“I don’t take it seriously,” Tarantino said in an interview with GQ magazine earlier this month, although the publication did note that the director gave off “a sigh of disappointment that we would even think to ask such a thing.” “There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies,” Tarantino said. “That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director....
Sony’s move was unprecedented for a video game as high-profile as “Cyberpunk 2077,” which released on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles December 10. The game, which Polish developer CD Projekt Red claimed to receive 8 million pre-orders across all platforms, scored controversy due to a variety of bugs and performance issues, particularly on the last-generation PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. Microsoft, which operates the Xbox consoles, announced on Friday that it would offer refunds to customers who purchased the digital version of the game on the Microsoft Store....
“It’s our belief — that I think is not unfounded — that actors’ speeches tend to be more dramatic than producers’ speeches,” Soderbergh said, referring to how producers accept Best Picture and end the ceremony with their speech. “And so we thought it might be fun to mix it up, especially if people didn’t know that was coming. So that was always part of the plan.” Soderbergh and his team doubled down on ending the 2021 Oscars with the Best Actor category once the nominations were announced and the late Chadwick Boseman was in the running....
Oh, and to kick things off, KISS will be performing. Yes, KISS the band. At a film and television festival. Just go with it. “When we launched Tribeca TV five years ago, we created space within the film festival to recognize the incredible, boundary-pushing work being done by filmmakers in the episodic format as official festival selections,” Cara Cusumano, Festival Director and VP of Programming, said in a statement. “In a year defined by at-home entertainment, we are proud to continue that tradition with an exciting Tribeca TV lineup of new series from today’s top storytellers and unique new voices....
A tender and unexpectedly suspenseful lesbian romance that ages the furtiveness of so many queer love stories until it’s subsumed into the frailty of “Amour,” Filippo Meneghetti’s “Two of Us” is at heart a film about how those choices can get harder over time, petrify around people as the years wear on, and — Meneghetti quite literally suggests — even paralyze them into running out the clock. It is often a good one, worthy of being selected as France’s official Academy Awards submission from a field that was light on major contenders, and especially so before its most pivotal character loses her ability to make any choices at all....
Paramount+ is not ViacomCBS’ first foray into the streaming industry: The service is effectively a rebrand of CBS All Access, which launched in 2014. CBS All Access subscribers will not notice any service interruption and all of the original platform’s content is available on Paramount+. The rebranded service sells the same ad-free $9.99 per month subscription tier as CBS All Access, while a $4.99 ad-supported tier will launch in June and is $1 cheaper than CBS All Access’ ad-supported option....
Prior to the 2021 Golden Globes, Taylor-Joy had a Gotham Award under her belt and a few critics prizes. The actress took home the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor at the 2016 ceremony for her performance in Robert Eggers’ “The Witch.” Despite facing tough competition from the likes of Nicole Kidman (who was in the running for her fifth Golden Globe), Taylor-Joy was widely viewed as the frontrunner given the rave reviews and blockbuster streaming numbers for “The Queen’s Gambit....
