With it now being three years since Killers of the Flower Moon wrapped and one year since its release, Martin Scorsese has been away from a proper film set for some time. As the director prepares for his 82nd birthday this weekend, he has once again confirmed plans for his next features. In an interview […]
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(Check our Chris Reed’s A Real Pain movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Jesse Eisenberg follows up his 2022 directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, with another carefully realized character study filled with […]
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Mumbai is a city of illusions, a character remarks in Payal Kapadia’s debut narrative feature, All We Imagine as Light. To survive, one has to buy into the illusion. Opening upon a bus moving through the city, a variety of offscreen characters share their thoughts on the difficulties of living there, a place of impermanence, a city which robs one’s time. We focus on a quiet, withdrawn woman who works as a senior nurse at a specialty hospital, and slowly begin to learn about her life, which includes a new roommate, a much younger nurse who’s just embarked on a clandestine romance.… Read the rest
Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, and Ursula Corbero star in a series inspired by Frederick Forsyth’s suspense novel.
Kapadia discusses her influences, her exploration of language, and more.
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Pamela Anderson receives the role of a lifetime in Gia Coppola’s new feature The Last Showgirl, playing a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Picked up by Roadside Attractions after its TIFF premiere for an awards-qualifying run beginning on December 13, followed by a […]
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Red One tries to straddle the line of naughty and nice, and ends up being nothing as a result.
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“I am afraid for the future of Ukraine only if Russia gets what it wants and shows the effectiveness of its system“– Svitlana Lishchynska on A Bit of A Stranger Ukrainian filmmaker Svitlana Lishchynska has been “a bit of a […]
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Edgar Nito’s rural legend horror flick, A Fisherman’s Tale, opens at dusk with a shot of La Miringua. We’re looking at her from a distance, peering at her through branches of a tree. She is feasting on a goat it looks like, grabbing viscera by the handful. The blood stands out against her stark white skin and hair. This is her (un)natural form, naked and pale as a ghost. She turns to the camera and her pitch black eyes stare back at us, spreading fear into our souls. The flick is an adaptation of a legend passed down orally from the indigenous Purépecha peoples in the lake regions of Central Mexico, specifically Patzcuaro in the Michoacán state. As we had stated in a festival…
Easton’s mysterious psychological destruction drives him to the edge of sanity and possible self-harm by those who love him most… his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at play? We have an exclusive clip from Chad Bishoff’s psychological thriller Daft State. The film is out now on digital and on-demand platforms as of November 12th, 2024, from Scatena & Rosner Films. Daft State stars Christopher Backus, Skye P. Marshall, Ka’ramuu Kush, Paulo Costanzo, Jake T. Austin, and Iman Karram. Bishoff produced and wrote the thriller with Sam Harter. Erich Hover also produced with actress Mira Sorvino on board as an executive producer withInny Clemons, Brett Cullen, and Lisa Crnic. Check…
