Tag: lilycollins
Friday One Sheet: MANK and the Fake Criterion
The films of David Fincher never let a typeface or design opportunity go to waste. Considering he is recreating a specific Hollywood era - the production of Orson Welles cinematic milestone and political bombshell, Citizen Kane - with his latest...
Review: INHERITANCE, Nobody's Getting Anything Substantial
Lily Collins, Simon Pegg and Connie Nielsen star in Vaughn Stein's mystery-drama.
Review: TOLKIEN, Portrait of a Slowly Boring Talent
Nicholas Hoult stars with Lily Collins in a biographical drama about the writer's younger years, directed by Dome Karukoski.
Notes on Streaming: THE LAST TYCOON, Searching for Optimists in a Sea of Cynicism
Old Hollywood comes to life in The Last Tycoon, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel, but surely influenced by the machinations of present-day Hollywood. Fitzgerald's novel, prepared by Edmund Wilson, was published posthumously in 1941, soon after the...
Review: OKJA Makes For a Grand Feast
An endearing family adventure, a bitter ecological plea and a rousing action film all rolled into one, Okja proves once more that Bong Joon Ho is a master of twisting something new out of the familiar. While Netflix's gamble screams...
New OKJA Trailer Features Poignant Moments, Critical Quotes
Bong Joon Ho's Okja will, apparently, "make you jump for joy and burst into tears," at least according to the latest trailer for the movie. That quote is from some publication called ... [squints eyes, watches trailer again] ... ScreenAnarchy....
Review: RULES DON'T APPLY, Imperfect, Awkward and Kind of Marvelous
Kind of marvelous in its apparently single-minded devotion to a slender tale, Warren Beatty's return to directing is weird and ragged and amusing and endearing. Rules Don't Apply, which also marks Beatty's return to acting after a lengthy absence, follows...
Watch: Matt Damon And Lilly Collins Meet Daniele Rizzo As "Sam" And The Wolfster, Respectively
It's ain't easy being The Wolfster. Or "Sam," for that matter. Our friend, actor and comedian Daniele Rizzo, likes to dress up in full makeup and costume for his interviews with actors and filmmakers promoting their latest releases in Europe....
Destroy All Monsters: Divergent Twilight, Catching Fire
First of all, this neo-genre needs a name. There are enough entries now, and whatever movement Twilight started in Hollywood ain't stopping. The stories tend to fall under either creature fantasy (The Mortal Instruments, The Twilight Saga) or near-future science...
Review: THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES Knows Its Audience
There's something to be said for a film that knows its audience. We see it in the form of adolescent boy movies all the time, movies targeted to some presumably gendered notion of what speaks to young adults of a...