The Last of Us Part II Remastered has a lot of behind-the-scenes content in its special features. It’s cool to get a glimpse into what could have been, such as the playable cut segments in the Lost Levels. However, on the other end of the spectrum, we also learn about how easily the game could have been a much worse,…
The Last of Us Part II Remastered has a lot of behind-the-scenes content in its special features. It’s cool to get a glimpse into what could have been, such as the playable cut segments in the Lost Levels. However, on the other end of the spectrum, we also learn about how easily the game could have been a much worse,…
Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer is slicing through the Oscars buzz today with a blade of wind and fire in its heart. The live-action adaptation of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s beloved animated series is one of 2024’s most anticipated projects, and fans are finally getting an extended look at the upcoming Netflix series. Borrowing familiar beats from Nickelodeon‘s animated presentation, Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer burns brightly with bold alterations to the material, distancing itself from the original and M. Night Shyamalan’s universally-panned live-action film.
Here’s the official description for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender:
“Water. Earth. Fire. Air. The four nations once lived in harmony, with the Avatar, master of all four elements, keeping peace between them. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked and wiped out the Air Nomads, the first step taken by the firebenders towards conquering the world,” reads the official description. “With the current incarnation of the Avatar yet to emerge, the world has lost hope. But like a light in the darkness, hope springs forth when Aang, a young Air Nomad — and the last of his kind — reawakens to take his rightful place as the next Avatar. Alongside his newfound friends Sokka and Katara, siblings and members of the Southern Water Tribe, Aang embarks on a fantastical, action-packed quest to save the world and fight back against the fearsome onslaught of Fire Lord Ozai. But with a driven Crown Prince Zuko determined to capture them, it won’t be an easy task. They’ll need the help of the many allies and colorful characters they meet along the way.”
Avatar: The Last Airbender stars Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka, Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko, Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as General Iroh, Ken Leung as Commander Zhao, and Elizabeth Yu as Princess Azula, among many others.
Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer presents an epic adventure in a world where the world’s sacred elements are misaligned. Prophecy dictates that only the Avatar can unite the warring nations, creating harmony among enemy factions. Unfortunately, the Avatar will face the Fire Nation, a sect of fire-wielding warlords determined to rule all territories with an iron fist. Aang and his friends Kitata and Sokka venture out into a world on the brink of collapse, hoping to defeat the Fire Nation and broker peace between the elements. The trailer includes plenty of nods to the animated series, including some shots lifted directly from the source material. How Netflix’s live-action adaptation will differ from Nickelodeon’s version remains to be seen, but we’re excited to find out.
What do you think about Netflix’s new Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer? Are you excited to watch the show? Let us know in the comments section below.
Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres exclusively on Netflix on February 22, 2024.
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PLOT: A nineties TV family finds their home invaded by Russian gangsters. The family’s useless patriarch, Bernie (Nick Frost), a devout Christian with long-suppressed psychotic tendencies, must unleash those urges to save his family.
REVIEW: It happens every year. There’s always at least one movie at Sundance every year that tests my commitment to sitting through pretty much everything I see. This, however, was a tough one. I haven’t had this much of a difficult time with a Sundance movie since The Greasy Strangler, with it being a grating, 85-minute joke that goes on at least 80 minutes too long. It’s a slog.
Directors Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil are trying to make a provocative midnight movie, with it opening on a nun being violently gunned down before transitioning to a videotaped nineties sitcom. It centers around the Christian family who – natch – are Christian, with their bozo dad as the helpless head of the household. As soon as the usually great Nick Frost started doing his southern-accented Christian schtick, I worried Krazy House would be bad – and I was right.
Everything about this film is a disaster right from the start. The pseudo-sitcom gimmick is unfunny and was done much better in the classic viral video Too Many Cooks. Frost is doing his best, but the material gives him nothing to work with, as the sitcom gimmick goes on for about forty minutes, while he spends at least another 20 minutes of the movie strung up on a cross (don’t ask) mugging with reaction shots to the chaos around him. Frost drops the accent and re-emerges as a more crazed, badass version of his character (which he seems much more comfortable playing) in the last ten minutes, but by then, the film has devolved into a hopeless satire with nary a laugh in sight.
It’s incredible how many talented people are wasted on this, with Alicia Silverstone deserving far better than Frost’s always-shrieking wife. She and Frost have never been this grating on screen. The movie is going for a bonkers, transgressive vibe, with Entourage star Kevin Connelly turning up late in the game as Jesus Christ himself (he’s actually not bad), with a scene where a man gets violated with a Jesus figurine included. But it’s all just crass exploitation without any substance. Indeed, there’s a place for crass exploitation, but it needs to be backed up by entertainment value. Krazy House is so abysmal that it almost became an endurance test. Frankly, the press screening I saw inspired many walkouts.
Indeed, one wonders why what might have made a moderately amusing short was given the feature-length treatment and how it ever got into Sundance in the first place. Writing such a negative review is shameful; I hoped this would be good. Nick Frost is a great guy, and he and Silverstone deserve much better material. Some folks might enjoy this as a weird midnight movie, but there are many better types of wannabe cult movies than this that never get a platform like Sundance to launch from. Seek those out instead.
