by Nick Taylor. First thing’s first: HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY PAUL NEWMAN!!!! Everyone say “Happy Birthday Paul!!” in the comments. As I said when giving backstory on my first Newman installment, Sidney Lumet's The Verdict was one of my first encounters with the actor’s filmography. Even admitting my many, many blind spots, I think it’s …

2024年9月27日 · Dame Maggie Smith has no equal. She is truly one of a kind that will never be seen ever again. I think I first saw her in Hook (terrible film BTW but she's great in it) . Then I got to see more of her work in The First Wives Club and some of the films she was doing in the 90s. It was as Professor Minerva McGonnagal where she just kicked ass.

2025年1月22日 · by Nick Taylor. As a fan of Julio Torres's work on SNL for years who's had only intermittent contact with his other ventures, I am so goddamn delighted by Problemista.Every loopy, queer, topical, cubist dimension to his art is so fruitfully deployed while allowing the colors and slashes of every single collaborator to shine as brightly as he does.

2025年1月16日 · by Cláudio Alves. David Lynch as John Ford in his last big-screen appearance, in THE FABELMANS (2022). Somewhere in LA, in the middle of a concrete nowhere, an open door beckons.

2025年1月19日 · by Nick Taylor. A very good movie, frustratingly close to being a great one if not for one problem at its absolute center. John David Washington drags down this new adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson to an inordinate degree, baldly imitating his dad's Troy Maxson and leaving Boy Willie out to dry as a result. Unburdened from even a shred of Denzel's charisma, we get a Boy Willie ...

2025年1月14日 · By Ben Miller. Director Portia A. Buckley is in the middle of a whirlwind experience. Not only has her short film Clodagh been listed on the BAFTA longlist for Best Short Film, it was also announced as a finalist for the Best Live Action Short Oscar. I recently spoke to her about the chaos of awards season, her relationship with cinematographer Jomo Fray, prepping her for bad interview ...

2025年1月20日 · by Nick Taylor. I was pleasantly surprised by Janet Planet after hearing months of ecstatic reviews following its festival premiere before it got wide distribution. So often, when we get films from lauded theatre directors or playwrights, there's usually a built-in leeway for those artists not playing with cinema as fully or successfully as they might.

2024年9月8日 · By Abe Friedtanzer. The legend of William (or Wilhelm, in German) Tell describes a man who helped to liberate Switzerland from Austrian occupation in the early 1300s.

2024年3月17日 · The anecdote about the pink paint shortage *would* land with audiences who don’t understand the scale of the global economy—or the fact that the Barbie movie probably accounted for less than 1% of 1% of all pink paint used in its year.

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