When Jon Stewart reclaimed his seat behind the The Daily Show desk in February, his once-a-week return was met with widespread excitement from those eager to recapture the magic of his original tenure, from 1999 to 2015. Writing for the Guardian, Charles Bramesco praised Stewart's "honest, critical, sane" political perspective, while LateNighter editor-at-large Bill Carter proclaimed that his Monday appearances have "re-introduced appointment viewing to late night." Showtime/MTV Entertainment boss Chris McCarthy even went so far as to hail Stewart as "the voice of our generation," describing him as "the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit."...
- 4/9/2024
- by Claire Spellberg Lustig
- Primetimer
The acting credits of Sydney Sweeney are getting bigger and better. We are less than three months into 2024 and she has already starred in two movies. After the disappointing “Madame Web”, Sweeney has now come back with “Immaculate”.
Sydney Sweeney || Madame Web
The pre-release buzz surrounding the movie wasn’t overwhelmingly positive, leaving many with a sense of trepidation. However, in a surprising turn of events, “Immaculate” has defied expectations. The film has not only managed to appease fans but has also garnered the respect of critics, who are particularly praising Sweeney for her role.
SUGGESTEDSydney Sweeney Might Have Unintentionally Paid a Tribute to Angelina Jolie at the Oscar After Party Sydney Sweeney Collects Praise For Her Role In Immaculate Sydney Sweeney || Immaculate
Immaculate is a psychological horror movie. It follows the story of Cecilia, played by Sydney Sweeney, a nun who takes a job in the Italian countryside. Her...
Sydney Sweeney || Madame Web
The pre-release buzz surrounding the movie wasn’t overwhelmingly positive, leaving many with a sense of trepidation. However, in a surprising turn of events, “Immaculate” has defied expectations. The film has not only managed to appease fans but has also garnered the respect of critics, who are particularly praising Sweeney for her role.
SUGGESTEDSydney Sweeney Might Have Unintentionally Paid a Tribute to Angelina Jolie at the Oscar After Party Sydney Sweeney Collects Praise For Her Role In Immaculate Sydney Sweeney || Immaculate
Immaculate is a psychological horror movie. It follows the story of Cecilia, played by Sydney Sweeney, a nun who takes a job in the Italian countryside. Her...
- 3/15/2024
- by Piyush Yadav
- FandomWire
With major new films from Lynne Ramsey, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Eggers, the year promises a feast for fans
Polaris will be the fifth feature film completed in the 25-year career of the unprolific yet consistently excellent Lynne Ramsay, and her first since 2017. She works with a glacial patience matching the one sentence of information known about her next project: “Set in Alaska during the 1890s, an ice photographer meets the devil.” With real-life couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as the only announced cast, either one could conceivably play either role, and both combinations would be equally tantalizing. But Ramsay is a singular talent, irreplaceable and irreplicable in her fluency with psychological violence and expertly calibrated fusions of brutal realism with stylistic liberation. Her sojourn into the frigid wilds brings her into unfamiliar territory, though the elemental minimalism in those endless expanses of snow and ice fits right...
Polaris will be the fifth feature film completed in the 25-year career of the unprolific yet consistently excellent Lynne Ramsay, and her first since 2017. She works with a glacial patience matching the one sentence of information known about her next project: “Set in Alaska during the 1890s, an ice photographer meets the devil.” With real-life couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as the only announced cast, either one could conceivably play either role, and both combinations would be equally tantalizing. But Ramsay is a singular talent, irreplaceable and irreplicable in her fluency with psychological violence and expertly calibrated fusions of brutal realism with stylistic liberation. Her sojourn into the frigid wilds brings her into unfamiliar territory, though the elemental minimalism in those endless expanses of snow and ice fits right...
- 1/5/2024
- by Charles Bramesco, Jesse Hassenger, Adrian Horton, Radheyan Simonpillai, Veronica Esposito, Andrew Pulver, Catherine Shoard, Scott Tobias, Benjamin Lee and Alaina Demopoulos
- The Guardian - Film News
(Clockwise from bottom left:) White Christmas (Paramount/Getty Images), Klaus (Netflix), The Christmas Chronicles (Netflix), Falling For Christmas (Netflix)Graphic: The A.V. Club
What makes a classic holiday film? Browsing Netflix’s options, it seems a malleable term; 1954’s White Christmas is as classic as they come, but what...
