David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and the reviews have begun to emerge. The film follows a businessman and grieving widower who invents a controversial technology known as Gravetech that allows families to see inside the graves of their loved ones as they decompose. Although known as the master of body horror, fans shouldn’t expect too much of that as Cronenberg’s latest is a much more personal film. The Shrouds is at least partly inspired by the death of his wife, Carolyn Cronenberg, in 2017.
THR‘s Leslie Felperin said, “This fetid stew of sex, death and tech may be an aphrodisiac for hardcore Cronenberg fans, but more casual viewers are likely to find it all rather slapdash and undercooked here. Cinematographer Douglas Koch’s lighting looks drabber than usual, and many of the scenes feel like the first or second take after a long day’s filming,...
THR‘s Leslie Felperin said, “This fetid stew of sex, death and tech may be an aphrodisiac for hardcore Cronenberg fans, but more casual viewers are likely to find it all rather slapdash and undercooked here. Cinematographer Douglas Koch’s lighting looks drabber than usual, and many of the scenes feel like the first or second take after a long day’s filming,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Any action fan, or even dedicated viewer of Corridor Crew's "Stuntmen React" series, should know the name Scott Adkins. Long before Adkins went all out for his role as German gangster Killa Harkan in "John Wick: Chapter 4," the British stunt performer and actor made a name for himself working as a stuntman for prominent Hong Kong action directors in the early 2000s. He went on to appear in dozens of action movies, from starring opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in four separate films to doubling for Ryan Reynolds' Weapon XI in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." For his role as Gunnery Sergeant Barton Geddes in 2019's "Ip Man 4: The Finale," Adkins said star Donnie Yen — who also faced off against Keanu Reeves in "John Wick: Chapter 4" — requested him for the film by name.
Having remained somewhat of a B-movie action star for most of his career, Adkins is finally starting to get more mainstream recognition.
Having remained somewhat of a B-movie action star for most of his career, Adkins is finally starting to get more mainstream recognition.
- 5/7/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
On February 23, 2024, Cohen Media Group released “Io Capitano” in the United States, Italy’s Oscar-nominated Best International Feature film directed by Matteo Garrone. The movie is a Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall), who leave Dakar to reach Europe. The 2024 Oscars contender has received widespread acclaim from critics, scoring a perfect 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The critics consensus reads, “A journey toward hope, ‘Io Capitano’ perambulates through the ravishing Saharan landscape encountering the most sublime and debased corners of humanity.” The castings, under the direction of Henri-Didier Njikam, took place on the African continent and features mostly newcomers. Read our full review round-up below.
See Watch our exciting interviews with 12 of the 20 Oscars 2024 acting nominees
Damon Wise of Deadline says, “Despite its technical elegance — and the film is near flawless in that respect — the...
The critics consensus reads, “A journey toward hope, ‘Io Capitano’ perambulates through the ravishing Saharan landscape encountering the most sublime and debased corners of humanity.” The castings, under the direction of Henri-Didier Njikam, took place on the African continent and features mostly newcomers. Read our full review round-up below.
See Watch our exciting interviews with 12 of the 20 Oscars 2024 acting nominees
Damon Wise of Deadline says, “Despite its technical elegance — and the film is near flawless in that respect — the...
- 2/24/2024
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
“I’m seeing it logged on Letterboxd. You know anything?”
This was the message I received from an industry friend. The topic was Woody Allen’s 50-somethingth directorial effort, Coup de Chance. Little did I know a network of file sharing and secret screenings were already underway, part of a series that (almost) included Timothée Chalamet.
The 88-year-old director’s latest and perhaps final film debuted at the Venice Film Festival out of competition in early September 2023 to solid reviews, and is currently boasting an 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. (The Hollywood Reporter’s critic Leslie Felperin was muted in her praise, calling it “competent but forgettable.”) The droll relationship drama with a soupçon of criminality has accrued $7.4 million in receipts, according to BoxOfficeMojo, with its top four markets being Italy, Spain, Russia and France.
Yet the people leaving their witty remarks on the popular cinephile social networking service Letterboxd were not doing so from overseas.
This was the message I received from an industry friend. The topic was Woody Allen’s 50-somethingth directorial effort, Coup de Chance. Little did I know a network of file sharing and secret screenings were already underway, part of a series that (almost) included Timothée Chalamet.
The 88-year-old director’s latest and perhaps final film debuted at the Venice Film Festival out of competition in early September 2023 to solid reviews, and is currently boasting an 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. (The Hollywood Reporter’s critic Leslie Felperin was muted in her praise, calling it “competent but forgettable.”) The droll relationship drama with a soupçon of criminality has accrued $7.4 million in receipts, according to BoxOfficeMojo, with its top four markets being Italy, Spain, Russia and France.
Yet the people leaving their witty remarks on the popular cinephile social networking service Letterboxd were not doing so from overseas.
- 2/7/2024
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All of Us Strangers
Telluride
A lonely gay London writer, orphaned young, revisits his past while starting a new romance with a neighbor in Andrew Haigh’s hauntingly beautiful study of grief, love and family. With a quartet of shattering performances from Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, this is a soul-stirring work, heartfelt and unforgettable. — David Rooney
American Symphony
Telluride
Matthew Heineman’s deeply moving doc follows musician Jon Batiste and his life partner, Suleika Jaouad, through a year of highs (his exploding career) and lows (her cancer recurrence). It’s a concert film, a love story and a snapshot of America’s dogged emergence from the pandemic. — Daniel Fienberg
The Boy and the Heron
Toronto
Hayao Miyazaki emerges from retirement with a profoundly personal swan song — a rumination on love, loss and the intersection between life and death in a world spinning out of control.
Telluride
A lonely gay London writer, orphaned young, revisits his past while starting a new romance with a neighbor in Andrew Haigh’s hauntingly beautiful study of grief, love and family. With a quartet of shattering performances from Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, this is a soul-stirring work, heartfelt and unforgettable. — David Rooney
American Symphony
Telluride
Matthew Heineman’s deeply moving doc follows musician Jon Batiste and his life partner, Suleika Jaouad, through a year of highs (his exploding career) and lows (her cancer recurrence). It’s a concert film, a love story and a snapshot of America’s dogged emergence from the pandemic. — Daniel Fienberg
The Boy and the Heron
Toronto
Hayao Miyazaki emerges from retirement with a profoundly personal swan song — a rumination on love, loss and the intersection between life and death in a world spinning out of control.
- 9/19/2023
- by David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Jon Frosch, Leslie Felperin, Jordan Mintzer and Michael Rechstshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sex Education, Spy Kids: Armageddon and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar are among the high-profile new projects debuting on Netflix in September.
Sex Education‘s fourth and final season will start streaming on Sept. 21, with action shifting from the closed Moordale Secondary to the progressive Cavendish College and Emma Mackey’s Maeve in America. Creator Laurie Nunn said that as the writers were working on season four “it became clear that this was the right time to graduate.” The final season sees the return of stars Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Aimee Lou Wood, Dua Saleh, Mimi Keene, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Chinenye Ezeudu. Gillian Anderson will also return as Otis’ (Butterfield) sex therapist mom. But the new settings bring fresh faces in Anthony Lexa, Felix Mufti and Alexandra James, who make up the popular group, The Coven; a rival sex therapist for Otis, named O (Thaddea Graham); and Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy,...
