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DADDIO Review: Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, Sitting in a Cab, Talking
Writer/director Christy Hall's film is a two-hander starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn.
Review: THE LOST DAUGHTER, Wrenching Treatise on Motherhood
Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, and Dakota Johnson star in a piercing drama, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Review: THE NOWHERE INN, Burnt Pages of Unwritten Memoirs
At a crucial turning point in The Nowhere Inn, a woman, clad in bright-colored latex, quips to the camera. "This is how rockstars act in movies," she says, cigarette in hand. Scratch that, she tells the film crew. She can...
Review: THE HIGH NOTE Delivers Familiar Emotional and Musical Beats
Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson star in Nisha Ganatra's music-themed comedy-drama.
Now Streaming: WOUNDS May Never Heal
Armie Hammer, Zazie Beetz and Dakota Johnson star in an absorbing horror drama, directed by Babak Anvari.
Review: SUSPIRIA, Creating New Flames From the Ashes of a Classic
It's honestly difficult to know where to start with Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of Dario Argento's deeply loved and cherished Suspiria. This film is something you really have to take away with you -- like a curse. The first thing you...
Friday One Sheet: SUSPIRIA And Watercolour Nightmares
Our poster column is more or less on hold while the Toronto International Film Festival takes over the city for the next ten days, but I wanted to quickly highlight Tony Stella's watercolour terror of a poster for the remake...
SUSPIRIA To Open Sitges Festival, Tilda Swinton to Receive Award
The long-awaited remake of the classic horror film, Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria will open the Sitges Festival this coming October. In addition, star Tilda Swinton will receive the Grand Honorary Award. I think only a filmmaker such as Guadagnino could be...
Review: FIFTY SHADES DARKER Goes Narratively Limp
In the saucy on-screen world of author E.L. James, things are leveling out. In both this movie, and its film franchise on the whole, a balance is suddenly being enforced. Whereas the initial entry, Fifty Shades of Grey, told a...
Have Your Say: FIFTY SHADES OF... Why?!
Some success stories surprise more than others, but in the past year, few successes were as surprising as what happened to the Fifty Shades... trilogy of erotic novels. What started life as amateur SM-tinged Twilight fan-fiction turned into a worldwide...
Berlinale 2015 Review: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, Not That Terrible
Not wanting to be a snob, I attempted to read Fifty Shades of Grey, the bestseller inspired by the Twilight books (which I also haven't read). It's quite badly written, but hey, it was popular, so maybe I was missing...
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...
CONFIRMED: Charlie Hunnam Cast In 50 SHADES OF GREY
It was two weeks ago that ScreenAnarchy reported that Universal had set their sights on Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam to play the lead role in their upcoming adaptation of 50 Shades Of Grey and the casting is now official....