What makes a classic holiday film? Browsing Netflix’s options, it seems a malleable term; 1954’s White Christmas is as classic as they come, but what...
- 12/9/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
From left: The Hateful Eight (The Weinstein Company), The Killer (Netflix), I Care A Lot (Seacia Pavao/Netflix), Uncut Gems (A24)Graphic: The A.V. Club
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the...
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the...
- 11/11/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: Get Out (Universal Pictures); Jaws (Screenshot: YouTube/Universal); The Strangers (Screenshot: Universal/Rogue Pictures); It Follows (Radius/TWC)Graphic: The A.V. Club
Pick a film genre, any film genre, and Netflix is likely to have you more than covered in terms of viewing options—from the...
Pick a film genre, any film genre, and Netflix is likely to have you more than covered in terms of viewing options—from the...
- 10/20/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
It’s not often prestigious organizations invite damnation, misfortune, or any kind of bad luck onto themselves — let alone their renowned festival and its thousands of guests — but for Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, exceptions will be made.
“The Curse” held its world premiere at the New York Film Festival Thursday night, with both co-creators in attendance for the first TV series to ever premiere at NYFF. Fielder, Safdie, and Emma Stone (who did not attend) executive produce and co-star in Showtime’s upcoming black comedy — about a trio of creatives behind an aspiring HGTV home-renovation series — which had audiences laughing and gasping throughout the three-hour screening.
Dennis Lim, the festival’s artistic director, did warn the crowd (as best he could) during his opening remarks.
“[‘The Curse’] is as brilliant, wild, perverse, hilarious, uncomfortable, and anxiety-inducing as you’d expect,” he said, alluding to Fielder and Safdie’s previous works.
“The Curse” held its world premiere at the New York Film Festival Thursday night, with both co-creators in attendance for the first TV series to ever premiere at NYFF. Fielder, Safdie, and Emma Stone (who did not attend) executive produce and co-star in Showtime’s upcoming black comedy — about a trio of creatives behind an aspiring HGTV home-renovation series — which had audiences laughing and gasping throughout the three-hour screening.
Dennis Lim, the festival’s artistic director, did warn the crowd (as best he could) during his opening remarks.
“[‘The Curse’] is as brilliant, wild, perverse, hilarious, uncomfortable, and anxiety-inducing as you’d expect,” he said, alluding to Fielder and Safdie’s previous works.
- 10/13/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
The mockbuster industry is a fascinating entity. Chief among the studios that specialize in mockbusters (ie. low-budget knockoffs of popular studio titles) is The Asylum, the company behind the "Sharkando" films. In 2023 alone, The Asylum has released a riff on "Cocaine Bear" titled "Attack of the Meth Gator," the latest installment in its "Transformers" ripoff franchise, "Transmorphers: Mech Beasts," and its own animated version of "The Little Mermaid" featuring the voices of Steve Guttenberg and "E.T." star Dee Wallace. And they say cinema is dead!
Shane Van Dyke, the grandson of acting legend Dick Van Dyke, got his start as a writer on the mockbuster circuit, penning films like "Titanic II," "Paranormal Entity," and "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" for The Asylum in the late aughts. Around that same time, he also teamed up with his brother, Carey Van Dyke, to co-pen the studio's "Street Racer" -- a riff on the "Fast & Furious" films,...
Shane Van Dyke, the grandson of acting legend Dick Van Dyke, got his start as a writer on the mockbuster circuit, penning films like "Titanic II," "Paranormal Entity," and "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" for The Asylum in the late aughts. Around that same time, he also teamed up with his brother, Carey Van Dyke, to co-pen the studio's "Street Racer" -- a riff on the "Fast & Furious" films,...
- 8/6/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
I've been pretty vocal over the years since joining Team /Film that Paul Reubens' performance as Amilyn in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie is my favorite of his outside of Pee-wee Herman, evening going so far as to declare his character's dramatic death scene as one of the best non-Marvel post-credits scenes in cinema history. Reubens was one of the most influential comedic performers to ever live, and watching him completely transform into different characters was always a delight. Amilyn the Vampire was a perfect role for Reubens because it allowed him to play completely against his Pee-wee type while still showing off his phenomenal talents as a character actor.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has been unfairly maligned in the wake of the beloved TV series of the same name due to its over-the-top camp sensibilities and the fact writer/creator Joss Whedon vocally despised the direction Fran Rubel Kuzui...
