It’s no secret that Jake Gyllenhaal’s Oscar snub for his performance in 2014’s Nightcrawler was considered by many as an atrocious crime, but the fact that the actor has only received one nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2005’s Brokeback Mountain is even more appalling.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
No one, indeed, has any explanation for why the Oscars so actively avoids Gyllenhaal and his incredible body of works. He is one of the most prolific stars of this generation, yet he is still in the league of the most snubbed actors of all time.
Jake Gyllenhaal Starved Himself For Nightcrawler
The world of Nightcrawler is found in Los Angeles at night, where stringers go out to film accidents and crime scenes and sell them to the local news. Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Louis Bloom, becomes the symbol that draws the line between unethical journalism and consumer demand.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
No one, indeed, has any explanation for why the Oscars so actively avoids Gyllenhaal and his incredible body of works. He is one of the most prolific stars of this generation, yet he is still in the league of the most snubbed actors of all time.
Jake Gyllenhaal Starved Himself For Nightcrawler
The world of Nightcrawler is found in Los Angeles at night, where stringers go out to film accidents and crime scenes and sell them to the local news. Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Louis Bloom, becomes the symbol that draws the line between unethical journalism and consumer demand.
- 3/26/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Saudi director Ali Kalthami’s debut feature Night Courier (Mandoob) was a hot ticket at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah earlier this month and expectations are running high for its local release, which begins at midnight today.
As is often the case in Saudi Arabia right now, the Red Sea screening felt like history in the making as an intergenerational local crowd packed out the auditorium alongside international guests, lapping up the drama and deadpan humor.
The Riyadh-set social thriller stars popular Saudi actor Mohamad AlDokhei as a Fahad, a man in his late 30s, who turns to work as a night courier (mandoob) after he is sacked from his job at a call center.
When he stumbles on an illegal alcohol ring, he hatches a plan to boost his meagre earnings but then falls foul of the gang running the operation.
Fahad’s nocturnal deliveries take...
As is often the case in Saudi Arabia right now, the Red Sea screening felt like history in the making as an intergenerational local crowd packed out the auditorium alongside international guests, lapping up the drama and deadpan humor.
The Riyadh-set social thriller stars popular Saudi actor Mohamad AlDokhei as a Fahad, a man in his late 30s, who turns to work as a night courier (mandoob) after he is sacked from his job at a call center.
When he stumbles on an illegal alcohol ring, he hatches a plan to boost his meagre earnings but then falls foul of the gang running the operation.
Fahad’s nocturnal deliveries take...
- 12/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a notion in popular culture that all sociopaths are serial-killing outsiders, but research has shown that most of the empathy-impaired are actually quite capable of blending into civilized society, though they usually gravitate towards certain lines of work that afford them little accountability and plenty of power. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that this relatively rare genetic trait would have long since died out if this wasn’t the case.
And while there are a handful of stories that offer a more realistic take on sociopaths (with even American Psycho depicting Patrick Bateman as a high-ranking office worker and possible CEO), I’d argue that one of the greatest cinematic psychos isn’t even from a horror movie. Naturally, I’m referring to the protagonist of the 2014 thriller Nightcrawler, a mean bit of journalistic satire that explores just how capitalism can reward anti-social behaviour.
And while there are a handful of stories that offer a more realistic take on sociopaths (with even American Psycho depicting Patrick Bateman as a high-ranking office worker and possible CEO), I’d argue that one of the greatest cinematic psychos isn’t even from a horror movie. Naturally, I’m referring to the protagonist of the 2014 thriller Nightcrawler, a mean bit of journalistic satire that explores just how capitalism can reward anti-social behaviour.
- 11/13/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
In the decades since the release of Mary Harron's seminal horror-comedy "American Psycho," the film has been meme-ified to death. There's a page on Know Your Meme that breaks it down, tracking the way internet users have made gifs of Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) flexing in the mirror during sex, cracked jokes about his love of Huey Lewis and the News, and turned his axe-swinging violence into pithy reaction images about having a bad day at work.
Rewatching "American Psycho," it's easy to see why the film has resonated for so long: it's very good! Harron turned Bret Easton Ellis' horror novel into a biting satire of '80s yuppie culture, featuring a cracking performance from Bale that is downright zany at times. Crucially, its horror sequences are also very effective; Harron finds real tension in moments like the one involving Chloë Sevigny and a nail gun. The movie...