Sex Education‘s fourth and final season will start streaming on Sept. 21, with action shifting from the closed Moordale Secondary to the progressive Cavendish College and Emma Mackey’s Maeve in America. Creator Laurie Nunn said that as the writers were working on season four “it became clear that this was the right time to graduate.” The final season sees the return of stars Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Aimee Lou Wood, Dua Saleh, Mimi Keene, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Chinenye Ezeudu. Gillian Anderson will also return as Otis’ (Butterfield) sex therapist mom. But the new settings bring fresh faces in Anthony Lexa, Felix Mufti and Alexandra James, who make up the popular group, The Coven; a rival sex therapist for Otis, named O (Thaddea Graham); and Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy,...
- 9/18/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hot on the heels of a critically acclaimed turn in Richard Linklater’s festival entry Hit Man, Glen Powell is the new “It” man for Brioni.
Brioni — the luxury fashion house founded in Rome in 1945 by master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and business partner Gaetano Savini — has tapped Powell to front a new campaign to promote its “bespoke experience.” Shot in Los Angeles by photographer Gregory Harris, the black-and-white images (and short film) feature Powell in a selection of bespoke fits styled to echo “the timelessness of Brioni’s tailoring and the depth of heritage attached to the house’s DNA.” Bespoke tailoring is offered by Brioni through appointment and the process typically takes four weeks after an initial measuring session.
Powell’s campaign comes after a series of high-profile outings for the veteran actor. He starred opposite Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis and...
Brioni — the luxury fashion house founded in Rome in 1945 by master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and business partner Gaetano Savini — has tapped Powell to front a new campaign to promote its “bespoke experience.” Shot in Los Angeles by photographer Gregory Harris, the black-and-white images (and short film) feature Powell in a selection of bespoke fits styled to echo “the timelessness of Brioni’s tailoring and the depth of heritage attached to the house’s DNA.” Bespoke tailoring is offered by Brioni through appointment and the process typically takes four weeks after an initial measuring session.
Powell’s campaign comes after a series of high-profile outings for the veteran actor. He starred opposite Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis and...
- 9/13/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A master of his craft renowned for his clinical, methodical technique suddenly finds himself in a precarious position. But before we get to David Fincher, let's talk about his new film, "The Killer."
Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name by writer Alexis Nolent and illustrator Luc Jacamon, "The Killer" is the first feature film Fincher has directed since 2020's Oscar-winning "Mank" and only his third in the last 10 years. That's partly due to him being busy helming multiple episodes of Netflix's acclaimed serial killer drama "Mindhunter," as well as producing and occasionally directing the streamer's (also well-received) animated anthology series "Love, Death & Robots." Still, it's just not the same as consistently having a new Fincher film every few years as we did in the 1990s and 2000s.
Maybe that's why the crowd was particularly enthusiastic during his new film's world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name by writer Alexis Nolent and illustrator Luc Jacamon, "The Killer" is the first feature film Fincher has directed since 2020's Oscar-winning "Mank" and only his third in the last 10 years. That's partly due to him being busy helming multiple episodes of Netflix's acclaimed serial killer drama "Mindhunter," as well as producing and occasionally directing the streamer's (also well-received) animated anthology series "Love, Death & Robots." Still, it's just not the same as consistently having a new Fincher film every few years as we did in the 1990s and 2000s.
Maybe that's why the crowd was particularly enthusiastic during his new film's world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
- 9/4/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
“The Killer” bowed at the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Sunday, September 3. Directed by three-time Oscar nominee David Fincher in his first film since 2020’s “Mank,” it stars Michael Fassbender as a hitman. The storyline is described thusly: A man, solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass.”
Fincher is said to have been attached to the “Killer” project since 2007, when it was set at Paramount. It followed Fincher over to Netflix under Fincher’s overall deal with the streamer.
Early reviews have been positive-to-mixed. As of this writing, “The Killer” rates 88% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews, with...
Fincher is said to have been attached to the “Killer” project since 2007, when it was set at Paramount. It followed Fincher over to Netflix under Fincher’s overall deal with the streamer.
Early reviews have been positive-to-mixed. As of this writing, “The Killer” rates 88% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews, with...
- 9/3/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
After Love
A transcendent chamber piece, Aleem Khan’s feature-length directorial debut is graced with an exceptional lead performance from Joanna Scanlan as an English woman who converted to Islam for marriage years ago — only to discover, when her husband dies, that he was living a shocking double life. It’s a miraculous study of grief, jealousy and ultimately compassion, all executed with very little dialogue. — Leslie Felperin
Are You There God? It’S Me, Margaret
Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel about a girl on the cusp of puberty is charming, heartwarming, and beautifully acted and scored. But its magic comes from its respectful reanimation of the source material: The film stays close to Margaret and her emotions, using them to honor an already sturdy narrative while also expanding our understanding of the world around her. — Lovia Gyarkye
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel...
A transcendent chamber piece, Aleem Khan’s feature-length directorial debut is graced with an exceptional lead performance from Joanna Scanlan as an English woman who converted to Islam for marriage years ago — only to discover, when her husband dies, that he was living a shocking double life. It’s a miraculous study of grief, jealousy and ultimately compassion, all executed with very little dialogue. — Leslie Felperin
Are You There God? It’S Me, Margaret
Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel about a girl on the cusp of puberty is charming, heartwarming, and beautifully acted and scored. But its magic comes from its respectful reanimation of the source material: The film stays close to Margaret and her emotions, using them to honor an already sturdy narrative while also expanding our understanding of the world around her. — Lovia Gyarkye
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel...
- 6/26/2023
- by David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Jon Frosch, Leslie Felperin and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Simonischek, the Austrian actor who starred in the movie Toni Erdmann and was known for his work on theatre stages, in films and on TV, has died at the age of 76.
Austrian public broadcaster Orf, German news agency dpa, and other media outlets in Austria and Germany reported the news on Tuesday without immediately detailing a cause of death. The Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria also tweeted that Simonischek, a member of its ensemble and an honorary member of the theater, had died overnight.
The actor regularly appeared at the Salzburg Festival, where he was known for playing the title role in the play Jedermann (Everyman), which the festival has put on regularly, numerous times. For his role in Maren Ade’s 2016 oddball dramedy and Oscar nominee Toni Erdmann, opposite Sandra Hüller, Simonischek won the German Film Award, or Lola, and the European Film Award for best actor. Among others,...
Austrian public broadcaster Orf, German news agency dpa, and other media outlets in Austria and Germany reported the news on Tuesday without immediately detailing a cause of death. The Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria also tweeted that Simonischek, a member of its ensemble and an honorary member of the theater, had died overnight.
