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Titus: The Masterpiece that the Cinematic Greatness of 1999 Obscured
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
1999 was one of the very best movie years, producing masterpiece after masterpiece, and even the movies that were less than that still made viewers feel as if they were practically drowning in a sea of amazing work. Brian Raftery's...
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WATCH: Emotions Are Exorcised in an Exclusive Clip for ‘With Love and a Major Organ’
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
If one is in the mood for a melancholic sci-fi love story, the best option this season is With Love and a Major Organ. Directed by Kim Albright with a script penned by Julia Lederer, it had its world premiere...
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A Conversation with Julie Lunde Lillesæter, Marina Garrett & Hanna Senko (AN ARMY OF WOMEN)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Set in Austin, Texas—the location of its world premiere, at SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it)—the documentary An Army of Women explores how the local police department and district attorney have failed to prosecute perpetrators of sexual assault and rape...
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Mothers’ Instinct Review: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain Lead Sincere, Stylish Melodrama
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
It wouldn’t take much to convince an unsuspecting audience member that Mothers’ Instinct is the latest dispatch from the Don’t Worry Darling cinematic universe. The directorial debut of cinematographer Benoît Delhomme initially appears to be a surface-level rendering of a...
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2024 Eurimages: Tarik Saleh, Hafsia Herzi, Joachim Trier, Carla Simon & Amanda Kernell Land Coin
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The results of the first Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of European-based filmmakers to receive some much-appreciated coin we find Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic, Carla Simon’s Romería, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental...
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SXSW 2024: What We Watched, Liked and Loved
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
From March 8-16, 2024, the center of our genre-film loving world moved to Austin, Texas, US, where the SXSW Film & TV Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films and television shows. Our own J. Hurtado attended the...
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EVIL DOES NOT EXIST U.S. Trailer: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Ventures Into The Woods in His ‘Drive My Car’ Follow-Up
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Following the global success of his Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ventured to a rural village just outside Tokyo to film – in secret – his newest drama. Evil Does Not Exist is considered a return to the director’s...
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John Early Feels Trapped in First Trailer for Stress Positions
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
After delivering one of the best stand-ups of the last few years with John Early: Now More Than Ever, the comedian is now back on the big screen, this time leading his own project. Theda Hammel’s Stress Positions, which premiered...
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DOGMAN Review: Reality Literally Bites in Luc Besson’s Latest Crime Film
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
On a cinematically rainy night, a truck packed with dogs is pulled over by the cops. The driver is Marilyn Monroe in the famous getup from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The pink, the wig and the makeup ruined by blood. At...
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Five Years Later, Us is Jordan Peele’s Defining Puzzle
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
In the opening shot of Jordan Peele’s “Us” is a curious invitation: A Rubix Cube, placed on the shelf just underneath a modest movie collection, is practically a winking acknowledgment by Peele of the appetite “Get Out” stirred in critics,...
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