Rewatching "American Psycho," it's easy to see why the film has resonated for so long: it's very good! Harron turned Bret Easton Ellis' horror novel into a biting satire of '80s yuppie culture, featuring a cracking performance from Bale that is downright zany at times. Crucially, its horror sequences are also very effective; Harron finds real tension in moments like the one involving Chloë Sevigny and a nail gun. The movie...
- 11/12/2022
- by Eric Langberg
- Slash Film
In the past few decades, more and more films have moved away from the traditional hero trope where the good guy saves the damsel in distress from the evil villain toward “anti-hero” stories. An anti-hero is a protagonist whose personality and motivation don’t fit a typical “hero” stereotype and often delves into straight-up immorality. These films are compelling to watch, and we’ve collected our greatest anti-heroes of the 21st century.
Nightcrawler
Released in 2014, Nightcrawler follows the character of Louis Bloom (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), looking for work in LA. We see him struggle early on, doing anything he can to get by before he discovers the world of shock photojournalism — taking pictures/videos of violent or gruesome events.
As the film progresses, we see just how dark and psychopathic our protagonist is, as he goes to increasingly immoral lengths to get the best shots. The public reception for the film was fantastic,...
Nightcrawler
Released in 2014, Nightcrawler follows the character of Louis Bloom (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), looking for work in LA. We see him struggle early on, doing anything he can to get by before he discovers the world of shock photojournalism — taking pictures/videos of violent or gruesome events.
As the film progresses, we see just how dark and psychopathic our protagonist is, as he goes to increasingly immoral lengths to get the best shots. The public reception for the film was fantastic,...
- 7/15/2022
- by Michael Walsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Reflecting on his experience shooting Dan Gilroy’s 2014 neo-noir psychological thriller “Nightcrawler,” Jake Gyllenhaal admitted the experience was “hard to shake” given his devotion to the character of con man Louis Bloom.
A third installment into the (very unofficial) cinematic universe comprising unnerving movies led by Gyllenhaal — next to “Donnie Darko” and “Zodiac” — “Nightcrawler” follows Bloom, a troubled freelance video journalist who soon erases the line between impartial reporter and participant in his attempts to be the first to get the scoop on Los Angeles’ criminal underworld.
“There was sort of no escaping Louis Bloom in a lot of ways,” Gyllenhaal told Vanity Fair in a recent video interview breaking down his career. “I’d been searching for techniques. I spent a lot of time in the process of making films looking for how to act and how to do it and if there was one way.”
While the “Ambulance...
A third installment into the (very unofficial) cinematic universe comprising unnerving movies led by Gyllenhaal — next to “Donnie Darko” and “Zodiac” — “Nightcrawler” follows Bloom, a troubled freelance video journalist who soon erases the line between impartial reporter and participant in his attempts to be the first to get the scoop on Los Angeles’ criminal underworld.
“There was sort of no escaping Louis Bloom in a lot of ways,” Gyllenhaal told Vanity Fair in a recent video interview breaking down his career. “I’d been searching for techniques. I spent a lot of time in the process of making films looking for how to act and how to do it and if there was one way.”
While the “Ambulance...
- 4/10/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Nightcrawler is a fascinating experience. While sadly, it has nothing to do with X-Men whatsoever, the subject matter is what really pushes this character-driven story to be one of the top features in the last several years. This underrated feature is about Louis “Lou” Bloom, a Los Angeles citizen who isn’t exactly the best role model when it comes to the law. However, Lou stumbles upon a new career as a cameraman and becomes obsessed with finding shocking and grisly crimes all for the top dollar. “If it bleeds, it leads” is the moniker that Louis proudly abides by, but
Is Nightcrawler’s Louis Bloom A Terrible Character?...
Is Nightcrawler’s Louis Bloom A Terrible Character?...
- 4/6/2022
- by Jeffrey Bowie Jr.
- TVovermind.com
As spy films need gadgets and Swiss bank accounts, and Irish mob movies require bad Boston accents and crooked cops, the genre of films about freelance news videographers share a unifying concept: “If it bleeds, it leads.”
