“Civil War” emerges as a riveting film that breaks the conventional boundaries of its genre to present a potent story centered on the ethics of journalism and the grim realities of war. Set in a future America devastated by internal strife, the movie offers an intense look at the duties and challenges journalists face in […]
Yes there is a piano in Jane Campions new film, the Oscar nominated director worried about that element with “The Power of the Dog”, but has since embraced the idea that they are both companion pieces and bookends to her career. The director from New Zealand used her home country to stand in for Montana
Best director winner at Cannes film festival 2017, Sofia Coppola insists her version of The Beguiled is not a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film; rather an alternative adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s novel. The Beguiled might be Coppola’s most accessible film to date, that’s not saying much following films The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette
Following his 2014 indie St. Vincent, writer/director Theodore Melfi delivers one of 2016’s most heartwarming and rousing true stories. If Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) does snag her second Oscar nomination, along with presumed nominees from Fences, Moonlight and Queen of Katwe, the Academy might take credit for the diversity reversal,
Midnight Special answers the question of what a “Jeff Nichols film” might look like on a larger budget. “It’s still a Jeff Nichols film,” he said at the packed North American premiere at SXSW. He wasn’t kidding, there are major notes from his two previous films Mud and one of my all-time favorites Take