On the new side, Tribeca Film Festival’s embrace of interactive programming – both digital and non-digital – is exciting and trailblazing. On the digital side, much of VR – especially the kind that is designed for full-body motion (mainly, waving your arms) is still rudimentary, filled with trite Technicolor landscapes and amorphous, lava lamp-like shapes.
Disney’s new adaptation of The BFG, directed by Steven Spielberg, was one of 2016’s most anticipated films — and for good reason. The Roald Dahl children’s classic on which it is based is without doubt one of the best kids’ stories of all time, and with a director of Spielberg’s caliber behind it the movie promises
Vincent Lindon uncorks a spectacular, if understated, performance in writer/director Stéphane Brizé’s essay on the present day working class. The screenplay, co-written by Olivier Gorce, features Lindon as Thierry Taugourdeau, an unemployed / underemployed man trying to support a family. Lindon and his wife and child are remarkable in their lack of moral flaws. Although
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic The BFG is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, organisers have revealed. The prestigious French festival has revealed the Disney animated movie will be one of 49 movies shown at the event. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 11-22, almost two month’s before
National Canadian Film Day is a grand new tradition, now in its third year, to remind Canadians that the country has a rich and diverse legacy of films and that people need to see them. On Wednesday (April 20), 350 Canadian films will be shown across the country free of charge, in libraries, small town
Adapting children’s literature with a large cast of anthropomorphic animals rife with song and dance numbers and sterilizing the dark moments are traits of Disney’s classic catalog of animated features from Snow White to Pocohantas. But this is a new Disney now and when they’re not off servicing the latest Star Wars or Marvel Cinematic
Imajyn Cardinal, a gifted 16-year-old Cree actor, grew up on film sets watching her mother actress Michelle Thrush do her thing. Now it’s Cardinal’s turn to join the family business. Cardinal stars in Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s The Saver and appears in nearly every frame of the film. It’s about a girl in Montreal whose mother
Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book is one of the most complex animated movies of all time. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s short stories of the same name, its release comes almost half a century after the original 1967 movie made its debut. The film stars Neel Sethi as mancub Mowgli, but all the main animal characters were
Disney are already working on a sequel to The Jungle Book, reports claim. Director Jon Favreau and writer Justin Marks are set to return in the same roles for The Jungle Book 2, The Hollywood Reporter says. The news came before the new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic short stories had even been released, with the
Disney’s new adaptation of The Jungle Book hits theaters tomorrow — with an all-star cast voicing the story’s famous characters. The only human with a main role in the movie is Neel Sethi, who plays Mowgli, as the animals all made with incredibly realistic CGI. As a special treat, Disney put together photos of the actual