Rodrigo Perez, Author at The Playlist

‘Ms. Marvel’ Review: An Animated Kamala Khan Lights Up The MCU In Charming Teen YA Series

June 9, 2022 9:43 am

Essentially a YA show about a Pakistani teen, Kamala Khan, grappling with life in New Jersey under strict traditionalist parents who want her to be a good Muslim girl, Marvel’s “Ms. Marvel” is a charming and e...

Director Todd Phillips Confirms ‘Joker’ Sequel & Reveals New Title

Rodrigo Perez and Christopher Marc

June 7, 2022 8:35 pm

News

Send in the clown again. Well, the rumors are true, and it seems director Todd Phillips is getting ahead of them and trying to announce things on his own terms. Following a recent Puck News report that Phillip...

James Gunn Says He’s Involved In Multiple DC Projects Plus A Spinoff Show That “Blends” Characters From ‘Peacemaker’

Rodrigo Perez

June 6, 2022 2:06 pm

News, Television

From the beginning of his tenure at Warner Bros. and DC Films, James Gunn’s enthusiasm for the DC Universe has seemingly just kept feeding itself. Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” film led to the filmmaker creating ...

‘Deadpool 3’ Writers Say The Film Is Staying R-Rated & Marvel Won’t Make A “Disney-fied ‘Deadpool'”

Rodrigo Perez

June 6, 2022 11:30 am

Interviews, News

Netflix’s Geeked Week is about to kick off this week and tomorrow, the streaming giant will be showing off some more of “Spiderhead,” a brand new futuristic mindbender from “Top Gun Maverick” director Joseph K...

‘Joker’ Director Todd Phillips Reportedly Getting “Close” On A Sequel

Rodrigo Perez

June 5, 2022 4:38 pm

News

As the formerly AT&T-owned Warner Bros. turns into Warner Bros. Discovery, the future of DC Films is undergoing yet another facelift, reevaluation, and reorg. As David Zaslav takes over, he’s already makin...

‘Maestro’ First Look: Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan In Netflix’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic

Rodrigo Perez

May 30, 2022 12:34 pm

News

One of the biggest Oscar snubs in recent history came in 2016 with Bradley Cooper’s stunning directorial debut, “A Star Is Born.” While the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture a...

‘Showing Up’ Review: Kelly Reichardt Captivates With A Warm & Comical Look At The World Of Arts & Crafts [Cannes]

Rodrigo Perez

May 27, 2022 11:03 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

The exquisite and sublime journeys of Oregon-based filmmaker Kelly Reichardt are arguably, more or less, incidental or oblique political statements about survival in America, often focusing on two or more frie...

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Review: Perhaps It’s Too Big A Burden For The Jedi Master To Be Our Only Hope

Rodrigo Perez

May 27, 2022 11:00 am

Features, News, Reviews, Television

“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope,” is obviously a quintessential line in the “Star Wars” canon and one that echoes out in so many ways in the new Lucasfilm limited series, “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” For tho...

‘Irma Vep’ Review: Olivier Assayas Reckons With The Ghosts Of His Filmmaking Past In Meta New HBO Series [Cannes]

Rodrigo Perez

May 22, 2022 1:00 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews, Television

When cinema is your life, cinema can hurt. "Time doesn't heal," Tom Sturridge says about the scars that mark us in Olivier Assayas' beguiling and fascinating new HBO limited-series version of "Irma Vep." "Time...

‘Armageddon Time’ Review: James Gray Reflects On Privilege & Says Goodbye To The Past With Great Empathy [Cannes]

Rodrigo Perez

May 19, 2022 2:32 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

“You can't ever forget about the past,” Anthony Hopkins says with gentle heed and caution, in a key moment in writer/director James Gray’s intimate new film, “Armageddon Time,” a compassionate movie in perpetu...

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