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“Stranger Things” Sets Up Its Endgame with Quartet of New Episodes
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While these four episodes stumble a bit in terms of pacing and urgency, especially early on, they end on such a satisfying, long-awaited note that fans who have literally grown up watching this show are unlikely to care.
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The Secret Agent | Review
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Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive Period Thriller Pregnant with dread and jam-packed with homage to the tone and time of sweaty, paranoid suspense thrillers of the 1970s, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)...
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A Conversation with Chris Stuckmann (SHELBY OAKS)
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Shelby Oaks marks the feature directorial debut of Chris Stuckmann, the YouTube film critic whose YouTube channel has amassed over 2 million subscribers. The film, which became the highest-funded horror film in Kickstarter history with nearly $1.4 million raised, including...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “In Your Dreams” Filmmaker Alex Woo
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“In Your Dreams” is an American animated adventure-comedy film directed by Alex Woo and co-directed by Erik Benson, from a script by Woo and Benson and a story by Woo, Benson, and Stanley Moore. It tells the story of Stevie...
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Now Streaming: BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI Starts Flat
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Wong Kar-Wai's first television series, now on The Criterion Channel. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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STRAY BODIES
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(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Stray Bodies movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Though Elina Psykou’s Son of Sofia took top honors in the International Narrative section back at Tribeca 2017, the acclaimed Greek director’s first documentary, last...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Rental Family”
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For this week’s second podcast review, Josh Parham and Nadia Dalimonte join me to review and discuss the latest film from Hikari, “Rental Family,” starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, and Akira Emoto. The comedy-drama film premiered at the...
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Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
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Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
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Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
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Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
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Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor prizes at Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent brought together Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura for the first time in a collaboration that blends political urgency with cinematic prowess. Set in...
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