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Cuties: Controversial film makes Oscar shortlist for International award

France’s Oscar selection committee today announced a shortlist of five films that are up for the country's official submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. That list includes the Sundance award-winning drama CUTIES, which at the...

Posted 6 years ago

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Cuties director received death threats over Netflix’s sexualized poster

Posted 6 years ago

No one denies that Netflix's promotional poster for the film CUTIES was incredibly misguided. Blame has been put on Netflix themselves and their marketing division because no one can really understand how such a sexualized image of the film's young...

Netflix apologizes for Cuties poster that many thought sexualized children

Posted 6 years ago

Netflix found itself on the rare end of negative criticism and now they're issuing a swift mea culpa. The backlash emerged when the streamer released the key art for their forthcoming release, CUTIES, and the image was deemed inappropriate by...

Andy Serkis comments on the Scarlett Johansson Rub & Tug controversy

Posted 8 years ago

Scarlett Johansson courted controversy back in July when she signed on to star in RUB & TUG, a Rupert Sanders film which would tell the true story of Dante "Tex" Gill, a transgender man who flourished in a male-dominated business...

First Look: David Harbour as Hellboy!

Posted 9 years ago

Holy sh*t! Well, this is a great surprise now, isn't it? As you can see below we have just been given our first look at STRANGER THINGS' David Harbour as the new HELLBOY in Neil Marshall's upcoming reboot. And he...

Hellboy reboot loses Ed Skrein after whitewashing controversy

Posted 9 years ago

It was only last week that we passed along the news that DEADPOOL's Ed Skrein was lined-up to join director Neil Marshall's upcoming HELLBOY reboot, starring STRANGERS THING's David Harbour. Well, it looks like Skrein has chosen to drop out...

Black America is an alternate history show from Boondocks creator

Posted 9 years ago

So it looks like Amazon Prime is doing another alternate-history show, this time from creator of popular Adult Swim show THE BOONDOCKS Aaron McGruder and producer Will Packer (STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON) called BLACK AMERICA. Here's the synopsis, according to Deadline:...

After all these years Ken Russell’s The Devils gets uncut release on Shudder

Posted 9 years ago

Ken Russell's epic 1971 historical drama horror film THE DEVILS has reached almost mythic status among cinephiles. It received an X-Rating upon release, and was severely cut down (from 117 minutes to 103 minutes), as well as being buried by Warner Bros. The...

A Dog’s Purpose pre-sales strong, despite controversy

Posted 9 years ago

A DOG'S PURPOSE seems destined for the Wal-Mart $5 bin, as its premise is so mauldin and schlocky, it's almost like a bad SIMPSONS spoof of these types of films. And there's obviously a dedicated audience for this kind of...

New HBO series The Young Pope starring Jude Law releases new trailer

Posted 10 years ago

More than a little disappointed that YOUNG POPE isn't about a teenage Pope with sunglasses, a backwards hat, and EXXXTREME views on Catholic dogma, but damn, this looks good! Then again, it is HBO, home of GAME OF THRONES, SOPRANOS, and…VINYL? JOHN FROM CINCINATTI? Okay, maybe they're not...