The Ars guide to time travel in the movies
We picked 20 time-travel movies and rated them by scientific logic and entertainment value.
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The movies are back. But we’re still learning how to love going to theaters again
From 'Barbenheimer' to 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,' people are going to cinemas again. But a post-pandemic, post-strike Hollywood has its work cut out for it.
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Best Movies This Year - Metacritic
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What Movies to Watch Right Now - Metacritic
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November 2023 Movie Preview: The Marvels, Hunger Games, Maestro, Napoleon, and More Films to See
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Inside Robert De Niro’s Gotham Awards Speech Debacle (EXCLUSIVE)
Apple employees removed Trump criticism from Robert De Niro's Gotham speech at request of the 'Killers of the Flower Moon' filmmaking team.
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‘The Crown’ Unveils Kate Middleton’s See-Through Dress, Older Prince William and Harry in Season 6 Part 2 First Look
Netflix releases a first look at 'The Crown' Season 6 Part 2 with photos of Kate Middleton's sheer dress and older Prince William and Harry
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James Cameron Says ‘Avatar 3’ Is in a ‘Very Hectic Two Years of Post-Production Right Now,’ Plans to Only Shoot Films in New Zealand ‘Indefinitely’
James Cameron is spending the next two years in post-production on "Avatar 3."
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The 25 Best Movies on Tubi (November 2023)
Quickly becoming the darling of film geeks looking for older, more obscure, or more ignored cinema, the best movies on Tubi are free.
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The 50 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (November 2023)
Finding the best movies on Amazon Prime can be tough. We've done the work for you. Here are the 50 finest films available on Amazon:
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The 50 Best Movies on Hulu Right Now (November 2023)
The best movies on Hulu feature an unexpected variety of classics, indie gems and recent blockbusters. They're all here.
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The 25 Best Movies On Demand Right Now (November 2023)
With so much competition for on demand movies, how do you know what to watch? Check out the best on-demand movies available right now:
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The 10 Best Movies in Theaters Right Now
For the first time in a long time, many are flocking back to the movies. In theaters no less! Here are the best movies in theaters now:
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Jeffrey Wright to Receive Career Achievement Award at Palm Springs Film Fest (Exclusive)
The 'American Fiction' actor will be honored on Jan. 4.
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Alone
2020
4.5/10
Been sitting on this one for a year and finally got around watching it last night on Hulu.
Not much to say being the premise has been done a number of times since the 90s.
If you enjoy seeing White Chicks getting what’s coming to them, you will definitely enjoy this flick.
Synopsis
A kidnapped widow is pursued by a cold-blooded killer after she escapes from his remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest.
2020
4.5/10
Been sitting on this one for a year and finally got around watching it last night on Hulu.
Not much to say being the premise has been done a number of times since the 90s.
If you enjoy seeing White Chicks getting what’s coming to them, you will definitely enjoy this flick.
Synopsis
A kidnapped widow is pursued by a cold-blooded killer after she escapes from his remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest.
The 16 movies everyone's going to be talking about this December
Timothee Chalamet, Bradley Cooper, Eddie Murphy, Emma Stone, Jason Momoa and Julianne Moore will also be gracing our screens.
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This movie was excellent. A throwback drama built on dialogue, slight humor, great story development and a great endingThe Holdovers
Heartwarming with a capital H
PRAISE : Director Alexander Payne and actor Paul Giamatti team up again for The Holdovers about a New England school instructor who soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook.
The setting for the movie couldn't be more perfect, the coldness and bleakness of winter is synonymous with what several characters are experiencing or have experienced. Giamatti is great as usual, especially when his character is pushed into a corner and questioned about something, the pitch of his voice rising is not only funny but extremely entertaining and then some. Equally great are Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully and Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb. Both giving strong ,dramatic and amusing performances.
Paynes signature story threads always bring a smile to my face especially when they go down unexpected roads.
I liked how the film focuses for some time on how someone may think that they know all there is to a person: Oh he's just a his way or the highway dictator ,this person is holier than thou or upstanding to a T.
The layers are pulled back on the characters and the back stories on them are amusing, sad and extremely moving.
PROBLEMS: At times some of the turns in the script are a bit to spelled out and predictable
Scale of 1 to 10 a 9
This movie was excellent. A throwback drama built on dialogue, slight humor, great story development and a great ending
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Maestro
Music Master
PRAISE : Having watched West Side Story multiple times back in the day I was definitely familiar with the music of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Bradley Coopers Maestro is not only a tribute to Bernstein but his wife Felicia Montealegre ,and the music and entertainment of the time periods covered in the movie. I think Cooper and co writer Josh Singer capture Bernsteins love for music, his struggles with being bisexual ,wanting it all and trying to be discreet and protective. Cooper is great as Bernstein really losing himself in and embracing the role. I could really tell he did his homework on Bernstein.
