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Pitched somewhere between science-fiction and fable, director Gabriel Mascaro’s “The Blue Trail” finds a beacon of optimism within its own dystopian view of the future. Set in the director’s native Brazil — and showcasing the astonishing natural beauty (side by side with decay) of the Amazon in every high-definition frame — the film centers a 77-year-old woman, Tereza (Denise Weinberg), in a society that has deemed anyone above the age of 75 an impediment to its economic success. Mascaro sees her differently, and so will we by the end of what unexpectedly turns out to be the greatest South American houseboat movie since “Fitzcarraldo.”

The “Neon Bull” director has always had an incredible visual sense, though his plots tend to lack focus. Not this one. Judging by its concept alone, “The Blue Trail” could technically be classified alongside “Children of Men” on video store shelves. And yet, in both genre and tone,...

When the first "Harry Potter" film released in 2001, director Chris Columbus, then best known for "Home Alone," introduced the word to Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger and placed them in the wizarding world beloved by fans of the book series. So why did Columbus direct the first movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (or "Philosopher's Stone" if you're outside of the United States), follow it up with "Chamber of Secrets," and then leave the franchise as a director? Put simply, the guy was really tired.

In a retrospective with The Hollywood Reporter in 2021 celebrating 20 years of the "Harry Potter" film franchise, Columbus explained that both "Sorcerer's Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets" had incredibly arduous shooting schedules. "'Sorcerer's Stone' took 160 days of shooting, which is ridiculously long," Columbus recalled. "And then, immediately after we stopped shooting, we started shooting 'Chamber of Secrets,...

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For film aficionados, very few things compare to the thrill of stumbling upon a hidden gem on Netflix.

Sure, keeping up with the latest releases, whether it’s a top-ranked action comedy like ‘Back in Action’ or an acclaimed animated hit like ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ sounds exciting, but nothing beats the satisfaction of discovering an underrated masterpiece buried in the depths of the streaming library.

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Y Tu Mamá También: The Original Challengers

One such treasure currently making waves among viewers is an erotic coming-of-age film dubbed “The Original Challengers” by the viewers.

Spectacular and breathtaking, Birdman is an exhibition of magic realism.

Michael Keaton stars as an aging Riggan Thomson, once famous for playing a superhero called Birdman, a superhero franchise which had its last film in 1992, [which interestingly is also the year Michael Keaton’s 2nd Batman film released] and is now desperately looking for a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play.

Twenty-two years after Tim Burton made his last Batman film with Michael Keaton, who would have thought that the near-extinct Keaton would resurface in such a hauntingly beautiful fashion and deliver the most outstanding performance of his career? Michael Keaton was arguably the most deserving candidate for last year’s Academy Award for Best Actor. However, he lost to a brilliant performance by Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything.

Birdman is so similar to Keaton’s life in films that I wonder if director Alejandro González Iñárritu wanted to cast a washed-up superhero actor to play the...

Stars: Samantha Morton, Naomie Ackie, Hector Hewer | Written by Asif Kapadia, Tony Grisoni | Directed by Asif Kapadia

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.

As a fan of both speculative fiction and thought-provoking documentaries, I was intrigued by 2073, the latest film from Asif Kapadia, best known for Senna and Amy. The film blends dystopian fiction with documentary elements, creating a chilling, hybrid vision of our near future.

Samantha Morton delivers a haunting performance as a mute survivor navigating a post-apocalyptic world. Her silence speaks volumes, forcing the audience to absorb the devastation around her. Interwoven with her journey are real-world interviews and archival footage tackling pressing global crises—climate change, authoritarianism, and technological overreach. The result...

January will bring tons of thrilling content, including the much-awaited return of ‘The Traitors’ for its third season, a deep dive into the making of ‘Saturday Night Live’ with ‘SNL50,’ and the gripping ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth,’ starring Colin Firth. Plus, enjoy exciting debuts like ‘Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy,’ ‘Love Island All Stars,’ and more. Don’t miss out on the action this month!

January 2 – ‘Lockerbie: A Search For Truth’

‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ is a series starring Colin Firth as Dr. Jim Swire, a father seeking answers after his daughter is killed in the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. The series follows his journey to uncover the truth, meeting survivors and confronting the Libyan leader tied to the attack.

January 16 – ‘SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night’

‘SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night’ is a special documentary series on Peacock that celebrates the 50th anniversary of ‘Saturday Night Live...

