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Review: WOMEN TALKING, Shut Up and Listen
Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand star in a film by Sarah Polley, inspired by true events.
Review: WOMEN TALKING, Director Sarah Polley Breaks Out
Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jesse Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand star in the excellent feminist film.
Review: THE FRENCH DISPATCH, Delightful, Wonderful Ode to Mid-Century Journalism
To call Wes Anderson (Isle of Dogs, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums) an auteurist filmmaker with a singular, uncompromising vision doesn’t come close to describing the moment-by-moment, shot-by-shot experience of sitting through one of Wes Anderson's...
New York 2021 Review: Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Expectations Not Met
But there have been many famous screen adaptations of the Shakespeare's play before. The first question anyone would naturally ask is, is another adaptation of the famous Scottish play really necessary?
Friday One Sheet: THE (Animated) FRENCH DISPATCH
It has been over a year since The French Dispatch (of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Star) was to premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. After numerous date changes and the typical COVID release dance seen for major titles, the...
Review: NOMADLAND, Deceptively Complex, Lyrical, and Very Necessary
As likely many of you, this pandemic era has me rethinking my life, what my goals are, where I want to be a year, five, ten, twenty years from now. About what is possible for me to achieve, where I...
Dallas Critics Go for NOMADLAND, You Should Too
The award-winning film opens in U.S. cinemas this coming Friday, February 19. Here are other films we recommend from the past year.
Teaser: NOMADLAND's Quiet, Beautiful Pitch
Searchlight Pictures just dropped a short, single-shot teaser trailer for Chloe Zhao's (The Rider) new feature, Nomadland. And it is beautiful, measured, and melancholic, with Frances McDormand at her understated best. Adapting Jessica Bruder's journalism-novel of the same name, the...
Friday One Sheet: NOMADLAND
Today we have this minimalist poster for Chloé Zhao's hybrid documentary slash adaptation of Jessica Bruder's wonderful book (of investigative journalism) of the same name. Big on white space (and I mean that quite literally), Frances McDormand's name floats well...
Friday One Sheet: THE FRENCH DISPATCH
The French Dispatch of The Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, has this piece of delightful Wes Anderson clutter (in title and design) slash dollhouse-diorama as its first piece of key art. What has become the norm for the filmmaker, is to...
Review: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, Laughing at Darkness and Despair
In Bruges director Martin McDonagh has laid down a winning hand with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The Englishman's latest script is just about everything you could ask for in a screenplay. It's certainly not as out-and-out a comedy as the...
Blu-ray Review: BLOOD SIMPLE, Satisfying Neo Noir At Its Best
It's always fun to witness the debut of a fantastic filmmaker. In this case, it's the birth of TWO filmmakers, the team of Joel and Ethan Coen, who debuted in the lexicon of cinema with the neo-noir film Blood Simple in 1984....
Review: THE GOOD DINOSAUR Narrowly Dodges Critical Extinction
One can scarcely fault the latest Pixar film for merely being good and not great. After all, it's right there in the title. The Good Dinosaur is the celebrated animation studio's 16th feature length film, and, following this past summer's Inside...
THE GOOD DINOSAUR: Watch The Teaser For Pixar's Next Animated Adventure
As the world prepares to embrace Pixar's Inside Out in a couple weeks a teaser trailer for their next project, The Good Dinosaur, dropped today. It has dashes of humor, danger and thrills. "The Good Dinosaur" asks the question: What if the...
THE GOOD DINOSAUR: New Image And Plot Changes Revealed
If you've been feeling blue and downhearted lately, perhaps it's because Pixar has not released a movie this year, which the company intends to remedy by releasing two movies next year. The first, Inside Out, focuses on emotions warring inside a...
Exclusive: Roman Coppola Talks CHARLES SWAN, Breakups, And Wes Anderson
I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of chatting with Roman Coppola, writer/director of the irritatingly titled A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III. This is the first feature from Coppola sitting in the director's chair since...
TTTT: An American Film Geek's Top 10 for 2012
Amid fiscal cliffs and digital revolutions, we are all adrift on a sea of change. Never mind that your boat-mate may be a hungry Bengal tiger, sometimes it's hard enough just to keep your head above water.To date, I've viewed...
Review: PROMISED LAND, A Well-Intentioned But Dramatically Inert Environmental-Issue Drama
Promised Land, the latest film from director Gus Van Sant, written by two of its actors, John Krasinski and Matt Damon, is nothing if not extremely topical. At its heart is the hot-button environmental issue of hydraulic fracturing, better known as...
Weinberg Reviews MOONRISE KINGDOM
Wes Anderson doesn't do formula. Love, hate, or ignore his movies, there's little denying that the man has a decidedly unique visual approach to cinematic storytelling, one that amuses many and leaves others cold. Personally, I have yet to see...
3 New Clips From MOONRISE KINGDOM
Chances are good that if you're an indie film fan in one of America's major metropolises, you've already had a chance to see Wes Anderson's summer indie-blockbuster MOONRISE KINGDOM (did you catch this Anderson news yesterday as well?). With seven...