The actor regularly appeared at the Salzburg Festival, where he was known for playing the title role in the play Jedermann (Everyman), which the festival has put on regularly, numerous times. For his role in Maren Ade’s 2016 oddball dramedy and Oscar nominee Toni Erdmann, opposite Sandra Hüller, Simonischek won the German Film Award, or Lola, and the European Film Award for best actor. Among others,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anatomy of a Fall
Competition
Starring a sensational Sandra Hüller as a German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband, French director Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner is gripping and gratifyingly rich: part legal procedural, part portrait of a complicated woman, part snapshot of a marriage on the brink and part coming-of-age narrative. Above all, Anatomy of a Fall is about the essential unknowability of a person, of a relationship, and the perilous impossibility of trying to understand — whether it’s a child puzzling over his parents or a courtroom straining to make sense of an inscrutable suspect. — Jon Frosch
Anselm
Special Screenings
Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary offers a mesmerizing cinematic catalog of German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s deeply tactile, maximalist oeuvre. As in Pina, Wenders’ luminous 2011 tribute to the late dancer-choreographer Pina Bausch, the director makes the best possible case for art house theaters...
Competition
Starring a sensational Sandra Hüller as a German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband, French director Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner is gripping and gratifyingly rich: part legal procedural, part portrait of a complicated woman, part snapshot of a marriage on the brink and part coming-of-age narrative. Above all, Anatomy of a Fall is about the essential unknowability of a person, of a relationship, and the perilous impossibility of trying to understand — whether it’s a child puzzling over his parents or a courtroom straining to make sense of an inscrutable suspect. — Jon Frosch
Anselm
Special Screenings
Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary offers a mesmerizing cinematic catalog of German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s deeply tactile, maximalist oeuvre. As in Pina, Wenders’ luminous 2011 tribute to the late dancer-choreographer Pina Bausch, the director makes the best possible case for art house theaters...
- 5/28/2023
- by David Rooney, Jon Frosch, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Leslie Felperin and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Brittany Snow and Jaspre Guest’s HarperCollins book September Letters: Finding Strength and Connection in Sharing Our Stories is Chicken Soup for the Soul for a new generation. A collection of inspirational essays and mantras, the new tome is an extension of the duo’s online mental health platform, which launched in 2020 and features soul-affirming content submitted by (often anonymous) writers in the form of letters as a means of free therapy.
“We wanted to build a place that was safe, where people could feel connected,” Guest says of SeptemberLetters.com. It’s overseen by editorial director Stacey Lindsay, who has evolved the platform to include profiles, stories exploring happiness and additional mental health resources.
Like the September Letters website, Snow and Guest’s new book is...
Brittany Snow and Jaspre Guest’s HarperCollins book September Letters: Finding Strength and Connection in Sharing Our Stories is Chicken Soup for the Soul for a new generation. A collection of inspirational essays and mantras, the new tome is an extension of the duo’s online mental health platform, which launched in 2020 and features soul-affirming content submitted by (often anonymous) writers in the form of letters as a means of free therapy.
“We wanted to build a place that was safe, where people could feel connected,” Guest says of SeptemberLetters.com. It’s overseen by editorial director Stacey Lindsay, who has evolved the platform to include profiles, stories exploring happiness and additional mental health resources.
Like the September Letters website, Snow and Guest’s new book is...
- 5/20/2023
- by Lindzi Scharf
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What happens when six Hollywood Reporter film critics get together to pick their 50 favorite movies of the 21st century so far? Debating, deliberating, voting, the devising of a nerdy point system, second-guessing, fine-tuning, re-deliberating, re-second-guessing, re-fine-tuning — you get the picture.
But now the list is published, and below are things we thought readers might find interesting about our selections. Some of these things surprised us, too.
18 films not in English: 4 French, 3 Japanese, 2 Korean, 2 Romanian, 2 Mexican, 1 Spanish, 1 Taiwanese, 1 Hong Kong, 1 Russian, 1 Mauritanian 11 films directed by women 9 films directed by Black filmmakers 6 documentaries 2 animated films 4 first films 5 directors with multiple films on the list: Jane Campion (2), the Coen brothers (2), Alfonso Cuarón (2), David Fincher (2), Richard Linklater (2) 2 best picture Oscar winners (Moonlight and Parasite) 3 Cannes Palme d’Or winners (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Shoplifters; Parasite) 2 Venice Golden Lion winners (The Return and Brokeback Mountain) Years with the most films represented: 2016 and 2018 (4 each) Actors with...
But now the list is published, and below are things we thought readers might find interesting about our selections. Some of these things surprised us, too.
18 films not in English: 4 French, 3 Japanese, 2 Korean, 2 Romanian, 2 Mexican, 1 Spanish, 1 Taiwanese, 1 Hong Kong, 1 Russian, 1 Mauritanian 11 films directed by women 9 films directed by Black filmmakers 6 documentaries 2 animated films 4 first films 5 directors with multiple films on the list: Jane Campion (2), the Coen brothers (2), Alfonso Cuarón (2), David Fincher (2), Richard Linklater (2) 2 best picture Oscar winners (Moonlight and Parasite) 3 Cannes Palme d’Or winners (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Shoplifters; Parasite) 2 Venice Golden Lion winners (The Return and Brokeback Mountain) Years with the most films represented: 2016 and 2018 (4 each) Actors with...
- 4/6/2023
- by Jon Frosch, David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Leslie Felperin and Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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It sounds like Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again director Ol Parker might be ready to take a chance on pursuing another film in the musical franchise.
Parker, who helmed Universal Pictures’ 2018 follow-up to director Phyllida Lloyd’s 2008 hit Mamma Mia!, told Screen Rant in an interview published online Saturday that producer Judy Craymer has always intended to make a film trilogy. Craymer has credits on both films and also the Abba-centric jukebox musical of the same name, which was the basis for the first movie and has had runs on the West End and Broadway.
“Judy Craymer, the genius producer behind the musical and the first two films, always plans for it to be a trilogy,” Parker teased. “That’s all I can say. The first one made an enormous amount of money, and I think we made a fair amount too.
It sounds like Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again director Ol Parker might be ready to take a chance on pursuing another film in the musical franchise.
Parker, who helmed Universal Pictures’ 2018 follow-up to director Phyllida Lloyd’s 2008 hit Mamma Mia!, told Screen Rant in an interview published online Saturday that producer Judy Craymer has always intended to make a film trilogy. Craymer has credits on both films and also the Abba-centric jukebox musical of the same name, which was the basis for the first movie and has had runs on the West End and Broadway.
“Judy Craymer, the genius producer behind the musical and the first two films, always plans for it to be a trilogy,” Parker teased. “That’s all I can say. The first one made an enormous amount of money, and I think we made a fair amount too.
- 12/17/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The film has been marketed as ‘Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,’ but you’re the director. What do you think is distinctively yours about the film?
It’s as though he laid the egg, but I sat on it and hatched it, so it came out looking a bit like both of us … It was my job in a way to make it look like ‘a Tim Burton film,’ which is not so different from my own films … But I would wager that in ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ most of the lines you laugh at are mine … Every shot of the movie is something I looked at through a camera and composed. I don’t want to take away from Tim, but he was not here in San Francisco when we made it. He came up five times over two years, and spent no more than eight or...
