“Yes, I’m working on a film with the great director James Gray (Ad Astra, The Yards) who `I think is one of the great living filmmakers. It’s a very personal intimate film about his childhood in Queens in the 1980s and a time in this child’s life when all of the kinds of formative things happen. It’s set against the backdrop of the election of Ronald Reagan and the whole thing is a prefiguration in a way of where we’re at in this moment and the sort of hellscape that we find ourselves in as a country....

“Babyteeth” delivers an auspicious debut for Murphy who shows a real gift for mood and visuals with an otherwise familiar story, on-paper at least. This high-wire act of movie, one filled with style and unusually eccentric behavior. The darkly comic film deals with Willa (Eliza Scanlen Beth of the recent “Little Women”) a 16-year-old girl with terminal cancer, who meets, at a Sydney subway station, 23-year-old junkie Moses (Toby Wallace)....

Led by a beautifully subtle performance from Barbara Colen, here is a film unafraid to please both arthouse and midnight crowds in equal measures. The result is confusing in tempo, but unique and compulsively watchable in a where-the-hell-will-it-take-me-next kind of nature. Set “a few years from now” in the imagined town of Bacurau, the first half hour or so of the film sets up a place so unknown that the locals can’t even seem to pinpoint it on a map when trying to teach local kids where they come from, the film starts off steeped in magical surrealism as Teresa (Bárbara Colen) comes back to Bacurau to mourn the death of her grandmother....

Virginie Efira stars as Benedetta Carlini, a nun experiencing both religious and erotic visions, before entering a fiery relationship with Daphne Patakia’s Bartolomea. Sounds Verhoeven-esque and a clearcut return to the period-piece erotica of his underseen 2007 gem “Black Book.” The film is now officially part of Cannes’ official competition with a trailer released this morning confirming that. “Benedetta” was supposed to premiere at the festival last May, but the pandemic canceled the event snd Verhoeven’s film decided to sit out the entire year just to get a chance at winning the Palme d’Or again this year....

Editor Joe Walker, speaking to Collider as to what he left in and took out, gave us more details about the process. He mentions that he was ordered not to cut any of Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ amazing shots. This does explain why the film’s running time was still 163 minutes, they wanted Deakins’ shots to linger and be absorbed, no complaints there, and to have, as Walker mentioned, more “experimental things” cut instead....

Here’s the conclusion of my review dated 1.29.19: “This is easily Chadha’s best movie since “Bend it Like Beckham,” taps into a similar rousing spirit and is destined to become a huge hit that crosses generational and cultural lines—not unlike the way Springsteen’s music lifted up a Pakistani teenager in the 1980s thousands of miles away in Great Britain. This is perhaps the true heartrending power of Chadha’s film, one that need not dwell too much about race and culture, because the uniting love of a soulful rock spiritually is universally uniting....

Sources are saying that “Borat 2” will have Cohen’s Kazakh character “thinking he’s a big movie star after the success of the original 2006 film made him famous, so he’s trying to hide from the public by pretending to be someone else, and starts meeting and interviewing people incognito.” I was already aware of a test screening that happened for “Borat 2” two weeks ago, which was conducted via zoom....

“Crip Camp” starts out as a movie about a Utopian place called Camp Jened, “a summer camp for the handicapped run by hippies” as “Crip Camp” co-director (and former Jened camper) James Lebrecht explains,”. The film switches gears in its latter half and becomes the chronicle of a national movement for disability rights, sparked by the young people from Jened. This includes the 28-day occupation of the Health, Education, and Welfare offices in San Francisco in 1977 by hundreds of protesters....

I personally couldn’t care less about what the 64-year-old actor did or has done publicly. All I know is that he still has the chops to lead a movie. Ever since attempting a comeback, after being caught on tape slurring anti-semitic and just plain racist remarks, Gibson has starred in three down-and-dirty, but immensely watchable, B-movies (“Get the Gringo,” “Blood Father” and, especially “Dragged Across Concrete.”) and three absolutely terrible stinkers (“Ther Expendables,” “Daddy’s Home,” “Force of Nature”)....

