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The story of astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and the incredible effort it took to land him and Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll) on the Moon in 1969, the film disposes with the heroic mythologizing that’s so regularly utilized in film portrayals of NASA and America’s space program. Instead, it tells an incredibly small story — Armstrong’s struggle to cope with the death of his young daughter — and places it within the context of one of the most astonishing accomplishments in human history. It’s a feat, the film stresses, that was pulled off not by larger-than-life figures, but by groups of ordinary people who each paid an incredible cost. It’s a breathtaking piece of filmmaking that’s filled with some of the most intense portrayals of spaceflight ever put on-screen. But for all its technical wonder,  First Man ’s focus on Armstrong’s relentless stoicism ends up feeling more like a hindrance than a revelation. It’s an epic, ambitious film, but it ends just shy of true greatne...

By Jacob Kastrenakes on Sep 22 I watched many trailers in  Cuckoo  and here is my suggestion in this week: Something you see a lot in action movies is an opening sequence that jumps straight into some kind of chase or mission, in an attempt to kick things off with a bang. But too often, these sequences can end up kind of dull — if you don’t know the character very well, or have any idea what’s going on, then what do you really care about the outcome of these events? Check out 5 trailers from this week in  Cuckoo 's HEAT below. PROSPECT -- CUCKOO CHANNEL  TRAILER Four years ago, a pair of filmmakers came out with a short called  Prospect  about a teenage girl on an alien planet who has to fight to survive after her father is killed. Now, that short’s been turned into a feature, and it seems like it’s using the same low-budget techniques to transform our own world into something that looks scary and alien. It comes out November 2nd. ...

By Andy on Sep 22, 2018 Faced with communities that continually flaunt Reddit's rules on deliberately linking to copyright-infringing content, the site's admins have banned yet more piracy-focused sub-Reddits. The latest casualties are communities that have systematically posted links to movies, TV shows and software.  While the DMCA contains a ‘repeat infringer’ clause, copyright cases filed in the United States are now helping to more accurately define what the term means. Multiple cases involving ISPs Cox, Grande Communications, and their subscribers, appear to be having a knock-on effect on platforms that rely on user-submitted content. No longer as vague as it was, the repeat infringer clause now means that platforms are quicker to take action against persistent pirates. With its tens of millions of users, Reddit is one such site. All content is submitted by users and while copyright infringements are dealt with following complaints from rightshol...

I Am Paul Walker (2018) Documentary | 11 August 2018 (USA) Storyline Documentary examining the life of the late actor Paul Walker. User Reviews Coming to Cinemas for a limited release this friday in Australia, I Am Paul Walker takes a look at the life of the Fast & Furious actor through the lens of his family & close friends. I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this film, I myself was a low key fan of Paul Walker and the Fast & Furious films, and I really thought that he was succeeding at finding more interesting roles before he tragically passed away a few years ago. I ended up quite liking this documentary, mainly because it focuses more on Walker's upbringing and then struggles from the excessive fame he obtained after the Fast & Furious films by mainly interviewing family members & close friends instead of co-stars. The only exception to this is Tyrese Gibson who provides a nice balance without taking up an overwhelming part of the film, this g...

Captain Marvel (2019) Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8 March 2019 (USA) Storyline Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. When  Captain Marvel  hits theaters on March 8, 2019, it’ll be the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first to feature a woman as its lead character (Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp was a title character, true, but the greater focus of  Ant-Man and The Wasp  was still Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man). That’s a lot of weight for one character to carry. Fans have been asking Marvel to greenlight a movie with a female lead for years. But the film rights to most of Marvel Comics’ most famous superheroines — Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey, Sue Storm and others — are held by 20th Century Fox. With a Black Widow movie backburnered until very recently, Carol Danvers’ Captain Marvel is not just the most powerful superheroine Marvel Studios could have...

Perhaps you've heard a story that goes like this:  "Apple's 'buy' button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies from your iTunes library after you've bought them. If Disney decides it no longer wants to offer a particular movie in your country, your 'purchase' is no better than an extended rental. Only Blu-rays and DVDs are safe." Here's the thing: Some of that may be true. But the story about disappearing digital copies isn't. Or, at the very least, it's a lot more complicated than that.  Though his tweets went viral , and though he did chat with Apple Support, the company didn't delete or actively "remove" the movies that disappeared from Dr. Anders Gonçalves da Silva's iTunes library and his devices. It seems to have been a more complicated mix-up, based on the fact that da Silva moved his residence from one country to another.  Most importantly: Apple tells CNET that it won't delete  y...