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Briana Middleton Cast in Lead Role in Sam Esmail’s ‘Metropolis’ Series Adaptation at Apple TV Plus

The Tender Bar actress Briana Middleton has been cast in the lead role of Apple TV+’s upcoming miniseries adaptation of the classic movie Metropolis, Variety is reporting. The casting news comes after the show was originally greenlit by the streamer in March 2022. Middleton, who was the first performer cast in the adaptation, will play…

AppleTV+’s Epic Sci-Fi Drama Series ‘Metropolis’ Will Shoot in Australia

AppleTV+ is set to shoot its epic sci-fi television series, Metropolis, which is inspired by director Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi film of the same name, in Australia, Deadline is reporting. The streaming service’s big budget television adaptation of the classic movie is being written, directed and executive produced by Mr. Robot creator, Sam Esmail. The…

FLC Announces New York Film Festival 62 Spotlight Selections

©Images: Maria, A Real Pain, Emilia Pérez FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES SPOTLIGHT FOR THE 62ND NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL North American premieres are Leos Carax‘s It’s Not Me, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, and Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today U.S. premiere of documentary Elton John: Never Too Late with an appearance by Elton John and directors R.J….

Fantasia: The Tenants: Yoon Eun-kyung’s Writing is Remarkably Sharp

©Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival  New Yorkers might not even consider this near-future Korean metropolis (a sort of, but not exactly Seoul) a strange and unfamiliar urban dystopia, as director-screenwriter Yoon Eun-kyung intended. Yes, the air quality is awful and it is nearly impossible to find an affordable, livable apartment, thanks a bizarre and…

New York Film Festival 62 : Main Slate Selections

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE SELECTIONS FOR THE 62nd NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 32 features including new films from Pedro Almodóvar, Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, David Cronenberg, Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias, Robinson Devor, Mati Diop, Miguel Gomes, Alain Guiraudie, Hong Sangsoo, Jia Zhangke, Payal Kapadia, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Mike Leigh, Philippe Lesage,…

Japan Cuts Animated Shorts: Bottle George & Nezumikozo Jirokichi

©Courtesy of Japan Cuts The compulsions of two hard-living characters reshape the worlds around them in their respective animated shorts. This produces artistic triumph in one case and family tragedy in the other. Yet, Anime fans will be duly impressed by both short films’ artistry and pedigrees. Despite their lengths, Bottle George, from Daisuke “Dice”…

“Robot Dreams’ Review: A Moving Ballad About What Life Is

@Courtesy of NEON After receiving a prestigious (and unexpected) nomination as Best Animated Feature Film at the 2023 Academy Awards, Robot Dreams by the Spanish director Pablo Berger arrives in American theaters demonstrating once again a basic lesson: less is more. Achieving such complexity, depth, and emotional precision through a story developed with extreme simplicity…

‘Perfect Days,’ Wim Wenders Makes Poetry Out Of An Ordinary Life

Courtesy of Neon The film directed by the illustrious German filmmaker was presented in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days shows Japan through the eyes of a European, and was nominated for the…

DOC NYC ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE LINEUP FOR FOURTEENTH EDITION, NOVEMBER 8-26, 2023

DOC NYC ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE LINEUP FOR FOURTEENTH EDITION, NOVEMBER 8-26, 2023 FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THEATERS IN NYC AND CONTINUES TO SCREEN ONLINE NATIONWIDE; SLATE INCLUDES 33 WORLD PREMIERES AND 29 US PREMIERES, AMONG MORE THAN 200 FILMS AND EVENTS The Contestant Opens Festival, South to Black Power Closes Event, Uncropped Screens as Centerpiece Includes…

Fantasia Announces Anime and Manga Highlights for 27th Edition, July 20 – August 9

SAND LAND, KURAYUKABA, and TOKYO REVENGERS 2 are among the anime and manga highlights at Fantasia 2023 Fantasia, North America’s largest and longest-lived genre film festival, returns in 2023 with an amazing selection of imaginative films from around the world, including a bounty of cinematic treasures for aficionados of anime and manga! Best known for…