Roland Emmerich’s love of action and adventure in original stories is clear in his body of work. The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998) and Independence Day (1996) point to a finely-honed sense of the dark and dangerous. Emmerich goes down a new path with Midway, the fact-based story of one …
It’s a Fem-tastic Week on the Screens as We Present Some of Cinema’s Bravest Women – Plus Our Beloved Margaret Atwood! Also, Talking Synonyms, Pilgrim Horror and Jenn and Reece Navigating Life in the Fraught World of Morning News. Ker-pow!
Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate the direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, reunites Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a real kick for the T2’s many fans. Skynet, now known as Legion has sent a new superpowered Terminator (Gabriel Luna) from the future to kill Dani Ramos …
Two Salty Dogs Get the Eggers Treatment, Antonio Banderas Awards-Bait Showcase Pain and Glory, Seinfeld and The Bronx Connection, What Happens When You Allow Women to Drive in 2019? Nothing But Good. So Happy Agatha Raisin’s Back, Netflix’ Star-Studded New Food Series, and Twenty-Five Years of the Best in Indie Film
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are well-matched in the curiously eccentric and utterly mesmerising The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers the genius behind the superlative supernatural drama The Witch puts the men in a lonely lighthouse off Nova Scotia standing in for New England, takes away their food …
The Impossible Brilliance of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, Portrait of a Thirty-Year Struggle for Justice in a High-Profile Church Child Abuse Case, Greener Grass, a Deeply Zany Suburban Satire That’s Nothing but Awesome, Helen Mirren Tackles Catherine the Great Two Ways, a Worthy UK Noir and the 20th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Bong Joon-Ho’s nearly perfect, nerve-rattling comedy thriller Parasite is a shock to the system. It’s outrageous, comic, deadly serious and genre-bending, precise, poetic and mathematical, symmetrical in its construction, and deeply satisfying. It won this year’s Palme d'Or at Cannes, it's South …
Interview: Antonio Banderas talks ‘Pain and Glory’
Antonio Banderas plays Salvador, a version of his longtime collaborator, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar in the exquisite Pain and Glory. He plays the adult version of a traumatised boy who went on to find release and expression as a successful film director. career is at a standstill, but he is …
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