Go back to the future on HBO in April: season two of the ambitious science fiction series Westworld, a smart and savvy reimagining of the 1970s movie, and War for the Planet of the Apes, the third film in the superb revival trilogy, offer radically different takes on our evolutionary course. Also coming in April […]
Lean, mean, swift, and sure, Atomic Blonde (2017) is the kind of action movie we need in the contemporary morass of CGIed to mush spectacle. That’s not to say it eschews digital effects but director David Leitch, a co-creator and uncredited co-director of John Wick and a veteran stuntman and stunt choreographer, uses digital manipulation […]
You may recall Prometheus with both awe and astonishment, a film with astounding moments of beauty and horror and brilliance bumping up against stupidity and sloppiness and half-baked ideas. Alien: Covenant (2017), the second film in the Alien prequel series, takes place a decade after the events of Prometheus (2012) and continues writing the xenomorph […]
It’s been a kick-ass year for women heroes on the screen and the most lethal kicks came from Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde. It arrives from theaters to HBO in March along with Sofia Coppola’s award-winning remake The Beguiled, My Cousin Rachel with Rachel Weisz, and Alien: Covenant with Michael Fassbender. HBO launches Barry, a new […]
Logan with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, arguably the most mature superhero movie to date, makes its HBO debut in December, and the HBO original miniseries Gunpowder, a historical drama about the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the British Parliament starring Kit Harington and Liv Tyler, begins in December. Other new films coming in […]
Get Out, Jordan Peele’s smart, sly, satirical horror film with a social slant on race in America, makes its HBO debut and Jon Stewart hosts the all-star benefit Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs in November. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directs the two-part documentary Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge, which […]
La La Land, the Oscar-winning musical with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and Oscar-nominated drama Hidden Figures, starring Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer as real-life mathematicians who worked behind the scenes at NASA, debut on HBO in September, along with the action thriller Assassin’s Creed, based on the video game, and the comedy Why […]
Between his breakthrough hit Memento and his blockbuster smash Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan helmed Insomnia (2002), the American remake of the icy, sun-bright 1997 Norwegian noir. Relocated to Alaska and starring Al Pacino in the role played by Stellan Skarsgård in the original, it’s built on the same motif: the 24 hour daylight of the […]
It may be summer outside but winter is here on HBO as Game of Thrones returns. The seventh season of HBO’s most popular series debuts in July, along with new seasons of the HBO originals Insecure with Issa Ray and Ballers with Dwayne Johnson. HBO also debuts the four-part original documentary The Defiant Ones about […]
Carl Reiner talks with fellow nonagenarians and centenarians Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Kirk Douglas, Norman Lear, and Betty White for If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast. The HBO original documentary debuts on HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO On Demand in June the day after the acclaimed series The Leftovers ends its […]
