Movies
Is Boogie Nights the Sexiest Movie of All Time?
The other morning I found a proposition waiting for me in my inbox, courtesy of my trusted SPIN editor. It was an assignment to look over a dating website’s list of the 25 Sexiest Movies of All Time. Maybe I could do a small write-up about the films they found to be most ooh-la-la. Some assignments are no-brainers. And since I have no brain, and I love movies — especially ones with nudity in them — this seemed right up my alley. Culled from a list of 110 sexy movies, with a grading system that included categories such as sexiness (naturally, but subjective), box office earnings (nothing sexier than money), popularity (no incel flicks here) and accolades (“and the Oscar for Best Foreplay goes to…”), MyDatingAdvisor.com has compiled the perfect list for you and your partner’s nex...
Here Are Your 2022 Oscar Nominees
Fill your Letterboxd watchlist: Oscars season is officially here. The nominations for the 2022 Academy Awards were announced today (February 8), and Jane Campion’s measured but smoldering western The Power of the Dog leads the pack with 12, the most of any film. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune — anchored by performances from Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya — received 10, while Steven Spielberg’s sweeping West Side Story update and Kenneth Branagh’s black-and-white reflection on his Irish childhood Belfast earned 7 each. All four of those films are nominated for Best Picture, along with coming-of-age tale CODA, dark apocalypse comedy Don’t Look Up, storytelling drama Drive My Car, Williams family biopic King Richard, nostalgic jaunt Licorice Pizza, and n...
The Best and Worst Football Movies of All-Time
Football movies are problematic because they are largely as predictable as Tom Brady is on Super Bowl Sunday. (Well, except for this year.) In the end, the long shot squad of misfits almost always tops the team of super-jocks and the washed-up quarterback always seems to be able – against all odds – to muster up that one final drive to win the big game and the heart of the female lead. With that in mind, we surveyed some of the best and worst (and just OK) football films and ran some options for you. The Touchdowns Friday Night Lights (2004) Based on the timeless book of the same name by Buzz Bissinger, high school football reigns supreme over all in the depressed heartland. Billy Bob Thornton as Coach Gary Gaines is the MVP of the film version, and the intensity of small-town football has...
Troye Sivan’s New Film Three Months Will Stream On Paramount+ Very Soon
The last time Troye Sivan appeared on the big screen was 2018, in Joel Edgerton’s conversion-therapy drama Boy Erased. The interceding years have primarily seen him serving bops in the form of his 2020 EP, In a Dream, as well as collaborations with Lauv, Kacey Musgraves, and Tate McRae. But in just few weeks, Sivan makes his return to film, thanks to streaming. Three Months, a new coming-of-age comedy-drama movie produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and starring Sivan, will begin streaming exclusively on Paramount+ later this month. The film follows Caleb, a high-school senior in South Florida who is exposed to HIV just as he’s about to begin a new chapter — and the new love he finds as he waits for his results. Oh, and because this is Sivan, he’s making sure to likewise...
Flying Lotus to Score Upcoming Sci-Fi Horror Film, “Ash”
As if Flying Lotus‘ immaculate body of work couldn’t get more impressive, the Grammy Award-winning artist is set to score an upcoming sci-fi horror film called Ash. According to Deadline, the movie is set on a distant planet where a crew member of a space expedition awakes to find everyone in her station murdered. Her inquisitiveness leads to a horrifying thrill-ride accentuated by FlyLo’s original score. The film is based on a screenplay written by Jonni Remmler and it’s being produced by XYZ Films and GFC Films, Deadline. “I’ve a strong desire to innovate in the sci-fi space and I really want to show the world something they’ve never seen before,” Flying Lotus said in a press statement. Flying Lotus. Tim Saccenti Recommended Articles The esteemed ...
Rita Moreno, Ariana DeBose & Rachel Zegler Tell Their Side of ‘West Side Story’
There’s a saying that you should never meet your idols, but Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose beg to differ. It was the spring of 2019 when Rita Moreno showed up to rehearsals for the new West Side Story movie at Gelsey Kirkland dance studios in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. She is an actor and executive producer on the film, but to many of the young members of the cast, the first Latina actress to win an Academy Award meant so much more than that. Moreno strode into the room and asked to meet the person playing Anita, the heir to her Oscar-winning role from the 1961 adaptation of the musical, but she was nowhere to be found. “I was having a full-fledged panic attack,” DeBose admits. “I hid underneath the bleachers for like 20 minutes until I could get mys...
