2020 Venice Film Festival, Vanessa Kirby Takes Best Actress

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 2:47 pm

Festivals, News

With a much different than usual Venice Film Festival now come to a close, it's time for the annual awards ceremony that marks the beginning of the awards season, whatever that means in this strange year. The ...

‘Tenet’: Warner Bros. Is Refusing To Share Box Office Data, Actual Opening Weekend Gross At Around $12M

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 1:37 pm

News

When reports came in that "Tenet" had made $20 million at the domestic box office, the conversation obviously focused on how difficult it is to analyze the performance of a $200 million-budgeted blockbuster in...

Chris Hemsworth Says He Is Not Retiring As Thor After ‘Love & Thunder’

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 12:02 pm

News

An unwritten rule of the MCU has so far been that no character gets more than a trilogy. Out of the core Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor got a trilogy each. Spider-Man is two-thirds of a way to a tri...

Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ Delayed Until 2021 By Universal

Rafael Motamayor

September 12, 2020 9:38 am

News

If you were hoping to see what happens when dumb people say "Candyman" in front of a mirror a bunch of times this Halloween, you're going to have to wait a little longer or say it on your own to see what happe...

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