‘Only those who have been at sea can grasp the enormousness of the world,’ we’re told during Lee Tamahori’s plush historical epic of deadly muskets and Christianity on the rocks; even a 21st century land-lubber can understand the wrongs of imperialism. We’re out and about in 1830, in and around the Tasmanian Sea, where there’s […]
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This will be one of many reviews during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, to keep up with our latest coverage, click here. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are names that should be mentioned more often in discussions regarding modern horror, especially for their contributions to A Quiet Place. While John Krasinski has deservedly earned…
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Yepyeni bir öneriyle sizlerleyim. Evet sizin de bildiğiniz gibi dünyaca ünlü yönetmen Asghar Farhadi filminden bahsediyoruz. Neredeyse iki yıl arayla çektiği filmlerle ve başarısıyla bilinen Farhadi aynı zamanda bu filmin senaristliğini de yapmıştır. Farhadi filmlerine bakacak olursak genelde aynı oyuncularla film yapmayı tercih eder. Bu da oyuncuyu ne kadar iyi tanıdığını ve yaptığı bu seçimlerle […]
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Most of the horror community loves a good serial killer story. As morbid as it is, there are hundreds of thousands of hours of true crime podcasts, TV series, and films that either recount the true events of innocent people being dispatched by a depraved mind or take inspiration from these murders to create fictional […]
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Shogun Season One (2024)Written by Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, Shannon Goss, Nigel Williams, Emily Yoshida, Matt Lambert, Maegan Houang, and Caillin PuenteDirected by Jonathan van Tulleken, Charlotte Brändström, Frederick E.O. Toye, Hiromi Kamata, Takeshi Fukunaga, and Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour I must confess that of all the Japanese media, the stories surrounding this historical period typically leave […]
I loved The Substance for its audacity, confrontational nature, indelible performances and wicked sense of humor. It’s an unforgettably wild ride of excess. Recommended.
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By John Corrado Saoirse Ronan takes on the role of a young alcoholic in The Outrun. It’s a role that allows the actress to deliver an incredible performance showcasing her full depth and range, as the drama depicts the addiction and recovery process as an ongoing journey. It’s based on author Amy Liptrot’s memoir of […]
Joker: Folie Á Deux will leave folks split on their opinions and we all know that doing sequels can be a bit dicey trying to recapture the magic. Lightning in a bottle didn’t go down this time, but if you like musicals, witnessing a Phoenix and Gaga duet is totally worth it.
The trailer for the remake of Nosferatu confirms a January 2025 release, directed by Robert Eggers, and explores the obsession between a vampire and a young man.
Nosferatu: Comparison with Dracula and its Origins
After the success of Barry, Bill Hader is headed back to HBO. According to Variety, Hader and Barry writer Duffy Boudreau are teaming up to develop a new comedy series at HBO. Hader and Boudreau will serve as co-writers and executive producers on the project. What is Bill Hader’s HBO Comedy About? The logline per…
Bill Hader, ‘Barry’ Writer Working on New HBO Comedy Series!!
Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents is not a heist film, but it does begin with an elaborate bank robbery. It is not exactly a thriller, either, though it borrows from plenty of the tropes you’d find in an exciting thriller film with a heist as its centerpiece. Elaborate planning, blackmail, prison politics, uneasy partnerships, paranoia of…
One feels that thinking on a film by the Coen brothers, especially a comedy, is a fruitless exercise. Those guys design their work in such a way that it’s not merely immune to navel-gazing, it actually mocks the navel-gazers. And bless their hearts for it. As David Bazan has sung: You’re so creative With your…
What’s an out of work clown to do? Louison (played by Dominique Pinon) didn’t lose his job due to a lack of charm, he has that in abundance. Unfortunately his life took an unexpected turn with the death of his performing partner. The truth to be told, his partner didn’t simply die, he was…
Right from the first scene in Bergman Island, it is apparent that this is a movie made with a very particular audience in mind. You can tell that it will never crossover into pop culture or even into the conversations of casual movie fans, like a lot of indies playing in the festival circuit, do.…
This is the first post in The Cinematic Mr. Ripley, a series for the MovieThoughts category of my blog that considers moral themes in Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels and the film adaptations of those books. This post looks at Purple Noon, the 1960 French adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Alain Delon. It…
EXPECTATIONS: Simple yet romantic survival story. REVIEW: WARNING: This review may contain heavy traces of cheese. Before I start off this review, let me just make this one thing clear. I do like romantic films. This year alone, we have great films like Their Finest, The Big Sick, Our God’s Country and Call Me By…
Gliding almost without speech down the dawn streets of a wet Paris winter, these men in trench coats and fedoras perform a ballet of crime, hoping to win and fearing to die. Some are cops and some are robbers. To smoke for them is as natural as breathing. They use guns, lies, clout, greed and nerve with the skill of a magician who no longer even thinks about the cards. They share a code of honor which is not about what side of the law they are on, but about how a man must behave to win the respect of those few others who understand the code.
Woody Allen’s 50th film, “Coup de Chance” made a pretty good impression after premiering at last year’s Venice International Film Festival and then in France a short time later. Since then it has been finding its way to screens including here in the States courtesy of MPI Media Group. It’s Allen’s first French-language feature. And…