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This January, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the intense biographical thriller series Lockerbie: A Search For Truth to the return of the hit British reality series The Traitors. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in January 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Alien (January 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – 20th Century Fox

Alien is a sci-fi horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. The 1979 film follows the crew of a spacecraft that intercepts a distress signal from a planet. They soon set out to investigate, but they are attacked by an alien entity that invades their ship.

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in January. The Peacock January 2025 schedule includes Here Come the Irish, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, The Traitors Season 3, and more.

Kick off the New Year with a look into the past with Lockerbie: A Search for Truth on January 2. Exploring events from the disaster and its aftermath, this new series starring Colin Firth provides an intimate account of a man, a husband, and a father who risks everything in memory of his daughter and the unflinching pursuit of truth and justice.

The Traitors Season 3

Dawn your cloaks for the season three premiere of the Emmy Award-winning Peacock Original The Traitors, hosted by Emmy Award-winner Alan Cumming. Tune in on January 9 at 6 p.m. Pt/9 p.m. Et for the three-episode premiere event of the nail-biting...

Engines are being warmed up on “One,” the drama series set in the world of Formula One racing that Felicity Jones is attached to both star in and executive produce.

Variety understands that the series is in development with Amazon MGM Studios for Prime Video, although it has not been officially ordered yet.

“One” — which marks Formula 1’s first officially sanctioned scripted series — will focus on a failing family-owned racing team, led by Jones’ character, as it contends with fierce personalities, ever-changing rivals and multi-million-dollar stakes.

The series is produced by Bedrock Entertainment, launched in 2020 as a joint venture between “Band of Brothers” producer Tony To, “True Detective” executive producer Dan Sackheim and ITV Studios America. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby — who were Oscar nominated for “Children of Men” — will write and executive produce.

To will executive produce “One” for Bedrock, alongside Sackheim and ITV Studios America’s president and managing director Philippe Maigret.

CBS has released a first look teaser for “Beyond the Gates,” the first new daytime broadcast soap opera in years, which launches in place of “The Talk” in the new year. Project is the first to come from a CBS Studios/NAACP joint venture.

Per the show’s logline: “‘Beyond the Gates’ is set in a leafy Maryland suburb just outside of Washington, D.C., and in one the most affluent African American counties in the United States. Here you’ll find a posh gated community with winding tree-lined streets and luxurious mansions to call home. At the center of this community are the Duprees, a powerful and prestigious multi-generational family that is the very definition of Black royalty. But behind these pristine walls and lush, manicured gardens are juicy secrets and scandals waiting to be uncovered. And those who live outside these gates are watching closely. These are the places where our characters live,...

Katharine McPhee, Jill Hennessy, Ever Anderson and Ana Mulvoy Ten have joined the murder mystery limited series “The Artist.”

From the free, ad-supported streamer and studio The Network, the Gilded Age-set series also stars previously announced cast members Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer, Danny Huston, Patti LuPone, Hank Azaria, Zachary Quinto and Clark Gregg.

The seven-episode series, which will debut in March 2025, follows “an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit” as they meet at the home of “an eccentric and failing tycoon,” per the logline. By the end of the night, the mogul is found dead, spurring a historical fiction-themed murder mystery.

McPhee will play early-20th-century vaudeville performer Nora Bayes. Anderson will play Evelyn Nesbit, the woman at the center of the infamous Crime of the Century, while Hennessy will play her mother. Mulvoy Ten will play Lilith, an orphaned dancer from France.

Just because someone cleans windows for a living doesn’t mean they can’t kick your ass when it counts. Daisy Ridley is ready to set her squeegee aside in favor of whichever weapon gets the job done in Cleaner, an action-packed thriller from director Martin Campbell. Quiver Distribution announced today that it has acquired North American rights to the Anton and Qwerty Films production Cleaner, set in, around, and on the side of one of the UK’s tallest buildings. Quiver will release the film in theaters on February 21, 2025.

Star Wars icon Daisy Ridley stars in Cleaner, based on a story she developed, alongside Clive Owen, who recently led the FX mini-series A Murder at the End of the World. The film takes Ridley and Owen into the dark heart of danger while innocent lives hang in the balance.

Here’s the official synopsis for Cleaner:

“Cleaner is set in present-day London.

Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has picked up North American rights to Cleaner, an action-thriller hailing from Anton and Qwerty Films, which stars Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise) and Clive Owen (Children of Men). Directed by the Bond franchise’s Martin Campbell, the film will be released in theaters on February 21, 2025.

