It’s seemingly fitting that the first image of Quaid as Conservative God, former President Ronald Reagan (Via EW), is being ridiculed online. Considering Jon Voight, David Henry and Scott Stapp star in the film, the upcoming“Reagan” will most probably paint a very favorable picture of the 40th President of the United States. It won’t be critical, I imagine, in the slightest about Reagan’s countless wars in Latin America or the blatat flaws behind his trickle-down economics....

This is B-horror-thriller territory, but, more importantly, it’s the first Megan Fox-led movie since … 2009’s uber-underrated “Jennifer’s Body.” Fox, an Aughts “sex symbol,” has had her career hampered down by, what I believe to be, blacklisting courtesy of studio execs. Why? Well, a 2009 interview with Jimmy Kimmel didn’t help. In the now resurfaced interview, Fox cited the problematic treatment she encountered while auditioning for “Bad Boys II” and called out the rampant sexism running rampant in Tinsel Town....

Is there any reason why"Roma" can’t win best picture come February 24th at the Kodak Theater? Despite my theory from a weeks back that it’s just too artsy for a large and vast voting body whose tastes, quite frankly, tend not to veer towards high-brow, there is a sense that a lot of people will be voting for “Roma” on a purely partisan basis. Accepting the award at the critics choice awards, Cuaron stated in his speech, “this bunch of Mexicans are not as bad as sometimes they are portrayed,” clearly taking aim at the Trump administration and its militant stance at getting that border wall funding to prevent Mexicans from entering the country illegally....

However, something happened post-2010, a much more lenient approach to sequel-making entered the fray; “Cars 2” became a juggernaut for toy and clothing merchandising which brought greed into the equation. Then it didn’t stop, “Monsters University,” “Finding Dory,” “Cars 3,” “The Incredibles 2,” and “Toy Story 4,” all came to the fray and dampened the Pixar reputation. The risk-taking factor also came in with safer fare such as “Brave,” “The Good Dinosaur,” and this year’s “Onward....

“No Sudden Move” was written by Ed Solomon (Soderbergh’s “Mosaic“), and will be part of the Centerpiece Gala at this year’s festival, set to run June 9-20.This one has a stunning ensemble, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm, Matt Damon, Julia Fox, Kieran Culkin, Ray Liotta, and Amy Seimetz. The plot, according to IMDB, has to do with a group of criminals brought together under mysterious circumstances who have to work together to uncover what’s really going on when a heist goes awry....

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Clocking in at just 82-minutes, the film starts off as a sweet love story before delving into the bureaucratic hellhole of a U.S. health care system that doesn’t take care of its own. Evan (a miscast Will Brill), is an awkwardly sweet-natured, tattoo artist. Renesha (newcomer and star-in-the-making Brittany S. Hall) is a businesswoman living in a luxurious condo. They meet at a bar. This leads to a date at her apartment and soon after the film flashes forward as we see them living together in a lovely hipster shack of a home....

Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel” was met with mixed reviews when it premiered on September 10th at the Venice Film Festival, but some critics did like it. Instead of using a positive review from an actual critic who liked Scott’s epic, and there are quite a few to choose from, 20th Century decided to post a quote from a Letterboxd review. The Letterboxd user who wrote the review goes by the name of orlan7opinion....

In “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” we’re supposed to believe that 19th Century London. a time of great racism and diminishing returns for anyone who wasn’t white, could have Dev Patel’s tramp rising from impoverished orphan to hot-as-shit Victorian writer in the blink-of-an-eye. The book’s original questioning of Victorian values and general social attitudes have been largely sidelined for a conventional rise-and-fall story, albeit beautifully shot in wide lens by Zac Nicholson....

With all that being said, I reported in late summer that the Venice Film Festival had rejected Coen’s ‘Macbeth,’ but I was very clear that it could have been due to politics and not the quality of the movie: “Venice rejecting ‘Macbeth,’ but more importantly Coen, has some significance. You don’t just say no to one of great living directors out there. Venice boss Albert Barbera’s decision not to include Coen has some significance, especially in a year where many of the big name directors are skipping Venice (Del Toro, PTA, Eastwood, McKay, Spielberg)....

If you think you know where Gavin O’Connor’s “The Way Back” is going, then you’re not wrong. The film, a hybrid of the underdog sports genre and the addiction/redemption drama, has familiar beats to its story. How many times have we seen a pathetic coach taking over coaching duties for a pathetic sports team only for them both to get healed by the bond they built over the course of the season?...

Director Michael Winterbottom (“24 Hour Party People,” “A Mighty Heart“) has had a career filled with ups and downs. His knack for jumping into different genres and has always been commendable, but it makes for a rather patchy filmography. Nevertheless, the 56-year-old filmmaker never cashes it in, always pushing himself with something new and, at times, interesting. Even when he fails, he does so admirably. Sadly, his latest endeavor, “The Wedding Guest,” is a lesser effort despite its intentions....

We already had a “Ticket to Paradise” reaction sent over on May 16th. With fhe trailer having been released earlier this week, yet another reaction has popped up. It looks fairly pedestrian, an old-school rom-com for the nostalgists are out there. The draw of this movie is not the director, it’s George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Simple as that. They’ve always had great chemistry together, not to mention that they are close friends in real-life....

And yet, “Women Talking” is said to be a serious Oscar contender, especially in Picture, Director, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor and Adapted Screenplay categories. Will the academy bite? There are very few out there who are skeptical about its chances, one of them is Scott Feinberg who threw some cold water at the “Women Talking” fanatics. He said it would be a hard sell for Academy voters, 66% of which are men and claimed the praise it was getting at Toronto/Telluride may have been due to “festival fever....

“We had tremendous success releasing the first ‘Wonder Woman’ film during the summer so when we saw an opportunity to take advantage of the changing competitive landscape, we did,” Jeff Goldstein of Warner Brothers said in a statement . “This move lands the film exactly where it belongs.” Of course, speculation will run rampant in the next few weeks as to why this delay ever happened, but there have been no rumors of any problems in production, which just wrapped....

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Her attempt at a mini-comeback comes with “When They See Us,” which is supposed to premiere as a five-part mini-series on Netflix this coming May 31st. It’ll be a reenactment of the 1989 Central Park Jogger case. Ken and Sarah Burns‘ doc on the same story, titled “The Central Park Five,” was a well-done but all-too-safe account of the events. The case had to do with the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, in NYC’S Central Park, which led to the arrest of five young black men— Anton McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise and Yusef Salaam....

In 2011, Aster directed a short film titled “Beau.” Described as a “decades-spanning surrealist horror film set in an alternate present,” Phoenix’s character would play an “extremely anxious but pleasant-looking man who has a fraught relationship with his overbearing mother and never knew his father.” When his mother dies, he makes a journey home that involves some wild supernatural threats. You can actually watch “Beau is Afraid” on YouTube. Aster turned heads at Sundance 2018 with his incredibly realized neo-horror film “Hereditary....

Facing hurdles throughout her career, mostly due to those silly “Twilight” movies, K-Stew has more than thoroughly earned herself the reputation of being a solid actress. She’s no doubt worked very hard for it, continuously choosing projects based on director rather than box-office prospects. Some of her best performances include “Personal Shopper,” “Certain Woman,” “Adventureland” and “Clouds of Sils Maria.” All of these much stronger work than what she does in “Spencer....