Rodrigo Perez, Author at The Playlist

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Trailer: Marvel’s Much-Anticipated Team-Up Finally Shows Its Claws

April 22, 2024 9:14 am

“Deadpool & Wolverine” has been called one of the most anticipated movies of the year, and with an ailing box office in 2024 so far, perhaps it’s the movie the industry needs. But if there was a chief comp...

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Says Streamer Has “No Appetite To Make Fewer Films”

Rodrigo Perez

April 19, 2024 2:56 pm

News

This week’s release of Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” (read our review) puts many of Netflix’s problems into sharp focus. Reportedly costing around $166 million to make for both films, ar...

‘Rebel Moon: Scargiver’ Review: Zack Snyder’s Excruciatingly Slight Sequel Barely Justifies A ‘Part 2’

Rodrigo Perez

April 19, 2024 8:20 am

Features, News, Reviews

Filmmaker Zack Snyder’s profoundly unfortunate “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire,” a turgid, ostentatiously vacant space opera, was, to put it politely, a dire film and hollow regurgitation of familiar s...

Quentin Tarantino Scraps ’The Movie Critic’; Brad Pitt Would Have Reprised Cliff Booth Role From ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

Rodrigo Perez

April 17, 2024 7:31 pm

News

Well, this is an interesting about-face, and so much for the rumors about the recent start dates. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has decided to scrap “The Movie Critic” as his final film. He’s changed his mind; h...

‘Outer Range’ Season 2 Trailer: Time Is A Motherf***er for Josh Brolin

Rodrigo Perez

April 15, 2024 10:27 am

News, Television, Trailers

Two years after it premiered, one of our favorite shows of 2022, “The Outer Range” returns this summer (read our review). Something of an unusual but welcome mix of “Yellowstone” family drama and existential “...

‘Gasoline Rainbow’ Trailer: Ross Brothers’ First Narrative Feature Opens In May

Rodrigo Perez

April 11, 2024 9:15 am

News, Trailers

With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small-town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. That’s the premise of “Gasoline Rainbow,” the new film by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, aka The R...

‘Dark Matter’ Trailer: Apple’s Sci-Fi Series With Joel Edgerton & Jennifer Connelly Hits In May

Rodrigo Perez

April 10, 2024 10:00 am

News, Television, Trailers

The multiverse has infinite realities is a tagline that would probably fit snugly within a Marvel movie. But the same ideas apply and work perfectly well within the confines of the more adult drama, “Dark Matt...

Final ‘Civil War’ Trailer Positions Political Thriller As The Movie Event of The Year

Rodrigo Perez

April 10, 2024 9:31 am

News, Trailers

Alex Garland’s political war thriller, “Civil War” opens in theaters this Friday, April 12, and now that all the reviews have arrived (read ours here), A24 is giving the film one last push, using some of the b...

‘Fallout’ Review: One Note Clash Of Post-Apocalyptic Hostility & Quaint ‘50s Retro Futurism Is Exhaustingly Dull

Rodrigo Perez

April 10, 2024 9:00 am

Features, News, Reviews, Television

Built on a wearying cheerful optimism/cruel fatalism dichotomy—contrasting chords that aren’t all that engaging or novel to begin with but repeated ad nauseum regardless—it’s astonishing just how quickly the p...

‘Joker: Folie À Deux’ Trailer: Lady Gaga Joins Joaquin Phoenix In Musical Supervillain Sequel

Rodrigo Perez

April 9, 2024 8:57 pm

News, Trailers

"He's not alone anymore." Against seemingly all odds, given its R-rating, adult nature, and disconnection from traditional cinema superheroics, Warner Bros. “Joker” movie earned over $1 billion at the box offi...

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