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NYFF Film Review: ‘The Shrouds’ Finds David Cronenberg Giving His Own Personal and Peculiar Take on Grief
When you watch a David Cronenberg film, you pretty much have to expect something done in a unique register. Whether it’s his various body horror works or when he tackles other genres, it’s handled in a manner unlike most other storytellers. So, when it comes to The Shrouds, of course a Cronenberg movie about grief […] More
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TIFF Review: ‘The Brutalist’ is an Ambitious Epic from Brady Corbet That Asks a Lot
Ambition runs rampant throughout the veins of The Brutalist. Not just in the protagonist’s vision for his work, but also in that of filmmaker Brady Corbet. For his third feature, the actor turned director has opted to make a big old American epic, the kind we almost never see anymore. Expansive and sprawling in narrative […] More
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Film Review: ‘Memory’ Finds Liam Neeson Struggling with His Violent Past
Liam Neeson in an action movie is old hat by now. Hell, even just a few months ago, he was in another film (Blacklight, reviewed here) where he had a special set of skills. Neeson is too talented of an actor to be stuck in these kinds of throwaway flicks, but sometimes, there’s a bit […] More
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Film Review: ‘Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse’ Hopes to Start a Franchise for Michael B. Jordan
Action franchises follow a formula. That’s just how the vast majority of them operate. It’s in how they manipulate said formula in some manner of uniqueness (or lack thereof) that sets them apart. Some go in extreme directions. Others stay very close to the median. Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is decidedly a film that falls […] More
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‘Without Remorse’ Final Trailer Drops for Michael B. Jordan’s New Franchise
Amazon Studios certainly seems to enjoy being in the Tom Clancy business. Their series Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski in the titular role played by actors like Ben Affleck and Harrison Ford on film, is one of their most popular and acclaimed. It makes sense then that they’d want to get involved with another of the author’s properties, as we see in this adaptation […] More
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Interview: Guy Pearce Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ and ‘The Seventh Day’
Guy Pearce is a very busy man. Within the next month, the Emmy winning actor has three new projects releasing. First, there’s the exorcism horror film The Seventh Day. After that he’ll be seen in the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown, which reunites him with Kate Winslet ten years after the two starred together in Mildred Pierce, the series which […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Seventh Day’ is ‘The Exorcist’ meets ‘Training Day’
If you think you know what it’s like to have a bad first day at your new job, wait until you see what Father Daniel has to deal with in The Seventh Day. The new exorcism thriller from writer/director Justin P. Lange sees rookie priest Daniel (Vadhir Derbez) teamed up with the seasoned pro Father Peter (Guy Pearce) […] More
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Netflix Announces Animated Trip to Australia with ‘Back to the Outback’
Get ready to go down under with Back to the Outback, a Netflix animated production announced for release globally in Fall 2021. A key excerpt from the synopsis provided by Netflix – “a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in […] More
