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…
For almost 35 years, the stop-motion animated duo of Wallace and Gromit have been a staple of family-friendly comedy, created by Nick Park and introduced in the 1989 short film A Grand Day Out, which was nominated for an Oscar. Since that time, Park has returned to the characters for a number of shorts, as…
It has been 12 years since Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles has had a narrative feature film released in the United States with his adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. By 2012, Salles had successfully turned his acclaim from the Oscar-nominated 1998 film, Central Station, into being an in-demand director. Although his 2004 film The…
The significance of the date, September 5, in the title of the new Paramount Pictures’ dramatic thriller may escape those who weren’t alive in 1972, but the film depicts a horrible day in history when a despicable act of terrorism hit the Summer Olympics, keeping the world frozen to their television sets. Unlike Steven Spielberg’s…
In the latest installment of “Above the Line vs. Below the Line,” film critics Matthew Schuchman and Edward Douglas discuss Robert Eggers’ new remake of Nosferatu, a movie that the filmmaker behind The VVitch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman has been wanting to make for thirty years. Nosferatu stars Timothy Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp as…
Most people will probably know Kyle Mooney from his nine-season tenure on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” but in 2017, he wrote and starred in the comedy Brigsby Bear, which debuted to acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, showing him to be capable of much more than short comedy sketches. Now, Mooney is back, teaming with…
Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel is no stranger to true-life crime dramas, beginning with his 2011 breakout film, The Snowtown Murders, and then making 2019’s True History of the Kelly Gang, about the 19th century gang of bank robbers. For The Order, Kurzel recruited Oscar nominee Jude Law, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett to play the…
Not many Americans will have known Russian actor Yura Borisov before watching Sean Baker’s well-regarded dramedy Anora, for which Borisov has already been receiving awards attention. In fact, he’s actually one of Russia’s biggest stars with an acting career that goes back over twenty years. Any Americans that do know Borisov might remember him from…
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