Keanu Reeves Says The Wachowskis Introduced Him To Anime

The series, which follows an 80,000-year-old warrior who can punch people through their chests, debuted in 2021 and is already being developed as a live-action movie for Netflix. But Reeves was focused on the present, talking about his love of comic books and passion for writing “BRZRKR,” an experience that gave him “some of the best creative days of my life.” “I was that kid coming back with bags of comic books, and it was always a good day,” he said (via The Hollywood Reporter)....

March 22, 2023 · 2 min · 344 words · Alexander Ray

Last Chance U Basketball Review Netflix Documentary Follows New Team

In “Last Chance U: Basketball,” the documentary team’s first foray into a new sport, East Los Angeles College coach John Mosley has plenty of impassioned speeches of his own. Yet, that same occasional volatility over the course of this eight-episode season is one indication of how the franchise has evolved over the better part of a decade, building on its person-to-person insights that have consistently separated “Last Chance U” from the myriad other shows profiling on-the-verge contenders....

March 22, 2023 · 6 min · 1109 words · Megan Edwards

Laura Poitras Says She Was Fired From First Look Media

First Look Media co-founder Laura Poitras published an open letter Thursday, writing that she’s been fired from First Look, the nonprofit that owns investigative journalism outlet The Intercept and the documentary studio Field of Vision. Poitras said the firing, which happened back in November, came after she publicly criticized The Intercept’s handling of whistleblower Reality Winner. She says the organization is betraying its founding mission to serve as a public watchdog anchored in deep, investigative reporting....

March 22, 2023 · 4 min · 827 words · Jose Vasquez

Laurence Fishburne I Hoped Matrix Resurrections Would Be Better

Fishburne, who previously played Morpheus in the franchise, told Variety that he did not miss out on reprising his role for the fourth film, which premiered in 2021. “No, not really,” Fishburne said at the premiere of his latest film, “The School for Good and Evil” on Netflix. “It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. And it wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be.” Instead, Fishburne applauded former co-stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss’ respective performances as Neo and Trinity....

March 22, 2023 · 2 min · 361 words · Joseph Clark

Live Pd Revived And Rebranded By Reelz

Former hit A&E series “Live PD” was cancelled in June 2020 amid protests following the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Simultaneously, the show faced a major controversy of its own when it came out that in 2019 “Live PD” filmed — and eventually destroyed — footage of a man dying in police custody. At the time, producers expressed regret over the destruction of the unaired footage but explained it was standard practice to do so after the investigation into the incident was closed....

March 22, 2023 · 4 min · 718 words · Charles Sanders

Lord Of The Rings Orc Actor Recalls Panic Attack On Set

“The more the panic is coming the worst that it is,” Ure said. “I’d never really experienced a panic like that. I was maybe three seconds away from ripping the face off so I could breathe, I thought I couldn’t breathe. No one can tell because I’m under all that stuff. Suddenly, I just could swallow again. Nobody knew anything. That was my own little episode. I was completely freaked out for a minute....

March 22, 2023 · 2 min · 382 words · Rebecca Berger

Luca Guadagnino Talks Timothee Chalamet Reunion Call Me Sequel Dead

“Bones and All” is an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ novel. Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria” scribe David Kajganich wrote the screenplay. Deadline reports of the plot: “The film is a story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages, and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America....

March 22, 2023 · 3 min · 442 words · Jennifer Howard MD
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