What's it rated? R When? 2021 Where's it showing? Amazon Prime Michael Pearce directs this paranoia-driven sci-fi adventure about former U.S. Marine Malik Khan (Riz...
Amazon Studios Hires Greg Coleman as Global Head of Franchise Marketing
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Amazon Studios has brought on board Greg Coleman as its global head of franchise marketing, where he will be tasked with overseeing the team in charge of TV and film fantasy and sci-fi originals — including the upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series.
In leading Amazon’s genre-focused marketing, Coleman and his team will look to engage mass audiences across the world via the streaming studio’s marketing campaigns and support global expansion of the fantasy and sci-fi brands in its portfolio.
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'The Map of Tiny Perfect Things' Review: A Couple's Never-Ending Reality Re-spawns Beautiful Breakthroughs
'The Map of Tiny Perfect Things' Review: A Couple's Never-Ending Reality Re-spawns Beautiful Breakthroughs
Two young lovers find joy in life's magical minutiae as they repeat the same day over and over in this familiar but appealing romantic comedy.
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Running time: Running time: 99 MIN.
Before we’re even out of the opening credits of “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” director Ian Samuels and screenwriter Lev Grossman waste no time clueing us into its premise revolving around a time loop that will teach its teen protagonists to accept life’s little gifts and major detours. This John Green-lite fantasy for the young-adult crowd holds many sequences that sparkle and shine, but a few that stumble and sag as well. Yet the feature’s genteel, sweet spirit and radiant lead performances rescue it from forgettable mediocrity and genre familiarity.
Golden Globe Music Nominations: Songs Race Powered by Black Films, Streaming Services
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The awards season for musical achievement became a little clearer this morning with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe announcements for song and score.
Films about major African-American personalities dominated the song category, with new tunes from “One Night in Miami,” “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” accounting for three of the five slots. And, intriguingly, four of the five song nominees are from streaming services, not traditional studios.
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Also, following Globes tradition, major stars as both performers and writers were named (H.E.R., Leslie Odom Jr., Andra Day). Odom and Day each managed to score double nominations, as both were also nominated for their acting performances in those films — Odom as crooner Sam Cooke in “One Night in Miami,” Day as blues singer Holiday in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”
'Bliss' Review: Mike Cahill's Sci-Fi Fable Misses the Mark
A promising premise gets a dull, lead-footed treatment.
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Running time: Running time: 104 MIN.
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The biggest challenge of discussing Mike Cahill’s “Bliss” lies in describing its premise without making it sound considerably wilder and more interesting than it actually is. In short, the film stars Owen Wilson as a sad-sack office drone who, after accidentally killing his boss, is rescued by an intense, shamanistic homeless woman played by Salma Hayek, who not only informs him that they are soulmates, but also that they are among the few flesh-and-blood humans inhabiting a complex computer simulation, and by imbibing the right combinations of colorful crystals they can bend the laws of physics, and also travel to a paradisiacal alternate reality where their days consist of lounging on yachts and hobnobbing at parties with Bill Nye and a holographic Slavoj Žižek. See? Sounds intriguing enough, doesn’t it?