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True To Yourself: James Gray on James Gray’s New York
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
A modern American master, James Gray makes richly textured, near-operatically expressive melodramas that swirl together history and myth in the realm of the personal.  The roots of his uniquely classical style of filmmaking—at once exquisitely controlled and emotionally intense—reach back...
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David Chase to Direct First Film in Over a Decade
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Premiering 25 years ago this January, David Chase’s crime saga The Sopranos has been a blessing and a curse for the creator. On the former side, he was behind what is still among the greatest television shows to grace the...
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FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA: Offical Trailer #2 – She Will Return With a Vengeance.
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Warner Bros. have just released the next official trailer for George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.    As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a...
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SXSW 2024: Songs from the Hole, The Black Sea, Adrianne & The Castle
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
SXSW has long been the fun cousin to the Sundance Film Festival–a music and tech fest all rolled into one, set in the sun-soaked climes of Austin, TX in the springtime, rather than the stifling cold and thin air of...
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George Miller Drops New Furiosa Trailer, Reveals Why He Didn’t De-Age Charlize Theron
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
When it comes to the summer blockbuster slate, aside from a new thriller from M. Night Shyamalan and the first two parts of Kevin Costner’s western saga, the only other studio release that brings much interest is George Miller’s Furiosa:...
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A Conversation with Morgan Waru & Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu (WE WERE DANGEROUS)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
In the halcyon past of 1954, from the bucolic landscapes of New Zealand, We Were Dangerous opens with the daring escape bid of two Maori girls – Nellie (Erana James) and Daisy (Manaia Hall) – from a school catering to wayward souls. Their flight foiled, the girls...
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STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Trailer: The End of The High Republic is Nigh
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
This isn't about good or bad, it's about power and who is allowed to use it.    The next Star Wars series, The Acolyte, is coming to Disney+ this June. It takes place during the final days of the High...
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Riddle of Fire Director Weston Razooli on Zelda, Miyazaki, and Learning From Bad Movies
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
In the recent decades of Hollywood exporting slapped-together “children’s movies” to appease parents just looking to take their kids to anything that can pass the time, any film with an actual sense of youthful wonder in cinema feels like a...
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SXSW 2024 Review: SMUGGLERS, Korea’s King of Action Ryoo Seung-Wan Delivers A ’70s Set Crowd-Pleaser
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Two women’s lives transform when their diving careers move from harvesting shellfish to high stakes smuggling in Ryoo Seung-n’s ‘70s set comedic action thriller, Smugglers. After a healthy theatrical run in South Korea and a North American premiere at TIFF,...
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SXSW 2024: Sing Sing, Bob Trevino Likes It, Hood Witch
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
“Sing Sing” is perfectly timed. Social media users are normalizing ignorance and incuriosity for clout, and characterizing anyone who is interested in art that they don’t already know they like as “pretentious” or “only pretending” to like it, essentially trying...
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