It’s as though he laid the egg, but I sat on it and hatched it, so it came out looking a bit like both of us … It was my job in a way to make it look like ‘a Tim Burton film,’ which is not so different from my own films … But I would wager that in ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ most of the lines you laugh at are mine … Every shot of the movie is something I looked at through a camera and composed. I don’t want to take away from Tim, but he was not here in San Francisco when we made it. He came up five times over two years, and spent no more than eight or...
- 11/7/2022
- MUBI
The first reviews are in for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” and by all indications, the stop-motion animation is a resounding success. Fifteen years in the making, the film co-directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson boasts an all-star cast of voice talent, including Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz and Tilda Swinton. However, overwhelming praise for the latest take on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale centered on its visual and thematic approach.
Set in 1930s fascist Italy, “Pinocchio” separates itself from the rest as a “family movie” that “does not shy away from dark themes of death and war,” per Insider. Its critic Ayomikun Adekaiyero wrote that the adaptation “justifies its existence by modernizing the tale with beautiful stop-motion animation and a tear-jerking story.” On the flip side, Adekaiyero was “disappointed by the mediocrity of the musical elements of the movie,” adding that they were “secondary to the story.
Set in 1930s fascist Italy, “Pinocchio” separates itself from the rest as a “family movie” that “does not shy away from dark themes of death and war,” per Insider. Its critic Ayomikun Adekaiyero wrote that the adaptation “justifies its existence by modernizing the tale with beautiful stop-motion animation and a tear-jerking story.” On the flip side, Adekaiyero was “disappointed by the mediocrity of the musical elements of the movie,” adding that they were “secondary to the story.
- 10/17/2022
- by Harper Lambert and Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
You’d be forgiven for mistaking Andrew Dominik’s Blonde for a kind of religious ritual—“the Passion of the Marilyn,” as Leslie Felperin aptly describes it over at The Guardian. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s 2000 novel of the same name, Dominik’s take on Monroe’s life puts its subject’s suffering front and center. An elliptical chronicle of the actress’s rise to planetary stardom and tragic fall, the film captures Monroe’s life as an endless slideshow of humiliations and traumas. Played by Ana de Armas, Dominik’s Marilyn saunters into Blonde as a sort of martyr, first wrestling with a schizophrenic mother and a miserable childhood, and then with a cannibalistic industry and throngs of brutalizing men who paved the way to her death by overdose at the age of 36. Rated Nc-17 for its graphic scenes of sexualized violence—featuring rapes, forced abortions, and degrading oral sex—the film,...
- 10/10/2022
- MUBI
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, whose latest feature “Rimini” plays in the main competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is winding down production on his next film, Variety can reveal.
“Sparta” is a companion piece to Seidl’s competition entry and revolves around the brother of that film’s protagonist, the washed-up singer Richie Bravo. “[‘Rimini’] actually originated as a much larger story,” the director told Variety. “This original story that I started writing was about the two brothers and their father.” Though Seidl wouldn’t share further details about the plot of “Sparta,” he noted that “both protagonists are caught up by their past.”
Marking the director’s return to the Berlinale’s main competition since 2013’s “Paradise: Hope,” “Rimini” is the story of a faded middle-aged crooner trying to make ends meet in the titular Italian resort town during a bleak, blustery off-season. His precarious world is...
“Sparta” is a companion piece to Seidl’s competition entry and revolves around the brother of that film’s protagonist, the washed-up singer Richie Bravo. “[‘Rimini’] actually originated as a much larger story,” the director told Variety. “This original story that I started writing was about the two brothers and their father.” Though Seidl wouldn’t share further details about the plot of “Sparta,” he noted that “both protagonists are caught up by their past.”
Marking the director’s return to the Berlinale’s main competition since 2013’s “Paradise: Hope,” “Rimini” is the story of a faded middle-aged crooner trying to make ends meet in the titular Italian resort town during a bleak, blustery off-season. His precarious world is...
- 2/10/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
In Do Not Hesitate, selected as the Dutch submission for the Academy’s best international feature film category, a peacekeeping mission in an unnamed Middle Eastern country goes awry when three young Dutch soldiers are stranded in a valley when their vehicle breaks down and their commander sets out for help.
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
- 11/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Do Not Hesitate, selected as the Dutch submission for the Academy’s best international feature film category, a peacekeeping mission in an unnamed Middle Eastern country goes awry when three young Dutch soldiers are stranded in a valley when their vehicle breaks down and their commander sets out for help.
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
The film’s director, Shariff Korver, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter film critic Leslie Felperin for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media, about his motivation for making the film, and the arduous, no-holds-barred prep he and his crew underwent to assure a high degree of verisimilitude in telling their story.
The idea for the film,...
- 11/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Six months after she stole the Oscars with her epic walk through Union Station, Regina King brings her trademark charisma back to the screen in Netflix’s “The Harder They Fall.” Directed and co-written by Jeymes Samuel – Boaz Yakin shares screenwriting credit – “The Harder They Fall” is a Western set in the postbellum period that pits Jonathan Majors against Idris Elba in a revenge narrative. Samuel has assembled an impressive cast that also includes Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, Edi Gathegi, and others. It opened in a limited theatrical release on October 22 in advance of its November 3 bow on the streaming service.
Inspired by the real-life historical figure Nat Love, “The Harder They Fall” has been earning the admiration of critics. The film currently has a Metacritic score of 70 based on 21 reviews as of this writing, which indicates “generally favorable reviews.” On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 87% fresh score based on 52 reviews,...
Inspired by the real-life historical figure Nat Love, “The Harder They Fall” has been earning the admiration of critics. The film currently has a Metacritic score of 70 based on 21 reviews as of this writing, which indicates “generally favorable reviews.” On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 87% fresh score based on 52 reviews,...
- 10/22/2021
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
“Athlete A” was set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2020, but after the event was cancelled due to Covid-19 the gut-wrenching documentary, which spotlights an ongoing sexual assault scandal within the USA women’s gymnastics program, premiered on Netflix on June 24. Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the BAFTA-nominated duo behind 2017’s “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” follow a team of investigative journalists from the Indianapolis Star as they broke the story of Dr. Larry Nassar abusing young female gymnasts for decades. The shocking film details how the powerful #MeToo movement helped bring decades of corruption within USA Gymnastics to light, and it could be a top contender for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
See‘Crip Camp’: Support from critics and the Obamas could help Netflix earn its 2nd consecutive Best Documentary Oscar
The documentary begins with the story of Maggie Nichols, a top...
See‘Crip Camp’: Support from critics and the Obamas could help Netflix earn its 2nd consecutive Best Documentary Oscar
The documentary begins with the story of Maggie Nichols, a top...
- 10/30/2020
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Pixar Animation Studios’ highly anticipated film, “Soul,” isn’t set to premiere on Disney+ on December 25, but early critics’ reviews indicate the “visually glorious” animated feature will be worth the wait. Oscar-winning director Pete Docter (“Up” and “Inside Out”) is at the helm of this “densely packed, exquisitely executed” feature that recently screened at BFI London Film Festival.
