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Reviews for Cocaine Bear are now in, with critics loving the movie's self-awareness, humor, and bloody mayhem. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear tells the story of a large grizzly who ingests large amounts of cocaine before then going on a murderous rampage through a Georgia forest. The film, which is very loosely based on real events, stars Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, Ray Liotta, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, among others.

Ahead of its official release tomorrow, February 24, reviews for Cocaine Bear are starting to roll in. At the time of writing, the movie holds a surprising 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (which will surely change as more reviews are added), with critics mostly agreeing that, while not necessarily groundbreaking, Cocaine Bear pretty much gives you exactly what you'd expect in a fun, hilarious, and violent package. Check out some review excerpts below:

Daniel Bayer, Awards Watch

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“Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” was released by Marvel Studios on Friday, February 17. The sequel to 2015’s “Ant-man” and 2018’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” is the 31st Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film to date. In this iteration, Paul Rudd once again stars as Scott Lang, a former petty criminal with a suit that allows him to shrink or grow in scale while increasing in strength. Jonathan Majors plays his adversary, Kang the Conqueror.

The all-star cast also includes Evangeline Lilly, Kathryn Newton, Bill Murray, Michelle Pfeiffer, William Jackson Harper and Michael Douglas. Critics are panning the film, sending its Rotten Tomatoes score plummeting to 48. The consensus reads, “‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ mostly lacks the spark of fun that elevated earlier adventures, but Jonathan Majors’ Kang is a thrilling villain poised to alter the course of the MCU.”

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Brendan Fraser is Gold Derby’s odds-on favorite to win the Best Actor Oscar this year for his acclaimed performance as Charlie in A24’s “The Whale,” directed by Darren Aronofsky. The award-winning drama, which tells of a reclusive, obese English teacher trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink), allows Fraser to shine in a complex, emotionally demanding role. The film earned Fraser nominations at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, BAFTAs and Oscars, and last month he won the Critics Choice Award for Best Actor. His performance has been celebrated by many critics, including Eric Eisenberg, who says in CinemaBlend, “[Brendan Fraser is] an enchanting performer […] the actor serves as a powerful, bright light in a dark pool of despair.” Fraser does have significant competition at the Oscars, with Austin Butler in “Elvis” and Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin” both having won Best Actor trophies at the Golden Globes.

Universal/Blumhouse’s “Halloween Ends” is expected to earn the biggest opening weekend that the box office has seen in nearly three months, but producing a strong box office run through the rest of October will depend on whether word-of-mouth for this reboot trilogy capper is strong enough to get people to see it in theaters instead of on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service.

Like its 2021 predecessor “Halloween Kills,” Universal has decided to make “Halloween Ends” a day-and-date release in theaters and streaming with the hopes that hardcore horror buffs who value the big-screen experience will encourage more casual moviegoers to check the film out either in theaters or on Peacock, which has been stalling with just 13 million paid subscribers as of Q2 2022.

“Halloween Kills” opened to 49.4 million last year and finished with a 92 million domestic total, and pre-release projections for “Ends” have it matching that opening mark with a 50 million opening.

City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States and a leading research center for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses, today announced that its Music, Film and Entertainment Industry group will present the 14th annual Taste of Hope event on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022.

After a two-year hiatus, the annual event returns with an in-person celebration, set to take place at Three Sixty in downtown Manhattan, NYC. Founded by iHeart Media’s Alissa Pollack, Taste of Hope is an elegant evening featuring a distinguished selection of wines from the world’s finest private collections, along with dinner, and exciting live and silent auctions. Over the past decade, the event has brought together entertainment industry powerhouses, such as Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey and Carrie Underwood, and has generated more than 3.1 million to improve outcomes for people with cancer and diabetes.

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Part of Spain’s drive to consolidate as one of the world’s foremost big shoot locales, Shooting Locations Marketplace has confirmed dates for its second edition which will run over Oct. 20-21, taking place once again at the Feria de Valladolid, an hour’s train ride north of Madrid.

