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However, I can’t help but think that the Swedish auteur just isn’t able to stick the landing in his films. It happened before, in the mostly brilliant “Force Majeure” and “The Square” and it happens again here. 3/4 of this new film is absolutely brilliant. In “Triangle of Sadness,” Ostlund again tackles gender and socio-political games. Briefly, it’s about a group of a dozen or so millionaires who decide to spend their vacation on a cruise yacht....

Budgetary constraints don’t hold back the film’s sheer pleasures, it was made at a ridiculously slim cost ($3M). Whannell proves to be a minor visionary with big ideas. His warnings about tech and its dangers are alarmingly scathing. It’s no surprise then to find that this talented writer-director also penned the screenplays for both “Saw” and “Insidious,” horror films with a lot more on their minds than just laying down typical genre-exercises....

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“This was inevitable. “Captain Marvel” is having the sort of backlash from from fans across the internet that is very reminiscent of the 2016 all-female “Ghostbusters” reboot. It all seems to stem from not just the upcoming film, starring Brie Larson, as being the first Marvel movie with a female lead, but also due to the no-holds-barred, anything goes, interviews Larson has been giving to the media whilst promoting the film....

Clocking in at nearly three-hours, the extended version has a review courtesy of IndieWire’s David Ehrlich which he describes as mostly “new material sewn into pre-existing scenes” with the exception of two newly added sequences. Ehrlich goes on to add that in this new cut of the film “Christian is an even more pronounced asshole” and that there is more “fleshing out of the Hårga rituals, and the collectivist harmony....

“Aaron went for a screen test to be the next Bond in September and producers and Barbara loved him. He is now one of the front-runners.” Supposedly, there will be no “Jane Bond.” He will remain a male spy agent. I had my doubt about Daniel Craig, but he surprisingly delivered in two of the best movies of this five decade plus franchise: “Casino Royale” and “Skyfall.” I don’t ask much from this series but those two movies were aces....

The news that Apple has now secured acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón into an exclusive TV deal is mighty impressive. Yes, its a “TV deal” and, according to Variety, he’s not abandoning film anytime soon. This is just Cuaron following in the footsteps of some of his cinematic peers, which include David Lynch (“Twin Peaks: The Return”), Steven Spielberg (“Band of Brothers”), Martin Scorsese (“Boardwalk Empire”) and David Fincher (“Mindhunter”). TV is a hot commodity and Cuaron knows it....

For the 80 or so countries this year, the goal is simple; make it to the shortlist of 15 nominees; Easier said than done as the process, a complicated one involving voting percentages, sometimes spurs a number of snubs and surprises every given year. With that being said, these ten seem like the obvious: Lukas Dhont’s “Close” (Belgium)Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave” (South Korea)Alejandro Inarritu’s “Bardo” (Mexico)Carla Simon’s “Alcarras” (Spain)Cristi Mungiu’s “RMN” (Romania)Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” (Luxembourg)Ali Abassi’s “Holy Spider” (Denmark)S....

Quite a few developments today. Firstly, it now has a teaser trailer and, more peculiarly, it has a March 29th, 2024 release date attached to it. The only festival premiere it might be aiming for is maybe Berlin. Otherwise, it sounds like Warner Bros won’t be gunning for awards with this one. Which is perfectly fine. This is a highly anticipated film, Bong’s first one since his Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning “Parasite....

Viola Davis, Howard’s co-star in “The Help,” has admitted that she regrets taking the role in the film, but, now it’s Howard turn to be bashing her own film: “I’m so grateful for the exquisite friendships that came from that film (“The Help”) — our bond is something I treasure deeply and will last a lifetime,” she explained in a Facebook post. “This being said, ‘The Help’ is a fictional story told through the perspective of a white character and was created by predominantly white storytellers....