As of this writing the film, which is Pixar’s first with a black lead character, has a MetaCritic score of 91 based on seven reviews. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, “Soul” has a perfect 100% freshness rating based on 13 independent reviews to date. Kaleem Aftab from “IndieWire” writes, “Like some of the best jazz compositions, it uses traditional framework to veer off in many unexpected directions, so that even the inevitable end point feels just right.”
This Oscar contender for Best Animated Feature follows middle school band teacher Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx...
As of this writing the film, which is Pixar’s first with a black lead character, has a MetaCritic score of 91 based on seven reviews. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, “Soul” has a perfect 100% freshness rating based on 13 independent reviews to date. Kaleem Aftab from “IndieWire” writes, “Like some of the best jazz compositions, it uses traditional framework to veer off in many unexpected directions, so that even the inevitable end point feels just right.”
This Oscar contender for Best Animated Feature follows middle school band teacher Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx...
- 10/12/2020
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
‘Tenet.’
Exhibitors are anticipating a blockbuster opening this Thursday, even with caps on seating capacity, for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet after a sizable turnout for paid previews last weekend.
Warner Bros’ international spy thriller starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh played on more than 500 screens.
The distributor imposed a worldwide block on figures for the previews, which will be folded into the opening weekends in about 70 markets, but exhibitors’ feedback was highly positive.
Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Gm Alex Temesvari tells If: “We were extremely happy with the weekend business, which met my high expectations. The Orpheum had its best trading weekend since reopening by a wide margin.”
The audience at his venue, which is operating at about 30 per cent capacity, spanned a wide demographic, from teenagers to seniors.
“We have extremely high hopes for Tenet’s release this Thursday and expect a...
Exhibitors are anticipating a blockbuster opening this Thursday, even with caps on seating capacity, for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet after a sizable turnout for paid previews last weekend.
Warner Bros’ international spy thriller starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh played on more than 500 screens.
The distributor imposed a worldwide block on figures for the previews, which will be folded into the opening weekends in about 70 markets, but exhibitors’ feedback was highly positive.
Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Gm Alex Temesvari tells If: “We were extremely happy with the weekend business, which met my high expectations. The Orpheum had its best trading weekend since reopening by a wide margin.”
The audience at his venue, which is operating at about 30 per cent capacity, spanned a wide demographic, from teenagers to seniors.
“We have extremely high hopes for Tenet’s release this Thursday and expect a...
- 8/24/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The first wave of reviews is in for the most anticipated and mysterious release of 2020. While movigoers are still pleasantly unspoiled on just what exactly Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is about, or even what its title means, initial critical consensus is emerging less than a week out from the film’s international debut in markets that include the UK and other parts of Europe and Asia.
Depending on who you ask, the opinion ranges from this is a fine piece of eye-candy and Nolan brain-teasing to it’s evidence Nolan has devolved into self-parody. Intriguingly, all seem to agree that it not Nolan’s “masterpiece.”
Our own UK editor Rosie Fletcher was satisfied overall with the film’s visual wonder and audacity, even if she found it among the chillier and more impenetrable films Nolan’s made.
“When Tenet is at its best it’s frankly breathtaking and it’s...
Depending on who you ask, the opinion ranges from this is a fine piece of eye-candy and Nolan brain-teasing to it’s evidence Nolan has devolved into self-parody. Intriguingly, all seem to agree that it not Nolan’s “masterpiece.”
Our own UK editor Rosie Fletcher was satisfied overall with the film’s visual wonder and audacity, even if she found it among the chillier and more impenetrable films Nolan’s made.
“When Tenet is at its best it’s frankly breathtaking and it’s...
- 8/22/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The reviews for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” are in, and critics have applauded the “Dark Knight” director’s slick take on the James Bond-style espionage thriller, even as they generally agree this is by far Nolan’s “most confusing film” yet.
That’s saying something from the guy who directed “Inception” and “Memento,” both of which critics have compared “Tenet” to as spiritual cousins to the plot structure and the film’s labyrinth ideas about time inversions and the non-linear way in which objects travel through time and space.
And if that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, it’s not supposed to. Early critic reviews have mentioned that the film seems designed to be watched multiple times. While the main concept is easy enough to understand, it’s the more minute details that get lost in dialogue and slick, globetrotting set pieces, with critics calling the plot specifics “incomprehensible.
That’s saying something from the guy who directed “Inception” and “Memento,” both of which critics have compared “Tenet” to as spiritual cousins to the plot structure and the film’s labyrinth ideas about time inversions and the non-linear way in which objects travel through time and space.
And if that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, it’s not supposed to. Early critic reviews have mentioned that the film seems designed to be watched multiple times. While the main concept is easy enough to understand, it’s the more minute details that get lost in dialogue and slick, globetrotting set pieces, with critics calling the plot specifics “incomprehensible.
- 8/21/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
How To Build A Girl Will Be Available In Select Theaters, Digital And Cable VOD May 8th
The critics love How To Build A Girl!
Beanie Feldstein is incandescent.”
Katey Rich, Vanity Fair
“It’s a joyful thing to behold. As fun as a night in the mosh pit with your best mate”
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“A loving tribute to young women with overactive imaginations and a desire to reinvent themselves. Beanie Feldstein is as charming as ever.”
Anne Cohen, REFINERY29
Check Out the trailer:
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
The critics love How To Build A Girl!
Beanie Feldstein is incandescent.”
Katey Rich, Vanity Fair
“It’s a joyful thing to behold. As fun as a night in the mosh pit with your best mate”
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“A loving tribute to young women with overactive imaginations and a desire to reinvent themselves. Beanie Feldstein is as charming as ever.”
Anne Cohen, REFINERY29
Check Out the trailer:
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
- 5/1/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jan Komasa’s “Corpus Christi,” Poland’s official entry in the Best International Feature Film category of the Academy Awards, has become an arthouse hit at the local box office. The film has also become an international sales success with the number of territories sold rising to 45.
The film, which world premiered as part of Venice Days and made its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has grossed 26 million Pln ($6.66 million) from 1.36 million admissions in Poland, making it the top arthouse drama of the year. The pic was in the top 10 for seven weeks, and is now in 11th place, playing on 60 screens.
Last year, Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” grossed 17.3 million Pln ($4.48 million) from 931,000 admissions; after the film’s re-release following its three Oscar nominations its Polish gross rose to $4.87 million.
Only around three Polish films a year reach the 1.5 million admissions mark, but these tends to be comedies,...
The film, which world premiered as part of Venice Days and made its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has grossed 26 million Pln ($6.66 million) from 1.36 million admissions in Poland, making it the top arthouse drama of the year. The pic was in the top 10 for seven weeks, and is now in 11th place, playing on 60 screens.
Last year, Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” grossed 17.3 million Pln ($4.48 million) from 931,000 admissions; after the film’s re-release following its three Oscar nominations its Polish gross rose to $4.87 million.
Only around three Polish films a year reach the 1.5 million admissions mark, but these tends to be comedies,...
- 12/7/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Seems like fans eager to envelop themselves in the world of the Crawleys won’t be disappointed by the Downton Abbey movie.
The highly anticipated big screen event doesn’t open until Sept. 20, but the London premiere meant critics were able to reveal their opinions. And the verdict? Fans of the show are in for a treat!
