By Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million personal passion project epic Megalopolis had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday and the reviews are split. The screening received the now customary standing ovation from Cannes, along with some boos. Rotten Tomatoes has Megalopolis at 45%, reflecting this split. In the
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South Korean-based animators Mofac Animation are making King Of Kings. This is an animated family film about the life of Jesus Christ… with a twist. This is based on the work of Charles Dickens. What? Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord about Jesus Of Nazareth exclusively for his
BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE Full Trailer
Miami PD detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are back! Being banned from the Oscars hasn’t stopped Will Smith from returning to one of his first post-Fresh Prince characters for a fourth time. Now Sony Pictures has released the second, and final, trailer for Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The
BP Movie Journal 5/16/24
The post BP Movie Journal 5/16/24 appeared first on Battleship Pretension. In BP Movie Journal 5/16/24, David discusses the movies he’s been watching, including Jeanne du Barry, The Whistle at Eaton Falls, Let It Be, Kidnapped, Babes, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Glen
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You’ve probably heard by now that the convention-shucking horror experiment In a Violent Nature is Friday the 13th from the POV of its hulking killer. The 93-minute indie slasher is as campy—and largely uninvolving—as that premise promises. The third-person killer cam shtick wears off quickly, especially since writer-director Chris Nash’s
