Our friends at the Telluride Horror Show down in Colorado have revealed the lineup for this year’s event. Celebrating it’s fifteenth year it’s the best weekend you can ever have during spooky season in the Centennial State. This year, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence will close out the weekend while festival faves like A Desert, Dark Match, Daddy’s Head, Dead Talents Society, Parvulos, The Rule of Jenny Pen and The Soul Eater are among the list of feature films playing this year. The weekend always includes an author’s program and this year our friend Grady Hendrix will be joined by another author whose works I’ve read, Jeremy Robert Johnson. Other books I’m going to have to read now come from other guest authors including Rachel…
Folie à Deux is a film caught between a rock and a hard place of its own making.
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When J. Hoberman placed game 6 of the 1986 World Series on his Village Voice year-end list, we had one of the first, most convincing attempts to enshrine live sports as cinema. And while a game can carry the compressed rise and fall, and dramatis personae, of a great narrative, you can further hone in […]
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An interview with the writer/director of the craziest movie of the year.
An international correspondent looks at an acclaimed Korean drama.
Netflix revealed our first look at The Electric State, their adaptation of the illustrated book by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag (Did you take part in their recent crowdfunding campaign for their next book, Swedish Machines?). Directed by the Russo brothers with a cast led by Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt I have… concerns. I have never understood Stålenhag’s work as, action packed. It always appeared stoic or contemplative to me. Reflective and meditative in its desolation and quietness. A world devoid of, noise. This, looks very noisey. Great news is that I have all of Stålenhag’s book to date, and the new one coming through tha recent crowdfunding campaign. I don’t have to watch this when it comes out next year. Obviously…
A review of a new HBO series from the creator of Veep and The Thick of It.
In what is almost surely the year’s biggest casting news, Daniel Day-Lewis has ended retirement for his own progeny. Focus Features have announced Anemone, which his son Ronan Day-Lewis, in a feature debut, is directing from a script that’s co-written by his father––the actor’s first such credit––and concerns “the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and […]
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Perennial favorite in American indie cinema, we’ll definitely be getting some Derek Cianfrance cinema in 2025 as production began this week on Roofman. Deadline reports that Kirsten Dunst will play the person who is admired from afar (or from above) in the true-life story of Jeffrey Manchester – who spent months living undetected in a makeshift hideout inside a Toys “R” Us store, where he would sleep and plan further crimes. Channing Tatum takes on the lead role. Cianfrance wrote the project with Kirt Gunn (who has a producer credit in Sound of Metal). Limelight’s Dylan Sellers and Chris Parker produce alongside Jamie Patricof (Hunting Lane) and Lynette Howell Taylor (51 Entertainment).… Read the rest