Movies

A conversation with Phil Lord and Chris Miller about the new movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Fandango correspondent Karama Horne chatted with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, co-writers and producers of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. I love interviews with Lord and Miller for a lot of reasons, but perhaps…

Journey Through June #5 Do you believe in ghosts or spirits? I like a good movie. The 1999 movie, The Sixth Sense, was one of the most well written ghost movies I’ve ever seen. …

The DGA makes a deal, likely accelerating the application of AI in movies — The Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have averted a potential strike with a “historic” deal: In addition to wage increases and higher streaming residuals, among other things, there is a unique agreement on artificial intelligence that could potentially encourage the…

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been an actor. My life is a movie. The world is my stage. The Caricature. I was cast in my first role as Moses at the age of 5 in a church play before I even knew how to read, & I never really looked back…

A frenetic, visually breathtaking animated sequel that equals its predecessor by caring about the characters as much as the spectacle. — When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse blasted onto our screens in 2018, it stretched the boundaries of mainstream cinema in terms of animation, metatextual send-up, and what was narratively possible in a superhero film with its bold multiverse plot. Since then, other multiverse movies have cluttered our screens, to the point…

The WWDC 2023 keynote is over, and unlike most years this year we had a completely new hardware category too. Apple Vision Pro is the newest hardware product from the company that gave us the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and the Apple Watch. I was watching the…

Backlash over a mythological creature is utterly ridiculous — Last year, when Disney announced they cast Halle Bailey, a Black singer and actress, to play Ariel, a mermaid-turned-princess in their live-action musical rendition of The Little Mermaid, the Black community started bracing for impact. The backlash over the Wonder Years remake featuring a Black family, Black cast members in…

Why Stop at Being Super? — I’m not referring to ethnicity or race specifically, but rather Superman must look different from the majority of the population, and his identity should be his primary issue. Who is Superman? Technically, he is an alien or someone from a different land, possibly an illegal immigrant. Superman endeavors to bring hope to Earth…