“Being reintroduced to the residents of Downton Abbey is like running into old neighbors who moved out years ago — their faces look familiar, and you remember their annoying habits, but their names can be elusive,” Slate‘s June Thomas wrote.
Entertainment Weekly‘s...
The highly anticipated big screen event doesn’t open until Sept. 20, but the London premiere meant critics were able to reveal their opinions. And the verdict? Fans of the show are in for a treat!
“Being reintroduced to the residents of Downton Abbey is like running into old neighbors who moved out years ago — their faces look familiar, and you remember their annoying habits, but their names can be elusive,” Slate‘s June Thomas wrote.
Entertainment Weekly‘s...
- 9/11/2019
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Mirrah Foulkes.
Mirrah Foulkes’ prospects of cracking the Us market as an actor and director after the world premiere of Judy & Punch at Sundance just got better after she signed with UTA.
Home to a vast roster of talent including Roma director Alfonso Cuarón, Joel and Ethan Coen, Wes Anderson, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Radcliffe, the agency will represent Mirrah in all areas.
Deadline.com broke the story, noting she is the only female member of the filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue Films, which includes her husband David Michôd, Nash Edgerton, Joel Edgerton and Kieran Darcy-Smith.
Nash Edgerton, Michele Bennett and Vice Media’s Danny Gabai produced Judy & Punch, Foulkes’ feature directorial debut which got glowing reviews in Sundance after its premiere in the World Dramatic Competition.
The darkly comic revenge story follows Mia Wasikowska’s Judy as she joins forces with a band of outcast heretics to...
Mirrah Foulkes’ prospects of cracking the Us market as an actor and director after the world premiere of Judy & Punch at Sundance just got better after she signed with UTA.
Home to a vast roster of talent including Roma director Alfonso Cuarón, Joel and Ethan Coen, Wes Anderson, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Radcliffe, the agency will represent Mirrah in all areas.
Deadline.com broke the story, noting she is the only female member of the filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue Films, which includes her husband David Michôd, Nash Edgerton, Joel Edgerton and Kieran Darcy-Smith.
Nash Edgerton, Michele Bennett and Vice Media’s Danny Gabai produced Judy & Punch, Foulkes’ feature directorial debut which got glowing reviews in Sundance after its premiere in the World Dramatic Competition.
The darkly comic revenge story follows Mia Wasikowska’s Judy as she joins forces with a band of outcast heretics to...
- 2/24/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Animals’ (Photo credit: Bernard Walsh)
The overseas sales prospects for Sophie Hyde’s Animals look bright following rave reviews for the female-led comedy at the Sundance Film Festival.
Adapted by Emma Jane Unsworth from her acclaimed 2014 novel of the same name, the film stars English actress Holliday Grainger and American Alia Shawkat as Laura and Tyler, best friends and roommates in Dublin.
When Tyler’s younger sister Jean (Amy Molloy) announces that she and her partner are expecting a baby, Laura is plunged into a funk that Tyler finds perplexing.
Their hedonistic existence is further disrupted when Laura gets engaged to Jim (Irishman Fra Free), an ambitious pianist who decides to go teetotal.
The Irish-Australian co-production was produced by Hyde and Rebecca Summerton for Closer Productions and Sarah Brocklehurst and Cormac Fox for Vico Films.
IndieWire’s Kate Erbland enthused: “Grainger and Shawkat are wonderful together, conveying the depth of...
The overseas sales prospects for Sophie Hyde’s Animals look bright following rave reviews for the female-led comedy at the Sundance Film Festival.
Adapted by Emma Jane Unsworth from her acclaimed 2014 novel of the same name, the film stars English actress Holliday Grainger and American Alia Shawkat as Laura and Tyler, best friends and roommates in Dublin.
When Tyler’s younger sister Jean (Amy Molloy) announces that she and her partner are expecting a baby, Laura is plunged into a funk that Tyler finds perplexing.
Their hedonistic existence is further disrupted when Laura gets engaged to Jim (Irishman Fra Free), an ambitious pianist who decides to go teetotal.
The Irish-Australian co-production was produced by Hyde and Rebecca Summerton for Closer Productions and Sarah Brocklehurst and Cormac Fox for Vico Films.
IndieWire’s Kate Erbland enthused: “Grainger and Shawkat are wonderful together, conveying the depth of...
- 1/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Gkids has amassed 10 nominations for Best Animated Feature across seven of the nine Oscar ceremonies since the company was founded in 2008. The American film distributor has usually been nominated for films not favored for nominations and always for films that gross under $1 million at the domestic box office; the most recent was last year’s international co-production “The Breadwinner,” which won the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature (Independent). Gkids has never won the Oscar, but it trails only Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures among film distributors in Best Animated Feature nominations in the last decade, and it could add another one in January.
SEEPixar could go on a Best Animated Feature winning streak.
Gkids’s slate this year includes “Fireworks,” “Lu Over the Wall,” “Mfkz” and “The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl,” all from Japan. Its most critically acclaimed contender is “Mirai,” which boasts 100 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes,...
SEEPixar could go on a Best Animated Feature winning streak.
Gkids’s slate this year includes “Fireworks,” “Lu Over the Wall,” “Mfkz” and “The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl,” all from Japan. Its most critically acclaimed contender is “Mirai,” which boasts 100 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes,...
- 10/20/2018
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
Directed by Paweł PawlikowskiThe Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski won best director, for ‘Cold War’, which follows two lovers from the end of World War II into the 1960s across countries and shifting political realities. Based on his own parents’ love story, this gorgeously shot, Robert Doisneau-esque (when in Paris) black and white period piece takes a slice of your heart away in its retelling.
Cold War reviews have been stellar as are the stars Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot.
“Luminous presence of Joanna Kulig, who on this performance is a powerful enough to become the Jeanne Moreau de nos jours.This film fizzes with a devotional energy and political relevance”
Nick James, Sight & Sound
“Kulig, as effervescent in her way as the young Jeanne Moreau, is the film’s life force”
Tim Robey, Telegraph 4****
“This is a movie of the flesh, not the spirit. Pawlikowski is a lyrical, mysterious filmmaker...
Cold War reviews have been stellar as are the stars Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot.
“Luminous presence of Joanna Kulig, who on this performance is a powerful enough to become the Jeanne Moreau de nos jours.This film fizzes with a devotional energy and political relevance”
Nick James, Sight & Sound
“Kulig, as effervescent in her way as the young Jeanne Moreau, is the film’s life force”
Tim Robey, Telegraph 4****
“This is a movie of the flesh, not the spirit. Pawlikowski is a lyrical, mysterious filmmaker...
- 5/26/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Desiree Akhavan’s Sundance Grand Jury prize winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
FilmRise, the New York-based distributor behind Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and the Jon Hamm-Lois Smith starrer Marjorie Prime, is planning a late summer release this year for the coming-of-age film.
Starring Chloe Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck and Jennifer Ehle, the film premiered to critical and audience acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won the coveted U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin gave the film...
FilmRise, the New York-based distributor behind Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and the Jon Hamm-Lois Smith starrer Marjorie Prime, is planning a late summer release this year for the coming-of-age film.