The Marketplace looks set to repeat its original format which welcomes first and foremost location scouts, as well as producers, line producers and representatives of film commissions in and outside Spain.

Revolving around one-to-one meetings, where commissions and service companies present potential shoot destinations to location managers, the Marketplace also features panels and presentations analysing industry trends as well as success stories and factors that tip the balance when picking one destination over another.

Representatives of 60 destinations are expected, including members of the Spain Film Commission, and countries such as Portugal and Norway, which will attend for the first time.

"When you meet these people, do you say that she was murdered?" A24 has revealed a new trailer for the suspense-horror indie film titled The Blackcoat's Daughter, from writer/director Oz Perkins, who also made the horror I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House from last year. This originally premiered at multiple film festivals back in 2015, and is just now getting released. Emma Roberts stars, with Kiernan Shipka, plus Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, James Remar, Peter J. Gray and Emma Holzer. The story primarily follows two girls who are left alone at their prep school Bramford over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. This looks like a very eerie, mysterious psychological horror. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Oz Perkins' The Blackcoat's Daughter, direct from YouTube: Two terrified girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at...

Back in September of 2015, Oz Perkins’ horror film “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and spent most of the past year and a half on the festival circuit. Now, the film will finally receive a theatrical release through A24.

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The film follows Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton), two girls left alone at their prep school over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. While the girls experience increasingly creepy occurrences at the school, Joan (Emma Roberts), a troubled young woman on the road is determined to get to the school as fast as she can. But as Joan gets closer, Kat slips further into the grasp of an unseen evil force while Rose tries desperately to help her. The film co-stars Lauren Holly (“Dumb and Dumber”), James Remar (“Sex and the City...

Osgood Perkins’ debut feature, The Blackcoat’s Daughter – originally known as February at its premiere at Tiff last year – is a stylish exercise in dread, teasing out its slow-drip horrors with precision, and building a deliriously evil presence that hovers along the fringes. However, there’s a thin line between mystery and vagueness in storytelling, and it becomes difficult to decide where a film fits when it only works in the context of a specific structural order.

Approximating something closer to an episodic anthology than a cohesive narrative for the majority of its run-time, The Blackcoat’s Daughter divides its time between two storylines of emotionally battered teenagers. In one half, Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton) are the last two students left at an all-girl boarding school as winter break begins. They’re total strangers to each other, but they’re pushed together when the principal can’t reach either of their respective parents, even as neither girl seems particularly surprised at their predicament. It’s immediately revealed that Rose told her parents to come later, so she could spend another night with her boyfriend Rick (Peter J. Gray), but Kat is a more unknown quantity.

As shown through visions of either a premonition or a flashback, Kat is regularly dreaming of a macabre car wreck. And in a savvy bit of visual storytelling, Perkins communicates Kat’s tenuous relationship with her parents through the image of a trembling Kat marking through the dates on a calendar, and through a piano recital where she looks longingly at two empty seats. They’re two grace notes in a film that nearly completely relies on visual storytelling to move the plot forward.

The other storyline is equally enigmatic with a wayward young woman named Joan (Emma Roberts), who appears to be traumatized by an unspoken past, and is trying to hitchhike to Port Smith, the town where Kat and Rose go to school. Down to her last dollars, she luckily comes into contact with Bill (James Remar) and Linda (Lauren Holly), two parents who carry their own albatrosses, and say elusive statements like, “You remind me of our daughter.” With his lilting voice and alternately imposing figure, Remar is the ideal character actor for this type of role that dabbles so fluidly with questions of intent.

Boynton and Shipka are the real keys to making the film work. The former already had a breakthrough this year with Sing Street, but this is another argument for her talent as she brings a French New Wave-style controlled cool to the role of a “scream queen.” Shipka, as well, has cut her teeth in respectable (but reserved) roles like Mad Men and The Legend of Korra, but this is a role where she’s allowed the room to totally unhinge, even making something like vomiting into something totally frenzied.

