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"The Offer" you can easily refuse

Even the hardest-core "Godfather" fans would do better to leave "The Offer" and watch anything else instead

Salon

What does a movie producer do? ‘The Offer,’ a series about the making of ‘The Godfather,’ provides an answer

A few years ago, ahead of the 2019 Oscars, I wrote a column that started with a simple question: What does a movie producer do? Despite the ubiquity of the term, it’s a job title that fails to capture the day-to-day work itself. Director? Sure, most of us have a…

Chicago Tribune

‘The Offer’ takes too long, gets too silly in dramatizing the making of ‘The Godfather’

How did things ever get so dumb? Behind-the-scenes Paramount+ series degrades its story with clumsy parallels and over-the-top scenes.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Offer review – the making of The Godfather makes for hit-and-miss TV

The splashy inside Hollywood drama on the making of The Godfather is a patchy, overlong series that is best when it sticks to the script

The Guardian - US

‘The Offer’ Recreates Wild Drama behind ‘The Godfather’

On a trip to New York in the early 1970s, Robert Evans, the former head of Paramount, discovered a dead rat in his hotel room bed.

Asharq Al-Awsat

New this week: 'The Offer,' Kehlani, 'I Love That for You'

This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Future and Kehlani, a 10-episode Paramount+ series that dramatizes the behind-the-scenes story of the making of “The Godfather,” and the comedy “I Love That for You” starring former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Vanessa Bayer as a woman longing to be…

The Independent UK

Showalter on "The Dropout" & con artists

"The Dropout" director appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss comedy and why Americans keep falling for hucksters

Salon

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What links ‘Nick Cage’ to David Lynch’s Dune and an all-time turkey from Adam Sandler?

Steal a Ferrari and race it down the rabbit hole with one of Hollywood’s most bombastic stars, along with Elon Musk’s ex-wife and director Tom McCarthy

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: watch out dinosaurs, that big asteroid is coming – and so is David Attenborough

The most soothing voice on the box tells an apocalyptic tale in Dinosaurs: The Final Day. Plus: a killer on the loose in Grantchester. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Leave the gun. Make Godfather's sauce

Fifty years after its debut, we ponder how many fans of Francis Ford Coppola have memorized Clemenza's sauce recipe

Salon

Gaslit, Devs and Better Call Saul: what’s new to streaming in Australia this April

Plus A Very British Scandal, a series about surfing entrepreneurs and Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comedy about being a fictional president of Ukraine

The Guardian - AU

Will Smith overshadowed the Oscars. Here’s what else happened during the 94th Academy Awards

After Will Smith’s shocking behaviour at the 94th Academy Awards, we wouldn’t blame you for forgetting what else happened during the ceremony.

The New Daily

Anthony Hopkins' brilliant Oscars after-show dancing will help you almost forget that Will Smith slap

It was one of many Oscars 2022 moments you probably didn't realise had happened

Wales Online

Oscars 2022: Will Smith not facing charges for slapping Chris Rock, says LAPD, as Academy releases statement – as it happened

Family drama Coda won best picture at a ceremony that was overshadowed by Will Smith attacking Chris Rock

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The Guardian - UK

‘Why do they do that?’: Nicolas Cage isn’t down with the Coppola-Scorsese Marvel bashing

Francis Ford Coppola reckons comic-book blockbusters are ‘despicable’ – his nephew, stage-named after an MCU superhero, disagrees

Salon

Nic Cage takes on Scorsese, defends MCU

"What could be wrong with wholesome entertainment that is appealing to the parents and the children?"

The Independent UK

James Caan says he walked out of The Godfather screening over one of his scenes being cut: ‘I was so pissed’

Actor said director Francis Ford Coppola scrapped 10-page sequence

Benzinga

An Offer You Can't Refuse: The 10 Weirdest Gangster Films Of All Time

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece “The Godfather.” Paramount Pictures (NASDAQ: PARAA) re-released the film in theaters last month and is putting out a 4K restored and remastered edition on Blu-ray and DVD.

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The Conversation

The Godfather at 50: celebrating the mob saga that raised the bar for gangster films

It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character calmly renouncing Satan as he becomes godfather to his nephew.

The Conversation

The Godfather at 50: set among the American Mafia of the 40s, Coppola's film is unmistakably a film of the disillusioned 70s

When it was released 50 years ago, The Godfather won a swag of Oscars and hailed director Francis Ford Coppola as the voice of a new auteur. But timing is, as they say, everything.

The Guardian - UK

This thing of ours: why does The Godfather still ring true 50 years on?

From Succession to the real-life drama of the Tory government, the influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia film is everywhere

Tribune News Service

‘The Godfather’ star James Caan reflects on Sonny’s iconic moments as film marks 50th anniversary

For James Caan, “The Godfather” remains the don of all movies five decades after its premiere.

Daily Mirror

How Mafia bosses almost scuppered The Godfather and then grew to love it

The Godfather first premiered in 1972 and was the highest grossing film of that year - it also cleaned up at the awards winning best picture and best adapted screenplay

The Independent UK

Francis Ford Coppola unimpressed by the ‘big razzle dazzle’ of modern-day Oscars

‘I like it more intimate, when they had a gentle quality,’ director said

The Guardian - UK

The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama

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