First Man movie review: La la lunar landing

For decades, The Right Stuff has been the definitive movie about man’s landing on the moon. There’ve been other astronaut movies like Apollo 13 and the more in-depth miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, but now First Man takes a more individual look at the Apollo missions. We meet Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) on

First Man screenwriter Josh Singer on what Neil Armstrong may have left on the moon

First Man tells the story of Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling)’s journey to the moon, beginning with the death of his daughter Karen (Lucy Stafford). The film suggests Armstrong may have left something of hers there. Screenwriter Josh Singer adapted James Hansen’s biography of Armstrong. Damien Chazelle directed the film. No stranger to historical stories, Singer

Exclusive: Why there are no cell phones in Blade Runner 2049

The original Blade Runner showed us a grim future where corporations and technology had cluttered cities. The sequel takes us to the year 2049, but you might be surprised how technology has and has not advanced. Blade Runner 2049 screenwriter explained why, for one thing, nobody in the year 2049 uses a cell phone. “We

The real reason Blade Runner 2049 took 35 years

Perhaps 35 years isn’t such a long time when you consider it took 25 for Ridley Scott to make his Final Cut of the original Blade Runner. Blade Runner 2049 brings back replicant hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and a new group of Blade Runners and replicants. At the Los Angeles press conference for the

La La Land dominates as diversity returns in Oscar nominations

Tune-filled and bittersweet, La La Land proved to be a juggernaut when nominations for the 2017 Oscars were announced on Tuesday by the Motion Picture Academy. The original musical for the big screen, a rarity among films these days, La La Land was nominated in 14 categories. That ties the all-time-record set by All About

The Nice Guys review

  Iron Man 3 was a nice little diversion for filmmaker/screenwriter Shane Black but we’ve been denied his trademark buddy films like Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It’s been over 10 years since Kiss Kiss came out and his fans have been starving for a story that reeks of empty liquor bottles, cigarette

The Nice Guys trailer: Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are hilarious

The new trailer for Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe movie The Nice Guys  is out – and it’s one of the funniest you’ll see all year. The comedy, out May 20, sees Gosling play a private detective with his enforcer buddy Crowe as they try to solve a crime that turns out more complex than they could possibly