Set in present-day London, Cleaner takes places in, around, and on the side of One Canada Square, one of the UK’s tallest buildings. The film watches as a group of radical activists, led by Owen, take over an energy company’s annual gala, seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, played by Ridley, suspended 50 stories up on the outside of the building,...

Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón turned down an offer to make a James Bond movie. “I was troubled about the idea of doing it,” he said.

Who will direct the next James Bond movie? Who will star in the next James Bond movie? At the time of writing, those remain open questions. One filmmaker we can probably mark as out of the running, though, is Children Of Men and Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón.

The filmmaker has revealed that he was once “offered a Bond film” but ultimately turned it down – partly because the thought of making it made him feel uneasy, and partly because he had a pivotal dinner conversation with fellow director Joel Coen.

This nugget of information came up at the Marrakech Film Festival, in which Cuarón talked at length about his career to date. In Cuarón’s telling, it actually sounds as though he got some way into...

Alfonso Cuarón had the audience of the Marrakech Film Festival in stitches during a wide-ranging conversation in which he revealed that he had never read a Harry Potter book before shooting “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” He also recalled turning down an offer to shoot a James Bond movie after having dinner with filmmaker Joel Coen.

Asked by Moroccan directors Alaa Eddine Aljem and Talal Selhami how he managed to put his personal stamp on the third “Harry Potter” film which, the moderators noted, is considered by many fans the best installment in the franchise, Cuarón replied that he basically had to pay the bills.

“I had written ‘Children of Men’ that nobody wanted to do. I was unemployed. I was going to have a child,” Cuarón explained. “This film was offered to me, and I didn’t want to do it because I didn’t know anything about Harry Potter.

Infrequent as they are, a new film from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron is always worth the wait. Let’s take a look back at all eight of Cuaron’s movies, ranked worst to best.

Born in Mexico City in 1961, Cuaron made his directorial debut when he was just 30-years-old with the Spanish-language farce “Solo con Tu Pareja” (1991). He was soon drafted by Hollywood to helm the children’s film “A Little Princess” (1995) and the modern day Charles Dickens adaptation “Great Expectations” (1998).

It was with “Y Tu Mama Tambien” (2001), a sexy road trip comedy shot in Mexico, that Cuaron reaped his first Oscar nomination in Best Original Screenplay. He returned to America shortly thereafter to direct the third installment in the “Harry Potter” franchise, “The Prisoner of Azkaban” (2004).

Oscar voters took notice of the filmmaker once again with the dystopian future drama “Children of Men” (2006), for which he received Best Adapted...

Exclusive: International Film Trust (Ift) has closed pre-sales out of the American Film Market for Stefan Ruzowitzky’s (The Counterfeiters) historical-thriller Kristallnacht, which will star Clive Owen (Children Of Men), Alex Pettyfer (The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare) and Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters).

Wild Bunch has acquired the project for Germany and Italy. Deals have also been struck for Spain (YouPlanet), Eastern Europe (Monolith/Blitz), Middle East (Falcon Films), Greece (Spentzos), Israel (Red Cape Distribution), Portugal (Pris Audiovisuiais), and Cis (Mgn/Paradise).

Kristallnacht translates as Night of Broken Glass, a reference to the thousands of shops, businesses and synagogues destroyed by the Nazis across the two nights in November 1938.

Set on the brink of World War II in Berlin, the true story unfolds in a city turned into a powder keg after the assassination of a German attaché in Paris, which is wrongfully branded a “Jewish terrorist attack” by Nazi propaganda.

From the early stages of film history, two broadly contrasting factions of filmmakers can be identified based on their approach to film aesthetics. The first group, which placed their faith in montage, can be classified as formalists, while the second group, which emphasized a more realistic representation of the world, can be classified as realists. Early film theorists sought to establish cinema as a legitimate art form by emphasizing its capacity to deviate from the real world. They argued that cinema had the right to diverge from reality in order to distinguish itself as an art form that evokes a subjective sense of the real.

Early filmmakers like Georges Méliès can be seen as one of the proponents of this notion, as their films delve into fantasy worlds that have little in common with the real world, often structured in an episodic manner, with separate images stitched together through editing.

Netflix has unveiled its upcoming International slate this morning, which includes Revelations, a new thriller from Train to Busan filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho. First-look images introduce the thriller and its central characters.

Revelations will debut on Netflix in 2025.

The crime thriller with a supernatural twist follows “a pastor and a detective, each driven by their own beliefs. The pastor believes it’s his divine calling to punish the culprit behind a missing-person case, while the detective assigned to the case continues to be haunted by visions of her dead sister.”