The film divulges precious few details about all these characters, instead building a consistent sense of dread through conversations freighted with ambiguity and slow pans of cavernous rooms blanketed by darkness. Perkins is working with timeworn techniques here, but his unwavering patience is key to building the fever pitch tension as things go from bad to much, much worse.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter is also keenly aware of the stock cliches of abandoned schools like gurgling boiler room, infinite hallways, and the off-kilter demeanor of nuns, but the film is smarter than mere reliance on jump scares. When the expected scenes come, they’re vastly reconfigured to the point where even the most stereotypically creepy imagery pales in comparison to the film’s actual conception of evil. Comparable to It Follows, or last year’s underrated We Are Still Here, this is less a horror movie about the supernatural than a nebulous force that’s as unstoppable as gravity.

Even with all these successful elements, The Blackcoat’s Daughter still can’t quite transcend the cheapness of its conceit. It’s not a great horror story on its own, but it’s a great calling card for Perkins’ skills with horror grammar, and an even stronger endorsement for the skills of its talented cast.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter screened at the The Chicago Critics Film Festival and will be released by A24.

Rest assured, Ryan Reynolds, your wife's wedding on Tuesday (March 25) was only just pretend, as Blake Lively filmed her new movie, "The Age of Adaline."

Wearing an old fashioned, long-sleeved silk and lace gown, complete with a veil and bouquet, the "Gossip Girl" star emerged from the church with co-star groom Peter J. Gray in Vancouver, Canada.

In the upcoming drama, a young woman, born at the turn of 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After years of a solitary life, she meets a man who might be worth losing her immortality.

Joining Blake in the cast are Harrison Ford, Amanda Crew, Ellen Burstyn, and Richard Harmon. It's slated for release sometime next year.

While we may never see Blake Lively's wedding dress from her I-do's to hubby Ryan Reynolds, we now have an image of what the blond beauty may have looked like on her big day, and no surprise, she's absolutely stunning. The 26-year-old star was snapped on the set of her upcoming flick The Age of Adaline on Tuesday in Vancouver, where she was photographed sporting a gorgeous white wedding gown with her hair pinned up in an old Hollywood glamour style. Lively was seen sharing a smooch with her onscreen hubby Peter Gray during the romantic scene, which was filmed at a local church as onlookers watched the picture-perfect pair. Much like her other costumes, the former Gossip Girl star's dress had...

Blake Lively was decked out in a white dress while shooting a wedding scene for her latest project, The Age of Adaline, in Canada on Tuesday. The actress filmed outside a local church with her costar Peter J. Gray and was cheered on by a group of well-wishers after tying the knot. Blake and Peter even shared a romantic kiss for the cameras as rice rained down on them. Speaking of rain, Blake's real-life husband, Ryan Reynolds, made his way through a midday shower as he left the same church; Ryan reportedly met up with Blake for lunch during her break from the movie shoot. Blake has been busy on the set of the period drama all month, and we've even spotted Ryan making a couple of cute visits to the set to show support for his wife. In the film, the former Gossip Girl star plays a young woman...

Blake Lively makes one beautiful bride!While we still haven't seen any photos of the former "Gossip Girl" star's dress from her real life-wedding with Ryan Reynolds, we now have a better idea of how she'd look after saying "I Do."The actress was captured on the set of her new movie, "The Age of Adaline," wearing one stunning gown and kissing onscreen hubby Peter Gray on Tuesday in Vancouver.  The costars filmed at a local church, and had to do a few re-takes of the sweet scene. The dress definitely has a vintage look, and Blake's pinup curls really complement the lace bodice and satin skirt of the gown. Lively plays the title character in the film, which follows the life of "a young woman born at the turn of the 20th century who is rendered ageless after an accident." But when Adaline meets a special man, she considers letting go of her immortality.