Rodrigo Perez, Author at The Playlist

Summer 2022 TV Preview: Over 35 Shows To Watch

May 5, 2022 11:00 am

Another year, another season of TV, only this year, there are nearly half a dozen new streaming services that are all mostly in full swing, all at the same time, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacoc...

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness

‘Doctor Strange 2 Review: Sam Raimi’s ‘Multiverse Of Madness’ Takes Marvel On A Thrilling, But Shallow Ride Of Frights

Rodrigo Perez

May 3, 2022 9:00 am

Features, News, Reviews

**Editor’s note: To properly review “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness,” you have to tread into the basic plot, and the basic plot has been kept secret from audiences and withheld from the trailers. ...

‘The Tsugua Diaries’ Trailer: Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro Craft A Playful, Meta Filmmaking Tale About Pandemic Blues [Exclusive]

Rodrigo Perez

May 2, 2022 10:36 am

News, Trailers

Portuguese film director Miguel Gomes is one of the premiere filmmakers of the playfully absurd and the surreal, employing a strange mix of those tones. He dazzled audiences in 2012 with “Tabu,” his surrealist...

Sam Raimi Says He Was Going To Introduce Kraven The Hunter In ‘Spider-Man 4’

Rodrigo Perez

May 1, 2022 10:51 am

News

If you remember, back in the day, filmmaker Sam Raimi was all set to make “Spider-Man 4,” then slated for a May 6, 2011 release. Tobey Maguire and Kristen Dunst would star again, and at least two new character...

Bill Murray Takes Ownership Of ‘Being Mortal’ Shutdown & Allegations: Admits He Did Something He “Thought Was Funny & Wasn’t Take That Way”

Rodrigo Perez

April 30, 2022 4:22 pm

News

As culture evolves and accelerates in the age of social media and the culture wars rage on in the wake of this shift, there are two sets of older generations in the world today. One that feels that a changing ...

‘Fantastic Four’ Loses Its Director As ‘Spider-Man’ Filmmaker Jon Watts Exits Project

Rodrigo Perez

April 29, 2022 5:29 pm

News

Is Jon Watts' love affair with Marvel Studios over? It might be? After directing three ‘Spider-Man’ movies in a row for Sony Pictures—though all produced by Marvel Studios— including the mega-billion dollar ea...

Adam Sandler Confirms A New Safdie Brothers Film Is In The Works

Rodrigo Perez

April 29, 2022 8:55 am

News

This is how we all win. While he was robbed of an Oscar nomination, Adam Sandler did win an Indie Spirit Award for his terrific, on-edge performance as an inveterate gambler in 2019’s “Uncut Gems” —and it was ...

Gary Hustwit Is Making ‘Eno,’ A Documentary About Legendary Producer & Musician Brian Eno

Rodrigo Perez

April 28, 2022 8:50 am

News

If you played six degrees of separation with all the important art-rock bands of the 1960s, ‘70s, and beyond—David Bowie, Lou Reed, Nico, John Cale, and The Velvet Underground, David Byrne and Talking Heads, I...

‘Venom 3,’ More ‘Ghostbusters’ & ‘Spider-Verse’ Title Change Announced At Sony's CinemaCon Presentation

‘Venom 3,’ More ‘Ghostbusters’ & ‘Beyond The Spider-Verse’ Announced At Sony’s CinemaCon Presentation

Rodrigo Perez

April 26, 2022 8:33 am

News

CinemaCon, the annual trade show for theater owners, is a good time for studios to flex their wares and Sony Pictures did that last night at the annual exhibition in Vegas. First up, there were some minor modi...

‘The Offer’ Review: Look How They Massacred The Story Of My Boy, ‘The Godfather’

Rodrigo Perez

April 24, 2022 11:41 am

Features, News, Reviews, Television

In the history of cinema, one of the most prescient and brilliantly searing indictments of Hollywood, and of the inherent unimaginativeness pervasive in studio execs, comes via Robert Altman’s 1992 Tinseltown ...

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