Premiering with much fervor at Venice Film Festival, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies follow-up Babygirl finds Nicole Kidman playing a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson. With Kidman picking up Best Actress at the festival, […]
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Starting this Wednesday Hulu subscribers can watch Pancho Rodriguez’s heist comedy Abracadaver. Our friend Guido Rud of FilmSharks out of Buenos Aires produced the flick with Rodriguez. A teaser and trailer were released recently. Check them both out, down below. Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks announced today that Hulu has acquired U.S. streaming rights for the heist-movie/comedy “Abracadaver.” The film, which was produced by Guido Rud with FilmSharks and Pancho Rodriguez, will be available to Hulu subscribers beginning Wednesday, October 2. “Abracadaver” was written and directed by Pancho Rodriguez (“Dia de Muertos,” and Guadalajara Audience Winner “Llamando a un Angel”) and tells the story of three magician brothers from the circus world who find themselves brought back together to perform a magical and impossible…
The marketing for Steven Soderbergh’s Presence continues to give us little morsals, little teases as to what to expect from their haunted house flick. The focus this time around is on Chloe, daughter of Rebecca and Chris. As the presence moves closer and closer to her, asleep in her bed, the overlaying text says that she will know many things. Neon presents Presence in select cities in January 2025….
The level of detail with which the filmmakers depict the unionization process is eye-opening.
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It’s a shame that Angelina Jolie is relegated to playing by the Larraín rulebook.
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While there are no end of variations on the vampire story, and indeed we’ve been able to dive into the lore of this particular monster and its incarntions across a multitude of cultures, there is something about the image of Dracula as Nosferatu that has haunts western culture. A counterpart to the more suave image presented by Bela Legosi in the Hollywood 1930s version of the Bram Stoker novel, F.W Murnau’s more austere and forlorn vampire is arguably more terrifying in its sinister melancholia. As such, it’s not surprising that Robert Eggers (The VVitch, The Lighthouse) would lean more towards this version in his upcoming adaptation, for which there is now an official trailer. The trailer gives more an impression of the tone of the…
With the official trailer for Emilia Pérez dropping today, I’m still not entirely sure what the film is about, or how all these women fit together. I do know what French auteur Jacques Audiard is capable of, with films as diverse as The Beat My Heart Skipped, Rust and Bone, A Prophet, and The Sisters Brothers under his belt. I know that its amazing cast of women – Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez – won a rare collectice acting award at Cannes Film Festival. I know it’s a musical and there are drug cartels and a transwoman finally realizing her transition and a lot of fabulous hair and costumes and some serious violence. It’s definitely an unusual combination of factors, and we…
South Korean filmmaker Jason Yu steps into the spotlight with his feature directorial debut Sleep, a taut psychological thriller that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. Drawing from his experiences in his own marriage, cinema history, and his work as an […]
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Director Carlos Marques-Marcet offers an understated exploration of love, mortality, and the choices in facing life’s final passage, blending realism with poetic dance sequences.
RaMell Ross directed. For a subject this weighty, though, the aesthetics in ‘Nickel Boys’ don’t work.
