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Tackling Russell Crowe’s… Peculiar Late-Career Phase
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Ella McCay Opens With Disastrous $2M Weekend — 21% on Rotten Tomatoes
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James L. Brooks is “Sure We’ll Be Seeing” Jack Nicholson Act Again
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Richard Linklater Supports Netflix Deal: “Ted Sarandos is a Good Guy. I Trust Him on This Warner Bros. Acquisition”
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‘The Batman: Part II’: Scarlett Johansson’s Role Revealed, Brad Pitt Exits Talks
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Aug 19, 2019
3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
Aug 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

Aug 19, 2019

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Tackling Russell Crowe’s… Peculiar Late-Career Phase

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Once one of Hollywood’s biggest leading men, Crowe now favors supporting roles, villains, and genre films over the prestige pursuits that defined his ’90s and aughts peak.

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Ella McCay Opens With Disastrous $2M Weekend — 21% on Rotten Tomatoes

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The current tally is 21%  on Rotten Tomatoes, and 37 on Metacritic. Those are worse numbers than Brook’s last film, “How Do You Know,” which was also deemed a disaster.

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James L. Brooks is “Sure We’ll Be Seeing” Jack Nicholson Act Again

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Brooks, a good friend of Nicholson’s, is now telling People that he doesn’t believe the actor has retired from acting, and that he might have at least one more film left in him:

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Richard Linklater Supports Netflix Deal: “Ted Sarandos is a Good Guy. I Trust Him on This Warner Bros. Acquisition”

December 13, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

A few years ago, Richard Linklater expressed frustration with Netflix, primarily regarding the distribution and visibility of his rotoscope gem “Apollo 10½.”

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‘The Batman: Part II’: Scarlett Johansson’s Role Revealed, Brad Pitt Exits Talks

December 13, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Pitt was unable to fit the role into his schedule due to a conflicting commitment to Edward Berger’s “The Riders,” which is expected to be a lengthy, multi-country shoot.

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LaKeith Stanfield Replaces Jonathan Majors in Dennis Rodman Biopic ‘48 Hours in Vegas

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

LaKeith Stanfield has replaced Majors to play the former Chicago Bull in the film, which will be directed by Rick Famuyiwa (”Dope”).

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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ to Have Four Different Trailers in Four Weeks

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

According to THR, Disney is planning an unusual release strategy for the trailer of “Avengers: Doomsday” by showing four different versions in theaters over four weeks.

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Stanley Kubrick at 96: Why He Remains Cinema’s Greatest Director — What’s His Finest Film?

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Kubrick’s influence is everywhere, yet his films feel timeless. Watch “Barry Lyndon” or “2001” today and you’d never guess they’re decades old—that’s his genius.

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Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’ Trailer Promises Bright Colors, Fart Jokes, and Literary Treason

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s quite obvious now why no distributor wanted to touch this one, until faith-based studio Angel picked it up. The end result is literary treason.

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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Prologue: Wooden Horses, Trojan Soldiers, and Cyclops [Review]

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

What stuck with me, apart from the usual Nolan-isms I mentioned above, is Ludwig Göransson’s score ramping up, getting more and more intense, with brooding chants amplifying as the battle goes on.

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‘Zootopia 2' Hits $1 Billion Worldwide Mark in Just 17 Days

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“Zootopia 2” hit the $990 million worldwide mark this morning. It’s going to hit $1 billion by tonight, making it only the second Hollywood movie to do so this year

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RUMOR: Brad Pitt in Talks for Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman: Part Two’? [Updated]

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The talent involved is certainly intriguing. Adding Pitt’s name alongside Pattinson, Johansson, Farrell, Serkis, Keoghan, and Wright is enticing.

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Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Megalopolis Unbound’ Director’s Cut “Will Be Really Wild” — 2026 Release

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It doesn’t sound like Francis Ford Coppola is done with “Megalopolis,” in fact, he’s just getting started with it.

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Gus Van Sant’s ‘Explain it Like I'm Five': Sam Bankman-Fried Biopic Starts Shoot in March

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Bankman-Fried and his, err, eccentric “girlfriend,” Caroline Ellison defrauded hundreds, while also engaging in a lifestyle that often included video games, junk-food binging, and plenty of threesomes.

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‘Street Fighter’ Has A Batsh*t Crazy Trailer

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Paramount has released the trailer for their unhinged version of “Street Fighter.” The Kitao Sakurai-directed film wrapped production just a few weeks ago,

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‘One Battle After Another’ Tops Film Comment’s 2025 Critics Poll

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

As various critics continue to reveal their top films of the year, I’m trying to post only about the ones worth mentioning — and this latest poll certainly fits that category.

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Report: Tom Cruise’s SpaceX NASA Movie Scrapped

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Back in 2020, Deadline broke a wild story that had Tom Cruise in early talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA to shoot a movie in space.

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Ethan Hawke: “I Don’t Think Paul Dano Ever Knew So Many People Loved Him"

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

While a guest on The Joe Rogan Podcast, Ethan Hawke also framed the situation as a glass-half-full scenario, emphasizing how much “love” Dano has received over the last few weeks.

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‘Sinners’ Mob Targets More Critics; Pushback Over Variety’s Year-End List Snub

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The “Sinners” mob is attacking yet another outlet’s top-movies-of-the-year lists.

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‘47 Ronin’ Director Carl Rinsch Found Guilty of Scamming Netflix Out of $11M

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The trial lasted less than two weeks, and Rinsch now faces a potential sentence of up to 90 years on wire-fraud and related charges.

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