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THE BRUTALIST Review: Big Canvas, Real Intimacy, Human Grace
Brady Corbet directs; Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn star.
Friday One Sheet: THE BRUTALIST
Typography is no stranger to the design of Brady Corbet's "Monumental" new film, The Brutalist. The credits in both the film, and its recent trailer, do interesting things. This carries into this iconic poster, with the Statue of Liberty upside...
A Superb Trailer for Brady Corbet's 70mm Epic, THE BRUTALIST
One of the best films of the year gets one of the best trailers of the year. Harnessing an early scene in the film, before breaking into a montage of the celebration of artictectural form, with the joy and pain...
Toronto 2024 Review: THE BRUTALIST, A Grand and Unexpected Cinematic Epic
Out of the gate with its Vista-Vision logo and overture, The Brutalist promises the kind of grand Hollywood epic, and old-school cinematic hubris, that more or less went away 40 years ago with Micheal Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate and Sergio Leone’s...
Review: In MEMORY, Liam Neeson Returns to Familiar Action-Hero Mode
The return of Martin Campbell, the Brit director who successfully rebooted the James Bond franchise not once but twice (GoldenEye, Casino Royale), on opposite sides of the millennium and gave English-language audiences Antonio Banderas as the title character in The...
Review: ZONE 414, Derivative, Uninspired Sci-Fi/(In)Actioner
Travis Fimmel, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz and Guy Pearce star in the science fiction thriller, directed by Andrew Baird.
Review: WITHOUT REMORSE, Michael B. Jordan Gets an Action Franchise To Call His Own
In Hollywood, a performer’s longevity is directly proportional to their connection to a long-running series or franchise (the more, the better), an immutable fact Michael B. Jordan, an actor with Oscar-worthy talent, has known for quite a while, hitching his...
Review: BLOODSHOT Gives Vin Diesel the Next, Not-So-Great Franchise Starter
Vin Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez and Guy Pearce star in the comic-book adaptation, directed by Dave Wilson.
Now on Home Video: In DISTURBING THE PEACE, Guy Pearce Picks Up His Gun Again
They roar into a small, quiet town on loud motorcycles. They wear sneers on their faces and tattoos on their bodies. They are bad people, who have not arrived just to eat breakfast and buy lawn ornaments. In Disturbing the...
Review: BRIMSTONE, One of the Most Brutal Westerns in Recent Memory
In Brimstone, a Western that’s the English-language debut of Dutch director Martin Koolhoven, young actress Dakota Fanning amazes with her best performance yet, giving life to a character that since the first chapter (the film is divided in four) is...
Terry The Shark Says Hello To The First WIZARDS OF AUS Trailer
So, you're a wizard in a fantasy land and you want to leave your life of magical adventure and settle someplace a little bit more stable. What happens next? Well, you end up in Melbourne with an anthropomorphic shark-man as...
Review: RESULTS, Self-Absorbed To An Alarming, Insightful Degree
Polished and shiny, Andrew Bujalski's Results stands in stark visual contrast to the filmmaker's previous stylistic indulgence, Computer Chess. Shot in murky black and white with a primitive camera, Computer Chess focused on programmers at the dawn of the personal...
It's A Good, Old Fashioned STARE DOWN
Since we last heard from Australian YouTube prankster Michael Shanks, the young talent has been hired on to direct music videos for Guy Pearce - really, see one here - but happily his time spent singing movie stars has not...
THE ROVER Giveaway! Win A Poster Signed By Pattinson, Pearce And Michod!
David Michod's post-apocalyptic follow to Animal Kingdom, The Rover, is in theaters now and ScreenAnarchy is very happy to have a signed poster for the film to give away to one lucky reader. Michod and his two leading men -...
Interview: David Michôd Talks THE ROVER, Robert Pattinson, BREAKFAST CLUB, And More
After the kinetic, Scorcese-like Animal Kingdom, David Michôd's sophomore effort takes a very different tack. Set in a desiccated Australia, post some sort of apocalypse that seems to inevitably befall the country/continent on screen. After screening the film at...
Cannes 2014 Review: THE ROVER Drives A Steady Course
The Rover is a slow burn Western, a film with brief explosions of violence that are interspersed along a dry, dusty narrative landscape.Directed by Animal Kingdom's David Michôd, there's a cold, calculating air to the film that may put off...
God Feels Nothing For You In The New ROVER Trailer
David Michôd's The Rover starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson was just announced as part of the Official Selection for the Cannes Film Festival this morning. And the production company A24 Films released the first full trailer as a follow up. There...
Review: BREATHE IN, A Heartbreaking Romance
Drake Doremus does one thing very, very well. He is a master at making the audience feel the emotions of his characters -- without relying on the typical protagonist story structure. His 2011 Sundance US Dramatic Competition-winning Like Crazy took...
David Michôd's THE ROVER: Pearce And Pattinson Stumble Through The Wasteland In First Teaser
Australia's David Michôd burst onto the international scene with his hugely acclaimed - and deservedly so - debut Animal Kingdom. An intense slice of urban crime, Animal Kingdom won Michôd comparisons to a young Martin Scorsese while in the process...
Plot Details Emerge As THE ROVER Secures US Distribution
In a display of secrecy that would impress JJ Abrams, an impressively scant amount of information managed to escape the Australian shoot for David Michôd's The Rover. And the ensuing months haven't revealed much more. We've known it is a...