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Navigating massive, open-world games like Bethesda Game Studios’ Starfield or CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 usually requires a shortcut to span their sprawling maps. Though you can hop in a car in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto or travel by horse in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, players often look for a much…
Navigating massive, open-world games like Bethesda Game Studios’ Starfield or CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 usually requires a shortcut to span their sprawling maps. Though you can hop in a car in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto or travel by horse in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, players often look for a much…
More details about Obsidian’s next first-person RPG, Avowed, have been revealed. A recent episode of the so-called Official Xbox Podcast (it’s…not a podcast) has a bunch more footage from the game than we saw during Microsoft’s January Developer Direct, along with a good deal more information about how it’ll actually…
More details about Obsidian’s next first-person RPG, Avowed, have been revealed. A recent episode of the so-called Official Xbox Podcast (it’s…not a podcast) has a bunch more footage from the game than we saw during Microsoft’s January Developer Direct, along with a good deal more information about how it’ll actually…
The mask and collectible makers at Trick or Treat Studios have given sneak previews of many of the new masks that will be part of their 2024 product line-up, including revivals of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees masks from the ’80s and ’90s and masks of Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric’s characters David and Michael from Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys (watch it HERE)! An image of these masks can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Scripted by Janice Fischer, Jeffrey Boam, and James Jeremias, The Lost Boys has the following synopsis: Teenage brothers Michael and Sam move with their mother to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward and Alan, the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star — who turns out to be in thrall to David, leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.
In addition to Sutherland and Patric, the film stars Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Jami Gertz, Edward Herrmann, Bernard Hughes, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter, and Chance Michael Corbitt, with an unforgettable appearance by Tim Cappello.
Here’s how Trick or Treat Studios describes the David and Michael masks: “Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire. These Deluxe Injection Masks are made of hard plastic and include hair and earring detail.” Fans can sign up for email notifications on the Trick or Treat Studios website so they’ll be the first to know when these masks (and other Lost Boys products) are available for pre-order!
It was recently announced that Insidious star Patrick Wilson will be producing a stage musical based on The Lost Boys. A few years ago, we heard that Gerard “G Tom Mac” McMahon – the musician behind the song “Cry Little Sister” – was working on a stage musical version of the film as well, but apparently that project has nothing to do with the one Wilson and his collaborators are developing.
What do you think of the David and Michael The Lost Boys masks from Trick or Treat Studios? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Awards season is set to culminate with the 2024 Academy Awards. The nominees were announced earlier this morning, and you can view the full list HERE. There were a lot of favorites that many saw as a shoo-in for nominations. Oppenheimer was a heavy favorite to get recognized as the film would collect nominations for Christopher Nolan, Emily Blunt, and Cillian Murphy, and the film itself is now up for the big Best Picture award. With Killers of the Flower Moon receiving much-talked-about hype before the film came out as well as the non-stop praise after its release, it would seem Martin Scorsese would be an obvious nomination for Best Director, and the legendary filmmaker would indeed get the nod as he receives his tenth nomination and surpasses Steven Spielberg’s record.
Barbie was also a favorite this year, as the film stole 2024, with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and Greta Gerwig collecting nominations for earlier awards this year. However, in some surprises revealed in the nomination announcements, Ryan Gosling would be the only one of the big three to get nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Every year, there are some surprises that come with the territory. Many hopefuls, some of whom were shown awards recognition prior, get snubbed, or inversely, some nominations seem to be a surprise. Deadline has started the conversation of the biggest surprises of this year’s announcements.
Their biggest snubs include:
MARGOT ROBBIE – Last year, it was Babylon, this year it’s Barbie. Seems the very talent actress needs to stay away from complicated and roles that are in movies that start with a B. Clearly that’s the only explanation why the SAG Awards nominee and I, Tanya 2017 Oscar nominee was left out of the race today.
SALTBURN – All those Golden Globes and BAFTA nominations meant nothing as the Emerald Fennell directed class conscious dark comedy was truly burned by the Academy this Tuesday morning.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO – The well-deserved Oscar love for Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone did not extend to the former Academy Award winner who portrayed her deceitful and whelp husband. Already given a pass in the SAG Awards nominations, this snub of Leo is a bit of crime unto itself.
FANTASIA – The Color Purple actress was fantastic in the Blitz Bazawule directed musical. Golden Globe and BAFTA voters thought so with nominations for the Grammy winner. Strikingly, not so much with AMPAS voters.
ANDREW SCOTT – Fleabag’s Hot Priest was not even lukewarm with Academy voters for his arresting All of Us Strangers performance.
GRETA GERWIG – Barbie must be tickled pink with its Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations. Yet, AMPAS voters, a question: do you think the beloved and rule breaking blockbuster directed itself? Asking for a friend.
ORIGIN – Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed adaption of Isabel Wilkerson’s best seller Caste has been running a guerrilla campaign for months with big names like Regina King and Angelina Jolie casting their lot with the Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor starrer. Sadly, the root was not able to bear Oscar fruit this morning.
GRETA LEE – The Past Lives star was given a pass, even as the film itself garnered Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay nominations.
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR – The Spanish auteur’s 30-minute cowboy love story Strange Way of Life had the star power of Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, but nada in the Live-Action short category this morning.
LENNY KRAVITZ – No one can take away the power of Colman Domingo scoring a Best Actor nomination for Rustin, but despite being the tune on everyone’s list, Kravitz’s ‘Road to Freedom’ proved a road to nowhere Oscar-wise.
STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE – Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about the Back To the Future star’s life, career and fight with Parkinson’s disease lit up Sundance this time last year and received seven Emmy nominations. Oddly, the film was stillborn with Academy voters.
JULIANNE MOORE – When it came to Best Supporting Actress, it just wasn’t the year for the May December star.
And their biggest surprises include:
STERLING K. BROWN – There’s a lot of Emmys on the This Is Us actor’s shelf, and the American Fiction star has received Golden Globes and SAG Award noms of late. However, the Oscar recognition today for Brown’s tremendous turn in the Cord Jefferson directed drama is fittingly the real deal.
ANNETTE BENING – With her fifth Academy Award nomination today, the Nyad star is fittingly in the Best Actress pool and poised to give it the last one, fast one.
Do you agree? Who do you think was overlooked this year? Who do you think was not deserving?
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