Bonjour Tristesse: The Dardenne Bros. Explore Teenage Pregnancy In their latest neo-realist exercise on plights of the disenfranchised, the Dardenne Bros. return to gentler themes with Young Mothers. A coterie of teen mothers living in a shelter find themselves confronted...
A bit of late evening news for you folks who stuck it out with us. Variety had reported that filming had wrapped on a horror thriller called Oddities. Directed by Tyler Savage who has based this feature film off of...
Tomorrow is the big day. There were twenty-two films in competition and only one will take home the big daddy prize. If it were according to our Cannes Critics’ Panel – it would be a Spanish film that would be...
While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and Venice (plus Telluride), Kelly Reichardt has been flirting with Cannes on three occasions total (plus when she was feted by the Quinzaine folks with the Carrosse d’Or award). It began with...
Winner of the Palme d’Or for 1999’s Rosetta (which also took Best Actress for the recently departed Émilie Dequenne) and 2005’s The Child, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have been Cannes mainstays landing accolades for almost their entire filmography. Jeunes mères...
The raw emotion underlying The Phoenician Scheme peeks out at unexpected times. The post ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Breezy Exploration of Family and Spirituality appeared first on Slant Magazine.
With Mountainhead, Armstrong is sticking to a kind of satire he knows well. The post ‘Mountainhead’ Review: Jesse Armstrong’s Acid-Singed Comedy About Modern Wealth and Power appeared first on Slant Magazine.
In the U.S., we're a week behind Canada, so this is our long weekend holiday, which means we have two big studio wide theatrical releases. If you're not able to get out of the house and into a movie theater...