Ryu Jun-yeol and Shin Hyeon-bin star.

Netflix previously gave a bit more insight into the characters, “Ryu Jun-yeol portrays Min-chan, a pastor who runs a church in a small provincial town with a mission for church planting. When a man named Yang-rae visits his church, Min-chan receives a divine revelation identifying him as the culprit who abducted his son, and he sets forth to pursue justice.

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Nobody does it quite like M. Night Shyamalan. The man has been making original movies for most of his career, save for the occasional adaptation like "The Last Airbender". It's rare, particularly in the modern era, but Shyamalan has built up enough cache with audiences to do that, dating back to his breakout smash hit "The Sixth Sense" in 1999. In the aftermath of that success, Shyamalan pretty much had a blank check to do whatever he wanted. His choice? An unconventional one for the time. He made "Unbreakable," which was a very unique take on the superhero genre. It was also a movie that nearly featured an Oscar-winning actor in one of the leading roles.

For those who may need a brief refresher, "Unbreakable" centers on a man named David Dunn (Bruce Willis), who is the sole survivor of a horrible train wreck.

Prime Video’s November programming will dip its toe into Christmas and other holiday offerings such as The Holiday (2006) starring Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. The streamer will also add some films with sequels arriving in theaters this month, like Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Ridley Scott’s 1992 film Gladiator.

For the full list of Prime Video programming in November 2024, see below.

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Movies:

12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004) 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) 50 To 1 (2014) A Knight’s Tale (2001) Absolute Deception (2013) Across The Universe (2007) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Airplane! (1980) All Saints (2017) Almost Christmas (2016) Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) Anger Management (2003) Apache (1954) Bad Company (2002) Battlefield Earth (2000) Battleship (2012) Big Night (1996) Blizzard (2003) Blown Away (1993) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) Boomerang (1992) Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star (2011) Carrie...

The corpse of Halloween is barely cold, but studios are keen to announce holiday-themed projects nonetheless. Thankfully, this one sounds like one hell of a ride! Maria Bakalova is catching a ride alongside Peter Mullan for No Way Off, a Christmas Eve thriller from Downton Abbey director Brian Kelly. Kelly directs from a script by Gaby Hull, with James Wilkinson producing.

Akin to movies like The Shallows, Buried, and Crawl, No Way Off finds Bakalova in the role of Laura, “a young mother who waits at a bus stop with her infant son. When the bus pulls up, its driver is wearing a latex Santa mask. Laura climbs aboard, collapsing into her seat. Exhausted and stressed, she soon falls asleep. When Laura wakes, night has fallen. The bus is now hurtling along a motorway, miles off its usual route. Apart from the sleeping baby, she is the only passenger left on board.

Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Danny Huston will star in a Gilded Age murder mystery limited series titled “The Artist.”

From the free, ad-supported streamer and studio The Network, the series follows “an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit” as they meet at the home of “an eccentric and failing tycoon,” per the logline. By the end of the night, the mogul is found dead, spurring a historical fiction-themed murder mystery.

The seven-episode series, which is currently entering production and filming on location in Connecticut, will premiere in March 2025.

The Network founder Aram Rappaport serves as creator, executive producer, writer and director of “The Artist.” Hilary Shor is a producer.

“The way we make television has changed. I believe it is a fundamental truth that artists should hold the keys to their craft and creativity,” Rappaport said in a statement. “This series...

What sets Alfonso Cuaron’s “Children of Men” (2006) apart from other futuristic dystopian films is its immersive world, which at times feels like a premonition of an impending future. It accomplishes this by saturating every scene with images we are all too familiar with – those of homelessness, poverty, terrorist bombings, pollution, urban decay, stranded immigrants, and large-scale protests. The writing then magnifies them to create a portrait of a society on the brink of collapse.

It’s not just the visuals but even the news you hear on the radio and the advertisements that are on some television in the background are meticulously thought out. It’s said that after 9/11, Cuarón traveled the world, including a visit to Ground Zero in New York City shortly after the attacks, capturing images of protests, and migrant camps, and speaking with people from all walks of life. Watching “Children of Men,” I have to say,...

Oscar nominee Clive Owen is set to play a police office in Germany on the brink of WWII in historical thriller “Kristallnacht.”

The feature — being launched at the American Film Market by International Film Trust — comes from Oscar-winning filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, who will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Julius Grützke, based on an original script by Jonathan Frank and Scott Mann.

