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The release of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Fcapped off 30 years of development, as the series’ producers struggled to find a way forward after 1994’s disastrous Beverly Hills Cop III. In the 2000s, we almost got a fourth Cop about Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley investigating the murder of his buddy Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold); at some points the project could have been directed by Brett Ratner and Adil & Bilall. We also almost got a project that would have ensured that Axel F would never have happened at all, at least not in anything resembling the form streaming on Netflix: The never-aired Beverly...
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A film critic must be able to receive criticism themselves. And if you review kids movies, odds are you will hear the same criticism one or two thousand times… “It’s a movie for children, not for adults, much less critics. So who cares what they think?” Now I should say first of all: I care. A good film critic knows way more about movies, even kids movies, than a kid. For one thing, they’ve seen a lot more of them. They can put a new movie in a historical context, analyze its themes, consider its visual style, and examine its vocal performances. Even if they’re not the film’s target audience. ...
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2024 was the year the world finally got a remake of The Crow. This update of the 1990s’ most extravagantly goth superhero stars Bill Skarsgård as Eric Draven, a bad tattoo enthusiast who is murdered along with his fiancé Shelly, and then returns to life to “put the wrong things right.” The new Crow was directed by Rupert Sanders, but over the last 15 years, directors ranging from Stephen Norrington to Joan Carlos Fresnadillo to Corin Hardy tried to bring their own takes on the material to the screen. They all failed. But one director might have succeeded where those others did not; one man who...
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The sign on the kitchen wall reads “Every second counts.” At one point in the Season 3 premiere of The Bear, Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy Berzatto glances at it, then reminds his brigade to keep up the pace. They all yell “CHEF!” in unison. Later — or technically before, because this episode (“Tomorrow”) is a swirl of memories told out of chronological order — Carmy is working as a cook in a Michelin-starred kitchen lorded over by an abusive chef played by Joel McHale. McHale is a monstrous boss. Unsatisfied with all of Carmy’s work, he routinely berates him for what he perceives as sloppy craft...
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The following post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Acolyte Episode 5. The latest episode of The Acolyte answered the biggest question on the show to date — namely the mysterious identity of Mae’s Sith Master. (It was Qimir! The guy who looked like the obvious red herring was … actually just the bad guy all along?! Huh.) But the new Acolyte episode also raised some new questions along the way. Mainly viewers are puzzled by one recurring element of “Night”: The fact that the Jedi lightsabers keep sputtering out and malfunctioning during the battle with the Sith. This is something that’s alm...
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Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, and the Eagles all received the all-star tribute album treatment in the early ’90s. Why not Kiss? It’s a question that might have seemed a little ridiculous in the ’80s, when they had to struggle a bit to remain relevant during a stretch of middling albums and lineup changes, but as a new decade dawned, the members of the band realized a funny thing: they were being name-checked as influences by a surprising number of up-and-coming young bands. “I was stunned that, all of a sudden, after years of being the black sheep of rock and roll, people were coming out,” recalle...
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The following post contains SPOILERS for Inside Out 2. After this, you’re not allowed to scream at me like Lewis Black while fire explodes from your head. You have been warned. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 takes us further into the recesses of 13-year-old Riley’s mind. Joy and company’s quest to retrieve Riley’s “Sense of Self” from the “Back of Her Mind” winds through all sorts of locales cleverly inspired by the human psyche — like the “sar-chasm” that opens near the “Stream of Consciousness.” At one point, Joy, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are all captured by the “Mind Police” (which really should be t...
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After the original DC writers and artist who created Batman and Superman, and the Silver Age icons who built the Marvel Universe, there may not be a single more important American comic book creator in history than Frank Miller. Although Miller did not necessarily create a ton of globally iconic characters, he’s had a massive impact on heroes at both Marvel and DC: Daredevil at the former, thanks to his groundbreaking run on that title in the early 1980s, and Batman at the latter, via his enormously influential graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Miller’s work on both those ch...
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Did you know that one of the best movies of the year just premiered on Netflix? I hope so, but it wouldn’t surprise if you didn’t. Sometimes it looks like Netflix’s distribution strategy is designed to finally answer the age-old question about whether a tree falling in the woods makes a sound if no one is there to hear it. Don’t just take my word for it. Listen to the people who actually make their movies. Describing his experience directing his 2022 animated movie Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhoodfor Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater said he was proud of the finished product, but did fe...
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The first thing that leaps out at you when HBO’s Ren Faire begins is the way it looks. Every month, streaming services are flooded with new documentary series, most haphazardly constructed from talking head interviews and archival footage. If I have to watch one more doc that begins with the interview subjects arriving in their seat, adjusting their clothes and their microphones, and then saying something like “I’m ready, let’s dot his,” I’m going to lose it. Ren Faire is something else entirely. The three-part series, directed by Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven), has cinematic visuals co...
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