Ye aka Kanye West Demands Final Edit Approval On ‘jeen-yuhs’ Netflix Doc
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix The highly anticipated documentary chronicling the rise of Kanye West through unseen footage is set to hit Netflix – but there are clouds over the release due to the rapper demanding to have the approval of the final edit beforehand. Directed by Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is an in-depth look at the rapper and producer on his journey to be the popular and at times controversial superstar that he is today. But on the eve of the film’s release on the streaming platform giant, West has issued a public demand that he sees the project’s final version before giving his approval. In a post on West’s Instagram page made on Friday (January 21st), the caption to the image of his face and the film title read...
Amy Berg’s Evan Rachel Wood/Marilyn Manson Doc ‘Phoenix Rising — Part One: Don’t Fall’: Sundance 2022 Film Review
Wood excoriates Warner directly here, recounting how physically, sexually and psychologically abusive he had been, cruelty which included drugging her and then raping her while they filmed the music video for his song “Heart-Shaped Glasses.” Only the first portion of this two-part HBO series was made available and shown via the Sundance Film Festival as this review went to press, but it’s pretty hard to see how Manson’s already shredded reputation will recover from it, no matter how much he denies, as reported here, that any of the allegations are true. Woods alludes to the fact that several other women, such as the actor Esme Bianco, have alleged that they suffered similar abuse from him and perhaps some of them will speak about it on camera in part two of Rising Phoenix. W...
Scream’s Jenna Ortega Is The Horror Franchise’s New Blood
By Aedan Juvet The quintessential horror franchise Scream is back after 11 years of silence and 25 years since the conception of director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson’s incomparable terrors. The fifth entry of the film series, released on January 14, enlists the extraordinary trio of legacy characters that fans have come to love: Neve Campbell’s Sidney, Courteney Cox’s Gale, and David Arquette’s Dewey. But this re-envisioned Scream simultaneously opens the door for a whole new crop of Woodsboro’s suspects. By taking on a new challenge in a genre that has gone through unprecedented change, Scream presents perfect symmetry of multiple generational cinematic desires, successfully keeping the movies’ blood pumping. One of these new characters is played by the versatile rising star Je...
Lauryn Hill Named As Executive Producer For Amiri Baraka Documentary
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Corinth Films / Corinth Films The life and legacy of the late poet and activist Amiri Baraka is now the subject of a new documentary. And fellow New Jersey native Lauryn Hill is the executive producer who has helped bring it to life. Source: Corinth Films / Corinth Films The new documentary, titled Why Is We Americans, offers a look at the life of Baraka who is regarded as one of the most forthright authorities on Black American art, history, and culture. Related Stories As a leader of the Black Arts Movement that first began in 1965, Baraka was acclaimed for his expression of the Black experience through his poetry such as “It’s Nation Time” and his written work beginning with Blues People: Negro Music in White America. The film, which gets its title fro...
Jared Leto’s ‘Morbius’ Pushed to Spring Amid Omicron Surge
Morbius is on the move. The movie, starring Jared Leto, has set a new release date of April 1 amid the omicron surge. It had been set to open in theaters on Jan. 28. The Sony and Marvel film had already been delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, Sony announced that the film would move from October 2021 to early 2022. Morbius stars Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who suffered from a rare blood disease and turned himself into a living vampire during an attempt to cure himself. Explore Explore Jared Leto See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Adria Arjona, Matt Smith, Tyrese Gibson and Jared Harris also star in the film, which is directed by Daniel Espinosa. Michael Keaton, who played The Vulture in Son...
Alana Haim Would Relive Filming Licorice Pizza Every Day If She Could
By Zack Witzel Alana Haim hails from the San Fernando Valley. It’s her home. So, sweating in the streets of 1973 California as twentysomething Alana Kane in Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s naturalistic new film about the frenetic, ephemeral magic of youth? Totally normal. “It’s fucking hot,” she tells MTV News. “And that’s how I grew up. You never wore makeup because it melted off your face. Every day you were running around trying to find a pool.” But she’s a musician, not an actor. Haim, her band with her two older sisters, Danielle and Este, has been her full-time gig since at least 2012. They’ve released three albums, the latest of which, 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III, snagged two Grammy bids, including Album of the Year. They’ve toured the globe, and next year, their just-annou...
