Criterion’s starting 2025 with 4K on the mind: today brings news that April will bring Sean Baker’s Anora and a Blu-ray of Prince of Broadway alongside 4K releases for Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (both the theatrical edition and black-and-white director’s cut), Some Like It Hot, and two films by Claude Berri, Jean de Florette and Manon […]
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A man struggling in a strained marriage strikes out into the woods with his wife and daughter on a mission to reclaim a family farm and perhaps repair his relationship, but instead finds himself tangling with a vicious, primordial – but familiar – foe in Leigh Whannell’s update of the classic Universal horror, Wolf Man. After his 2020 interpretation of Invisible Man managed to what 2017’s big-budget abomination The Mummy could not in reinvigorating the classic Universal monster movies, Leigh Whannell is back with Wolf Man. Transporting the action from Wales to the Pacific Northwest, Wolf Man borrows enough elements of the 1941 classic to keep it recognizable, but leans heavily on modern isolation trauma to keep things prescient. Blake (Christopher Abbott) grew up with…
Whannell’s film doesn’t convincingly reinvent the fundamentals of werewolf folklore.
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“In early 1995, a hiker went missing in the remote mountains of central Oregon,” reads the prologue over a gorgeous opening shot: a still, wide frame looking down at a farm surrounded by dense forest and looming mountains, dark clouds hanging overhead. The mythology of the film appears in four different text sections over the […]
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Arguably the best series that Marvel has ever made for streaming was the original Daredevil show distributed by Netflix at the time. Matt Murdock is back in a new series and a new home over at Disney+ this March, Daredevil Born Again. Playing the titular character Murdock reunites with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Punisher (Jon Bernthal). Of particular interest to the Anarchist family is the continued involvement of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson in the Marvel Universe. Once indie sci-fi darlings, Daredevil Born Again is the third series the pair have worked on with Marvel, after Moon Knight and Loki. They are also executive producers on this series as well. Bills are getting paid! The first trailer for the new series arrived…
The most striking thing about Audrey Diwan’s reinterpretation of Emmanuelle––the infamous novel-turned-softcore franchise from fabulously named director Just Jaeckin––is that the original dramatic beats largely remain intact. Perhaps this is why it received a critical drubbing at its San Sebastian premiere: those expecting the drastically different, radically feminist take on this material you’d assume would […]
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. By the time this list is published, I will be an official inhabitant of Lyon, France, the fourth different city in the fourth different country I’ve lived in over the past four […]
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Normally around this time of January I give an overview of impressions I got in the previous year. Why me? What makes me so special? Well… sometimes, in the past, I actually hadn’t seen enough films to properly participate in the regular “Top 10” list but still wanted to talk about a few. So I started writing about six things, which made me remember eight, then I realized I could actually do ten anyway, and then decided to add two things I wanted to say as well. I published a ‘dozen of musings’ (for lack of a better title) and the practice stuck. This year, as I’m finishing the twelve bullets below, it strikes me that I wrote the first of these exactly a decade…
