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FLESH OF THE GODS: Kristen Stewart And Oscar Isaac to Star in New Thriller From Panos Cosmatos
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This is a combination of powers that I didn't know I wanted it until it was announced today. Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac are set to star in Flesh of the Gods, a new thriller from director Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), written by Andrew...
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THE FALL GUY Review: A Rousing Crowd Pleaser
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David Leitch has had ups and downs since co-directing John Wick a decade ago. While he's always been an incredibly talented action filmmaker, courtesy of his background as a stunt performer and coordinator, his apparent passion for mixing action and...
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A Conversation with Nancy Savoca & Richard Guay (DOGFIGHT)
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In 1991, filmmaker Nancy Savoca directed her second feature (after True Love),  Dogfight, starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. Working off an original script by Bob Comfort, Savoca told a moving story of how friendship and love can develop in...
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Retrospective: Oscar Micheaux and the Birth of Black Independent Cinema
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To watch an Oscar Micheaux film is to see the miracle of a tragedy.  Though Michaeux produced over forty pictures — spanning the pre-classical silent era and through the advent of sound — only eighteen such works survive (nearly all...
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller Made the Multiplex Safe for ‘The Fall Guy’
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In “The Fall Guy,” Ryan Gosling plays Colt, a veteran stunt performer whose real life becomes an action movie once he’s tasked with finding an egotistical movie star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who’s gone missing. Colt jumps over a wall of fire...
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Evil Does Not Exist | Review
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The Killing of a Sacred Dear: Hamaguchi Explores Ills of Urbanization Ryūsuke Hamaguchi explores the doctrine about the absence of evil in his latest drama Evil Does Not Exist, a quiet film pondering the necessary evils of urban development and...
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Initially Promising Dark Matter Sinks Under Weight of Prestige TV Bloat
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There’s a decent movie buried in the bloated “Dark Matter,” the latest expensive venture from the good folks at Apple TV+, a streamer that's developed something of an identity as a platform for adult sci-fi with shows like “Silo,” “Constellation,” “Invasion,”...
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Panos Cosmatos Sets Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac for Andrew Kevin Walker-Scripted Flesh of the Gods
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The wait for new Panos Cosmatos features requires patience. Some 13 years since the premiere of Beyond the Black Rainbow has only brought 2018’s Mandy and a 2022 episode of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Though word’s been quiet...
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Ethan Hawke on Wildcat, Flannery O’Connor, John Huston, and Not Making a Biopic
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Full disclosure: I’ve been looking forward to this interview ever since I read the novel Ash Wednesday as a teenager. Ethan Hawke, co-writer and director of Wildcat, is an actor and filmmaker who has been as important to me as...
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The Idea of You
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Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one British, one the proprietor of a small, very narrow business, happy with family and friends but lonely and a little lost, one a global superstar, but lonely and...
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