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Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell May Star in Lead Roles in Danny Boyle’s Next Film ‘Ink’

©Courtesy of A24, The Britalist. Guy Pearce is in discussions to portray media mogul and NewsCorp founder, Rupert Murdoch in the upcoming film, Ink. Danny Boyle will direct the new feature for Studiocanal, Media Res and House Productions, Deadline is reporting. Besides the recent Oscar-nominated Pearce, English actor Jack O’Connell is also in negotiations to…

“Nobody 2” : Video Review by Matthew Schuchman

Check out more of Our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…

‘Lurker’ Review: The Movie by Alex Russell is an Intriguing Take on Manipulative Psychologies

@Courtesy of MUBI After participating as a writer to successful TV series like The Bear, Beef and Dave, Alex Russell has written and directed his first feature film setting it in the Los Angeles music world. Lurker tells the story of Matthew (Théodore Pellerin), an ordinary young man who works in a boutique where one…

Isla Johnston May Play Jehanne d’Arc in Baz Luhrmann’s Epic at Warner Bros

©Courtesy of “Life After Life” film. British actress Isla Johnston is in early discussions to play the title role in the epic film, Jehanne d’Arc. The performer is in talks with the historical biopic’s director, Baz Luhrmann, and studio, Warner Bros, Deadline is reporting. The frontrunner to play Joan of Arc in the upcoming movie…

The Glassworker : Exclusive Interview with Animator/Composer Usman Riaz

Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning…

FLC Announces NYFF63 Spotlight Selections

©Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center Film at Lincoln Center announces the 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF63) Spotlight lineup. A complement to the NYFF63 Main Slate, Spotlight showcases a selection of 12 significant and anticipated features, including three world premieres, two U.S. premieres, and six New York premieres, as well as nine short films shown in two programs. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership…

Plainclothes Trailer : Tom Blyth & Russell Tovey

©Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Magnolia Pictures has dropped a new trailer for the film, “Plainclothes” which shows Tom Blyth, and Russell Tovey have explosive chemistry that is bursting off the screen. Set in 1990s Syracuse and featuring breakout performances from stars Tom Blyth (“Hunger Games: The Ballad OF Songbirds & Snakes“) and Russell Tovey (“Looking“),…

After Five Years, Horror Is Back at Filmlinc with ‘Scary Movies XIII’!

Film At Lincoln Center (aka FilmLinc) has regularly been putting together series focusing on films from all parts of the world, but one of its great series that got waylaid by COVID was the annual look at horror and genre films. “Scary Movie” is back after five years away, and if you’re a horror buff,…

Mohammad Rasoulof, Exiled Iranian Filmmaker, Contemplates Returning Home to Make New Film

Mohammad Rasoulof, the dissident Iranian filmmaker who wrote and directed There Is No Evil and The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is considering returning to his homeland, which he fled last year to avoid an eight-year prison sentence. On Monday of this week, the City of Locarno presented him with the first Locarno City of…

NYFF63 Spotlight Gala Announced!

Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere. Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. Film at Lincoln Center announces the premiere of Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere“ as the Spotlight Gala selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival. At the premiere presentation on Sunday, September 28, Cooper and cast members Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, and Odessa Young will…

Writers Guild Expels Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar for Strikebreaking

© 2013 – Fox Searchlight The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has expelled two of its members, filmmaker Park Chan-wook and writer Don McKellar for violating its protocols during the writer’s strike in 2023. The WGA had already disciplined seven other writers for alleged violations, three of whom were unidentified until yesterday. Park Chan-wook and Don…