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First trailer for ‘The Jungle Book’ asks you to stay close in the jungle
“Stay close, my cub.” The first trailer for director Jon Favreau’s adaptation of Disney’s The Jungle Book dropped on Tuesday and puts us in a dark and frightening place. The film stars Scarlett Johannson, Idris Elba, Bill Murray, Lupita Nyong’o, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken, Ben Kingsley, and newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli. The story is […] More
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Video of the Day: Idris Elba stars in this new ‘Spectre’ trailer recut
Idris Elba is best known for his portrayal of the drug lord and aspiring businessman Russell “Stringer” Bell in David Simon’s The Wire, but since his days on the HBO series, he’s starred such hits as the BBC One series Luther, the Nelson Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Guillermo Del […] More
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Someone must make a choice in first trailer for ‘Beasts of No Nation’
The first trailer for the next feature film from director Cary Fukunaga was revealed on Thursday as Netflix offered the first look at Beasts of No Nation. The film is set to debut in theaters and on the streaming service. Starring Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation centers on a young African boy who is […] More
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Week in Review: Hollywood planning Play-Doh and live-action Winnie the Pooh movies
Why does Hollywood keep mining the smallest nooks and crannies of my childhood? This week, two major children’s film projects are reportedly in development. The first is Disney continuing to pile on to their live-action reboot slate with a reimagining of none other than Winnie the Pooh. How they intend to do this without sending one […] More
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Sean Penn does his best ‘Taken’ impression in first trailer for ‘The Gunman’
Even though Taken 3 may have shown that the “old guy fighting a bunch of people” model may be dying out, it seems like Sean Penn will try to revive it with the help of the director of the first Taken film. The first trailer for The Gunman hit the web on Tuesday and showed […] More
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‘Luther’ to return as BBC miniseries in 2015
One day after the announcement FOX was developing an American adaptation of Luther, star Idris Elba and writer/creator Neil Cross will also be back for another round of the original Luther. The two-part hourlong miniseries will air sometime late 2015, revived by a partnership with BBC America and BBC Drama Production. “Luther is coming back where […] More
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‘Luther’ to get American adaptation on Fox
Black British Batman is hopping the pond. Fox has ordered a pilot of Luther to be written by Neil Cross, the original series’ creator. John Luther himself, Idris Elba, will serve as executive producer. Luther ran for three seasons on BBC, a Sherlock-like murder detective who befriends a psychopath named Alice (Ruth Wilson) while capturing […] More
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‘No Good Deed’ is undeserving of Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson
No Good Deed is directed by Sam Miller of BBC’s Luther, and he knows how to take typical archetypes and work them around his leading man. Memorable villains like Hannibal Lector and Patrick Bateman are all too common for white actors, but, with the exception of Denzel Washington, black actors rarely get those parts. Actors of Elba’s caliber should at least get the chance to play a quality scoundrel. More
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The Wire (part 1) with Dennis Perkins
Dennis Perkins of The AV Club joins us at the DVD Shelf for our first in a series of discussions about the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed series The Wire. [powerpress] More
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‘Prometheus’ & The Death of a Masterpiece
If you flashback to the early 00’s, there was still a sense of excitement and anticipation at the announcement of Ridley Scott working on a new project. This was a visionary director who’s expansive, ambitious and heart capturing visual eye had given the world of cinema such wonders as Alien and Blade Runner, masterpieces of […] More
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‘Pacific Rim’ a sometimes thrilling fever-dream mishmash of summer movie tropes
If Calvin and Hobbes, those most delightful and beloved comic-strip characters, made a monster movie out of one of their fever-dream playtime japes, it would probably look a great deal like Pacific Rim. The sweaty, breathless determination with which the film’s main concept plays out, as well as how frequently it aims to top itself, is both charming and a mild hindrance. (Cartoonist Bill Watterson was able to get away with such boyhood tomfoolery because he was working with a much shorter amount of space and time.) Co-writer and director Guillermo del Toro has broken free of his almost quaint, homemade style in Pacific Rim, delivering, in many ways, the ultimate summer movie, for good and ill. More
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