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has been unfairly maligned in the wake of the beloved TV series of the same name due to its over-the-top camp sensibilities and the fact writer/creator Joss Whedon vocally despised the direction Fran Rubel Kuzui...
- 8/4/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
CinemaThe poor quality of the CGI dress in a movie by a director well-known for his dislike of computer-generated special effects has drawn both laughs and derision from Nolan’s fans.Cillian Murphy & Florence Pugh in Oppenheimer | Universal PicturesChristopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is creating both conversations and controversies in the days following its release on Friday, July 21. Uday Mahurkar, the founder of Save India Save Culture, a right-wing organisation, had written to the director on Monday to remove an intimate scene from the film that pans out in the presence of the Bhagavad Gita. As that row rages on, Twitterati has now caught on to another scene from the film, fuelling more controversies. In the original scene, as Nolan filmed it and has been released in other parts of the world, actor Florence Pugh is shown in the nude. However, in the version that was released in India, the actor...
- 7/25/2023
- by BharathyS
- The News Minute
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSThe Act of Killing. Though he’s known for nonfiction, Joshua Oppenheimer just began production on a musical about the end of the world, fittingly called The End. Filming now in Dublin, it stars Tilda Swinton and George Mackay, via the production company’s website.After 23 years, A.O. Scott is stepping away from film criticism at the New York Times, transitioning to a new role as a critic at large for the Book Review. He conducts his own exit interview.In comedy news, Safdie muse and Razzie record-breaker Adam Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this week in Washington, D.C.Finally, we’re thinking of the character actor Lance Reddick this week, who died suddenly last Friday at...
- 3/22/2023
- MUBI
For our latest dive into recent books on or related to cinema, we’re spending time with some icons––fictional (James Bond) and non. Let’s start with 50 color palettes and one beautifully unique new text.
Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes by Charles Bramesco (Frances Lincoln)
Colors of Film is an engrossing study of how filmmakers utilize color in complex, ingenious, emotionally impactful ways. Some of these examples (e.g. the red jacket in Schindler’s List) have inspired much discourse. What makes this book––by the always-entertaining and -intelligent critic Charles Bramesco––so special is its focus on less-obvious films. A noteworthy case: Hype Williams’ Belly and its “flights of stylistic fancy.” During its hyper-stylized opening, as gangsters Buns and Sin “prowl through the dance floor, ceiling-mounted blacklights make the men look extraterrestrial, their eyeballs glowstick-turquoise against deeper blue skin.” Other entries focus on everything...
Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes by Charles Bramesco (Frances Lincoln)
Colors of Film is an engrossing study of how filmmakers utilize color in complex, ingenious, emotionally impactful ways. Some of these examples (e.g. the red jacket in Schindler’s List) have inspired much discourse. What makes this book––by the always-entertaining and -intelligent critic Charles Bramesco––so special is its focus on less-obvious films. A noteworthy case: Hype Williams’ Belly and its “flights of stylistic fancy.” During its hyper-stylized opening, as gangsters Buns and Sin “prowl through the dance floor, ceiling-mounted blacklights make the men look extraterrestrial, their eyeballs glowstick-turquoise against deeper blue skin.” Other entries focus on everything...
- 3/14/2023
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Contrary to the apocalyptic suggestions that spread like wildfires earlier this month, HBO Max is here to stay. On August 4, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced the streamer will merge with Discovery+ into a single platform expected to launch around summer 2023, as part of a plan to hit 130 million paying subscribers by 2025. The rumors that circulated on the eve of that earnings call may have been histrionic—was HBO Max going to be folded into Discovery+? Would that mean the end of all its scripted originals?The panic was understandable. Earlier that week, Warner Bros. Discovery had pulled the plug on Batgirl, a finished 90-million-dollar feature starring Leslie Grace in the title role and Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader. Long before Batgirl’s shelving, other HBO Max exclusives had been quietly removed from its slate. And Zaslav’s promise to achieve 3 billion in cost savings is likely to include significant layoffs,...
- 8/24/2022
- MUBI
It was a good day to be bad at Fantasia, as the Cheval Noir Award went to Karim Ouelhaj’s “Megalomaniac,” loosely inspired by the horrifying true story of the “Butcher of Mons.” The Belgian serial killer is believed to have murdered at least five women in the 1990s. He was never captured and his identity was never revealed.
The jury of the event’s 26th edition, including Charles Bramesco, Elza Kephart, Maitland McDonagh and Heather O’Neill, presided over by C. Robert Cargill, fell for its unapologetic darkness, calling “Megalomaniac” “the very sort of film that festivals exist to share.”