Carey Mulligan turns in a terrific person as Montealegre.The joy and pain of being with Bernstein is written all over her face. In some standout scenes she attempts to ignore certain things going on around her, trying to ignore one particular person as respect for her and her relationship with Bernstein is slowly but surely pushed out of the picture. Her rationalizing over some of Bernsteins actions was well done.
Coopers blending of scenes are done nicely. There's a really great scene that truly shows joy and pain simultaneously happening. I found a lot of dramatic moments to be extremely effective. They really ring true .
PROBLEMS: There is a scene that I wish Cooper had shot differently, made it more up close and personal because it was a build up to what was coming.
Some scenes are overdone. Part of it is in the nineteen forties part of the film. The others are connected to the last thirty minutes of the film,which felt like Oscar bait and then some.
Scale of 1 to 10 an 8
Music Master
PRAISE : Having watched West Side Story multiple times back in the day I was definitely familiar with the music of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Bradley Coopers Maestro is not only a tribute to Bernstein but his wife Felicia Montealegre ,and the music and entertainment of the time periods covered in the movie. I think Cooper and co writer Josh Singer capture Bernsteins love for music, his struggles with being bisexual ,wanting it all and trying to be discreet and protective. Cooper is great as Bernstein really losing himself in and embracing the role. I could really tell he did his homework on Bernstein.
Carey Mulligan turns in a terrific person as Montealegre.The joy and pain of being with Bernstein is written all over her face. In some standout scenes she attempts to ignore certain things going on around her, trying to ignore one particular person as respect for her and her relationship with Bernstein is slowly but surely pushed out of the picture. Her rationalizing over some of Bernsteins actions was well done.
Coopers blending of scenes are done nicely. There's a really great scene that truly shows joy and pain simultaneously happening. I found a lot of dramatic moments to be extremely effective. They really ring true .
PROBLEMS: There is a scene that I wish Cooper had shot differently, made it more up close and personal because it was a build up to what was coming.
Some scenes are overdone. Part of it is in the nineteen forties part of the film. The others are connected to the last thirty minutes of the film,which felt like Oscar bait and then some.
Scale of 1 to 10 an 8
Men
2022
5.5/10
This is a flick I watched last night on Paramount+. It’s labeled as a Sci-Fi/Horror but plays out more like a psychological thriller.
Not much to say about the plot being it mainly revolves around the main characters emotional state.
The film is loaded up with religious metaphors from the Old Testament Book of Genesis. The first hour is a slow burn and the last 20 minutes it gets real odd.
For the Militants, there is interracial with a BM/WW, nothing is shown.
For the Gay Agenda trackers, there is full frontal male nudity. There is also multiple scenes of men giving “birth”, not gonna go into detail but it falls in the category of “What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen”, viewer discretion is advised.
Watch if you like and enjoy watching content that is different from what is normally out there.
Synopsis
Harper retreats to the countryside to be alone in the wake of a tragedy, but her unease at the town's leering and uncannily similar men grows into a fully fledged nightmare as her arrival awakens something primal in the forest.
2022
5.5/10
This is a flick I watched last night on Paramount+. It’s labeled as a Sci-Fi/Horror but plays out more like a psychological thriller.
Not much to say about the plot being it mainly revolves around the main characters emotional state.
The film is loaded up with religious metaphors from the Old Testament Book of Genesis. The first hour is a slow burn and the last 20 minutes it gets real odd.
For the Militants, there is interracial with a BM/WW, nothing is shown.
For the Gay Agenda trackers, there is full frontal male nudity. There is also multiple scenes of men giving “birth”, not gonna go into detail but it falls in the category of “What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen”, viewer discretion is advised.
Watch if you like and enjoy watching content that is different from what is normally out there.
Synopsis
Harper retreats to the countryside to be alone in the wake of a tragedy, but her unease at the town's leering and uncannily similar men grows into a fully fledged nightmare as her arrival awakens something primal in the forest.
Why part of iconic 'Titanic' scene is out of focus
James Cameron reveals why part of an iconic 'Titanic' scene is out of focus, in a new featurette for the movie's 4K Ultra HD release.
The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made
A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema.
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Every Godzilla Movie of the Past 40 Years, Ranked
Over the past four decades, Godzilla has risen up from the depths again and again — and each time has been very different.
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‘Lucha: A Wrestling Tale’ Review: An Endearing Doc Portrait of Bronx High School Girls’ Wrestling Team
Marco Ricci's documentary follows four young women who turn to their school wrestling team in a rough corner of New York City.
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‘Uncropped’ Review: James Hamilton Doc Doubles as a Compelling Elegy for Photojournalism and Alt-Weeklies
Executive produced by Wes Anderson, D.W. Young's film puts Village Voice photographer James Hamilton in the spotlight.