Starring Chloe Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck and Jennifer Ehle, the film premiered to critical and audience acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won the coveted U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin gave the film...
- 3/23/2018
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"She is a center of power - on and off the court." Magnolia Pics has debuted the trailer for the documentary Rbg, telling the life story of iconic U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is still going strong even at 84 years old. This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and also stopped by the Miami Film Festival. Rbg is a "revelatory documentary" exploring Ginsburg's exceptional life and career. It packs in stories about her life from her friends, and interviews from all kinds of people, including the founders of the "Notorious R.B.G." Tumblr blog. Leslie Felperin's review from Sundance explains that Rbg is: "like its subject... eminently sober, well-mannered, highly intelligent, scrupulous and just a teeny-weeny bit reassuringly dull." It's a fine film for those who want to be inspired by Rbg's awesomeness. Enjoy. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Julie Cohen...
- 3/7/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The most populous city in Canada has appeared on-screen in many different ways over the years.Enemy (2013)
There are many ways in which cities are portrayed in cinema. Sometimes cities are anonymous and nameless, and sometimes cities become characters in the films they are portrayed in. Cities can be merely incidental settings, or the specific locations within a city can be incredibly important both narratively and visually. The people within a city tend to represent the place itself: how they act, how they dress, where they work, how they speak, and what they eat. All of these things can be related to the place they live. Cities are home to an infinite multitude of experiences — people from different places, with different families, different wants and desires and identities.
There are cities that are frequently remembered as being iconic within the world of cinema. Paris, Rome, New York, Venice, Chicago, and London have all received loving portraits in...
There are many ways in which cities are portrayed in cinema. Sometimes cities are anonymous and nameless, and sometimes cities become characters in the films they are portrayed in. Cities can be merely incidental settings, or the specific locations within a city can be incredibly important both narratively and visually. The people within a city tend to represent the place itself: how they act, how they dress, where they work, how they speak, and what they eat. All of these things can be related to the place they live. Cities are home to an infinite multitude of experiences — people from different places, with different families, different wants and desires and identities.
There are cities that are frequently remembered as being iconic within the world of cinema. Paris, Rome, New York, Venice, Chicago, and London have all received loving portraits in...
- 4/13/2017
- by Angela Morrison
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Viggo Mortensen has signed with UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The actor was previously without an agent.
Mortensen is nominated for Independent Spirit, Critics Choice and Satellite awards for his quirky turn in the family dramedy Captain Fantastic. The movie premiered at Sundance in January and won the People's Choice Award at the Rome Film Festival in October. It also garnered the audience awards at the Deauville and Karlovy Vary and Seattle International Film Festivals. In THR's review, critic Leslie Felperin called Mortensen "charismatic as ever."
The Manhattan native, who founded the indie publishing house...
Mortensen is nominated for Independent Spirit, Critics Choice and Satellite awards for his quirky turn in the family dramedy Captain Fantastic. The movie premiered at Sundance in January and won the People's Choice Award at the Rome Film Festival in October. It also garnered the audience awards at the Deauville and Karlovy Vary and Seattle International Film Festivals. In THR's review, critic Leslie Felperin called Mortensen "charismatic as ever."
The Manhattan native, who founded the indie publishing house...
- 12/7/2016
- by Rebecca Sun,Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tom Hanks once again reprises his role as Robert Langdon in “Inferno,” the third cinematic adaptation of Dan Brown’s book series. This time around Langdon teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) after he wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia. Together they race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot. The first reviews are in, let’s see what the critics are saying.
IndieWire’s Demetrios Matheou said the “third time’s not the charm” and gave the film a C- in his review.
“After ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels & Demons,’ ‘Inferno’ makes it three duds in a row. Thanks to Tom Hanks, Langdon is a palpable, enjoyable presence. But once again Ron Howard and his screenwriters have failed to satisfactorily adapt the material around him. If the first film was ploddingly, airlessly faithful to its source, this follows the second in being frantically paced,...
IndieWire’s Demetrios Matheou said the “third time’s not the charm” and gave the film a C- in his review.
“After ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels & Demons,’ ‘Inferno’ makes it three duds in a row. Thanks to Tom Hanks, Langdon is a palpable, enjoyable presence. But once again Ron Howard and his screenwriters have failed to satisfactorily adapt the material around him. If the first film was ploddingly, airlessly faithful to its source, this follows the second in being frantically paced,...
- 10/11/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Based on the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 novel, “The Little Prince” follows a young girl whose mother has her whole life planned out for her, every minute, hour and day and moment of her life. Overwhelmed by the life plan, she becomes hesitant to grow up. Her neighbor, The Aviator, then introduces her to an extraordinary world where everything is possible, the world of the Little Prince. The animated film is now available to stream on Netflix, this is what the critics are saying about the Mark Osbourne-directed adaptation.
IndieWire’s David Ehrlich gave the film a grade letter of B-, calling it “a strange, satisfying, star-studded adaptation.” He adds that “‘The Little Prince’ is probably too opaque for children, and it’s definitely too strained for adults, but it’s still refreshing to see a movie that flies with the untamed, sometimes illogical creative impulses of its target audiences.
IndieWire’s David Ehrlich gave the film a grade letter of B-, calling it “a strange, satisfying, star-studded adaptation.” He adds that “‘The Little Prince’ is probably too opaque for children, and it’s definitely too strained for adults, but it’s still refreshing to see a movie that flies with the untamed, sometimes illogical creative impulses of its target audiences.
- 8/5/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Not many critics domestically have gotten the chance to see the upcoming action-packed flick, “Independence Day: Resurgence,” due to limited press screenings. While that necessarily doesn’t mean that the sequel to the 1996 film is a bust, it does bring some intrigue to what those who have actually seen it think. Directed by Roland Emmerich, two decades after the first invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. Overall, the reviews are mixed for the Jeff Goldblum and Liam Hemsworth starring movie. Here is what they had to say:
Variety’s Guy Lodge praises the helmer for his work but still thinks the overall movie lacked substance” “Sketchily conceived in all departments but its sensational, more-is-more visual effects — which is, let’s be honest, where its efforts should be concentrated — this belated, cluttered sequel to the 1996 smash “Independence Day” breaks far less ground than its alien invaders, but confirms...
Variety’s Guy Lodge praises the helmer for his work but still thinks the overall movie lacked substance” “Sketchily conceived in all departments but its sensational, more-is-more visual effects — which is, let’s be honest, where its efforts should be concentrated — this belated, cluttered sequel to the 1996 smash “Independence Day” breaks far less ground than its alien invaders, but confirms...
- 6/21/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Justin Kurzel may well succeed in making Shakespeare cool again for mainstream cinemagoers judging by the mostly ecstatic reviews in Cannes for Macbeth.
Screened in competition on Saturday, the See-Saw Films production stars Michael Fassbender as the Scottish lord and Marion Cotillard as his ambitious wife.
Reviewers heaped praise on the Snowtown director, the leads. performances and Adam Arkapaw.s luminous cinematography, and some are bullish about its B.O. prospects.
