Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here has been making waves both in his home country of Brazil, where it’s been a massive box office hit, and across the world, where it’s already been shortlisted for the Oscars’ International Feature category. The film’s star, Fernanda Torres, even won a Golden Globe for her performance a few weeks…
After co-creating hugely popular horror franchises, “Saw” and “Insidious,” Australian-born Leigh Whannell eventually started directing himself, first with Insidious: Chapter 3 in 2005, then his original sci-fi thriller Upgrade. In 2020, Whannell’s The Invisible Man, starring Elisabeth Moss, a very different take on the classic Universal monster. Now, Whannell is back with Wolf Man, a…
In 2020, Saw and Insidious co-creator Leigh Whannell created on a new take of The Invisible Man with Elisabeth Moss, and for his follow-up, Whannell is back with Wolf Man, another film that pays tribute to another classic Universal horror monster. In the film, Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) plays Blake, a man who has to…
Paramount Pictures’ drama September 5, co-written and directed by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, takes a detailed look at the events of September 5, 1972, when the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany were disrupted by a terrorist action as a Palestinian group kidnapped the Israeli athletes, leading to a 24-hour nightmare. On hand from the United…
For more than 50 years and over the course of 15 films, filmmaker Mike Leigh has become one of the most respected and praised British filmmakers with seven Oscar nominations – five for his screenplays, two for his direction – as well as 13 BAFTA nominations, winning two and receiving two special BAFTA honors. That’s…
From his early days as a member of the British boy band Take That to his rise as a global superstar in the ‘90s and early ‘00s, Robbie Williams has remained a bit of an enigma, despite creating a reputation for himself as a cheeky “bad boy,” who regularly said and did whatever was necessary…
2024 has been quite a year for movies. Hopefully you’ve already read the Top 10 favorite movies picked by the Cinema Daily US staff, and with Sunday’s Golden Globes* in the rearview mirror, we’re well and fully into the two months leading up to Oscar night on March 2. (*Note the asterisk next to the…
Icelandic filmmaker Thordur Palsson has made a terrifying feature directorial debut with The Damned, a period film starring Odessa Young as the widow of a fishing boat captain who takes over his duties and has to deal with an unruly crew. After they turn their backs on a sinking ship because they don’t have enough…
Maybe it’s still somewhat of a foreign concept to imagine the United Kingdom submitting movies for the Oscars’ International Feature category, maybe because that category used to be called “Foreign Language Film,” and the primary language of the UK (as most will know) is English. Things are definitely changing, and with the country’s Oscar win…
Watching James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown – starring Timothée Chalamet as the one and only Bob Dylan during the early years of his career – is like unearthing a time capsule and being transported back in time to the early ’60s of the burgeoning folk scene. This includes everything from the famed block on MacDougal…
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