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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel 4 : Eddie Murphy Conjures Up the Ridiculous in the Midst of Mayhem

©Courtesy of Netflix  After forty years, Eddie Murphy is still going strong as Axel Foley, the comic cop who traded the mean streets of Detroit for the meaner but greener streets of Beverly Hills. Murphy was an aspiring 22-year-old when he appeared in the original Beverly Hills Cop movie in 1984, which grossed more than…

‘Songs of Earth,’ A Nemophilist Vision About Our Bond With Nature

Filmmaker Margreth Olin has brought to life Songs of Earth, about the landscape of her home, Oldedalen, nestled in the river valley in Western Norway. The film’s executive producers are Liv Ullmann and Wim Wenders, who have often expressed their nemophilism and have now helped this lyrical homage to Mother Nature take flight. Songs of Earth is not…

Searching for Sustenance in A Quiet Place: Day One

Photo by Gareth Gatrell/Gareth Gatrell – © 2023 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. In many ways, audiences were not ready for the success of A Quiet Place. Seemingly coming from out of nowhere from an unexpected source in John Krasinski, a new franchise was born almost instantly. Krasinski returned to bring the sequel to life, but…

Horizon: An American Saga -Chapter 1 : Back to the Foundation of Western

@Courtesy of Warner Brothers In order to fully enjoy the new western by Kevin Costner you need to be aware that it is a 3-hour set-up to what is meant to be a four-part Odyssey. He shot the first two and is planning to realize the last ones very soon, especially if the box office…

Kinds of Kindness Video Review by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Critic : Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has…

The Imaginary : A Former Ghibli Animator Yoshiyuki Momose Celebrates the Power of Imagination

@Courtesy of Studio Ponoc/Netlfix Japanese anime filmmakers have a bizarrely fantastic track record translating British young adult fantasies for the big screen. Studio Ghibli notably adapted Mary Norton’s The Borrowers (as The Secret World of Arrietty), Joan G. Robinson’s When Marnie Was There, and Diana Wynn Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle (loosely, but it still counts),…

Bringing the Manic Pixie Male Best Friend to Life in Sacramento

Friendship, adulthood, anxiety, parenthood, relationships, death…Michael Angarano covers it all and more in Sacramento. Co-written by, starring, and directed by Angarano, this new film which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival found ways to tell a familiar story through a new light. Along with Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, and Maya Erskine, Sacramento treats its…

Tribeca, ‘Hunters on a White Field’ and the Dark Side of Swedish Masculinity

The first-time screenwriter and director Sarah Gyllenstierna with her debut thriller set in the Swedish woods shows a knowledge of men’s psychology way deeper than many of her male colleagues. Focusing on the atmosphere and genre aspect of the movie, she is capable of depicting a universe where all the dark sides and ancestral fears…

Tribeca: ‘Griffin in Summer’ is a Way Too Classic Coming-of-Age Story

@Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Winner of Best Movie and Best Screenplay in the U.S. Narrative Feature section at the Tribeca Film Festival, Griffin in Summer by the first-time director Nicholas Colia is a classic coming-of-age story. It’s way too classic. Set in the nice, clean, suburban small town that has no real name (let…

Tribeca Festival / The Freshly Cut Grass Review: Subtle and Skillful on Infidelity in Argentina

It’s in the common things we come across daily that life happens, not among the grand gestures, the dramatic moments, decisive turning points or splendid vacations. Although many yearn for the smell of freshly cut grass on the other side of the fence – if only a small or big change takes place, life would…

Federer: Twelve Final Days / It Hits All the Right Nostalgic Notes and a Very Effective “Commercial” for Professional Tennis

Even if you won fifteen Grand Slam tournaments and spent a record 237-straight weeks as the #1 ranked player on the ATP tour, knee injuries are a tricky business to bounce back from. Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer always assumed any surgery would spell the beginning of the end of his career—and he ruefully admits…