The film written and directed by Xaque Gruber is based on the true story of a 20-something aspiring artist dreaming of meeting his idol, actress Sally Kirkland. Sallywood takes an ingenious, ironic and authentic exploration into the world of the fleetingness of stardom. The American actress who starred in over 200 films, gained an Oscar nomination,…
© Amazon MGM Studios Life is simple for Kazuma Kiryu when he fights in yakuza-sponsored underground fights: keep punching until he is the last man standing. Everything else is much more complicated, because of his complex and sometimes contradictory loyalties to his yakuza clan, their broader criminal alliance, and his adopted family of orphans. Of course,…
©Blue fox Entertainment It’s no secret that some of the most awesome animated films on the planet have emerged from post-WWII Japan. While Kensuke’s Kingdom is not a Japanese production per se, it is based on a novel by a British-born author who includes the story of a soldier from Nagasaki in his engaging narrative….
@Courtesy of Cinetic Media Six years after What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? the Italian director Roberto Minervini is back behind the camera with a feature film set during the American Civil War. In 1862, a battalion of volunteers from the Union Army was sent to the uncharted lands of the West…
©Courtesy of Netflix The original Mobile Suit Gundam deserves a lot of credit for making “mecha” a thing. It was also notable at the time for featuring human beings as both the heroes and the bad guys, within a science fiction anime context. Naturally, most viewers identified with the Earth Federation Forces (EFF), since all…
Parker Finn’s high-concept horror film, Smile, was a huge global blockbuster back in 2022, grossing over $217 million worldwide, so it made sense that Paramount Pictures would want a sequel. Sure enough, Finn’s Smile 2 brings the smiling curse back but with a whole new cast and story. Naomi Scott (Aladdin) plays troubled pop star…
@Courtesy of A24 Five years after the forgettable The Goldfinch starring Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman, the Irish director John Crowley is back with a feature film that is definitely among his best, if not the best. We Live in Time tells the story of Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and Almut (Florence Pugh). While they are…
The Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, which explores the life of Elton John, has garnered even more admiration than the film he was presented with at NYFF. When you think about his vast life, it’s impossible to cover his entire music career in less than two hours and make every fan happy at the end,…
@Courtesy of Apple TV + Selected as Closing Film at the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival, the last movie directed by Steve McQueen tells the story of George, a young boy trying to go back to his mother Rita when London is under the bombs of Nazi aircraft. Born out of wedlock…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on 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…
In the opening scene of Mike Leigh’s Oscar nominated and Golden Palm winner Secrets & Lies (1996), Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s character sings at her adopted mother’s funeral on a lush cemetery. She then played the mild-mannered and soft-spoken optometrist with a contagious smile who searches for her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn). When she now revisits Mike…
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