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The Fien Print
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Amazon Fires Producer Joel Silver From Films Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jake Gyllenhaal Over Verbal Abuse (EXCLUSIVE)
Amazon Studios has fired the hard-charging producer Joel Silver from Mark Wahlberg andJake Gyllenhaal movies.
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Disney, CAA Beat Copyright Infringement Lawsuit From Production Exec Over ‘Ad Astra’
The suit alleged the makers of the sci-fi film "blatantly infringed" on a space thriller written by Madison Jones, head of de Passe Entertainment. He said he will appeal the ruling.
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How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror
The Warren’s case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe.
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Go Inside the Mind of Action Cinema Master John Woo
The legendary filmmaker talks to Obsessed about giving Hollywood a second chance with his new movie “Silent Night,” a thriller that unfolds entirely dialogue-free.
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Brings the Mayhem and Destruction
Toho Studios’ sequel to 2016’s “Shin Godzilla” proves the Japanese know how to get the iconic radioactive behemoth right.
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The Director Who Turned Nicolas Cage Into Your Actual Nightmare
Kristoffer Borgli, the director of “Dream Scenario” and “Sick of Myself,” talks about his surprising double feature about searching for viral fame—and being ruined by it.
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Go Inside the Mind of Action Cinema Master John Woo
The legendary filmmaker talks to Obsessed about giving Hollywood a second chance with his new movie “Silent Night,” a thriller that unfolds entirely dialogue-free.www.thedailybeast.com
New Movie Trailer: John Woo's Silent Night (no dialogue!)
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‘Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé’ Brightens Up Thursday With $5M Previews; 99% Positive Audience Exits – Box Office
AMC Entertainment’s second concert film theatrical release, Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce, fired up last night with $5M previews from showtimes that began at 7PM. While that figure is higher…
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‘The Marvels’ Suffered From a Lack of ‘Supervision on the Set,’ Says Bob Iger; Disney CEO Admits Studio Has ‘Made Too Many’ Sequels Recently
Bob Iger says "The Marvels" suffered from a lack of supervision on the set.
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Macaulay Culkin reunites with 'Home Alone' mom Catherine O'Hara
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals: Macaulay Culkin has tearful reunion with 'Home Alone' mom Catherine O'Hara at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
Silent Night
It's cool, but not nothing must see at the movies.
Story isn't deep. It seems more like a straight to Netflix movie. Action is cool, but expected more because it's John Woo.
Don't expect a lot of dialogue. One thing I liked was that for a change it actually showed someone getting ready and training, instead of having these natural skills in their DNA.
It's cool, but not nothing must see at the movies.
Story isn't deep. It seems more like a straight to Netflix movie. Action is cool, but expected more because it's John Woo.
Don't expect a lot of dialogue. One thing I liked was that for a change it actually showed someone getting ready and training, instead of having these natural skills in their DNA.
The movie was bad, but I have never heard of a white director being described as requiring supervision during the making of a film that bombed‘The Marvels’ Suffered From a Lack of ‘Supervision on the Set,’ Says Bob Iger; Disney CEO Admits Studio Has ‘Made Too Many’ Sequels Recently
Bob Iger says "The Marvels" suffered from a lack of supervision on the set.
The Best Movies of 2023
The year’s wide variety of cinematic artistry reflects the many systems of production at work behind the scenes.
Martin Scorsese’s Unwise Guys
From Travis Bickle to the protagonist of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the director has excelled at depicting a certain kind of male antihero.
Taika Waititi is ready for you to buy into the Taikaverse
Korg is a priest. All Taika Waititi characters are priests, and they’re all the same character. This makes sense, right?
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The Goldfinger reunites two legends for a Hong Kong take on The Wolf of Wall Street
They inspired Scorsese, now it looks like Scorsese inspired them
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Jimi Plays Monterey
1986
10/10
This is documentary I saw on MAX the other night.
It plays in full Jimmy Hendrix’s legendary live performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
The official backstory to his performance was that Jimi and the Who were beefing about who was gonna go on first. The Who won a coin toss and they went out and did their set ending it with them destroying their equipment. Jimi followed and stated he would best them…and he did.
This cat was a beast on that guitar and he came out with his A game in his performance.
This is a must see documentary.
Synopsis
Jimi Hendrix's landmark concert in Monterey County Fairgrounds in California in which he plays signature songs like "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "Wild Thing."
1986
10/10
This is documentary I saw on MAX the other night.
It plays in full Jimmy Hendrix’s legendary live performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
The official backstory to his performance was that Jimi and the Who were beefing about who was gonna go on first. The Who won a coin toss and they went out and did their set ending it with them destroying their equipment. Jimi followed and stated he would best them…and he did.
This cat was a beast on that guitar and he came out with his A game in his performance.
This is a must see documentary.
Synopsis
Jimi Hendrix's landmark concert in Monterey County Fairgrounds in California in which he plays signature songs like "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "Wild Thing."
