Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix will collaborate again to make a historical epic film. The “Alien” director has already started working on his next film “Kitbag”, which will be a biographical film about French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte, with Joaquin Phoenix as the protagonist. As for the title, it comes from a sentence: “Every soldier […]
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The top-grossing Chinese animated film of all time, about a demon-child superkid, proves that the blockbuster style is flowing around the globe. It’s not unusual to encounter an animated tale in which the hero is an incorrigible child (just look at “Boss Baby” or the Teen Titans). But the title character of “Ne Zha” is […]
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Dasheng, once imprisoned for 500 years for defying Buddha, must learn how to help children not get eaten by monsters in this PS2-esque Chinese tale. Monkey King: Hero is Back is a simple, entertaining movie tie-in game which feels like a lost PlayStation 2 title, with all the benefits and detriments that statement contains. Based on the Chinese animated […]
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Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor is the story of Pu Yi, the last imperial ruler of China, crowned at the age of three, sheltered inside the Forbidden City through a constant wave of revolts and violent takeovers before becoming in turns an exile, despot, and gardener who treaded lightly as Mao’s cultural revolution took over the nation […]
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I watched A Royal Night Out this weekend, which is another Queen Elizabeth II centric property currently streaming on Netflix (it was directed by Julian Jarrold who helmed two episodes of The Crown). It’s a not-that-great farcical romp that heavily fictionalizes the night Elizabeth and Margaret went out incognito to celebrate V-E Day among the common people. And […]
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