I didn't expect to write this about a Minions movie... <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Riley Utley is the Weekend Editor at CinemaBlend. She has written for national publications as well as daily and alt-weekly newspapers in Spokane, Washington, Syracuse, New York and Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated with her master’s degree in arts journalism and communications from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Since joining the CB team she has covered numerous TV shows and movies -- including her personal favorite shows <em>Ted Lasso </em>and <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em>. She also has followed and consistently written about everything from Taylor Swift to <em>Fire Country</em>, and she's enjoyed every second of it. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Into</strong>: Riley’s range in likes is random and wide, from Marvel to musicals and from<em> Game of Thrones</em> to the latest Netflix rom-com you can catch her watching just about anything. Her favorite movies include but are not limited to <em>When Harry Met Sally, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, Finding Nemo</em> and <em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em>. She loves going to the movie theater, consuming copious amounts of popcorn and logging whatever she saw on Letterboxd immediately afterward. She constantly walks around quoting <em>Ted Lasso, SNL</em> and <em>Parks and Rec</em>. She has been known to create the occasional PowerPoint explaining the MCU to those who don’t get it. In the non-media realm, Riley is a massive college basketball fan. She is a firm believer that the Gonzaga men’s basketball team is the best team of all time, and she is patiently waiting for the day they finally win a national championship. She grew up in Washington and loves skiing, coffee and making sure that people know she is from the state, not D.C. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Excited About Right Now</strong>: Anything Taylor Swift or Andrew Garfield does, finally seeing strong female representation in the MCU and eventually seeing Jonathan Bailey sing his heart out in <em>Wicked</em>. </p>
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It's funny, just yesterday I was talking to my friend, lit manager extraordinaire Lee Stobby, after checking out his impressive Letterboxd account, and I asked him to name a recent indie film he loved that he think I might like, because I really respect his taste. Lee told me to check out The Killing of Two Lovers, and not 24 hours later, the first trailer hit my inbox along with news that the film has been acquired by NEON, which will release it in time for this year's awards season. Written and directed by Robert Machoian, The Killing …
12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen's latest is an intoxicating party film about London’s West Indian community in the 1980s.
From a formal command of cinematic language to an unflinching look at all of humanity, there aren't many directors like Steve McQueen working today (have you seen Widows? Ya gotta watch Widows). The award-winning director gets another feather in his cap thanks to the 2020 New York Film Festival. McQueen's Lovers Rock will open the entire festival, and two other McQueen films from the Small Axe anthology series of which Lovers Rock originates will debut later in the festival. McQueen will now join other luminous directors like Martin Scorsese, Ava DuVernay, and Quentin Tarantino who've seen …
ABC has sorted out your Sunday night viewing plans with the Taylor Swift: City of Lover concert special. The special will include never-before-seen footage from Taylor Swift's September 2019 City of Lover concert in Paris where she performed songs from her seventh album, Lover. So, how can you watch City of Lover on Sunday, May 17? [caption id="attachment_896702" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Dave Hogan/ABC[/caption] Luckily, Swift's concert special couldn't be easier to watch. The hour-long TV concert will air at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on …
I’m a big sucker for pranks so back in the early 2000s, MTV’s Punk’d was my everything. The pranks were creative, elaborate, and some got pretty intense. But that’s where Ashton Kutcher came in handy as host; just when things were about to cross a line or a target was in tears, Kutcher would run out, everyone would cheer and the episode would end on a buoyant “it’s all in good fun” note. The 2012 revival with Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and other celebrity guest hosts was fun enough, but the concept had definitely lost …
Hot take: Popcorn rules. In an era of dine-in movie theaters where fancy dinners are brought to your chair at a moment's notice, the simple snack of popcorn is still my favorite treat to accompany my moviegoing experience (full disclosure: sometimes it's the other way around). Here's some good news for me, and my fellow popcorn lovers: ArcLight Cinemas has announced a yearlong program called "POPPED," a series of explorations, experimentations, and innovations inviting us to "Experience Popcorn Now." I am hungry already. ArcLight will be teaming up with all kinds of gourmet chefs and trendy …
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