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Kline’s satirical jabs hit where they hurt. His film plays like a millennial “American Splendor,” only better. Shot in 2019, “Funny Pages” was sitting in post-production hell for the better part of three years until none other than the Safdies saved it and then A24 jumped onboard. It finally premiered at Cannes this past May. Interrogating his own privileged upbringing, Kline’s film is about a teenage boy (Daniel Zolghadri) who throws away the luxury of his upper-class life to try and live the grimy city life as a cartoonist....

Baig’s camera relates, in such intense ways, to Hala’s on-screen plights. Her sudden and out-of-the-blue romance with Jesse (Jack Kilmer) energizes her rebellious side even further, pushing away the restrictions which come with her religion, not to mention the arranged marriage dad has in mind for her. It doesn’t help that the disintegrating marriage of her own parents, threatened by dad’s infidelities with a white co-worker, only make Hala’s life even more complicated....

Steven Soderbergh, adaptating a screenplay written by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney (he wrote the source material for Moonlight) shot “High Flying Bird” with an iPhone and even photographed it as its cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews. This is Soderbergh’s second straight film shot on the apple device (after “Unsane”) and it looks great, but there’s a distancing and detached feeling that results in the editing room. The problem is that McCraney’s screenplay is rather unusually conversation-based, a talky delving into the sports business world which feels like it was written by a playwright, because it was....

Netflix is releasing “Homemade” next month. This anthology is a collection of short films from famous directors and actors, all shot during the pandemic. As seen in the trailer, despite the restrictions, creative freedom is still very much present in these short films, as the selected directors use figurines, zoom, and other such trickery to tell their stories. Among the filmmakers included in this anthology film are Paolo Sorrentino, Rachel Morrison, Ladj Ly, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio, Nadine Labaki Naomi Kawase, David Mackenzie, Ana Lily Amirpour....

Wang’s doc was made from an immeasurably well-informed point of view, Wang is a dual citizen of both the U.S. and China. Through her vast wealth of connections in the mainland, she paints a none-too-pleasant portrait of the CCP and its leader President Xi Jiping. She uses archival sound-bytes and clips from Chinese state media, hires local camera people to shoot secret footage in Wuhan hospitals and even manages to contact doctors from private clinics, including one near the seafood market identified as the possible point of origin for the virus....

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Kino Lorber will release “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in New York and Seattle on April 12. It is expected to expand to other major cities from there and all screenings will be presented in 3D. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

As seen in the trailer below, director George C. Wolfe’s film is about a young trumpet player (Boseman) who is trying to revolutionize the blues music of singer extraordinaire Ma Rainey (Viola Davis). And yet, should he be trusted? Is he in it for his own gain? Those are the questions being asked here. Despite the acting talent in front of the movie, Wolfe is a major question mark, he’s probably best known for “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” but, ok, fine, I’ll be frank, his filmography stinks....

“Native Son” premieres on HBO This Saturday, April 6th. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

This, his sixth feature as writer-director, is as coldly calculated as a Haneke, an assault on our psychological senses, with at least half a dozen moments that will make you jump out of your seat. The civil unrest tackled in the film feels pertinently relevant to today’s world — all this, despite it having been shot many months before the BLM protests/riots currently occurring nationwide. If anything, “New Order” can be seen as a depiction of what could happen if such a movement resulted in a attaining its ultimate goal: power....

One can understand why A24 would be frightened by “Pleasure,” it is an immensely graphic portrayal of the porn industry that is bound to cause controversy when it finally gets released on Friday. I had originally written that writer-director Thyberg’s film was “the most daring movie of Sundance 2021.” It’s an explicit, no-holds-barred portrayal of a Swedish girl’s move to California to achieve her dream of becoming a famous porn star....

The film marks the debut for Japanese-Australian director Natalie Erika James, who delivers slow-burn horror that refuses to devolve into cheap scares. Fine with me. The woodsy house outside Melbourne occupied by eighty-something Edna (Robyn Nevin) sets up a moody atmosphere, but is lacking in any kind of efficient storytelling to truly suck us into its ambiguous narrative. When her calls to mother Edna go unanswered, daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (the always-excellent Bella Heathcote) go to the matriarch’s isolated house only to find granny not there....

Ever since winning an Oscar statuette for her film debut “Dreamgirls,” Hudson has been stuck in a rut, having appeared in mostly inconsequential films including “Sandy Wexler,” and “The Three Stooges.” However, “Respect” has Hudson going back to her roots: song. The former American Idol contestant has one hell of a voice and it looks as though she will be actually singing the songs on “Respect” (unlike Rami Malek in “Bohemian Rhapsody”) with the filmmakers likely not to use Aretha’s dubbed voice....

Seimetz’s ex is Shane Carruth and you can see the influence of his brilliantly surreal style all over “She Dies Tomorrow,” which tackles our fear of mortality — how relevant considering it’s being released during a pandemic. Too bad the resulting film feels like a pretentious experimental student film rather than actual cinema. The film begins and ends with Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), a millennial plagued by unspoken anxiety, who believes that she is going to die the next day....

In “Boogie Nights,” PTA was inspired by the cinema of his mentor, Robert Altman, who passed away in 2006. He’s dabbled around with different influences since then; the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Max Ophuls and Jonathan Demme have all played a key role in shaping PTA’s post-Magnolia style of filmmaking. However, it’s Altman who has had the biggest impact. In fact, to receive insurance for the shoot of his final film, 2006’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” a dying Altman hired PTA as a “backup” director to observe filming at all times and be prepared to take over for the seriously ill Altman....

This drama concerns hardworking Ricky (well-cast Kris Hitchen), his wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), and their kids Seb (Rhys Stone), and Liza Jane (Katie Proctor). Their life is perfectly fine, and they all get along just cheerio, until Ricky’s friend persuades him to work as a van driver for a big delivery company. The end goal for both Ricky and Abbie is to stop renting and to buy a house. Given Loach’s penchant for dismissing capitalism with every movie of his, I think we know where this is going, right?...

Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy title: " Tenet Blu Ray Release Date Set For December 15 2020 World Of Reel" ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-27” author: “Helen Baker” I‘m not sure what the plan is when it comes to the future theatrical run of Nolan’s sci-fi mind-bender, It has yet to open in the two biggest movie markets in the U.S. (New York City and Los Angeles), but the fact of the matter is that NY and L....

Directed by Andrés Muschietti, “The Flash” was said to be one of the better-directed DCEU movies, and a recent 08.11.22 test screening of the film only enhanced Zaslav’s confidence in the finished product. I was told “The Flash” earned the highest test-score ratings in DCEU history. Our report has been emulated by Deadline who just wrote about the incredible reception for “The Flash. That’s why there will likely be no more delays in regards to the movie....

“The Last Planet” wrapped production in Rome back in mid-2019, and if it weren’t for the fact Malick is known for his lengthy post-production rituals, then you’d think something was very wrong with the film. Between 2015 and 2019, Malick had released 4 movies in 5 years (“Song to Song,” “Knight of Cups,” “Voyage of Time,” and “A Hidden Life.”) It seems as though Malick is just taking his sweet, sweet time with this one, trying to find the perfect mood and mold for his latest creation....

Holiday (passionately played by Andra Day) was a target of the Feds, brought up on drug charges and continuously stalked by establishment forces post-release. The vehement hatred directed towards Holiday had to do with her insistence to play the anti-lynching song, “Strange Fruit.” Garrett Hedlund plays Harry Anslinger, the racist chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics who made it his mission to put her behind bars for the song....