Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest are celebrating their five-year work anniversary! The hosts spoke to ET’s Rachel Smith about the milestone. “It seems like not five years,” Ripa says.
03.09.2022 - 06:07 / variety.com
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity — the stars of Ryan White’s inspirational and wonderfully engaging “Good Night Oppy” — were designed to last 90 days on the Red Planet. Instead, they went right on exploring the alien terrain for years, sending invaluable data and images back to NASA the whole time. For scientists, students and astronomy buffs around the world, the two robots became mascots for a historic mission, the goal of which was to find evidence of past water on Earth’s nearest neighbor, for that in turn could suggest the possibility of life on Mars. To call the MER experiment a success would be an understatement, but it wasn’t until this delightful documentary that a more important point became clear: As it turns out, for nearly 15 years, there was life on Mars: Within the opening minutes of “Good Night Oppy,” White convinces us that these two solar-powered, remote-controlled research tools weren’t just machines but sentient characters with personalities, every bit as relatable as Pixar’s lovable trash compactor, WALL•E, or the Johnny 5 droid from “Short Circuit.”
White, who has a talent for making unusual subjects relatable in docs such as “Assassins” and “The Case Against 8,” anthropomorphizes Spirit and Oppy by quoting members of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who use gendered pronouns to describe the rovers, talking about them like members of their own families. “Once the rover’s on Mars, it has its own life … and it needs to be given love,” says one. “Sometimes, she has a mind of her own,” observes another. Add to that Angela Bassett’s empathetic voiceover (Oppy communicates only by on-screen text commands) and Blake Neely’s feelsy score, and audiences will find
Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest are celebrating their five-year work anniversary! The hosts spoke to ET’s Rachel Smith about the milestone. “It seems like not five years,” Ripa says.
Sean Hayes will return to Broadway this spring starring in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright’s new play Good Night, Oscar, in which Hayes will play Hollywood Golden Age actor, pianist and wit Oscar Levant.
Elton John will perform at the White House next week for an event, A Night When Hope and History Rhyme.”
Blake Lively revealed she's pregnant on Thursday as she stepped out in New York to debut her growing baby bump.WATCH: Blake Lively shows off her belly while pregnant with her third childShe and husband Ryan Reynolds managed to keep the news a secret for several months, if Blake's belly is anything to go by.Onlookers eruped into applause as she arrived at the 10th Annual Forbes Power Women's Summit in a tiny gold minidress on Friday.Covered in sequins, the dress sparkled over stylish Blake's belly, which she cradled gently as she beamed for waiting photographers.The 35-year-old joked of her surprise: "I just like to create. Whether that's baking or storytelling or businesses or humans, I just really like creating."Blake Lively revealed she's pregnant on Thursday.This will be her and Ryan's fourth child together, the couple already sharing James, seven, Inez, five, and Betty, two. Ryan didn't accompany Blake as she revealed the news on Thursday and was likely at home with their children, as he recently took a break from acting to spend more time with their young family."The biggest thing for me, and I know you have kids as well, is that I don't want to miss this time with my kids," he told LinkedIn News Senior Editor at Large Jessi Hempel last year."For many years when my wife Blake would shoot a film, I would not shoot a film and I would be with the kids and vice versa.
Huge congratulations are in order for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds!
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds will be welcoming a new member of the family.
Addie Morfoot Contributor The day before the pandemic shut down Los Angeles in March 2020, veteran documentary filmmaker Ryan White (“Assassins,” “Ask Dr. Ruth”) signed on to make “Good Night Oppy.” With the support of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the documentary recounts the true story of Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity and the bond forged between the robots and the humans who created them.
Tim Allen returns as Scott Calvin a.k.a. Santa Clause in the first trailer for “The Santa Clauses”, Disney+’s upcoming Christmas comedy miniseries based on “The Santa Clause” film series.
Key and Peele are reuniting!
Wendell & Wild.Directed by filmmaker Henry Selick, and written by Selick and Jordan Peele, Wendell & Wild followsscheming demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Peele), who enlist the aid of Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross) -- a tough teen with a load of guilt -- to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what Kat demands in return leads to a brilliantly bizarre and comedic adventure like no other.The animated fantasy defies the law of life and death, all told through the handmade artistry of stop motion.Angela Bassett, James Hong, Tamara Smart, Natalie Martinez, Tantoo Cardinal, Gabrielle Dennis, Igal Naor, David Harewood, Maxine Peake, Ramona Young, Sam Zelaya, Seema Virdi, Gary Gatewood and Ving Rhames also star in the film.Wendell & Wild is one of several titles coming to spook Netflix viewers this year, along with Mike Flanagan's new series The Midnight Club, season two of , the previously teased and more. Wendell & Wild premieres Oct.
If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s not the only one, naturally: comparisons to “8 ½” are par for the course whenever a filmmaker comes out with a notionally autobiographical work, as with Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” in 2019.
No documentary has ever won the Oscar for Best Picture. In fact no documentary has ever been nominated. If ever there was an opportunity to change that statistic, at least in terms of a nomination it could be the remarkable, emotional, and uplifting Good Night Oppy which transcends the genre to become a richly rewarding cinematic experience, kind of a cross between Wall-E and The Martian. this all actually happened, but it is quite unusual in that it is truly feel-good, and it has all been brought to new life in an irresitible new film that in a time of divisiveness and negativity will remind you of the very best of us.
If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s not the only one, naturally: comparisons to “8 ½” are par for the course whenever a filmmaker comes out with a notionally autobiographical work, as with Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” in 2019.