“[It’s] an astonishing, brutal piece of art that challenges the audience while simultaneously saying something deeply profound. It is a lush piece of cinema whose intent is to disturb and it succeeds at every turn,” they stated, also awarding Eline Schumacher for her committed performance as the killer’s daughter Martha,...
The jury of the event’s 26th edition, including Charles Bramesco, Elza Kephart, Maitland McDonagh and Heather O’Neill, presided over by C. Robert Cargill, fell for its unapologetic darkness, calling “Megalomaniac” “the very sort of film that festivals exist to share.”
“[It’s] an astonishing, brutal piece of art that challenges the audience while simultaneously saying something deeply profound. It is a lush piece of cinema whose intent is to disturb and it succeeds at every turn,” they stated, also awarding Eline Schumacher for her committed performance as the killer’s daughter Martha,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSJafar Panahi.Having been detained last week for protesting the arrest of fellow Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad, Jafar Panahi has now been ordered to serve six years in prison. Ahead of this development Eric Kohn reported on the broader situation in Indiewire. “Maybe they will come for all of us one by one,” says one anonymous filmmaker who is quoted in the article.Martine Marignac, a producer of vital films by Jacques Rivette, Chantal Akerman, Leos Carax, Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, and others, has died aged 75.The juries have been announced for the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Julianne Moore will head up the main jury, supported by filmmakers Audrey Diwan, Leonardo di Costanzo, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Mariano Cohn, plus actor Leila Hatami and author Kazuo Ishiguro.
- 7/20/2022
- MUBI
On March 27, New York’s movie hub Film at Lincoln Center announced it was placing its venerated in-house publication, Film Comment, on “indefinite hiatus.” The decision came as part of major cuts which also led the organization to furlough or lay off about 50% of full-time staffers, and all its part-time staff. Film Comment’s May/June issue will be the last one to be published for the foreseeable future, and will only be distributed digitally. In a statement to IndieWire’s Eric Kohn, Flc executive director Lesli Klainberg said the moves were “a decision [the Center] struggled with and did not take lightly,” adding that:While these actions are very painful in the short-term, we know that eventually, we will be on the other side of this crisis, and because we’ve made these hard choices now we will be well-positioned to thrive again when that time comes.Ostensibly, the measures have...
- 4/13/2020
- MUBI
Critics are praising Ben Affleck‘s latest turn on the big screen.
The actor stars in The Way Back as Jake Cunningham, a former basketball phenom who, for reasons unknown, walked away from the game. Years later he’s asked to coach the basketball team for his alma mater, but his own demons and alcoholism battle to keep him from helping the team achieve success.
The role is a personal one for Affleck, who has been honest about his own struggles with alcohol addiction and recently faced a public relapse.
Given the personal connection Affleck, 47, brought to the role, It...
The actor stars in The Way Back as Jake Cunningham, a former basketball phenom who, for reasons unknown, walked away from the game. Years later he’s asked to coach the basketball team for his alma mater, but his own demons and alcoholism battle to keep him from helping the team achieve success.
The role is a personal one for Affleck, who has been honest about his own struggles with alcohol addiction and recently faced a public relapse.
Given the personal connection Affleck, 47, brought to the role, It...
- 3/4/2020
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
A few days before the 92nd Academy Awards ended with what was possibly the most seismic Best Picture winner of this young century, over at the L.A. Times, Justin Chang wondered whether the Oscars needed a Parasite win more than Bong Joon-ho’s nominee needed the coveted statuette. “A best picture Oscar will not make 'Parasite' a greater movie than it is, and a loss will not diminish its greatness,” for the crucial question was ultimately one for the Academy to answer:Do Oscar voters want to make this kind of history? Does an academy that has made sweeping efforts to diversify its ranks and broaden its international reach over the past few years actually care about achieving the logical outcome of those efforts? Will the membership ever acknowledge that cinema is and always has been a global medium, that no national cinema has a monopoly on greatness...
- 2/14/2020
- MUBI
Just in time for Black Friday―and the holiday season in general―comes a booster pack for a new character called "The Sleigher" for the Mixtape Massacre game. Also in today's : A Feast of Man DVD and digital debut and details on the new director for Witchula.
