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Peter Weir Confirms His Retirement From Directing: “I Have No More Energy”
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
While each year brings a few films here and there to make one long for Hollywood’s return to an era of producing quality mid-budget movies not strictly for a four-quadrant demographic, it seemed the last gasp of such a time...
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Now Streaming: THE REGIME Plods, GIRLS5EVA Rocks
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts star in a dramatic satire. Sara Bareilles, Busy Phillips, Paula Pell and Renee Elise Goldsberry star in a comic satire. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Joe Dante Sets First Film in a Decade with Little Shop of Halloween Horrors, Produced by Roger Corman
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
After dabbling in TV for much of the last decade, Gremlins and The Howling director Joe Dante is set to return to feature filmmaking with his first project since 2014’s Burying the Ex. Dante, who kicked off his career in...
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Road House Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Elevates Doug Liman’s Tonal Rollercoaster of a Remake
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
You need to tread a fine line when paying homage to 1980s action movies. Wink too much at the audience and it’ll either feel like you’re striving for cult status or telling the audience they shouldn’t take your film so...
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SXSW Review: The Greatest Hits is a Pop Romance Fantasy That Plays Most of the Right Notes
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
“It hurts to turn the radio on Stamina’s gone My spirit is weak Because every time I start to move on Keep hearing that song I’m brought to my knees” -“Now or Never Now” by Metric Although not selected for...
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PALM ROYALE Review: Secrets and Lies in High Society
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Kristin Wiig, Ricky Martinez, Laura Dern and Allison Janney star in the comedy-drama series, premiering globally on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sound And Vision: Hayao Miyazaki
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Chage and Aska's On Your Mark, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. After yet another Academy Award win for Hayao...
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EXTRANEOUS MATTER Trailer: From VISITORS’ Kenichi Ugana, on VOD This Tuesday
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
One day, a strange thing comes to a woman who is suffering from being in a sexless relationship with her boyfriend. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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When Paul Simon Bombed at the Movies
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Last night, MGM+ premiered the first chapter of its two-part documentary “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.” (Part Two airs this Sunday.) It’s an exhaustive look at the 82-year-old singer-songwriter’s career—or, at least, the first chunk of it,...
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Palm Royale is Pretty and Shallow, Which At Least Matches its Characters
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Apple TV+’s “Palm Royale” has unfortunate timing. It’s an earnest entry in the class-striving genre, here telling the tale of Kristen Wiig’s Maxine Simmons D'ellacourt as she tries to break into high society in Palm Beach in the 1960s. But...
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