©Courtesy of Kadokawa Imagine a figure like Skeletor from Masters of the Universe, except he is a good guy. Perhaps “good guy” is too strong a term, but we can at least say he is complicated. Now imagine you are that character. This is the position Satoru Suzuki found himself in. He was the last…
Well-meaning protagonists contemplating their morality as they struggle with their complicity in sin is a powerful driving force in character-driven films. That’s certainly the case with recent Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy‘s latest drama, Small Things Like These. While set nearly 40 years ago, the movie thrives on its evocative, impressionistic heartbreaks that still find their…
@Courtesy of GFM Animation How can a little girl not love dogs? Even in Ireland, Mary O’Hara must surely have grown up with Snoopy and Clifford. Nonetheless, she inherited a fear of canines [perhaps unfairly] from her grandmother, Emer, along with her love of “cookery.” Both those inheritances skipped her mother Scarlett, who took on…
© Arenamedia As last words go, “the potatoes” are not as romantic as “rosebud.” Yet, for Grace Prudence Pudel, her elderly friend’s dying breath is just as cryptic and even more frustrating. Life threw a lot on Pudel’s shoulders, but crazy old “Pinky” might just have some parting wisdom to help her carry on in Adam…
@Courtesy of Miramax It is quite fair to write that Quentin Tarantino owns his astonishing career, or at least a good part of the way it was shaped, to…Clint Eastwood. The legendary actor and director who was designated President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, imposed in fact his will upon…
Thirty years ago, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks teamed with screenwriter Eric Roth and actress Robin Wright for Forrest Gump, which won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Hanks, as well as Oscars for editing and visual effects. Zemeckis’ latest film, Here, based on a graphic novel…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Critic : 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…
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…
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