Details on Mixtape Massacre's New The Sleigher Booster Pack: "'Rotten! Rotten souls, all of them,” a voice kept whispering to Bruce as he sat there in his Santa outfit awaiting the excited children of Tall Oaks Mall. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t shake this feeling something was coming over him. As the kids came and went, the voice got louder and louder. Suddenly a local girl screamed, “Look! Santa has horns!” It was too late. Bruce was gone and in his place, was something feral…
What’S In A Booster Pack?
1 New Slasher character piece
1 Character profile card...
Details on Mixtape Massacre's New The Sleigher Booster Pack: "'Rotten! Rotten souls, all of them,” a voice kept whispering to Bruce as he sat there in his Santa outfit awaiting the excited children of Tall Oaks Mall. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t shake this feeling something was coming over him. As the kids came and went, the voice got louder and louder. Suddenly a local girl screamed, “Look! Santa has horns!” It was too late. Bruce was gone and in his place, was something feral…
What’S In A Booster Pack?
1 New Slasher character piece
1 Character profile card...
- 11/20/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has wrapped for 2019 and the complete list of award winners has been announced, including Daniel Isn't Real for "Best Picture" in the horror feature category and Travis Stevens' Girl on the Third Floor winning "Best Gooey Effects." Also in today's Horror Highlights: My Girlfriend the Serial Killer Indiegogo details, Pumpkin Spice Podcast season finale episode details, and The Spirit Gallery's new DVD and limited VHS info.
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2019 Awards Announced: "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival closed out their fourth edition on October 24th with a sold-out screening of Joe Begos’ Vfw. The Screening was hosted at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park with Director Joe Begos, Writer Max Brallier, and cast members Stephen Lang, Tom Williamson and Linnea Wilson in attendance.
This year the festival featured over 100 films and events across Brooklyn at Nitehawk Cinema, Cobble Hill Cinema, Ifp Made in NY Media Center...
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2019 Awards Announced: "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival closed out their fourth edition on October 24th with a sold-out screening of Joe Begos’ Vfw. The Screening was hosted at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park with Director Joe Begos, Writer Max Brallier, and cast members Stephen Lang, Tom Williamson and Linnea Wilson in attendance.
This year the festival featured over 100 films and events across Brooklyn at Nitehawk Cinema, Cobble Hill Cinema, Ifp Made in NY Media Center...
- 10/28/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Netflix’s “The Irishman” held its first press and industry screening at the 2019 New York Film Festival ahead of Friday night’s official world premiere screening. The response so far from critics and journalists has been overwhelmingly positive with some calling the three-and-a-half hour Martin Scorsese epic a “masterpiece.”
“It’s a masterpiece. Period,” said I Am New York’s editor-in-chief Robert Levin.
It’s a masterpiece. Period. #TheIrishman @TheNYFF
— Robert Levin (@Rlevin85) September 27, 2019
Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone also called it a masterpiece and added, “It’s a film only Martin Scorsese could make and a film unlike anything Scorsese has made.”
Also Read: 'The Irishman': Martin Scorsese on De-Aging De Niro and Pacino Without 'Helmets or Tennis Balls on Their Faces'
Oh #TheIrishman is brilliant. It’s a film only Martin Scorsese could make and a film unlike anything Scorsese has made. Yes call it a masterpiece.
“It’s a masterpiece. Period,” said I Am New York’s editor-in-chief Robert Levin.
It’s a masterpiece. Period. #TheIrishman @TheNYFF
— Robert Levin (@Rlevin85) September 27, 2019
Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone also called it a masterpiece and added, “It’s a film only Martin Scorsese could make and a film unlike anything Scorsese has made.”
Also Read: 'The Irishman': Martin Scorsese on De-Aging De Niro and Pacino Without 'Helmets or Tennis Balls on Their Faces'
Oh #TheIrishman is brilliant. It’s a film only Martin Scorsese could make and a film unlike anything Scorsese has made. Yes call it a masterpiece.
- 9/27/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” finally made its debut at the 2019 New York Film Festival at a press and industry screening ahead of tonight’s official world premiere screening. The first reactions to the long-in-the-works gangster epic are pouring in from film critics and journalists and, for the most part, they are spectacular. While the de-aging VFX Scorsese used to make cast members Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci is proving hit or miss, the overall movie is being showered in strong praise.
“‘The Irishman’ is like a greatest hits album from a master of the medium. Yes, that’s a positive,” IndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn wrote on Twitter. “The artifice of de-aging is more feature than bug. It’s not ‘slow.’ It often moves like lightening and elsewhere it’s downright Bressonian.”
