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“Megalopolis” Video Review: Coppola’s Ambitious Modern Roman Epic is a Total Disaster

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 Queen of Villains’ Review: The Woman Behind the Mask…

@Courtesy of Netflix How far would you go in order to fulfill your lifelong dream? What would you be willing to sacrifice? And how much of yourself would you change? These are the main questions that develop the narrative arc of Dump Matsumoto, the charismatic main character of the Japanese Netflix series The Queen of…

Scorsese’s Biopics of Jesus & Frank Sinatra Postponed Indefinitely

©Courtesy of Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film projects, biopics of Jesus Christ and Frank Sinatra, are on the back burner. The 81-year-old director had planned to start shooting both of these films this year, but both have been indefinitely postponed. According to published reports in Variety, “Artisans…

Black Box Diaries – Trailer (MTV Documentary Films) : Directed by Shiori Ito

MTV Documentary Films is pleased to present the US theatrical premiere of Shiori Ito’s BLACK BOX DIARIES, opening on Friday, October 25 at New York’s Film Forum. A standout at the Sundance, SXSW, CPH:DOX (Human Rights Award) and DC/DOX film festivals, and winner of audience prizes at the Seattle, New Zealand and Sarajevo festivals, the…

Sleep : Exclusive Interview with Director Jason Yu 

©Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing  SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep, ominously stating, “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su transforms into someone else, with no recollection of what happened the night…

Transformers One : Press Conference With Actors Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry & Director Josh Cooley

TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. Director : Josh Cooley Producer : Lorenzo di Bonaventura Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian, Aaron De, Screenwriter : Eric Pearson, Andrew…

‘Hellbound’ Resurrects: Season 2 Teaser & Posters Revealed

Netflix has dropped a teaser and character posters for the second season of Korean Drama series, Hellbound.  The character posters heighten anticipation, each featuring a unique character with a hellbound executor looming behind them. The poster of lawyer Min Hyejin (Kim Hyun-joo) depicts determination for justice in her eyes, reading “Risky? Name one thing we’ve done that…

Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi To Star in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’

©Courtesy of Z for Zachariah  Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are reportedly poised to star in Emerald Fennell‘s upcoming new filmic adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic romance novel, Wuthering Heights. News of the casting was first reported by Justin Kroll in Deadline, who revealed that the movie will be financed by MRC and produced by…

TIFF Review: Chaos is Saturday Night’s Neighbor

Not even Lorne Michaels himself could describe what the show was about. The turmoil around the founder of Saturday Night Live, America’s longest running sketch variety show and one of the most famous institutions in the history of television, is the focus in Jason Reitman’s latest film Saturday Night (as the show used to be…

TIFF: Walking to Keep Going in ‘The Salt Path’

People walk long trails for a variety of reasons. In many cases, it’s to work through and get past something traumatic, extracting a person from a triggering environment to give them some time to heal. In others, however, it’s out of necessity since they simply have no place to live. The Salt Path tells the…

Pablo Larraín’s Biopic about Maria Callas To Debut on Netflix, December 11

©Courtesy of Netflix  Maria, Pablo Larraín’s biopic of opera singer Maria Callas, starring Angelina Jolie in the title role, will debut on Netflix on December11, two weeks after its release to select theaters. The film received an eight-minute standing ovation after its debut at the recent 81st Venice International Film Festival. According to the official…