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by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
When the Los Angeles Lakers got a prestige HBO mini-series in “Winning Time,” it seemed only a matter of time before that other team in the City of Angels got in on the action. Sadly, the most interesting recent story in...
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With Flipside, Chris Wilcha Made a Triumphant Film About Failure
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Chris Wilcha has not fully absorbed that his new movie will be in theaters soon. “I had this moment today actually,” he tells me Tuesday over Zoom from his Los Angeles home. “I’m getting on a plane to go to...
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Saoirse Ronan Rebuilds Her Life in First Trailer for The Outrun
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Although peculiarly still without U.S. distribution some five months after its Sundance premiere, Nora Fingscheidt’s addiction drama The Outrun, starring Saoirse Ronan, will arrive in the UK this September. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has now arrived. Here’s...
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The Young Woman and the Sea Review: Trudy Ederle Biopic Is Flotsam and Jetsam
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
The film is mostly content to see its protagonist as an implacable force of self-determination. The post <em>The Young Woman and the Sea</em> Review: Trudy Ederle Biopic Is Flotsam and Jetsam appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Ezra Review: An Honest Family Portrait With Some Third-Act Troubles
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Let’s start here: watching Bobby Cannavale and Robert De Niro argue on a New York City street while cars angrily beep their horns is electric. Truly exhilarating to watch. Likewise, watching the great Rose Byrne manage multiple emotions on her...
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First Trailer for Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me Goes Inside the Mind of a Visionary
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Returning to the Cannes Film Festival after Annette, Leos Carax premiered his 40-minute cinematic self-portrait It’s Not Me. Thankfully snapped up by Sideshow and Janus Films for a North American release, it’ll actually get a French release in a few...
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A Look at the Cannes 2024 Critics Grids
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
The 77th Cannes Film Festival just wrapped, premiering many new buzzworthy titles that industry folks and cinephiles are still talking about. Even though Hammer To Nail did not attend the festival this year, we kept track of what our fellow...
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We Are Lady Parts is TV at its Finest
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Think of a perfect punk song: Crashing drums, sonorous vocals, jaw-dropping guitar solos that leave the listener in awe, a bassline that makes the very cells of the body vibrate. The song takes neither too much nor too little time...
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Cannes 2024 Review: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, A Triumph for Canadian Cinema
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin directs and stars in his new Winnipeg-set, Farsi-language comedy feature. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Slaughterhouse-Two: Asmae El Moudir’s Moving into Rabat for “Holy Cow”
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Not to be confused with Louise Courvoisier’s excellent feature debut which just received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, The Mother Of All Lies helmer Asmae El Moudir might indeed be making...
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