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in NewsMatt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. Join Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Earlier in October, it was announced that Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt would be starring in the brand new Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer, scheduled for a 2023 release. We knew that the film would be telling the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb, but […] More
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Film Review: ‘The Last Duel’ Mixes a Critique of Misogyny with Period Action
On paper, The Last Duel should be a massive misfire. A Fourteenth Century set epic that takes on the #MeToo movement? Especially one largely made by men? Sure, that’ll work. In fact, this film probably should have been a spectacular disaster. Instead, the movie has a deft point to make, one that it hammers home […] More
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Film Review: ‘Stillwater’ is a Well-Acted Adult Drama with Hints of Something Powerful
There’s a really bad version of Stillwater that easily could exist. One doesn’t have to speculate too wildly to imagine a tone-deaf and America First type version of the film. Or, there easily could have been the Clint Eastwood version of the movie, that just seems tossed off. Luckily, Tom McCarthy is too good for […] More
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‘The Last Duel’ Trailer Teases an A-List Historical Epic
When was the last time you saw a film described as a “historical epic”? Unless you saw 2016’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, then your answer as to what film it was may date back to the release of Braveheart. Simply put, we don’t get a plethora of these types of movies. But if […] More
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Film Review: ‘No Sudden Move’ Finds Steven Soderbergh on Enjoyable, Yet Familiar, Ground
Remember when Steven Soderbergh retired? A decade ago, the filmmaker was planning to hang up the camera, so to speak. Since then? Well, he’s only helmed Behind the Candelabra, episodes of The Knick, Logan Lucky, episodes of Mosaic, Unsane, High Flying Bird, The Laundromat (both in 2019), and Let Them All Talk just last year. […] More
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Matt Damon Fights for His Daughter’s Freedom Abroad in ‘Stillwater’
Things have been surprisingly quiet on the Tom McCarthy front since his 2015 film Spotlight won the Oscars for Best Picture and earned him and Josh Singer a win for Best Original Screenplay. Since then McCarthy co-wrote Christopher Robin and wrote/directed the Disney+ film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, but we haven’t seen him direct the kind of follow-up you’d expect to a movie […] More
