By Abb Jones The Reelness Director Ivan Reitman, the man behind such iconic comedies as Animal House, Dave, Kindergarten Cop and Ghostbusters, has died at age 75. His family says he died peacefully Saturday night in his sleep at his home in Montecito, California. Born in 1946 in Komarmo, Czechoslovakia, where his father owned the […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness The Power of the Dog, director Jane Campion’s neo-Western set in 1925 Montana, leads the field of nominations for the 2022 Oscars, with 12 nominations. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune was close behind during Tuesday’s announcement, with 10 nominations. The biggest change in this year’s voting process is that the […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness The Screen Actors Guild has announced their 2022 nominations. House of Gucci and The Power of the Dog are the top film nominees for this year’s SAG Awards, with each movie earning three nominations. In the television category, the top nominees are Succession and Ted Lasso, which each scored five nominations. […]
After a two-year hiatus, Ozark, the wildly popular Emmy award-winning Netflix crime drama series, is back January 21st for the first half of its fourth and final season. Netflix will drop 7 of the 14 new episodes that will wrap up the twisted saga of the dysfunctional family of four who are laundering money for […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness The Walt Disney Co. has announced that Pixar’s next animation film, Turning Red, will premiere straight to its Disney+ streaming platform, following the path of Pixar’s last two COVID pandemic-era releases, Soul and Luca. “Given the delayed box office recovery, particularly for family films, flexibility remains at the core of […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness So this year’s crop of potential Best Original Song Oscar nominees may be one of the least exciting in recent memory – but hey, IF there is an Oscar ceremony in a few months (thanks COVID!) and IF the nominees actually get to perform their songs (thanks for last year, […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness 2021 was a pretty spectacular year for good movies with a whopping FOUR films that scored A+ ratings here at The Reelness. Coincidentally, our year’s best include science fiction, horror, a musical, a Western, a Marvel film, a comedy, period dramas and a documentary. How’s that for representation? All ten […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Betty White, whose seven decade television career is the longest ever for a female entertainer, has died at the age of 99, less than three weeks from celebrating what would have been her 100th birthday. She died overnight at her home in Los Angeles. White, whose family moved to Los […]
COVID wasn’t the only pandemic we continued to endure in 2021. The year also witnessed a plague of truly awful movies – not surprisingly, half of our 10 worst are horror, with comedies, sci-fi/fantasy and even a musical making this year’s list. Here they are, in ascending order from #10 to THE absolute worst movie of 2021.
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum are joining comic forces in The Lost City, an action/adventure comedy about a reclusive romance novelist and her book cover model whom end up in a real life jungle adventure when an eccentric billionaire kidnaps them while they are on a book tour. The promising action adventure/comedy is a throwback […]