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You Can’t Run Forever
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J.K. Simmons knows how to do sociopath. There’s something so fascinating about a performer like Simmons who can pivot from a guy who looks like your average suburban neighbor to a total lunatic with a perfectly timed malevolent smile. He’s...
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In Our Day
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The films of the prolific South Korean writer-director Hong Sang Soo are for the most part set in the contemporary world, but they rarely depict the bustle of our times. His characters interact in settings that are quiet, sometimes practically...
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
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Do you remember “Nightwatch,” the 1994 Danish thriller about a young psych ward attendant who gets stalked by a killer? There was an English language remake in 1997 with the same title and director (Ole Bornedal) and starring Ewan McGregor,...
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Book Excerpt: Hollywood Pride by Alonso Duralde
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We are proud to present an excerpt from Hollywood Pride by Alonso Duralde. In stores now or get your copy here. The official synopsis is below, followed by the excerpt. For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed...
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Taking Venice
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In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, an international exhibition of contemporary work. The documentary “Taking Venice” is about the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that resulted in Rauschenberg taking the prize. Director Amei Wallach, an art...
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Cannes Review: Furiosa is No Fury Road, But George Miller Still Loves the Thrill of the Chase
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Almost nine years to the day since Mad Max: Fury Road premiered in Cannes, George Miller returns to the Croisette with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. It’s a deafening roar of a film, full of the same improbable vehicles and...
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Now Streaming Review: THE BIG CIGAR, Rude, Rowdy, Righteous
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Andre Holland stars as activist Huey P. Newton, with Alessandro Nivola as film producer Bert Schneider. Tiffany Boone, P.J. Byrne, and Marc Menchaca, also star in the Apple TV+ limited series. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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MoviePass, MovieCrash Trailer: The Rise and Fall of a Cinephile’s Moviegoing Dream
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Remember the glory days of 2018 moviegoing? Those with MoviePass can now relive the rise and fall of the company that offered customers a subscription service to watch one movie a day for the price of just $9.95 a month...
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Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
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Whatever impulse prompted Francis Ford Coppola to combine elements of Virgil, Livy, Shakespeare, "Vertigo," "The Fountainhead," the career of Robert Moses, film noir, and science fiction into a single feature—well, it clearly wasn't the most actionable impulse. The extremely long-in-the-making...
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Andrea Arnold’s Bird – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
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We have two English-language items with two very different price tags in today’s double pairing for the competition. The first item out of the gate (that caused several of our critics scheduling issues) was the latest film by Andrea Arnold....
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