Tag: jessicachastain
MEMORY Review: Earnest, Heartfelt Relationship/Family Drama
Memory, the latest film by Mexican writer/director Michel Franco (Sundown, New Order, Chronic), is a performance- and character-driven relationship drama that also doubles as a family drama, with hints of the melodrama and thriller genres. Sylvia (Academy Award winner Jessica...
Review: THE 355, Super-Spy Team-Up Wastes Top-Tier Talent
Jessica Chastain leads fierce females in an international espionage thriller, directed by Simon Kinberg.
Review: THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, Jessica Chastain, Year-End Awards Frontrunner
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield star in a real-life drama, directed by Michael Showalter.
Review: AVA Fails to Give Jessica Chastain an Action Franchise Of Her Own
Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common and Geena Davis star in an action movie, directed by Tate Taylor ('The Help').
AVA Trailer: When Jessica Chastain Laughs Like This, You Better Run
Forget the Academy Award nominations. When Jessica Chastain laughs like she laughs in the first trailer for Ava, you better run, boy, and run as fast as you can. Two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain portrays the titular character in...
Review: MISS SLOANE Wallows in Politics as Usual
It wouldn't hurt to bone up on Washington DC lobby laws and practices before taking in Miss Sloane, the latest from one-time prestige director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love). But if doing so falls between the cracks, don't let that...
HumanSide Podcast: Director Robert Eggers Talks THE WITCH
Welcome to HumanSide. This time around I'll be letting you in on some amazing Chicago-based movie happenings, including the Music Box Theatre 70 MM Film Festival, the Roger Ebert Film Festival and a pair of great screenings from the Chicago...
Have Your Say: Gorgeous, Gorgeouser, Gorgeousest...
(Gorgeous: ˈɡɔːdʒəs/ adjective, meaning: beautiful; very attractive.) Guillermo Del Toro's gothic romance fairy-tale Crimson Peak is currently flailing at box-offices worldwide, despite many people liking it a great deal. In his review, Jason Gorber calls it "...a grand vision...", and...
Review: CRIMSON PEAK, A Gothic Romance For The Ages
Delving into a Guillermo del Toro movie is like visiting a great museum. Superficially there's all this pretty stuff going on, with images that often startle as much as they entertain. Dig a bit deeper and there's meaning to...
Toronto 2015 Review: THE MARTIAN, A Thrilling, Entertaining Space Flick
The Martian concept is a delight, stranding an astronaut millions of kilometers from home, where he has to "science the shit" out of the situation in order to find a way back. Implicit in the concept, however, is that...
CRIMSON PEAK: Guillermo Del Torro`s Gothic Horror Gets Haunting Teaser Trailer
Here is that Guillermo Del Toro that we all fell in love with. The director is back to horror and suspense in a big way in the teaser trailer for his upcoming gothic horror film Crimson Peak. The sets are...
The Many Faces Of Jessica Chastain
This week didn't exactly see many new films premiering in North America, but among those that did is A Most Violent Year. Jim reviewed it and called it "a legitimately terrific film". And it stars Jessica Chastain, which is never...
Review: A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Slow-Burns With Quality
Lurking modestly in the fringes of film awards season, we have this: an accomplished, dignified, slow-burn of a film. A Most Violent Year is a crime film, a crumbling family drama, an unexpected character study, and an art house pot-boiler....
2014: A Dark And Personal Year At The Movies
"Nobody knows anything." Back in 1983, veteran screenwriter William Goldman was writing about the inability of anyone in Hollywood to know how a movie would fare with the public. (His book, Adventures in the Screen Trade, continues: "Not one person...
Our First Look At Jessica Chastain In Del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK
Why, hello there Jessica Chastain. What a lovely and dark dress you have on. It complements the creepy stairwell you are standing in wonderfully. According to a report over at Indiewire this is our first look at Chastain as Lady Lucille...
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR: Watch Oscar Isaac And Jessica Chastain In First, Searing Clip
In this first clip from J.C. Chandor's drama A Most Violent Year, Jessica Chastain has something her youngest daughter found in the bushes outside her home. She wants her husband, played by Oscar Isaac, to have a look. It is...
INTERSTELLAR: The Teaser For Nolan's Latest Reaches For The Stars
With another banner year behind him, Matthew McConaughey's next big project is Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. A year out from release, what we see today is indeed a teaser. But with its somber and inspiring tone, featuring McConaughey voice over and...
J.C. Chandor Gives Javier Bardem A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Ben Wheatley constantly amazes us at ScreenAnarchy with his speed at churning out cinematic masterpieces starting with his debut Down Terrace in 2009. Over the moat in America, J.C. Chandor is fast catching up, already readying his third feature since...
Oscar Rundown: ZERO DARK THIRTY, DJANGO UNCHAINED, LINCOLN
Most any seasoned film fan has at one time or another come to experience the annual Oscar race in varying parts exciting, perilous, exhausting, fun, and dismissible. If you're at all like me, your attention to this annual ritual (and...
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Review: MAMA, A Stylishly Directed But Disappointingly Predictable Horror Film
"Once upon a time," reads the title card that kicks off Mama, a supernatural horror film by first time feature director Andy Muschietti, which is being sold under the imprimatur of a much more famous name, Guillermo del Toro, who...