“Kristallnacht” was announced by Michael Benaroya, the CEO of Benaroya Pictures and co-founder of International Film Trust, who will serve as producer alongside Danny Krausz, Marcelo Gandola and Daniel Zuta.

Based on a true story, “Kristallnacht” is set in Berlin on the eve of war and follows police lieutenant Wilhelm Krützfeld (Owen) over the course of 24 hours as he navigates a city turned into a powder keg. Following the assassination of a German attaché in Paris, which is wrongfully labeled a “Jewish terrorist attack” by Nazi propaganda,...

For those who haven’t dug into Apple TV Plus’s Disclaimer yet, let me tell you that you’re missing out on one of the most provocative shows of the year. Written and directed by the legendary Alfonso Cuarón, with cinematography duties split between Emmanuel Lubezki and Bruno Delbonnel, it’s an impeccably crafted limited series. It ranks up there with Twin Peaks: The Return and True Detective: Season One in how it’s proof that the limited series can indeed be a director’s medium if they’re given free rein, and how the long format can push them toward storytelling experimentation they’d never get the opportunity to try in a conventional film.

In Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a celebrated journalist being harassed by a retired school teacher (Kevin Kline), who is convinced she’s responsible for the death of his son. Over the course of seven episodes,...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Disclaimer.

Apple's new mystery thriller series Disclaimer sees the long-awaited reunion of a renowned director-cinematographer duo. Cate Blanchett leads a talented ensemble cast of Disclaimer as Catherine Ravenscroft, a hard-working and acclaimed television documentary journalist out of London, England. Disclaimer also stars Sacha Baron Cohen as Robert, Catherine's husband, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nicholas, Robert and Catherine's son, and Kevin Kline as Stephen Brigstocke, a local London man who has lost his wife and son.

Disclaimer is based on the 2015 book of the same name written by Rene Knight. The Apple series marks Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarn's first return to television since 2014's Believe. Cuarn has won two Best Directing Academy Awards, one for 2013's Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and another for his 2018 black and white film Roma. Disclaimer has earned an impressive Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 78%.

New episodes of Disclaimer release every Friday on...

In the world of video games, few titles have achieved the same level of acclaim and emotional connection as The Last of Us. The game and the TV series captured the hearts of the fans with its immersive narrative and memorable characters. However, not many fans know that at the heart of this masterpiece lies a narrative inspired by a cinematic gem: Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men.

Druckmann took a lot of inspiration from a film when developing the game. | Image Credit: Naughty Dog

Neil Druckmann, the creative force behind Naughty Dog and the mind behind The Last of Us, has openly credited this film in an interview where he shed some light on the development process of the game. He shared that the film had a significant influence in shaping the game’s storytelling and emotional depth that fans have come to love.

Children of Men‘s Influence...

La Mquina is an all-new Hulu sports drama from Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, and it is a great reminder to watch this rom-com with a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes from 23 years ago. La Mquina has been one of the most highly anticipated Hulu series of the year, with the Spanish-language boxing series being incredibly exciting throughout its marketing campaign. Now that it's finally here, La Mquina is receiving critical acclaim, much like this other collaboration between Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

La Mquina tells the story of Esteban "La Mquina" Osuna, an aging boxer who is struggling with his health and career. In an attempt to revive the boxer's career, Esteban's manager, Andy, makes a deal with a group of criminals, saying that Esteban will throw his big upcoming fight. If he doesn't however, both Esteban and Andy will die. The show chronicles the unfolding of the criminal plot,...

It’s right there at the beginning of Episode 1 of the Apple TV+ limited series, “Disclaimer” writer/director Alfonso Cuarón all but announces his intentions in a scene in which real-life journalist Christiane Amanpour presents an award to series’ fictional documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett).

“Beware of narrative and form,” says Amanpour. “Their power can bring us closer to the truth, but they can also be a weapon with a great power to manipulate.”

While a guest on an upcoming episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Cuarón discussed the pronouncement, “We decided to be bold and to begin with a warning. In other words audiences are warned.” But as Cuarón explained, he’s not worried about proclaiming his storytelling intentions — there’s no reason to hide the ball when the real game, the real discovery is how each viewer will react.

“What Christiane Amanpour says is that the only reason...

Sandra Bullock can easily be one of the most bankable actresses in Hollywood. She has an Academy Award by her side, perfectly solidifying her versatility as an actress. She has a string of well-acclaimed and commercially successful movies to her name. But in this list, Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuarón would definitely be her most successful movie.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in Gravity | Credits: Warner Bros.

