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The Godzilla movie franchise has been going on for decades, but it may have never been as popular as is it right now. Godzilla Minus One has been a global box office hit, and it also getting raves from critics. It’s being called one of the best Godzilla movies, if not the best Godzilla movie ever made. Success like that would, for a Hollywood film, all but guarantee a sequel, but that’s apparently not happening with this movie.Godzilla Minus One is now an Oscar-nominated movie, which is just the latest accolade it has…

Nearly five years ago, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola talked about his plans to finally create a movie he’s had cooking in his head since the ‘80s. He even tried to make it during the early 2000s, but 9/11 made that impossible, since he felt it would be in bad taste. But twenty years later, he’s finally made Megalopolis, and it’ll see the light of day later this year.Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?During a recent episode of the Accutron podcast, Coppola confirmed it would be “a few months” of…

The ‘Scream VII’ (Scream 7) project has been plagued by troubles, losing not only two of its main actors but also its director in the past few months. Christopher Landon opens up about the heartbreaking experience of leaving Scream 7(Instagram/Christopher Landon) Christopher Landon, the filmmaker behind ‘Happy Death Day’ and ‘Freaky', announced his exit from the horror sequel on X Saturday, saying it was a “nightmare” experience. Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here “I guess now…

Today, Tapan Sinha’s name may sound rather obscure to most. Even after a fairly intense Google search, only a sketchy, half-hearted Wikipedia page and a few academic essays appear. In contrast, there is voluminous material available on Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. Perhaps 2024, Sinha’s centenary year, will put the spotlight once again on the filmmaker who has been unjustifiably overshadowed by his three Bengali peers. PREMIUM Film director Tapan Sinha in a photograph dated 22 October 1989. (HT…

The scammy, salacious saga of George Santos’ fraudulent life and short-lived congressional career will soon get the documentary treatment.  According to The New York Times the project, which is already in the works, will be directed by self-proclaimed “scammer whisperer” and Fyre Fraud documentarian Jenner Furst — who has also already secured Santos’ participation in the film and plans to pay him an “archival materials fee.”  Furst is the award-winning director behind projects including TIME: The Kalief…

Otar Iosseliani, an award-winning film-maker, has died in his native Georgia, his French distributor said Sunday. He was 89.Iosseliani made most of his films in France, where he was free to make films that were sometimes overtly critical of his home country. His death on Saturday night was confirmed by Regine Vial, from the Les Films du Losange company.Georgia’s prime minister Irakli Garibashvili said he felt “great sadness” when he heard the news, adding: “Otar Iosseliani had his own style, which is only characteristic…

Nina Metz | (TNS) Chicago Tribune Early in the HBO documentary “Great Photo, Lovely Life,” filmmaker and photojournalist Amanda Mustard says she always knew her grandfather was “creepy” and that “some things happened.” But she didn’t know the details of his pedophilia. “And now that I’m looking closer and finding concrete rape charges that he managed to kind of weasel out of, it’s just scratching the surface. I just need to keep looking. Maybe I can hold him accountable.” Her extraordinary film is subtitled “Facing a…

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I hope that all of you are preparing yourselves for a lovely day full of family, friends, and food – but just because this is a holiday doesn’t mean that the week was deprived of news and fun from the world of Stephen King. There is still plenty to be collected for this week’s edition of The King Beat.From The Life Of Chuck wrapping principal photography, to Rick And Morty’s latest episode featuring not just one but two Stephen King references, there is a lot of fun stuff to reflect on, so…

Wayne is a fixture on the banger circuit – a rough style of racing in self-built cars. Now that his son Jai-Dee is nearly 13, his debut “full contact” race is finally in view.Jess Kohl’s new short film immerses us into the boisterous world at the same time as revealing a tender relationship between a father and a son. This cinematic coming-of-age story poignantly reframes expectations of masculinity in a tough sport.I spoke with Kohl about making the film, how she gained the trust of this family in order to authentically…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe filmmaker Todd Haynes is American cinema’s chief translator of desire and repression, but he doesn’t feel that way on set. “All of my movies feel headed for disaster when I’m making them,” he says. “Just, like, dancing on the precipice of it.” He’s fixed his eyes on me, winsome behind dark spectacles. “But isn’t that why we’re on this earth? Do something scary! Do something you…