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Now Streaming: THE OFFER You Can't Refuse, UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN Respects As It Digs
Two new series take different approaches to real-life stories.
Review: THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, Jessica Chastain, Year-End Awards Frontrunner
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield star in a real-life drama, directed by Michael Showalter.
Review: UNDER THE SILVER LAKE, Contemporary Straight White Male Gaze, Defined
Andrew Garfield stars in David Robert Mitchell's half-baked, superficial story.
Watch: Exclusive Interview with Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Martin Scorsese's SILENCE
After more than 25 years, Martin Scorsese finally completed Silence last year, his adaptation of the homonymous Japanese novel written by Endo Shusaku and a real passion project for the master filmmaker behind other religious films such as The Last...
Review: SILENCE Demands Respect and Inspires Debate
An impressively devout expression of religious faith that seeks to answer some of mankind's most pressing questions, Silence demands respect and inspires debate, all while displaying the absolute command of master filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Now 74, Scorsese has reportedly desired...
Scorsese Answers our Prayers with Astonishing First SILENCE Trailer
Martin Scorsese leaps right into this year's Oscar race with Silence, his epic new adaptation of Shûsaku Endô's novel. Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver star as Portuguese Jesuit missionaries sent to Japan in the 17th Century. Their mission is to track...
Review: HACKSAW RIDGE, A Pacifist in Mel Gibson's War
The true-life story of Desmond T. Doss comes vividly to life in Hacksaw Ridge, a biographical picture directed by Mel Gibson that features a soulful performance by Andrew Garfield. Solid and stirring -- and very respectful -- the movie begins...
Blowing Things Up In Praise Of Pacifism, Here Comes The HACKSAW RIDGE Trailer
Has Mel Gibson been forgiven? And is his Hacksaw Ridge the most violent movie ever made in praise of pacifism? Well, judging from the fact that Gibson's name never appears in the new trailer for his upcoming Hacksaw Ridge -...
Review: 99 HOMES, A Faustian Foreclosure Drama
Maybe doing the devil's business isn't so bad... That's the tempting logic at work in the mind of 99 Homes protagonist Dennis Nash, an upright blue collar man whose recent homelessness has left him desperate to get his family back on...
Asano Replaces Watanabe In Scorsese's SILENCE
Martin Scorsese has gotten himself a high profile new lead for his adaptation of Endo Shusaku's acclaimed novel Silence. With Watanabe Ken bowing out of the role as a 17th century interpreter accompanying a pair of Jesuit monks looking for...
Destroy All Monsters: The Clothes Make The Spider-Man
Do you remember that Seinfeld joke about how, with professional sports and their interchangeable rosters, we're never cheering for teams, but for clothes? So it is with The Amazing Spider-franchise. I don't know where the yardstick falls on these movies...
Review: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Is A Serviceable Sequel
The sequel to the Spider-Man reboot sees Marc Webb returning to the director's chair and, ultimately, using the same tone and a very similar structure to that of the original, even though there are more subplots to deal with in...
Final Trailer For THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Abandons Reality Entirely
Oy. As a longtime fan of Peter Parker and Spider-Man, dating back to a childhood reading the comic books and then watching the animated TV show, I have built up a great deal of tolerance for his various incarnations. Watching the...
A Trio Of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Big Game Spots
Sony has gone all out this Super Bowl and released three different adverts; a new trailer, and two spots for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It is in the two spots that feature what could very well be hints at the scenes...
Watch THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Trailer!
Here we go. The new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. You get to see a lot of Jamie Foxx in action as Electro. You will catch the occasional glimpse of Green Goblin. And you will only get to see The...
Andrew Garfield And Ken Watanabe Anchor Scorsese's SILENCE
It's a project that Martin Scorsese has been trying to get off the ground for roughly twenty years now and his adaptation of Endo Shusako's Silence looks as though it's finally ready to get off the ground with word that...
TIFF 09: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS
A question: "Where are we - geographically, socially, narratively?" A snappy reply: "The northern hemisphere, on the margins, further to go." There are three great surprises of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. The first is that Terry Gilliam is back...
TIFF 09: Three Clips From Gilliam's IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
On the eve of Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival three extended clips from the film have been made available to local press. These are the same clips that turned...