Also featuring George Clooney alongside Bullock, the movie broke all records when it was released in 2013. And also swept the entire Oscars that year with back-to-back wins. While the movie created instant magic on the big screen, Cuarón had to deal with a lot of budget issues. And friendly advice by filmmaker James Cameron would have completely changed the movie as well as Bullock’s highest-paid actress status.

James Cameron’s Advice for Gravity Might Have Changed Sandra Bullock’s Career Trajectory

Gravity...

When director Max Winkler first read the script for “Grotesquerie” Episode 5, he knew he wanted to film most of the episode using one continuous shot. The problem was getting everyone else on board.

“I just kept lying to everybody, ‘We can do this.’ I was like, ‘1,000,000% we can do this,’ ” Winkler told TheWrap. Throughout the entire process, Winkler was reminded of one of his heroes, Marcelo Bielsa, manager of the Uruguay national team, who famously never had a Plan B other than to do Plan A better. That’s exactly the mindset Winkler brought to “Red Haze.”

“In my head, I was like, ‘Oh my god, are you really going to get fired over this? Are you really going to burn your way out of Hollywood on this idea?’ ” Winkler said. “But we did it. I’m really proud of everyone involved.”

It’s not difficult to understand Winkler’s panic over “Red Haze.

In Alfonso Cuarón’s seven-part Apple TV+ limited series “Disclaimer,” Cate Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, an accomplished and award-winning documentary filmmaker whose life is upended when a book is published based on a fictionalized version of a difficult event from her past.

But one of the points of “Disclaimer” is that viewers themselves are also upended, as the Oscar-winning, Mexican-born director of “Children of Men,” “Gravity” and “Roma” juggles present-day scenes with flashbacks, allowing viewers to discover the relationships between characters on their own. The story also shifts between a first person, second person and third person perspective depending on what character is on the screen.

It’s an approach that requires viewers to untangle a lot of narrative threads as they follow Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen as the adult Catherine and Robert Ravenscroft, Leila George and Adam El Hagar as their younger versions and Kevin Kline and Lesley Manville...

A new series starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Alfonso Cuarn called Disclaimer just hit Apple TV+, and despite its solid reviews, no one has really heard of it. Blanchett is an Australian actress who has enjoyed an immensely successful career, with projects such as Tr, Carol, Blue Jasmine, and the Lord of the Rings franchise. Meanwhile, Cuarn has been at the head of various incredible movies, like Children of Men, Gravity, and the much beloved Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Now, these two Hollywood standouts have come together for a notable thriller series.

In general, Apple TV+ seems to thrive on thrillers and relatively dark TV shows. Recently, the streaming platform has put out series such as Presumed Innocent, Slow Horses, Dark Matter, and Severance. All these shows center on grim, violent, or intense subjects. Arguably, even Apple's lighter shows have elements of darkness to them,...

No one films the ocean as a proxy for emotional extremes like Alfonso Cuarón. In films like “Children of Men,” “Gravity” and “Roma,” the Mexican director — often in conjunction with Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki — makes roiling waves a metaphor for everything from rebirth to safety to cathartic release. In this respect, the new Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer,” which Cuarón wrote and directed in its entirety, is a perfect fit for the “Y tu mamá también” auteur. “Disclaimer” centers on competing accounts of a young man’s fatal drowning on an Italian beach, and you can bet your bottom lira there are numerous and lengthy scenes built around the rhythmic crash of water.

But Cuarón is a much less intuitive match for other aspects of “Disclaimer,” which he adapted from Renée Knight’s 2015 novel of the same name. “Disclaimer” is, at its core, a talky, interpersonal drama about grief, self-deception and storytelling,...

As she sets out her career as a filmmaker, Destry Allyn Spielberg is ready to shake up the Hollywood system. Having long been intrigued by the elevated genre space, she is set to launch her debut feature Please Don’t Feed the Children at the Sitges International Film Festival on Friday.

The project, which is led by Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery and Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito, follows a gang of orphans who travel to the south in search of a new life after a viral outbreak decimates the adult population of the nation, only to find themselves at the mercy of a psychotic woman who is hiding a perilous secret.

When it came to casting this group of youngsters, Spielberg worked with renowned casting director Anne McCarthy (The Conjuring) with an aim to find fresh and young actors for the ensemble.

“My goal was to bring in as many...

Alfonso Cuarón takes on the small screen in a psychological thriller starring Cate Blanchett.

