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If you’ve seen Denis Villeneuve’s films, a lot of the visual brilliance on-display has to do with the cinematography that Deakins brought to the table. They’ve already worked on three films together (“Blade Runner 2049,” “Prisoners” and “Sicario”) and those works were are almost as much a showcase for Deakins’ talents as they were for Villeneuve’s gift as a filmmaker. Villeneuve seemed to be giving carte blanche to Deakins with every movie, not a bad idea, with the two complementing each other to greater degrees....

The doc seems to be a mix of priceless archival footage of the tour, both on and off-stage, and features a candid Dylan interview, which is being touted as his first in over a decade. Scorsese is no stranger to the artist, he probably directed the greatest Dylan documentary ever put to film: “No Direction Home.” That film covered his rise in the Greenwich Village folk scene during the early ‘60s all the way to his infamous motorcycle accident in 1966 (which prompted him to become a recluse and not record music for a good 19 months, but, more, importantly, retiring from live perfvormance for a good 8 years)....

The film stars Kate Lyn Sheil who is joined in the cast by Jane Adams, Kentucker Audley, and Chris Messina. NEON acquired it immediately after it won raves at SXSW and are convinced they could pull off a theatrical release, set for July 31st. Regardless of it all, “She Dies Tomorrow” is also set to land on VOD on August 7. Here’s the official synopsis: After waking up convinced that she is going to die tomorrow, Amy’s carefully mended life begins to unravel....

A good chunk of Pixar and director Pete Docter’s “Soul” is set in the serene nirvana called The Great Before. The surreal nature of this afterworld, with its soft, glowing edges and inviting colors, is populated by Don Hertzfeldt-esque stick figures who go by the name of Counselors, omnipotent God-like beings reminiscent of Hertzfeldt’s minimalist style and the friendly UFO’s in Spielberg’s “Artificial Intelligence.” In this the 23rd feature-length endeavor for the toon wizards over at Pixar, Joe Gardener (Jamie Foxx), a failed jazz pianist, steps into a New York City pothole, and dies, just as he is about to finally get his big break, a chance to play in the ensemble of a famous saxophonist (Angela Bassett)....

After going for depth and gravity with his last two triumphs, “Only Lovers Left Alive” and “Paterson,” writer-director Jim Jarmusch stumbles with his latest, the slight zombie comedy, “The Dead Don’t Die.” This rural-America-set zombie statement has shades of George A Romero; hell, the Zombie godfather is even mentioned a few times in the script. The film also has Jarmusch’s usual dry, droll and deadpan-infused humor as an added bonus....

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The wait may finally be over as “Wendy” is being test-screened this coming week in the West Coast. Does this mean the film has been submitted to the fall festivals? I would think so. We are likely to catch Zeitlin’s film in the coming months. The most complete description of the plot actually comes from Zeitlin himself in 2015: “The new film is about a young girl who gets kidnapped onto a hidden ecosystem where a tribal war is raging over a form of pollen that breaks the relationship between aging and time,” Zeitlin said at the time....

READ MORE: Stan Lee’s Team Slams Bill Maher for ‘Disgusting’ Comments About Late Comic Creator Maher was a guest on Larry King Now and defended his comments: “I am agnostic on Stan Lee. I don’t read comic books. I didn’t even read them when I was a child,” the HBO host said. Maher told King in an interview that he didn’t even know people were mad about his comments because he “doesn’t follow every stupid thing people lose their shit about” on social media....

A teaser has been released for the upcoming film, which tells the story of a young man’s memorable summer in 1985. By the looks of it, the film is a sex-oriented coming-of-age film. That beautiful song you hear in the background is from Robert Smith and The Cure. Written and directed by Ozon, “Ete 85” stars Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and Melvil Poupaud. There is currently no release date, but expect one very soon as well as a European release date....

Franz Rogowski stars as Georg, a German in Paris, trying to escape the constraints of a totalitarian regime rounding out Jews, although the film only hints at that, and refugees without travel papers. “Why are you still here,” a man asks Georg, “Paris is being sealed off,” he replies. That’s the closest we get to the nitty gritty of the occupation. In Paris, Georg is asked to bring identity paper to a writer named Weidel....

We know NOTHING else about the title or plot of the project. We don’t even know the genre he will be tackling, especially since Nolan went out of his comfort zone with his last film, 2017’s ‘Dunkirk,” which earned $526.9 million worldwide, and received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Nolan’s first Best Director nod. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

With all that said, If the synopsis of “Yesterday” sounds like an absolute blast on-paper then, hate to say it, it doesn’t meet those expectations on-screen. By now you must have surely seen the ads; failing singer-songwriter Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) wakes up one morning, only to learn that The Beatles never existed and, more importantly, their rich catalogue of songs his for the taking. He ends up being heralded as the guy who wrote “Let it Be,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and other such classics....

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“We’re not officially editing right now,” said Reeves. “We’ve actually shot a quarter of the movie and I have been pouring through dailies, looking at takes, and what’s to come.” There is currently no restart date known at this time, I don’t think there can be, really, for any film in the industry, due to the pandemic. However, a report via Variety claims that “The Batman” likely won’t be able to make its June 2021 release date....

Gerwig’s film had been test-screened a few times the past couple of months. Reactions have been mostly positive. I’m not entirely sure why bypassing TIFF and Telluride would be a good thing for such an anticipated, supposedly, auteur-driven movie, but I’m not ready to theorize. Kohn and Thompson also mention “The Farewell” and “Midsommar” as the arthouse breakouts of the season. Has it been that lame-duck a summer? Yes, “The Farewell” is great, but “Midsommar” is a total polarizer....

The Blumhouse Productions head honcho was a guest of honor at the Israel Film Festival and tried to be political during his acceptance speech, he attempted to spread an anti-Trump message, and, let’s just say, it didn’t go according to plan. READ MORE: Jason Blum: ‘There Aren’t a Lot of Female Directors, Period.’ A video tweeted by THR, has Blum giving a speech about how President Trump has divided the country by attacking the press and encouraging racism....

It feels like just yesterday that Cena had criticized Johnson’s decision to go to acting as a “betrayal.” However, now that Cena has made a career acting in such films as “Blockers,” “Trainwreck,” “The Wall” and this weekend’s newly-released blockbuster “Bumblebee,” he now admits that he was wrong to criticize Johnson, “I’m sorry and I was wrong,” he said during an appearance on the Gorilla Position Podcast (via Screen Rant)....

Brody’s review of Auteur Krasinski’s film (“The Silently Regressive Politics of ‘A Quiet Place’”) accused it of being the whitest voice in film since the release of Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” which had been released just a year prior. “As horror films go, it’s the antithesis of ‘Get Out,’” Brody wrote, “inasmuch as its symbolic realm is both apparently unconscious and conspicuously regressive.” The review criticized “A Quiet Place” for its central narrative about a white family with guns protecting their home from “a bunch of big, dark, stealthy, predatory creatures....

“First Cow” is very much a Kelly Reichardt movie. That will be the deciding factor as to whether or not you want to give this movie a shot. Reichardt, Bless her maverick heart, is one of the great American filmmakers of the last ten years, what with a track record that speaks for itself (“Wendy and Lucy,” “Meek’s Cutoff,” “Certain Woman”) and a contemplative, minimalist and distinctive style that is meant to isolate mainstream audiences....