South African-born filmmaker Oliver Hermanus has been making films for some time, but he first started getting larger international attention with his 2019 film, Moffie, which he followed by adapting Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film, Ikiru, into 2022’s Living, which was nominated for two Oscars, including the first-ever Oscar nomination for actor Bill Nighy. Hermanus’ new…
Comedy definitely seems to be making a comeback this year, or at least it’s trying to. Going by the recent The Naked Gun and Covino and Marvin’s Splitsville, people are going back to movie theaters, because they want to laugh. Jay Duplass was at the forefront of indie comedy going back to his 2005 film,…
Director Michael Chaves and producer James Wan have now worked together on three (official) movies in “The Conjuring” franchise, beginning with 2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, then continuing with Chaves directing the spin-off sequel The Nun II in 2023. Now, they’re reuniting with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga for The Conjuring:…
To say that I’ve had a strange relationship with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan over the years would be an understatement, but that was especially the case earlier in his career in the years before I officially became a film critic. After making a few other movies, Shyamalan broke onto the scene with his blockbuster hit,…
When Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga took on the roles of Ed and Larraine Warren for James Warren’s 2013 true-life horror film, The Conjuring, they might not have realized that they would be playing those roles for more than ten years, as it became a hugely successful horror franchise. It’s now 12 years later, and…
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin came onto the scene when their debut film, The Climb, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, an odd bit of programming considering that it was made by two American first-time filmmakers. The duo found a way to make a mark with their impressive DIY film, in which…
For many years, David Mackenzie was an incredibly prolific British filmmaker with a new movie every two years, but then after making the acclaimed Hell or High Water and its follow-up Outlaw King, the latter in 2018, Mackenzie seemed to drift towards television during COVID. Now, Mackenzie is back in movie theaters with Relay, a…
Subscribe to CinemaDaily US’ YouTube channel for more video content. There are some filmmakers who really need no introduction, and when it comes to Ron Howard, his long career in film and television speaks for itself. Howard began his career in the ‘50s as a child actor before he eventually ventured into filmmaking, eventually winning…
One of the breakout hits from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Kate Beecroft’s East of Wall, a movie set in an area of South Dakota referred to as “the Badlands” that very few people not from that remote region will know about. The story focuses on Tabatha Zimiga (played by the real Tabatha Zimiga),…
When it comes to animation, you can’t really better the mamyu contributions by Genndy Tartakovsky, whose early work as the creator of Dexter’s Laboratory and contributing to The Powerpuff Girls led to more adult fare like Samurai Jack and Primal. (This writer personally believes that his animated series, Star Wars: Clone Wars, was one of…
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