Alfonso Cuarón, known for his cinematic masterpieces like “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” to “Children of Men” and “Gravity,” is making a move to the small screen. His new TV drama, “Disclaimer,” starring Cate Blanchett is a seven-episode limited series premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday, Oct. 11. The first two episodes will drop on launch day, with new episodes following every Friday through Nov. 15. The series marks Cuarón’s first foray into TV storytelling, and you can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Apple TV+.

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“Disclaimer” is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. The psychological thriller follows renowned journalist, Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate...

Disclaimer's Rotten Tomatoes score is here, and serves as a redemption for Cate Blanchett after Borderlands. Written and directed by Alfonso Cuarn, Disclaimer features Blanchett starring as Catherine Ravenscroft, a journalist and documentarian whose life is turned upside down after she realizes that she's a main character in a novel, which threatens to reveal a dark secret. The Apple TV+ show, which also stars Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen, marks Blanchett's follow up to Eli Roth's Borderlands, which was a major critical and commercial flop, grossing only $33 million on an estimated $115 million budget.

Ahead of Disclaimer's premiere on Apple TV+, the show has debuted on Rotten Tomatoes to a score of 77% from 39 reviews, as of writing. Though this score is sure to fluctuate as more reviews are added, it currently sits very far above Borderlands, which has a dismal 10% from critics and 51% from audiences. No audience score...

What if a novel showed up on your doorstep, and you were not only a main character in it, but its villain? And what if copies of the book — which begins by noting that “any resemblance to persons living or dead is not a coincidence” — started appearing in the hands of everyone you knew and cared about?

That’s the nightmarish, addictive premise of Disclaimer, a new Apple miniseries adapted by writer-director Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) from the book by Renée Knight. Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett) is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker...

Famed director Alfonso Cuarón is taking on the small screen with a few of his longtime collaborators.

Famed director Alfonso Cuarón doesn’t usually tell stories on the small screen. From “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” to “Children of Men” and “Gravity,” the images he creates alongside his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, are built for the theater.

But all that is changing with his new Apple TV+ seven-episode limited series “Disclaimer,” premiering on Friday, Oct. 11, with its first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday through Nov. 15. Here’s everything you need to know about Alfonso Cuarón first-ever TV series: “Disclaimer.”

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Here at JoBlo, we love physical media – Especially 4K discs. To a lot of us, the 4K revolution has really given some of our favourite movies new life, with the format allowing us to see pristine versions of classic films that come the closest to presenting them in a way that allows us to experience them the way first run audiences did when they came out. While DVD and Blu-ray were both great for their time, 4K is miraculous, with movies like The Crow looking better in this format than they have since their original theatrical runs. One of the reasons is that the people doing the 4K restorations usually go back to a movie’s negative to make it look as good as it can, and the people restoring these films are passionate (even if some efforts have been controversial).

Yet, some of our favorite movies still aren’t available in 4K.

Santa Monica, CA – Fall into a new world when The Crow arrives on Premium Video, on Demand, and Premium Electronic Sell-Through on September 13 from Lionsgate. Based on the iconic graphic novel, The Crow tells the dark love story of Eric and Shelly, and the lengths one will go to for someone they love. Directed by Rupert Sanders, The Crow stars Bill Skarsgård (It), FKA twigs (award-winning singer-songwriter), and Danny Huston (The Constant Gardener).

Bill Skarsgård takes on the iconic role of The Crow in this modern reimagining of the original graphic novel by James O’Barr. Soulmates Eric (Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

Civil War is now streaming on Max, and the $122 million war movie success with 81% on Rotten Tomatoes is one of the best movies of 2024. Alex Garland's new dystopian war movie examines the world of war journalists, with it following a group of journalists who are headed to Washington D.C. to get an interview with the president before rebel forces siege the capitol. The film was a massive critical hit and was one of A24's biggest box office successes, and now that the film is on streaming, it is time for a whole new audience to discover the movie.

Director Alex Garland is one of the most acclaimed yet divisive filmmakers of the modern era, with Civil War being his most recent film. Garland got his start as a screenwriter, with him being behind the the script for 28 Days Later as well as other films like Sunshine and Never Let Me Go.

Producer Eric Newman and wife Dana Newman are doubling down on their commitment to Venice Community Housing. The couple, longtime supporters of the organization, made a $500,000 donation to the nonprofit as a way to support affordable housing initiatives.

