It’s been 25 years since director Kevin Macdonald won the Oscar for his 1999 documentary, One Day in September, and during those years, Macdonald has ably alternated between making docs like Marley and Whitney, and narrative films such as The Last King of Scotland and most recently, 2021’s The Mauritanian. Macdonald’s latest documentary, One to…
Michael Angarano has been acting since he was eight years old, but he’s also made forays into directing, including his new movie, Sacramento, a mature dramedy that pairs him with many of the actors he’s known for much of his life, including his partner and children’s mother, Maya Erskine (Mr. and Mrs. Smith). In Sacramento,…
Many actors have made the move into directing either in film or television, and that tradition continues as Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon goes behind the camera for his directorial debut Eric LaRue. Adapted from the stageplay by Shannon’s good friend, Brett Neveau, the film is a tough and honest look at the aftermath of a…
Filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee have been making independent films for over thirty years, and while they might not be the most prolific filmmakers, they always tend to release thought-provoking films with a mix of original and adapted works. Their latest film is The Friend, starring Naomi Watts as Iris, a New York-based writer…
For 35 years, Steve Coogan has been one of Britain’s preeminent comic actors, mainly with his popular TV presenter character Alan Partridge, but he’s also regularly branched off into other genres, and even received two Oscar nominations for writing and producing 2014’s Philomena. The Penguin Lessons puts Coogan in the role of Tom Michell, who…
Paramount Pictures’ new action movie, Novocaine, features a crazy mix of action, romance, comedy and gore, but really, it’s the high-concept premise of a man who can’t feel any pain, played by Jack Quaid, that sets it apart from any other even remotely similar action movie. Quaid plays mild-manner assistant bank manager Nathan Caine, who…
Filmmaker David Koepp has long been considered one of the top screenwriters in Hollywood with a career that stretches back over 35 years and includes massive blockbusters like Jurassic Park and its sequel, the original Mission: Impossible in 1996 and 2002’s Spider-Man, as well as nine movies, which he also directed. In recent years, Koepp…
On October 21, 2021, tragedy struck on the set of Joel Souza’s indie Western, Rust, as a gun that was meant to be loaded with blanks went off in the hands of the film’s star and producer, Alec Baldwin, wounding Souza and killing his cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. It was a shocking incident that created a…
Marvel’s mastermind filmmakers Anthony and Joe Russo are back on Netflix with the sci-fi comedy, The Electric State, starring Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things and Chris Pratt from the Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy. The Electric State was adapted from Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel of the same name by Christopher Markus and…
It’s unclear how many fans of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s film work are aware of his side project directing operas for a number of Canadian opera companies, going back to 1996 when he directed his first production of Richard Strauss’ “Salomé.” In 2023, Egoyan returned to direct that opera for the Canadian Opera Company at…
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