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The B-Side – In Conversation with Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the films that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today, as a sort of B-Side to our...
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AIFF Jordan 2024 Preview: Context Is Everything
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF) is celebrating its fifth edition this summer, in what is shaping up to be a hot July for the Middle East. Among the more than 30 long films and many short...
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MY OLD ASS Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Tries To Guide Her Younger Self in Megan Park’s Sundance Comedy
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
After bringing audiences to tears with her urgent directorial debut The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park delivers a more lighthearted and hilarious look at female adolescence in her comedy My Old Ass. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year,...
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CRUMB CATCHER Trailer: A Maniacal Inventor Overstays His Welcome in Cringe Horror Comedy
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer-director Chris Skotchdopole puts a new spin on the home invasion thriller in his feature debut, Crumb Catcher. The film centers on a married couple whose newlywed bliss is interrupted when they are held captive in a remote lake house...
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‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Put on a Nora Ephron Karaoke Act
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
Ultimately, Richard LaGravenese’s rom-com is a little too packed with soul-searching speeches. The post ‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Put on a Nora Ephron Karaoke Act appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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KINDS OF KINDNESS Review: Everybody’s Looking For Something
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Everybody’s looking for something in Kinds of Kindness, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest attempt to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Three tales of lost souls on a desperate search for meaning and wholeness take the audience on a wild...
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CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Chris Reed’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint movie review, the film startsits theater rollout Friday, June 28. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Death may be no cause for joy, but sometimes the absurdities...
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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Goes on an Existential Search for Pizza
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
It’s in the very real, diseased specter of death itself that the film finds its true power. The post ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Goes on an Existential Search for Pizza appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Music | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as being ‘freely adapted from the myth of Oedipus’ as the only players truly blinded are...
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Harmony Korine Resurrects The Trap as Anime Feature and Sets Up Motion-Capture Comedy
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Harmony Korine scholars no doubt mourn The Trap, a revenge thriller he once called his “most ambitious project” and which would’ve starred Benicio Del Toro, Robert Pattinson, Al Pacino, Idris Elba, and James Franco. He clearly hasn’t forgotten: nearly a...
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