Monae stars in both ‘Hidden Figures’ and ‘Moonlight,’ which will compete for the best picture Oscar prize at the ceremony on Feb. 26. ‘I consider myself not just an actor or a musician or singer, but an artist-storyteller, and my hope is to continue to tell untold, unique, universal stories in unforgettable ways,’ she said. Janelle Monae attends the 8th Annual Essence Black Women in Music at NeueHouse Hollywood on Feb. 9, 2017, in Los Angeles.
Category: Movies
In Praise of The Great Wall and Its Gorgeous, Meaningless Spectacle
Thanks to posters and trailers focused solely on its American star, Matt Damon, Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall has been pilloried as an example of a Chinese myth being given the Hollywood white-savior treatment.
‘Hidden Figures’ screenwriter Allison Schroeder came to movie following NASA-centric family history
NASA has been part of “Hidden Figures” screenwriter Allison Schroeder’s life for as long as she can remember. Not only did a childhood near Cape Canaveral mean that the space program was an ever-present reality – fire drills in school were timed so the kids could see the launches and the Challenger explosion was one of her earliest memories – it’s also in her DNA.
‘The Space Between Us’ Review: Star-Crossed Lovers Cross the Stars in YA Romance
Teen travels from Mars and risks his life to find his Earth-dwelling beloved in this science fiction-inflected tearjerker ‘The Space Between Us’ takes YA romance into interstellar overdrive with this literal tale of star-crossed lovers – read our review. Space – the final YA-romance frontier.
The Space Between Us: Send this mission back to Mars
Britt Robertson and Asa Butterfield star in The Space Between Us, a suffocating melodrama from Mars. Britt Robertson and Asa Butterfield star in The Space Between Us, a suffocating melodrama from Mars.
Martian melodrama ‘The Space Between Us’ crashes to Earth
There are movies about the wonders of space travel – a short list would include “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Solaris” and “Interstellar” – that seek to test the audience’s perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the vast frontier of the unknown. And then there are movies like “The Space Between Us” – though happily, not too many – which take the vast frontier of the unknown and whittle it down to something obvious, familiar and dispiritingly pocket-sized.
One of the best films at Sundance is a VR experience
This image released by the Oculus Story Studio shows a scene from the virtual reality film, “Dear Angelica.” The film is the first animated film experience created entirely in VR.
The VR circus at Sundance (The 3:59, Ep. 168) – CNET
This year’s Sundance Film Festival was awash in new movies, shorts and experiences made for augmented and virtual reality. For today’s podcast, digital media reporter Joan E. Solsman discusses her visit to the festival to see these new forms of storytelling take shape, such as a new 40-minute VR film called ” Miyubi ” about a toy robot living with a family in the 1980s.
Augmented reality catches Jon Hamm at Sundance
Jon Hamm who portrayed Don Draper on the hit show ‘Mad Men’ appeared as a ‘HoloHamm’ at Sundance Film Festival. Photo: File Attendees at the Sundance Film Festival can use augmented reality to hang out with Mad Men star Jon Hamm or assemble a human brain, as makers of the new immersive technology seek to engage independent filmmakers.
Through VR, Haagen-Dazs Will Let You Fly (and Sympathize) With Imperiled Honey Bees
Through a blend of entertainment, education and immersive technology, Hagen-Dazs is hoping to teach new audiences about the plight of the honey bee. The brand, which has used its marketing to champion the beleaguered bees since 2008, debuted a trailer for its new virtual reality experience during the second day of the Brand Storytelling conference in snowy Park City, Utah.
Little Girl and the Robot Founder/Composer Gingger Shankar Debuts…
Little Girl and the Robot, a company that specializes in music production, editing, and supervision, today debuted a recent scoring project ?Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story’ at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The Sundance debut is also in correlation with a musical performance by Founder/Composer Gingger Shankar, who will be opening the Women at Sundance brunch.
The Founder Finds America (and Its Food) Turning Nasty
Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock’s The Founder can’t stop selling.
‘Rogue One’ wins weekend with $22M, narrowly beating ‘Hidden Figures’
Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” edged “Hidden Figures” in the race for the top spot at the North American box office with an estimated $22 million at 4,175 locations, estimates showed Sunday. “Hidden Figures,” a comedy-drama about pioneering African-American women in the early days of the American space program, trailed by only $200,000 with $21.8 million at 2,471 sites.
Box office update: ‘Hidden Figures’ wins Friday in tight race with ‘Rogue One’
Taraji P. Henson, back left, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Mone, back right, in “Hidden Figures.” Based on the story of an unheralded team of black female mathematicians and engineers working for NASA during the Mercury and Apollo missions, the film grossed $7.6 million toward a projected $20-million weekend.
Hidden Figures Couldn’t Be More Timely in Its Celebration of Ascendant Women
Accepting the Welt Literature Prize in Berlin on November 10 of this year, the novelist Zadie Smith said, “Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others.” She was speaking, of course, of the conviction among so many white people that there’s a better world ahead if we can just return to the past.
Ranking Hollywood’s holiday offerings
Seven big movies open between now and Christmas Day. What to see? Our critics rank them in order – from one powerful must-see Oscar contender to a few that will appeal mostly to cult or kid audiences, with two terrific biopics in between.