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DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
VORTEX Interview: Gaspar Noé on Making a "Cruel But Warm" Film About Aging, Illness and Death
If conception and birth are always present themes in Gaspar Noé's cinema, death is equally important for him: “When you write your sentence, you always put a dot at the end. Talking about death is just putting a dot at...
Review: BENEDETTA Reimagines A Nun's Life As a Softcore Thriller
Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the biographical drama stars Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia and Charlotte Rampling.
Friday One Sheet: BENEDETTA
No sense in burying the lede on the key art for Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta. Violence, sex, and religious hypocrisy is on the first station of the cross in Intermission Studios latest key art for the film as it edges into...
Toronto 2021 Review: DUNE, A Handsome, But Stoic, Do Over
There is a row of palm trees in front of the outer wall of the capital city of Arrakis, the desert planet also known as Dune. They require massive amounts of resources, and have grown straight & tall, tended by...
Friday One Sheet: BLESSED VIRGIN [BENEDETTA]
The new French poster for Paul Vehoeven's latest Cannes bowing film, Benedetta (aka Blessed Virgin), is all about tactility: The stitching on the hem of the habit, the ivory cloth, the texture of the skin around the eyes and face....
RED SPARROW First Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence, Russian Sex Spy
In the upcoming thriller Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence reteams with director Francis Lawrence -- he helmed three of the Hunger Games installments -- and the first trailer paints her as a Russian sex spy. Frankly, I am baffled by the...
70s Rewind: ORCA, The Beached Whale of Killer Shark Movies
In the aftermath of Jaws, many cinematic imitators swam into shore, but few could compare to Orca. Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster benefited from terrific advance publicity. Peter Benchley's novel, first published in February 1974, became an instant bestseller, casting a...
70s Rewind: ZARDOZ, Much More Than Sean Connery Running Around in a Loincloth
James Bond running around in a loincloth. That may be the singular image that comes to mind when Zardoz is mentioned. If another image pops, it's likely "giant statue of a head flying through the air." Out of context, the...
Berlinale 2015 Review: 45 YEARS, A Heart-Wrenching Look At Late Marriage
How much can, or should we, let the past affect the present? If our lives went one way instead of another, can we mourn too much what we didn't have? If you think you were not your spouse's only great...
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM: Guy Maddin's Latest Looks Even Stranger Than Hoped In This Quintet Of Teasers!
Strap yourself in for something strange, boys and girls, for Canada's favorite cinematic madman Guy Maddin is back with The Forbidden Room. Maddin's latest - codirected with Evan Johnson - is about to premiere at Sundance before heading on to...
NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT to Open Berlinale '15
Spanish auteur Isabel Coixet's latest film, Nobody Wants the Night, will open the 65th edition of Berlinale, as well as being part of the official competition.Starring Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kukuchi, and Gabriel Byrne, little is known of the plot of...
Check Out This Living Poster For Guy Maddin's THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
Canadian director Guy Maddin has a new film coming. Or is films? The director has been working on a multimedia project known as Seances, or Spiritismes in some circles, which sees his cast and crew holding a seance to invite...
Guy Maddin's SEANCES Is Under Way, Watch A Recap Of Day One
Guy Maddin is ... well, he's kind of being Guy Maddin with his latest project, Seances. A perpetual experimenter, Maddin's latest project is a series of twelve films shot over thirteen days with a live audience at the Phi Centre...
Guy Maddin Invites You To Take Part In His SEANCES
Guy Maddin has never been one to bow before convention and so when word arrives that he has teamed with Montreal's Phi Centre to shoot twelve films in thirteen days with the public invited to participate ... well, coming from...
Charlotte Rampling Broods In A Trailer For I, ANNA
If, like me, you find yourself helplessly drawn to anything Charlotte Rampling does, then the trailer for I, Anna will surely whet your cinematic appetite. Featuring a vulnerable, enigmatic Rampling in the lead role it's a psychological thriller with...
Watch The First Five Minutes For Terrorist Thriller CLEANSKIN
With only a few days left to go before an unrelenting Sean Bean goes straight to town on scheming terrorists in Hadi Hajaig's action thriller Cleanskin, Digital Spy is exclusively streaming the first five minutes. It contains scenes of sex...
Sean Bean Hunts Down Terrorists In CLEANSKIN Trailer
Beware terrorists! In Hadi Hajaig's upcoming action thriller, Sean Bean is what you call a Cleanskin and according to Wikipedia, its a term commonly used in the UK to describe an undercover operative whose identity is not known to the...
The Movie Club Podcast talks Zardoz and Flash Gordon
What could be better than a double bill of production design gone wild by directors of gritty, testosterone loaded films 1970s going 'off the reservation' in the craziest of ways! Exhibit A: John Boorman goes from Deliverance to Zardoz. Exhibit...
First Shots Of Sean Bean In Hadi Hajaig's Anti-Terrorism Thriller CLEANSKIN
A few years back director Hadi Hajaig was all over the pages of ScreenAnarchy thanks to his film Puritan, a supernatural thriller starring Lock Stock's Nick Moran. It was little seen for a variety of reasons that have nothing to...
