Tag: jeffreywright

In American Fiction, writer-director Cord Jefferson’s (Station Eleven, Succession, Watchmen) adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, Erasure, a brilliant, blistering satire of commercial publishing, mainstream media, and Hollywood studio system, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), a literature professor and under-read novelist, finds himself face-to-face with a seemingly...

Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz star in a dark, epic adventure, directed by Matt Reeves.

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...

No Time To Die concludes Daniel Craig’s muscularly intense, emotionally dense interpretation of James Bond. That’s certainly a plus for Bond fans who’ve enjoyed this particular version of Bond, who receive an interlocked, series-spanning narrative rather than the standalone one-offs...

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...

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...

[Updated 2/5/18: The full teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been added below.] The game of games. The opportunity for history to be made tonight. Or will it go to the underdogs? We will know in a...

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...

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...

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...

Briefcases full of money are bad news. Terrible news, even. If you see a briefcase full of money, run as far away from it as you can, and maybe stay inside for a few days just to be safe. You...

Murky, unclear, and blunt, the first sequence in Allen Hughes' Broken City proves to be representative of the movie as a whole. NYPD Detective Billy Taggert (Mark Wahlberg) is presented as a wronged hero, an honorable officer who shoots a...

Duncan Jones' sophomore effort Source Code hits theaters today and is the subject of my weekly column over at Showcase. What did I think? Basically solid but not exceptional and I count leading man Jake Gyllenhaal as the weak point....

On the way out of the screening of the mind-bending beat-the-clock thriller "Source Code", I overheard a fellow local critic making the comparison, "It's 'Inception' meets 'The Matrix'." Funny (although he wasn't joking), but I was thinking it's "Groundhog Day"...

Is Source Code an apocalyptic Groundhog Day? It's very tempting to call it that, simply because the premise of the two films are, at first blush, similar: a man must keep re-living a limited period of time in order to...

Memo to the folks at Summit: That image up above? That's the only poster for Duncan Jones' Source Code that should be used from this point on. I mean it.The poster was created by Olly Moss as part of the...

Good news for fans of Moon and director Duncan Jones. Jones' sophomore feature, Source Code, has just been announced as the opening night film of SXSW. Which makes me wish I could be there. But I can't. Sigh.The film is...

After turning heads around the globe with his debut feature Moon Duncan Jones is back for round two with Source Code. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a time and consciousness hopping soldier on the hunt for a bomber this will be...

The man is responsible for the most recycled and reused film score of recent memory for one very simple reason: he's very, very good.Clint Mansell will likely always be most associated with the films of Darren Aronofsky - it's...

Fans of intelligent science fiction, take heart in the news that the recent wave will continue with Moon's Duncan Jones bringing Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, and Michelle Monaghan to Ottawa to shoot the upcoming Source Code.Gyllanhaal will play a soldier...