“No one comes up here without a damn good reason,” reads the tagline on the brand new poster for The Hateful Eight, which The Weinstein Company debuted on Saturday before the film’s Comic-Con panel. In addition to the new poster, The Hateful Eight joined Instagram for the promotional appearance. Cast members Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Demian Bichir were photographed by the account, along with Tarantino. Read More...
Equine flesh rarely looks as magnificent as it does in “The Horse Whisperer,” Robert Redford’s sensual, slo-mo adaptation of Nicholas Evans’ pulpy bestseller about a wounded 14-year-old girl, a driven mom, a traumatized horse, and the Marlboro Man who therapeutically tames them all. Redford — who, for the first time, stars in a movie he has also produced and directed — has burned away a lot of the cow chips and compost from Evans’ tale, while class-act screenwriters Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”) and Richard LaGravenese (“The Bridges of Madison County”) keep the essentials: After a riding accident in which her friend was killed, her horse, Pilgrim, was severely hurt and spooked, and she lost her leg, Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) and her high-powered-Tina Brown-like-editor mother Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas) teeter on terrible terms. Read More...
Is a film in which Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage battles a series of giant animatronic creatures just the thing to raise spirits as we head into the second year of the pandemic? Judging by the online reaction to the new action-horror movie Willy's Wonderland since the film was released on VOD over the weekend, the answer is a definite "Yes!" "All the horror fans are digging it," director Kevin Lewis told EW of the film, which costars Emily Tosta and Beth Grant. Read More...
