©Courtesy of Netflix The slaying of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of our day. The young girl, a precocious child who had starred in beauty pageants and talent contests, was found dead by her father in her bedroom in their Boulder, Colorado home on the morning after Christmas 1996. According…
©Courtesy of Youth Without Youth Just a week before the release of Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola is already talking of his next project: a filmic adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1922 novel The Glimpses of the Moon. Describing the novel as “a whimsical, very interesting story that I love,” Coppola was quoted in the Telegraph, a…
Photo Credit © Manuel Harlan, DR. STRANGELOVE at the Noël Coward Theatre The West End stage production of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove will be streamed to cinemas worldwide on March 27, 2025. Starring Steve Coogan, the production will continue at London’s Noël Coward Theatre through January 25 and will then play a limited engagement at Dublin’s…
As I watched the poignant and powerful Queendom, I could not help thinking of “the personal is the political,” a catchphrase from the 1970s that was often used by feminists to validate the importance of personal, lived experience in the struggle to liberate themselves from oppressive structural systems. Agniia Galdanova‘s documentary, which was screened last…
Screenwriter Marshall Brickman, who collaborated with Woody Allen on several of his most important films, died in Manhattan on November 29 at the age of 85. Brickman also co-wrote the Broadway musicals Jersey Boys and The Addams Family. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer for Allen Funt’s Candid Camera as well as…
©Courtesy of A24 Described by its producers as the story of “a cosmic and precarious love between two American expats in midcentury Mexico City,” Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer is a breathtaking adaptation of the eponymous novel that William S Burroughs had begun writing in the 1950s though it was not published until 1985. Starring Daniel Craig…
Who knew that a film about accountants, bureaucrats, and municipal bond offerings could ever be interesting, let alone downright enjoyable? After all, hasn’t economics often been referred to as the “dismal science”? Despite its lugubrious title, Drop Dead City is actually quite an undismal description of how New York City was driven into near-bankruptcy half…
Watch your ears, Mickey. Your distant cousin Mighty Mouse is on his way. Matt Lieberman has reportedly been tapped to write the script for a feature film adaptation of the iconic Mighty Mouse cartoon for Ryan Reynolds and his production company, Maximum Effort Productions. Paramount had previously announced, in 2019, that a live-action/animation hybrid movie…
Jesse Eisenberg is poised to write and direct a yet-untitled musical comedy for Topic Studios and Fruit Tree, which recently released his acclaimed Sundance film A Real Pain. Eisenberg will also compose original music for the upcoming production. Deadline reported that Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti have been tapped to appear in the new film,…
The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned Jussie Smollett’s conviction of charges that he perpetrated a hate-crime hoax against himself. The actor was convicted in December 2021 on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for the hoax, which occurred in 2019. Smollett had been sentenced to 150 days in a county jail and 30 months of…
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