/Film critic Chris Evangelista adds, “‘The Irishman’ is a masterwork. Funny, epic, and most of all,...
“‘The Irishman’ is like a greatest hits album from a master of the medium. Yes, that’s a positive,” IndieWire chief critic Eric Kohn wrote on Twitter. “The artifice of de-aging is more feature than bug. It’s not ‘slow.’ It often moves like lightening and elsewhere it’s downright Bressonian.”
/Film critic Chris Evangelista adds, “‘The Irishman’ is a masterwork. Funny, epic, and most of all,...
- 9/27/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
There are a lot of things that are just interesting about Marvel’s Eternals movies. They are going into the unknown again with fans. Marvel did it once with Guardians of the Galaxy and it was a wild success. It seems that Marvel is continuing on their unconventional path with the Eternals.
Guardian film critic Charles Bramesco tweeted after the Eternals panel at San Diego Comic-con, where he was able to talk to Eternals director Chloe Zhao, and he gleaned some interesting information from her:
I heard that Zhao plans to shoot at least in part on 16mm Ektachrome film, which means this will be the best Marvel movie even if only by default https://t.co/PMnXJlcGsK
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) July 21, 2019
Film is definitely going to be interesting for a Marvel film. The shots are going to be pure and naturally beautiful due to the lack of CGI. Which...
Guardian film critic Charles Bramesco tweeted after the Eternals panel at San Diego Comic-con, where he was able to talk to Eternals director Chloe Zhao, and he gleaned some interesting information from her:
I heard that Zhao plans to shoot at least in part on 16mm Ektachrome film, which means this will be the best Marvel movie even if only by default https://t.co/PMnXJlcGsK
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) July 21, 2019
Film is definitely going to be interesting for a Marvel film. The shots are going to be pure and naturally beautiful due to the lack of CGI. Which...
- 7/30/2019
- by Billy Fisher
- GeekTyrant
One might expect a spoiler warning for “Avengers: Endgame” or “Game of Thrones,” but not so much for Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” And for critics at Cannes, that makes writing reviews a little tricky.
But for devout fans of the “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker, this ninth movie isn’t going to disappoint. While critics noted that Tarantino can get a little too indulgent with his nostalgic, almost rose-tinted depiction of 1969 Hollywood and nods to cinematic history, it’s balanced with moments that take a hard look at Tinseltown’s tendency to mythologize and at the effects that the societal changes that took place at the end of the ’60s had on the world.
Also Read: 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off Cannes
And at the end of it all is a finale...
But for devout fans of the “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker, this ninth movie isn’t going to disappoint. While critics noted that Tarantino can get a little too indulgent with his nostalgic, almost rose-tinted depiction of 1969 Hollywood and nods to cinematic history, it’s balanced with moments that take a hard look at Tinseltown’s tendency to mythologize and at the effects that the societal changes that took place at the end of the ’60s had on the world.
Also Read: 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off Cannes
And at the end of it all is a finale...
- 5/21/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
No sooner than fans on the internet were signing petitions demanding that Robert Pattinson never play Batman, the former “Twilight” star took to Cannes to remind everyone how brilliant of an actor he can be with a crazed performance in “The Lighthouse.”
Robert Eggers’ film, his follow-up to the indie horror classic “The Witch,” stars Pattinson opposite Willem Dafoe, with Dafoe playing an aging lighthouse keeper in the early 20th century in Maine. The two lock horns in a tense psychological battle that has the two screaming at each other amid the film’s dark comedy and supernatural horror touches. And that doesn’t even begin to describe the half of it.
TheWrap’s Ben Croll wrote: “A richly textured portrait of two men on the far edges of society intensifying each other’s descent into madness, “The Lighthouse” lulls like a sea song, knocks like a wave and had...
Robert Eggers’ film, his follow-up to the indie horror classic “The Witch,” stars Pattinson opposite Willem Dafoe, with Dafoe playing an aging lighthouse keeper in the early 20th century in Maine. The two lock horns in a tense psychological battle that has the two screaming at each other amid the film’s dark comedy and supernatural horror touches. And that doesn’t even begin to describe the half of it.
TheWrap’s Ben Croll wrote: “A richly textured portrait of two men on the far edges of society intensifying each other’s descent into madness, “The Lighthouse” lulls like a sea song, knocks like a wave and had...
- 5/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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