Fleeing in a wheelchair. So this is about a disabled homeschooled teenager (Kiera Allen). She’s starting to prepare to leave for college, and then her mother (Sarah Paulson) changes her medication. She begins to investigate this further only to find all that may not be as it seems. Now, this is a movie that has […]
The directors of “Zappa” and “Montage of Heck” swap stories and talk through the challenges of finding the truths hidden by the glare of fame.
Zappa and Cobain at the Movies: Alex Winter and Brett Morgen Find Humanity Behind Rock Star Myth
Two years after we first met her, little Angela, an Irish lass living in the very early 20th century, is still known in her little town for having stolen the baby Jesus from the church’s nativity scene. It was pretty innocent, as far as thefts go; she only thought he looked cold lying there in […]
Director: Darius MarderCast: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, Mathieu AmalricScreenplay: Darius Marder, Abraham Marder130 mins. Rated R. Sound of Metal has had a long road on the way to being completed. Initially Derek Cianfrance had been working on a film called Metalhead, described as a docufiction, which has languished in post-production since […]
Director: Alan BallCast: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Lois Smith, Margo Martindale, Stephen RootScreenplay: Alan Ball95 mins. Rated R for language, some sexual references and drug use. On first look, the poster for Uncle Frank didn’t really win me over. It wasn’t until I saw the cast list and realized […]
The much-anticipated teaser trailer for Matt Reeves’s The Batman is here and it looks to be an even angstier take on the character than past adaptations (if that’s even possible). It looks incredible and Robert Pattinson appears to be a natural.
The Batman trailer – Pattinson is brutal in an even darker tale of our Dark Knight
Denis Villenueve’s Dune is one of the most anticipated science fiction blockbusters of the decade, and the first trailer has finally dropped.
Soderbergh’s critique of the costume party set piece proved valuable to Fincher and editor Kirk Baxter.
How Steven Soderbergh’s Only Complaint About ‘Mank’ Changed the Editing of a Key Scene
Selena Quintanilla Perez is a name etched in pop culture history, known to many as the subject of the 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Lopez as much as she is known to several generations of Latinx girls. Her tragic death — murdered at the age of 23 — enhances this mythos, a fact often enhanced by…
‘Selena: The Series’ Review: Netflix’s Biopic Fails to Give Star a Voice
Dialing down the intensity and letting Colman Domingo and Zendaya do the work, “Euphoria’s” first special episode offers a rare ray of light in a dark winter.
‘Euphoria’ Review: Special Episode Lends a Helping Hand This Holiday Season
Over the years, many movies made reflect a growing trend amid studios looking to nab an easy profit. These are those productions that attempt to revive a classic tale or character but fail in attempting to make renowned intellectual properties both fresh and exciting. Stories gravitating around figures like Mowgli, Robin Hood, or Sherlock Holmes […]
‘A Christmas Carol’ (2020): An Artistic and Refreshingly Wholesome Take on Dickens’ Classic
There will be no more category hopping for anthology series, as the TV Academy decided to group them with Limited Series.
Emmy Rule Changes for 2021: Variety Series Collapsed, Anthology Series Refined
All products and services featured by IndieWire are independently selected by IndieWire editors. However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. With David Fincher’s long-awaited “Mank,” about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to finish the screenplay for “Citizen Kane,”…
Red, White, and Blue opens with a very young Leroy Logan (Nathan Vidal) standing on a London street corner. Behind him is the school that he attends. He’s wearing a school uniform. As the other students walk past him, they say hi and acknowledge the very obvious fact that Leroy is a student who is […]
Film Review: Small Axe: Red White and Blue (dir by Steve McQueen)
Directed by David Fincher and written by Jack Fincher, follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane. Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Monika Gossmann and Joseph Cross. This is likely not going to be the sort of film that Fincher fans […]
Season two of the Netflix series Virgin River (adapted from the book series by Robyn Carr) just dropped last week, and as of this writing, I have 2 of the 10 episodes yet to watch (and I will definitely finish them tonight). Friends, this show is dumb. But it’s also incredibly watchable. The basics: 30-something […]
TV Time: Virgin River is so dumb. So why can’t I stop watching?
In the future, there will be robots. So in about twenty years into the future, artificial intelligence has reached a new level of sophistication. This story is about a scientist (Theo James) who is working on a new robot prototype. He does have a hidden agenda, however: to reunite with his dead wife (Stacy Martin). […]
It’s tough to be a woman in the workplace. So as you may be able to guess, this is about an assistant (Julia Garner). She works for a powerful executive at a film production company in New York City. She is at the bottom of the totem pole, and this is about how she processes […]
Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H. Tony Revolori as Zero Moustafa F. Murray Abraham as Mr. Moustafa Adrien Brody as Dmitri Willem Dafoe as J. G. Jopling Saoirse Ronan as Agatha Tilda Swinton as Madame D. Edward Norton as Albert Henckels Mathieu […]
If you’re looking for an excellent film featuring an Oscar-worthy performance from Riz Ahmed, look no further than the Sound of Metal. Directed and written by former concert photographer Darius Marder (he also wrote The Place Beyond the Pines), Sound of Metal focuses on a drummer named Ruben (Riz Ahmed) losing his hearing while on […]
Sound of Metal: An Excellent Film That Features an Award-Worthy Performance From Riz Ahmed