Transmission will launch the film shot in England and Scotland in Pctober Australia and The Weinstein Co will distribute in the Us.
.Although tradition is upheld with a Dark Ages-Early Christian period setting, actually shot in Scotland for once, in most other respects Australian director Justin Kurzel filters Shakespeare's tragic story of murderous ambition through a resolutely modern sensibility,. declared The Hollywood Reporter.s Leslie Felperin. .Comparisons with Game of Thrones will be inevitable, and not always flatteringly intended,...
Screened in competition on Saturday, the See-Saw Films production stars Michael Fassbender as the Scottish lord and Marion Cotillard as his ambitious wife.
Reviewers heaped praise on the Snowtown director, the leads. performances and Adam Arkapaw.s luminous cinematography, and some are bullish about its B.O. prospects.
Transmission will launch the film shot in England and Scotland in Pctober Australia and The Weinstein Co will distribute in the Us.
.Although tradition is upheld with a Dark Ages-Early Christian period setting, actually shot in Scotland for once, in most other respects Australian director Justin Kurzel filters Shakespeare's tragic story of murderous ambition through a resolutely modern sensibility,. declared The Hollywood Reporter.s Leslie Felperin. .Comparisons with Game of Thrones will be inevitable, and not always flatteringly intended,...
- 5/24/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Gaspar Noé, the provocative filmmaker behind Irreversible and Enter the Void, premiered his latest picture Love at the Cannes Film Festival last night - but critics haven't been totally on-board for his hardcore 3D sex odyssey.
Initial reviews have delved into the film's specifics in eye-opening details (basically, graphic sex mixed with a lot of navel gazing); however this taboo-shattering film isn't as shocking as initially expected. Read on for a round-up of reviews and reaction from social media...
The Telegraph - Robbie Collin
"The problem with Love isn't its purpose, which I find wholly laudable, nor the sex itself, which is beautiful and also - to use a taboo critical term - sexy. It's that both these things deserved a far richer and more intelligent film to support them. Catherine Breillat's Romance and Bertrand Bonello's The Pornographer both gnawed at the boundaries of taboo, but as you watched them,...
Initial reviews have delved into the film's specifics in eye-opening details (basically, graphic sex mixed with a lot of navel gazing); however this taboo-shattering film isn't as shocking as initially expected. Read on for a round-up of reviews and reaction from social media...
The Telegraph - Robbie Collin
"The problem with Love isn't its purpose, which I find wholly laudable, nor the sex itself, which is beautiful and also - to use a taboo critical term - sexy. It's that both these things deserved a far richer and more intelligent film to support them. Catherine Breillat's Romance and Bertrand Bonello's The Pornographer both gnawed at the boundaries of taboo, but as you watched them,...
- 5/21/2015
- Digital Spy
"Secrets and lies disrupt a superficially idyllic summer holiday for three teenage boys in Canadian director Andrew Cividino’s debut feature Sleeping Giant, an expansion of his prize-winning short of the same name," begins Leslie Felperin in the Hollywood Reporter. "Set in a heat-hazed resort town on the Ontario shores of Lake Superior, this compelling if somewhat schematically written drama benefits from a strong sense of place, well-directed performances from its young ensemble, and a good ear for the patter of contemporary teen-speak." Variety's Guy Lodge is reminded of The Kings of Summer and Hide Your Smiling Faces. For the Playlist's Jessica Kiang, "It is the anti-Stand By Me." We've got clips and more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/18/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Secrets and lies disrupt a superficially idyllic summer holiday for three teenage boys in Canadian director Andrew Cividino’s debut feature Sleeping Giant, an expansion of his prize-winning short of the same name," begins Leslie Felperin in the Hollywood Reporter. "Set in a heat-hazed resort town on the Ontario shores of Lake Superior, this compelling if somewhat schematically written drama benefits from a strong sense of place, well-directed performances from its young ensemble, and a good ear for the patter of contemporary teen-speak." Variety's Guy Lodge is reminded of The Kings of Summer and Hide Your Smiling Faces. For the Playlist's Jessica Kiang, "It is the anti-Stand By Me." We've got clips and more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/18/2015
- Keyframe
For the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, Maïwenn's Mon roi, with Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel, is an outrageous 130-minute firework display of drama-queen over-acting and bad acting." But for Variety's Peter Debruge, Maïwenn's characters "rank among the most vividly realized of any to have graced the screen in recent memory." The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin agrees that they "make the material feel consistently fresh and alive." But for Jonathan Romney in Screen, "this is a film drowning in its own chic." We're collecting more reviews and video interviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/17/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, Maïwenn's Mon roi, with Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel, is an outrageous 130-minute firework display of drama-queen over-acting and bad acting." But for Variety's Peter Debruge, Maïwenn's characters "rank among the most vividly realized of any to have graced the screen in recent memory." The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin agrees that they "make the material feel consistently fresh and alive." But for Jonathan Romney in Screen, "this is a film drowning in its own chic." We're collecting more reviews and video interviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/17/2015
- Keyframe
Universal Pictures released their new comedy film, "Pitch Perfect 2," into theaters today, May 15th,2015, and all the top,major critics have turned in their reviews. It turns out that most of them were fond of it, giving it an overall 67 score out of a possible 100 across 31 reviews at the Metacritic.com site. The film stars: Brittany Snow, Anna Kendrick, Katey Sagal, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Adam DeVine, Hailee Steinfeld, Ester Dean, Kelley Jakle and Hana Mae Lee. We've supplied blurbs from a few of the critics,below. Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly, gave it a very nice 83 score, stating: "PP2 sometimes feels less like a movie than a two-hour episode of Glee ghostwritten by Amy Schumer; jokes fly like they’re being shot from T-shirt guns at a gonzo pep rally, and not all of them stick the landing." Betsy Sharkey over at the Los Angeles Times,...
- 5/15/2015
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
For the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, Yorgos Lanthimos's first feature in English, The Lobster, is "an adventure which begins by being bizarre and hilarious but appears to run out of ideas at its mid-way point." But the Playlist's Oliver Lyttelton finds that the cast—Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Jessica Barden, Ashley Jensen and Aggeliki Papoulia—commits to the absurd premise "with gusto." The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin: "Co-screenwriter Efthimis Filippou’s collaboration with the director is faithfully served by DoP Thimios Bakatakis, using lots of long lenses and natural lighting to create stunningly composed tableaus, and editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis smoothing down the tonal shifts to a glassy sheen." » - David Hudson...
- 5/15/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, Yorgos Lanthimos's first feature in English, The Lobster, is "an adventure which begins by being bizarre and hilarious but appears to run out of ideas at its mid-way point." But the Playlist's Oliver Lyttelton finds that the cast—Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Jessica Barden, Ashley Jensen and Aggeliki Papoulia—commits to the absurd premise "with gusto." The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin: "Co-screenwriter Efthimis Filippou’s collaboration with the director is faithfully served by DoP Thimios Bakatakis, using lots of long lenses and natural lighting to create stunningly composed tableaus, and editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis smoothing down the tonal shifts to a glassy sheen." » - David Hudson...
- 5/15/2015
- Keyframe
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