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…
©The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel The legendary British actress Dame Maggie Smith died on September 27 at the age of 89 after a stage, screen, and television career that spanned three-quarters of a century.In recent years, Smith captivated a whole new generation of audiences with her roles as the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton…
Boong: Schoolboy Boong (Gugun Kipgen) doesn’t see long distances and state borders as significant obstacles. At least not when it comes to giving his mother, Mandakini (Bala Hijam), the best surprise gift ever: bringing back his father, Joykumar (Hamom Sadananda). After leaving their home city of Manipur, India for the border city of Moreh, near…
©Courtesy of Netflix His Three Daughters : From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter;…
(C)Music Research Club LLC Metrograph Pictures has acquired the North American rights to Happyend, Neo Sora‘s dystopian feature that premiered at the recent Venice Film Festival. The film is also slated to be screened soon at festivals in Toronto, Busan, and New York. Sora had previously directed Ryuichi Sakamoto/Opus, a film about his late father,…
©Paramount Pictures, Courtesy of Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Fincher is reportedly working on an English-language version of the Korean hit film Squid Game. Though Netflix has not yet officially announced the project, all indications are that the remake is definitely in the works for the streamer. According to Rodrigo Perez of The Playlist,…
@Courtesy of Warner Bros. On September 1st, 1999, I attended the press screening of the Venice Film Festival opening movie. The Artistic Director Alberto Barbera had selected one of the most anticipated movies of the year, Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I became a movie lover when I was…
@Courtesy of Apple Original Films Doug Liman must be a filmmaker with an iron will. Even though over the years he has clashed in one way or another with half of Hollywood Studios, reaping in some cases thunderous failures with audiences and critics, he continues undaunted to put forward his ironic, almost irreverent idea of…
Christine Vachon, a producer working on director Todd Haynes‘ untitled gay romance movie, has chinned in on the status of the feature. She shared on social media this weekend that the situation has been “a nightmare.” Her update comes after the drama’s lead actor, Joaquin Phoenix, abruptly left the production last week, according to The…
@Courtesy of Disney When at 9.30 on Friday, August 9th the Anaheim Convention Center opened its gates, thousands and thousands of Disney fans had already gathered outside of it, waiting to start this edition of the D23. At least four generations started filling the rooms where talking, panels, and events occurred. As always the enormous…
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