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Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and void, it would be the equivalent of Kirill Serbrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad, an ersatz biopic...
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STAX: Soulsville, USA
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
"STAX: Soulsville USA" is a four-part, four-hour series about the legendary Memphis soul music label's rise and fall, as well as its impact on American culture and history.  The company was founded in 1957 by two white Memphis music fans, Jim Stewart (a country fiddle...
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Cannes 2024: The Apprentice, The Shrouds
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Ali Abbasi's "The Apprentice," a portrait of the friendship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, leaves little doubt about who is top dog. The film is so thoroughly owned by Jeremy Strong, who plays Cohn, that the ostensibly headline-grabbing notion...
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Jeff Nichols Will Adapt Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
When news broke last year of John Hillcoat adapting Blood Meridian, I had expressed some hope for similar treatment bestowed upon Cormac McCarthy’s final novels The Passenger and Stella Maris. This desire was almost entirely quixotic; his swan song is...
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FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA Review: George Miller’s Prequel Hits On All Cylinders
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes 2024: Blue Sun Palace, Julie Keeps Quiet, Simon of the Mountain
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Critics Week at Cannes, of course, is where new rising filmmakers are often found, mostly presenting their first feature. Sometimes there’s an obvious theme to be sussed out, but mostly the spiritual theme is the energy of young filmmakers plying...
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A SILENT DEATH (Una Muerte Silenciosa): TWDC-Disney Acquire Argentine Crime Thriller For LatAm Release
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
TWDC-Disney have secured the theatrical and streaming rights in the LatAm for Sebastian Schindel's new crime/psychological-thriller feature film A Silent Death (Una Muerte Silenciosa).   In the depths of Patagonia during the 80’s, a hunting guide stumbles upon a shocking crime...
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THE POSSESSION AT GLADSTONE MANOR: Horror Icons Barbara Crampton Lin Shaye Join Caylee Cowan, Jesse Metcalf And William Mapother
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Here's one for fans of possession horror flicks. Another one is on it's way and horror icons Barbara Crampton and Lin Shaye are part of the cast.   K. Asher Levin's horror flick The Possession at Gladstone Manor is currently...
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Miséricorde | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Kiss Me or Kill Me: Guiraudie Stirs a Sinister Solace in the Backwoods Alain Guiraudie returns to the ruinous climes of rural malcontentedness with his latest, Miséricorde, which means ‘mercy.’ Of course, the meaning of mercy takes on ironic dimensions...
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LONGLEGS Trailer: Maika Monroe Is Haunted By Nicolas Cage in Oz Perkins’ Psychological Nightmare
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Modern-day scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows, Watcher) is an FBI agent facing her dark past in the form of Nic Cage in probably the most anticipated horror flick of the summer. The duo stars in Longlegs from writer-director Oz...
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