Renting a movie became easier in 2001 with the CineVault machine. Boasted as “the internet’s first automated movie rental reservation system,” they had more than 1,000 movies to choose from.
Renting a movie became easier in 2001 with the CineVault machine. Boasted as “the internet’s first automated movie rental reservation system,” they had more than 1,000 movies to choose from.
Review: Once more unto the breach in Godzilla vs. Kong
This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows a scene from Godzilla vs. Kong. (Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)
Published April 01. 2021 12:19PM
By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email
“Godzilla vs. Kong” begins, fittingly, with the big guy asleep.
There is King Kong, colossus of the big screen, slowing waking on a mountainside. He rouses slowly in the morning sun from slumber before showering in a nearby waterfall. It s, maybe, a little bit the same for the kind of movies King Kong symbolizes and still holds some dominion over: big spectacles of mass destruction made to be seen on equally towering screens. That kind of moviegoing has been been in hibernation for much of the past pandemic year. “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the only creature feature to dare wide release in some time, is a rock ‘em-sock em monster-movie revival with all the requisite explosions,
Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child
Anthony Hopkins is the subject of awards buzz for his work in The Father. Olivia Colman plays Anne, the daughter of Hopkins s character. (Sean Gleason/Sony Pictures Classics)
Anthony Hopkins in The Father. (Sean Gleason/Sony Pictures Classics)
Published March 17. 2021 4:10PM
Tim Greiving, The Washington Post Get the weekly rundown Email Submit
In a particularly wrenching scene in The Father, a new film directed by the French novelist Florian Zeller, Anthony Hopkins s title character is disoriented with dementia, talking to a caregiver. He asks when his mother is going to visit him and begins to cry, repeatedly saying: I want my mummy. I want my mummy.