Founded in 1988, Vch works to invest in permanently affordable housing, advance health and housing-based solutions for unhoused people, promote youth development and education, and build strategic partnerships based on equity and inclusion.

The organization has more than 300 homes in operation and another 400-plus in development. The nonprofit serves more than 1,300 people, the majority of whom are people of color. Vch is currently inching toward a grand opening of Journey Apartments, 40 units for transition-aged youth experiencing homelessness and people experiencing chronic homelessness.

“On behalf of Vch, we graciously thank the Newmans for their long-term and very generous support,” Vch’s co-executive director Erika Lee said in response to the sizable gift. “Donations like...

Two prominent actors have joined the cast of the JonBent Ramsey limited series in development at Paramount+. The six-episode series will be showrun by Freedom Writers' Richard Lagravense, who is writing and executive producing alongside Harrison Query and Tommy Wallach. It is set to dramatize the real-life incident in which child beauty queen JonBent Ramsey was found murdered on Christmas in 1996 at the age of 6, a notorious cold case that remains unsolved.

Per Variety, two Oscar-nominated actors have joined the cast of the Paramount+ show as JonBent Ramsey's parents, who were at times suspected of the murder. Melissa McCarthy, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Bridesmaids and Best Actress in Can You Ever Forgive Me? will be playing Patsy Ramsey while Clive Owen, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Closer, will be playing John Bennett Ramsey, who is the one who discovered their daughter's body in...

Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen are set to lead a limited series on the JonBenét Ramsey case at Paramount+, Variety has learned.

The show was first reported to be in the works back in March, but it had not landed at Paramount+ at that time. McCarthy and Owen will star as JonBenét’s parents, Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey.

“Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen are an extraordinary duo to delve into this tragic story that has cast a long, haunting shadow over American culture for nearly three decades,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO of Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios.

Currently titled “JonBenét Ramsey,” the true crime series will explore the murder of six-year-old Jonbenét, who was found murdered in the basement of her family’s home just hours after she was reported missing. The official description for the show states:

“It follows the Ramsey family, before and...

Near the start of Alfonso Cuarón’s sharply spiked Apple series, “Disclaimer,” a presenter at an awards ceremony honoring documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett) begins her speech by giving notice: “Beware of narrative and form,” she says. “Their power can bring us closer to the truth, but they can also be a weapon with a great power to manipulate.” Stories, like the ones Catherine crafts for her living, can provide clarity, but they can also be tailored by the teller to suit their own aims. They can take advantage of our assumptions and ingrained biases to steer us not toward the truth, but toward a desired distortion of that truth.

“In this way, Catherine’s work reveals something more problematic and profound: our own complicity in some of today’s more toxic social sins.”

Complicity. Narrative. Form. Cuarón isn’t shy in laying out his thesis, instructing the audience to...

Alfonso Cuaron has discussed the “miscalculation” he made in moving from making films to series, speaking at the Venice press conference for his Apple TV+ series Disclaimer.

“To shoot a film takes longer, and these were like seven films. It was a very long process – I really felt for the actors,” said Cuaron, making his first series after a film career that has included Gravity, Children of Men and Roma.

Seven-episode series Disclaimer stars Cate Blanchett as a television journalist whose work has been built on revealing the transgressions of long-respected institutions.

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Cate Blanchett has said “there’s a distinct lack of shame in society at the moment”, speaking at the Venice press conference for Alfonso Cuaron’s AppleTV+ series Disclaimer.

Asked if the way society shames women has changed in recent years, and how she approached this role as a woman, Blanchett began, “I always approach every role as a woman, because I am [one]. I don’t really think about that.”

“There’s a distinct lack of shame in society at the moment,” said the Australian actress and filmmaker. “Shame is very different to guilt. Guilt is a very useless emotion,...

Any time Alfonso Cuarón presents new work, you know it’ll be immersive, immediate, and a sensory experience. The man behind everything from Children Of Men and Gravity, to Roma and Y Tu Mamá También has become one of the most prevalent and defining voices of 21st century cinema. Now, get ready for a different mode of Cuarón – a filmmaker in longform, presenting his incoming Apple TV+ drama Disclaimer. When he read Renée Knight’s 2015 novel of the same name, he knew he wanted to bring it to the screen. But it required a different treatment to his previous work.

“I didn’t know how to put it together as a conventional film, because of the richness of the [characters’] stories and the detail that should be conveyed with each one of them,” Cuarón tells Empire in the Gladiator II issue. Hence, the story – spanning two timelines, in which secrets of...