Booksmart, a teen coming-of-age comedy hit theaters on May 24, with Olivia Wilde making her directorial debut. The film follows two high school seniors and best friends Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and has been compared to classic coming-of-age teen movies such as American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused. If you are planning
It has been quite the bumpy road leading up to the release of Aladdin. Between questionable marketing and outrage over images of Will Smith as Genie, the live-action remake of the animated classic has experienced more controversy than a Kanye West rant on TMZ. What might surprise most moviegoers this weekend is just how much
A new trailer dropped today for the sequel/reboot Terminator: Dark Fate which looks to be an attempt to take the franchise back to its roots. This incarnation brings back James Cameron as producer along with the original star of the Terminator Saga, Linda Hamilton. Also, just like Halloween 2018, this entry will ignore the last
When Jonathan and Martha Kent raised a Kryptonian baby as their own, they taught him good values and helped him become Superman. It’s a good thing Clark listened to them. If he hadn’t there’d be no stopping him. Brightburn is truly the Bad Seed of Krypton. Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle Breyer (David Denman) are
From the director of Bohemian Rhapsody comes the story of Elton John. By making Rocketman an actual musical, it avoids some of the Dewey Cox biopic formula. The framing device is Elton John (Taron Egerton) telling his life story in AA, so you could say, “Elton John needs to think about his entire life before
The nerds trying to be popular has been a subject of teen comedies since the beginning of the genre. Booksmart has a new twist on it, but this will probably be an everygreen concept for teen comedies to come for the rest of time. Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) didn’t mind being unpopular
Aladdin doesn’t just re-enact the animated movie in live-action form. It has, ahem, a whole new world of scenes to show you. One is a Bollywood style dance when Aladdin (Mena Massoud) arrives at the palace as Prince Ali of Ababwa. For Massoud and his Jasmine, Naomi Scott, however, the choreography was secondary. This was
After the success of Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book and Cinderella, Disney is bringing Aladdin to live-action life. Naomi Scott plays Jasmine in the movie and gets to sing an all new song. Aladdin composer Alan Menken wrote the music and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the music for Speechless. “The fact
Since Stranger Things became a phenomenon on Netflix, Millie Bobby Brown has become Hollywood’s most sought after actress. Godzilla: King of the Monsters is her first film since embodying the iconic role of Eleven. All the offers she’s getting are more than a single teenager can field. “That’s what my team deals with,” Brown said
If you have seen Netflix’s new science fiction film See You Yesterday, you might have wondered, due to its inconclusive ending, whether the movie creators plan to make a sequel. Since Netflix dropped the movie on Friday, May 17, hundreds of fans have taken to social media, saying they want a sequel to the movie