Titus Kaphar has achieved quite a few high points as one of the more successful contemporary fine artists, but with Exhibiting Forgiveness, he makes his foray into feature filmmaking. The drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, and it made enough of an impact that it was then programmed as part of…
Pedro Almodóvar is back at the 62nd New York Film Festival with his first English-language feature film, The Room Next Door, adapted from the novel by Sigrid Nunez, who also wrote the book on which The Friend is based. (You can watch my review of the movie adapting that other book, which also played NYFF,…
It’s not that often when a movie comes into the September festival season without any distribution but that’s the case with David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s The Friend, starring Naomi Watts, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, then played at the 62nd New York Film Festival. Based on the novel by Sigrid Nunez,…
Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has spent nearly 40 years of making his magnum opus, Megalopolis, a film that mixes modern-day New York City with ancient Rome to create New Rome. In this setting and constantly dreaming of the future is Adam Driver’s Cesar Catalina, a brilliant inventor and architect who is always striving to…
The tragic death of actor Christopher Reeve in 2004 was devastating for those who knew and loved him, both in real life and his millions of fans from playing the pivotal role as Superman in four movies from 1978 to 1987. His death was made worse by the fact that nine years earlier, he became…
For many people going to see Alexandre Aja’s horror film Never Let Go this weekend, it will be all about Halle Berry returning to theaters for the first time in over two years. But there’s also a duo of young actors who carry just as much of the film, Anthony B. Jenkins and Percy Daggs…
Aaron Shimberg’s A Different Man is indeed quite “different” from the normal Sundance Film Festival fare, reteaming the filmmaker with Adam Pearson (Under the Skin), who not only played a key role in Schimberg’s previous film, Chained for Life, but also inspired Schimberg to incorporate elements of his persona into a character in his new…
Never Let Go is a spectacularly eerie high-concept horror film that puts Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry in a remote cabin in the woods with her young, twin sons (Anthony B. Jenkins, Percy Daggs IV), all of them attached to the house by rope to prevent an evil presence from possessing them. At least that’s the…
When Anand Tucker’s period drama, The Critic, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023, it had been well over a decade since the director’s last feature film hit theaters. He returned with a doozy of a cast and a very different and intriguing exploration about the world of criticism, which is finally hitting…
A big hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Megan Park’s My Old Ass, her follow-up to the HBO/MAX movie, The Fallout, takes an introspective look at something many people have wondered about: if you have a chance to speak with your younger self, what would you tell them about the direction of their life?…
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