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STRANGE WAY OF LIFE Review: Can Love Survive The Years and the Desert
In a small desert town, on the fringes of the American West, where civilization has yet to envelope the people, two men rekindle their passion after years apart. But any blaze is at risk of combusting too quickly, leaving only...
Review: THE BLACK PHONE, Another Excellent Supernatural Horror From The SINISTER Team
It’s 1978 and someone is abducting teenage boys in the suburbs of Denver. The police have no leads, no bodies, and no hope. When Finney (Mason Thames) disappears, he finds out what’s been happening to all of those kids, but...
Review: MOON KNIGHT, Rivers of Confusion Knot Into Complexity
Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy, and Ethan Hawke star in a new Marvel series for Disney Plus.
MOON KNIGHT: Poster and Trailer Arrive For Disney+ Marvel Series
Last night Disney+ dropped a trailer and poster for the upcoming Marvel Studios series Moon Knight. The series stars Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy. More importantly, for their fans of their brand of indie thriller and horror,...
Interview: Abel Ferrara Talks Pandemic Film ZEROS AND ONES, Recalls Cult Classic MS .45
At 70, Abel Ferrara lives with his partner Cristina Chiriac and their little daughter Anna in Rome, Italy. Far from the city that made him a legendary filmmaker, he makes fictions and documentaries with absolute creative freedom, personal works that...
Review: THE GUILTY, Modest, Mid-Level Fuqua-Gyllenhaal Collaboration
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in director Antoine Fuqua's remake of a Danish original, now in theaters and streaming soon on Netflix.
Locarno 2021 Review: ZEROS AND ONES, Abel Ferrara Destroys Vatican, Spy Thrillers in Perplexing Pandemic Film
Ethan Hawke stars in Abel Ferrara's puzzling punk spy thriller.
Blu-ray Review: EXPLORERS, Dreaming of a Better World
Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson star in director Joe Dante's marvelous science-fiction adventure, now available from Shout Select.
Review: CUT THROAT CITY, After the Hurricane
Directed by RZA, the crime drama stars Shameik Moore, Tip T.I. Harris, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Kat Graham, Keean Johnson, Denzel Whitaker, and Isaiah Washington.
Review: In THE TRUTH, Kore-eda Hirokazu Goes French
Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke star in Kore-eda Hirokazu's first film shot outside Japan and in a non-Japanese language, with an international cast.
CUT THROAT CITY Gets New Release Date
Prepare for a very hot month. Directed by RZA, Cut Throat City will now be burning its way onto more than 300 theater screens across the U.S., beginning on July 17, 2020. Per the official release: "Originally slated to make...
SXSW 2018 Interview: Ethan Hawke On BLAZE
Blaze Foley was never a star. Like many an unsung hero in the great tradition of truth-telling, the idea of careerism or professionalizing his craft ran so counter to Blaze’s aesthetic drive, he’d sooner drink himself to death before playing...
Review: MAUDIE, Art and Beauty in the Smallest Places
Biopics of visual artists are (or can be) some of the more interesting of that mode of film: it's fairly simple to show a painter creating their work, or show the inspiration for that work. Too often, artists who are...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Packages Love and Time in Linklater's BEFORE TRILOGY
The years shall run like rabbits… -W.H. Auden From the start, before Richard Linklater conducted his grand experiment on the nature of time - Boyhood - he was out to capture the great container of all experience: time - good...
Dublin International Film Festival Announces Lineup Featuring MAUDIE, FREE FIRE, IN LOCO PARENTIS and More
Dublin international Film Festival announced its full lineup today with the Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke starring folk artist biopic Maudie set to open proceedings on February 16. Along with a sizable selection of International films and guests, there'll be...
Review: IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, Ti West's New Western
In Sergio Leone's classic The Good The Bad And The Ugly, one of many iconic scenes involves a gunfighter sneaking up to murder Eli Wallach's Tuco in a bathtub. The anonymous heavy lost his arm in a shootout with Tuco...
Blu-ray Review: Two Years Later, BOYHOOD Ends On Criterion
Almost as soon as Boyhood was released in June of 2014, Richard Linklater was promising audiences that a Criterion Collection release was forthcoming - which made fans of the collection all the more disappointed when an (admittedly decent) studio Blu-ray...
Review: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Shoots for Remake Glory
When you put the word “magnificent” in the title of your movie, you’d really better be able to live up to it. Except, in the case of director Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven, the very title's been done before. For...
Fantasia 2016 Review: IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE Is A Talky If Slight Examination Of Western Tropes
In Sergio Leone's classic The Good The Bad And The Ugly, one of many iconic scenes involves a gunfighter sneaking up to murder Eli Wallach's Tuco in the bath-tub. The anonymous heavy lost his arm in a shootout with Tuco...
Second MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Trailer Arrives And - Again - Is Way Better Than Expected
Okay, Antoine Fuqua, you got me. You can have my money. And probably my kid's money, too, which is also my money. Because as promised by the first teaser, this new trailer for The Magnificent Seven just looks like way...
