Doomsday’ Is the Next ‘Avengers’ Movie

[ad_1] Marvel has announced the new name of the fifth Avengers film: Avengers: Doomsday. The title confirms that the movie will feature the Avengers (and, the Fantastic Four) squaring off with one of the biggest Marvel villains in history, Doctor Doom. And in a shocking twist, Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the MCU to play Doom. […]

Retrospective: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Cinematic Hitman | Features

[ad_1] Melville’s antiheroes (primarily in his noirs) are bathed in disciplines, morals, and strategies. They endure surveillance from authoritative and bureaucratic forces. To lead up to the 4K restoration release of his French Resistance classic “Army of Shadows” on August 2, Film Forum will host a 13-film “Complete Melville” retrospective filled with the director’s crime […]

Dìdi (弟弟)

[ad_1] It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been a bit too harsh. When I first watched Sean Wang’s emotionally brutal coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance—where it won the festival’s audience award—I thought his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated animated short (“Nǎi […]

THE FANTASTIC 4: FIRST STEPS

[ad_1] One of the most exciting things to happen at Marvel’s Hall H Comic-Con panel was the whole segment covering The Fantastic 4. Marvel President Kevin Feige and the film’s director, Matt Shakman, were obviously pumped to promote this film, and they faked us out, reminding us that the actors arrived in London just last […]

The Girl in the Pool

[ad_1] The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often anything but perfect. It’s not exactly new cinematic territory, but it’s a well that gets tapped often because it’s just a lot of fun to watch rich families implode, often of their own doing. […]