In 2018, Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding starred in Paul Feig’s adaptation of Darcey Bell’s 2017 bestseller, A Simple Favor, which told the story of an unlikely suburban friendship between a single mommy blogger, Kendrick’s Stephanie Smothers, and her glamorous and enigmatic neighbor, Emily Nelson, played by Lively, who vanishes suddenly, leading to…
©Courtesy of Sony Music 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 his fascination into…
©Courtesy of Netflix It released in 1975, the year after “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3“, but it directly inspired Jan de Bont’s Speed (with Kanu Reeves, of course). Now, the Japanese transit disaster-thriller “Bullet Train“ has been remade, but in a way that clearly pays tribute to the original. Once again, there is a bomb…
@Courtesy of A24 Successfully presented at the last Sundance Film Festival, Isaiah Saxon‘s directorial debut proved to be a rather complex and mysterious mystery “object” to analyze, a feature film that is both well-defined and elusive, a contradiction in terms that even a few days after viewing it remains honestly difficult to resolve. The best…
Photo: Kat duPont Vecchio From time immemorial, the planet Mars has loomed large in the collective imagination of humankind. One of our closest celestial neighbors, the so-called “red planet” has often been seen as a threat, as witnessed by the panic generated by Orson Welles’s famous radio dramatization of H G Wells’s The War of…
©Courtesy of A24 There’s something very relatable human about the way adults mask their feelings, instead of finding a community in which they can freely express themselves. Writer-director Andrew DeYoung‘s feature film debut, Friendship, explores what happens when a middle-age man has kept his emotions hidden for so long that he no longer knows how…
High-stakes heists are often the most exhilarating driving force behind compelling crime thrillers. But filmmaker Andrew Patterson is proving that the genre can also thrive on the nostalgia that makes a community feel like home for its residents, who can overcome any conflict with the support of their loved ones. In his new movie, The…
©Courtesy of Warner Bros. 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,…
©Courtesy of Lionsgate No actor has mastered crafting his characters’ descent into mental and physical disarray quite like Nicolas Cage. He has seen a bit of a resurgence in choosing realistic, but at times unhinged, acclaimed roles during the first half of the current decade. His latest film, the psychological thriller The Surfer, proves to…
@Courtesy of Universal Pictures It is honestly a relief for our cinephile soul to see a movie that uses suspense as the primary means to create entertainment. In contemporary Hollywood, like many other genres, thrillers have unfortunately become more a matter of action, marvelous special effects, raging editing and so on, than creating the tense…
The documentary Aum: The Cult At The End Of The World, marks the directorial debuts of Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto. The film is based on the book The Cult at the End of the World by investigative reporter David E. Kaplan and journalist Andrew Marshall. The picture, that had its world premiere at the…
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