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'Star Wars' fans get early Christmas gift with 'Rogue One'

Dec 8, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, fans had to wait years between “Star Wars” movies -- but the space saga is back with the most hotly anticipated spinoff in cinema history.Just 12 months after “The Force Awakens” shattered numerous box office records, Lucasfilm is unleashing “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” as an early Christmas gift for its millions of devotees. With just a week to go before its Dec. 16 US release, excitement is building for the eighth installment i
[Herald Review] A life well-regretted in ‘Will You Be There?’

Dec 6, 2016

French novelist Guillaume Musso’s novel turned into stirring film by female director Hong Ji-young
Disney teases 28 minutes of ‘Star Wars’ spinoff ‘Rogue One’

Dec 4, 2016

MARIN, California (AP) -- The secretive "Star Wars‘" spinoff movie "Rogue One" just got a little more tangible. Disney and Lucasfilm unveiled 28 minutes of footage for reporters on Friday at Skywalker Ranch, teasing the origin story of the band of rebels who aim to steal the plans for the Death Star -- the event that sets into motion the plot of the original 1977 "Star Wars."The footage skipped around in time and story line, but essentially sets up a world on the brink of rebellion. The Empire's
Sewol ferry disaster to be made into feature film

Dec 4, 2016

A ferry incident off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula that caused more than 300 deaths will be made into a feature film, industry sources said Sunday.The movie, tentatively titled “Sea Tiger,” will be based on a novel written by Kim Tak-hwan about divers who were involved in the 2014 rescue operations on the doomed ferry Sewol.Kim wrote the book based on the testimony of late diver Kim Kwan-hong, who committed suicide while suffering from the mental and physical aftereffects of the int
$[Movie Review] In ‘Jackie,’ a fractured Kennedy fable$

[Movie Review] In ‘Jackie,’ a fractured Kennedy fable

Dec 2, 2016

History, lately run amok, is ordered with such tidy, forceful finesse by Natalie Portman’s Jacqueline Kennedy in the piercing “Jackie.” Summoning a journalist to Hyannis Port in 1963, not long after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, she coolly sets the record for her late husband’s legacy, coining “Camelot” and shaping the mythology. Some details that don’t fit the narrative she simply crosses out. “I don’t smoke,” she tells the Life magazine reporter (Billy Crudup), with a cigarette danglin
[Box Office] Upcoming movie releases

Dec 2, 2016

Derailed(Korea)Opened Nov. 30Crime, action. Directed by Lee Seong-taeHyung-seok (Ma Dong-seok), the criminal owner of a karaoke bar, one day kidnaps the girlfriend of Jin-il (Choi Min-ho), the leader of a gang of teenage runaways. Pushed to the edge of society, the two men begin a desperate fight to preserve their lives and their loved ones in the bleak underworld of criminals. Missing(Korea)Opened Nov. 30Drama. Directed by Lee Eon-heeDivorcee single mother Ji-seon (Uhm Ji-won) struggles to make
‘La La Land’ named best film by New York film critics

Dec 2, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” was named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle. The group announced their picks Thursday on Twitter, spreading around their awards to a variety of Oscar contenders. The top award came as something of a twist after the critics’ early choices leaned toward Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age portrait “Moonlight” and Kenneth Lonergan’s grief-filled drama “Manchester by the Sea.”“Moonlight” won awards for best director
Sundance unveils diverse slate of competition films

Dec 1, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jenny Slate reunites with her “Obvious Child” director in the ’90s-set “Landline,” Sam Elliott plays a stoner Western film icon in “The Hero,” Aubrey Plaza gets serious in “Ingrid Goes West,” and Jennifer Aniston teams up with the future Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich, in the Gulf War drama “The Yellow Birds” in some of the films in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Institute on Wednesday unveiled its first batch of films set to premiere at the annual P
[Herald Review] All-too-familiar disaster strikes in ‘Pandora’

Nov 30, 2016

Film makes obvious reference to 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, but outcome is rosier than reality
'Manchester by the Sea' tops National Board of Review awards

Nov 30, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – “Manchester by the Sea” was named best film by the National Board of Review, which lavished four awards on Kenneth Lonergan’s New England portrait of grief. In the awards announced Tuesday, “Manchester by the Sea” also took best actor for Casey Affleck’s lead performance, best screenplay for Lonergan’s script and best male breakthrough performance for Lucas Hedges. “Moonlight,” the coming-of-age drama that cleaned up at Monday’s Gotham Independent Film Awards, was awarded best di
Pope to host Scorsese as new film unveiled to priests

Nov 30, 2016

VATICAN CITY (AFP) -- “Goodfellas” director Martin Scorsese is to be granted a private audience with Pope Francis on Wednesday after unveiling his latest film to an audience of 400 Jesuits, the Vatican said.“Silence,” an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel of the same name, tells the story of two Jesuit missionaries (played by Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who visit 17th century Japan in the footsteps of their mentor (Liam Neeson).Francis was not due to attend the screening of the film in
'Missing,' a dark film by women about women

Nov 29, 2016

How two actresses fought on set to convince the crew that ‘it’s not all about motherhood’
Tony-winner Fritz Weaver, TV and Broadway star, dies at 90

Nov 29, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Award-winning character actor Fritz Weaver, who played Sherlock Holmes and Shakespearian kings on Broadway while also creating memorable roles on TV and film from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” to “Marathon Man,” has died. He was 90.Weaver died at his New York City home Saturday night, according to his daughter, Lydia Weaver, and son-in-law, Bruce Ostler. No cause was given.A tall man -- he stood 1.9 meters -- who was blessed with a deep, resonate voice, Weaver found parts in
Rocky: 40 years later, he's still a lovable underdog

Nov 29, 2016

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- On Nov. 21, 1976, audiences met Rocky Balboa, the southpaw boxer from south Philadelphia. Four decades later, Sylvester Stallone’s lovable character resonates with fans drawn to his underdog tale of determination, grit and sleepy-eyed charm. The reach of “Rocky” is international, and the film serves as a slice of Americana. It is shorthand for Philadelphia as much as the Liberty Bell or Benjamin Franklin. “Anytime we are speaking to overseas visitors ... the conversation alw
28-year-old becomes 17 again in Zhang Mo's directorial debut

Nov 28, 2016

BEIJING (AP) -- Differing Chinese and Western expectations over marriage provided the inspiration for Zhang Mo’s directorial debut, "Suddenly Seventeen," which she says is about encouraging young women to "explore a little further" before they settle down.The daughter of Chinese cinematic great Zhang Yimou, Zhang said returning to China after years of study in the United States felt like "a reverse culture shock." Then 26 and viewing a life full of possibilities, Zhang was startled that people t