He ranks 50 films that, he believes, have the best shot at Best Picture, including the 10 that he sees as the most likely nominees. It’s all fun and games since it’s way too early to truly predict this kind of stuff, especially when 80% of the films on his list have yet to be seen. According to Clayton, Steven Spielberg’s “The Fablemans” will take the top honors next March at the Kodak theater: WINNER: “The Fabelmans” “Babylon,” “Bardo,” “Empire of Light,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Son,” “TÁR,” “Till,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Women Talking” Notice his placement of Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness....

Director Jason Reitman will direct and co-write the new Ghostbusters movie, which is said to be set in the original universe. The production is targeted to start this year with a planned Summer 2020 release date. Reitman had previously told Entertainment Weekly that the new movie will ignore the 2016 reboot directed by Paul Feig, and will be a direct continuation of the 1984 original. Reitman is the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the original movies....

Personally, I find it easy to separate the man from his music. How can you resist the Motown-era Jackson Five versions of “I Want You Back” and “ABC” or is fantastic, groundbreaking albums “Off the Wall” and “Thriller.” Listen, there have been countless racists and anti-Semites over the year in the arts; Virginia Woolf, Patricia Highsmith, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, H.P. Lovecraft, Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney (!!!) There have also been misogynists and alleged wife-murderers: William S....

Schrader’s upcoming crime thriller stars Joel Edgerton as the gardener of an American estate who is forced to confront his dark past. He panders to his employer, a wealthy widow (Sigourney Weaver). When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great niece, dark secrets from a buried violent past start to get unlocked.” Will “The Master Gardener” complete Schrader’s Bresson trilogy? Is it even a part of it?...

With most theaters closed, we had to settle with watching movies in the comfort of our own homes. Release dates for potential blockbusters such as “Dune,” and “West Side Story,” were pushed back to 2021, but in no way did that leave us with no movies. In all, I saw 120 new movies that year, an astounding number, all things considered, and although there was no “Uncut Gems,” “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” or “The Irishman,” the good stuff came in smaller packages, dished out via independent studios who, in the midst of endless lockdowns, managed to find a lifeline between audience and cinema....

The Tunisian-born filmmaker seemed to have regrets regarding “Mektoub, My love: Intermezzo” being shown at Cannes (when the film was “not finished, not mixed, not totally color-corrected”). Kechiche also revealed that if he knew at the time that the principal actors had boycotted the screening, he would not have screened it. Though he says that there exists a few cuts of the film, saying that he has no desire of ever showing them in his lifetime....

I will say this, “Bohemian Rhapsody” receiving a Best Motion Picture nomination (Drama) is a huge momentum swing for the Freddie Mercury biopic, which garnered mixed reviews and was the victim of a major backlash because of the film’s supposed de-queering of its subject. Another blatant omission is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association failing to nominate Pawel Pawlikowski‘s masterful “Cold War” for Best Foreign-Language Film? The fact that Bohemian Rhapsody — which features numerous musical moments — was submitted by 20th Century Fox as a drama and was actually nominated by the HFPA was a risk worth taking, it seems, for Fox....

Deadline is reporting that Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are attached to star in the upcoming Fox Searchlight film “Downhill,” which is an English-language remake of the Swedish film “Force Majeure.” The film is set to be directed by the duo of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (“The Descendants,” “The Way Way Back”) and scripted by “Four Lions” writer Jesse Armstrong. 2014’s “Force Majeure” dealt with the patriarchy, what a man’s worth is all about in a society that is slowly, but surely empowering women as equals, breadwinners if you will....

Where many animators might overtly simplify the visual elements of their animated movies, Miyazaki has always adhered to a painstakingly difficult process. The legendary Japanese director of such classics as “Spirited Away,” “Princess Mononoke,”and “My Neighbor Totoro” has always been suspicious of computers and personally draws his own frames by hand, which number in the thousands per film. As a result, Miyazaki’s films have always been richly conceived, with beautiful lavish colors and a masterful sense of detail rarely seen in western animation....