Meanwhile, we finally know who the DP of the film is. It’s none other than David Fincher regular Erik Messerschmidt. Maybe someone should ask him what’s going on with Fincher’s “The Killer.” Messerschmidt’s only current film credit has been his excellent work on “Mank,” before that he had photographed Fincher’s Netflix series “Mindhunter” and FX’s “Legion.” As mentioned, he has “The Killer” coming up next. Mann, who is turning 80 next year, hasn’t released a movie since 2015’s “Blackhat....

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Twenty years on from the original movie, Johnny Knoxville and his crew return for one last ride (for the OG’s anyway) of hilarity, torment, side-splitting laughter, and downright pain. No spoilers here, but the opening of this latest instalment is by far the best the team have ever come up with, revel in its depraved brilliance as it plays out on screen. The entire cast are in peak form. Chris Pontius and EhrenMcGhehey share the film’s most belly laughable moments, including arguably the most brutal sequel to the original “Cup Test” (prepare to wince), while every newcomer shoots for the stars and then some....

Internationally, the film has had a tremendous start, taking over $140M internationally, building its overall worldwide gross to $240M. It seems audiences have not gotten wrapped up in both the media discussions on the slightly polarising reviews of the film and have turned out in droves to see the latest take on the clown prince of Gotham. In second this week, and in its own second week is Universals family animation “Abominable....

Thomasin McKenzie plays an aspiring fashion designer who, through her dreams, mysteriously enters swinging 60’s London where she encounters aspiring singer Sandy (Anya Taylor-joy), but all is not as it appears. As she pursues fashion design at a prestigious Fashion school, identities start to morph, characters in her dreams start appear everywhere she goes. To reveal more would be a disservice to the twist-filled plot. It’s all slickly directed by Wright, with a colourfully exuberant visual style....

No, “Luca,” which is described to be “about an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera with the titular 13-year-old protagonist and his best friend, Alberto — a sea monster” will likely not end up in the Pixar time capsule. Expect scooter rides, swimming, pasta, and lots of Gelato in this one, but also luscious, almost handmade-looking, animation from the wizards at the toon company. Luca is being voiced by “Wonder” star Jacob Tremblay and Alberto by “Shazam’s” Jack Dylan Grazer....

There were various accusations that Kechiche was subjected to post-screening at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Specifically, an anonymous source telling the pages of French publication Midi Libre that the director purposely inebriated his actress Ophélie Bau in order for her to perform a non-simulated sex scene. There was also, supposedly, a very awkward photocall between actress and director during the premiere of the film at the Palais des Festivals....

Dealing with a Scottish woman (Swinton) traveling in South America who begins to notice strange thudding sounds in her head and wonders about their appearances, this was a film that either enveloped you into a hypnotic state or left you bored to tears. I dug it. Swinton’s character is visiting Columbia while her sister recovers at the hospital from an unknown infection. Her brother-in-law hooks her up with a sound engineer who tries to decipher, via a sound technology board, the precise sound that keep appearing in her head....

Supposedly, Beatty and the plaintiff, Kristina Charlotte Hirsch, had a romantic fling throughout most of 1973, when Beatty was 35. It eventually evolved into a sexual relationship by the end of that year. And so, 49 years later, with #MeToo encouraging past victims of abuse to come forward, Hirsch has decided that 2022 was the year to finally confront this sordid chapter in her life. Hirsch will fully take advantage of the California Child Victims Act, which allows survivors of any age to pursue justice, no matter how old they are, or when the abuse occurred, regardless of whether their abuser is alive or dead....

The mouse house had removed “Mulan” from the release schedule a couple of weeks ago, but Disney executive Bob Chapek announced that “Mulan” is arriving on Disney+ in many regions (including the US and Canada) on September 4. However, unlike the rest of the library, it will require an additional $29.99 fee to access the film. In countries where Disney+ isn’t available, the film will be available in theaters, whenever they may open....