That was the finding of a federal judge Monday when he decided to throw out a four-year-old lawsuit brought against Universal, Bold Films, and Open Road Films, the producers and distributors of “Nightcrawler” starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It received an Oscar-nomination for its screenplay.
From the 1992’s “The Public Eye,” to 2014’s “Nightcrawler,” there’s a collection of movies focused on so-called stringers, the people paid to record late-night police chases, freeway wrecks, and fires for the gawking eyes of TV-news viewers the next morning — and the films, as a necessity, share certain un-copyrightable elements, a legal doctrine known as scènes à faire.
The suit was filed by Richard Dutcher, the director, writer, and...
That was the finding of a federal judge Monday when he decided to throw out a four-year-old lawsuit brought against Universal, Bold Films, and Open Road Films, the producers and distributors of “Nightcrawler” starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It received an Oscar-nomination for its screenplay.
From the 1992’s “The Public Eye,” to 2014’s “Nightcrawler,” there’s a collection of movies focused on so-called stringers, the people paid to record late-night police chases, freeway wrecks, and fires for the gawking eyes of TV-news viewers the next morning — and the films, as a necessity, share certain un-copyrightable elements, a legal doctrine known as scènes à faire.
The suit was filed by Richard Dutcher, the director, writer, and...
- 8/20/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Thompson on Hollywood
As spy films need gadgets and Swiss bank accounts, and Irish mob movies require bad Boston accents and crooked cops, the genre of films about freelance news videographers share a unifying concept: “If it bleeds, it leads.”
That was the finding of a federal judge Monday when he decided to throw out a four-year-old lawsuit brought against Universal, Bold Films, and Open Road Films, the producers and distributors of “Nightcrawler” starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It received an Oscar-nomination for its screenplay.
From the 1992’s “The Public Eye,” to 2014’s “Nightcrawler,” there’s a collection of movies focused on so-called stringers, the people paid to record late-night police chases, freeway wrecks, and fires for the gawking eyes of TV-news viewers the next morning — and the films, as a necessity, share certain un-copyrightable elements, a legal doctrine known as scènes à faire.
The suit was filed by Richard Dutcher, the director, writer, and...
That was the finding of a federal judge Monday when he decided to throw out a four-year-old lawsuit brought against Universal, Bold Films, and Open Road Films, the producers and distributors of “Nightcrawler” starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It received an Oscar-nomination for its screenplay.
From the 1992’s “The Public Eye,” to 2014’s “Nightcrawler,” there’s a collection of movies focused on so-called stringers, the people paid to record late-night police chases, freeway wrecks, and fires for the gawking eyes of TV-news viewers the next morning — and the films, as a necessity, share certain un-copyrightable elements, a legal doctrine known as scènes à faire.
The suit was filed by Richard Dutcher, the director, writer, and...
- 8/20/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
It’s a bit strange how playing such a despicable character can bring out the kind of acting talent that a person never knew they had in them to start with. A lot of us already knew, or could at least guess, that Jake Gyllenhaal was able to act and provide the kind of entertainment that we’ve come to expect from someone of his caliber, but his stint as Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler is simply stunning since not only is he one of the worst types of people, a person that has almost no moral compass, but he knows this and
Why Nightcrawler is By Far Jake Gyllenhaal’s Best Movie...
Why Nightcrawler is By Far Jake Gyllenhaal’s Best Movie...
- 7/1/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Louis Bloom will succeed Darcus Beese as president of Island Records U.K., parent company Universal Music Group announced Wednesday. Bloom, who has worked at Island for 16 years, most recently as head of A&R, takes over the role with immediate effect.
It was announced last week that Beese would move from the U.K. to New York to take over as president of Island Records in the U.S. from David Massey, who is moving to Sony Music. Beese, who had headed the U.K. operation for five years, officially takes on his new role July 1.
Bloom said he wants Island to be “the No. 1 label and home culture and creativity.”
While at Island, Bloom has signed major, multi-platinum-selling artists, including Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard and Hozier, as well as The Feeling, Goyte, and John Newman. Most recently he has signed Catfish and the Bottlemen (via Communion) and Jp Cooper.
It was announced last week that Beese would move from the U.K. to New York to take over as president of Island Records in the U.S. from David Massey, who is moving to Sony Music. Beese, who had headed the U.K. operation for five years, officially takes on his new role July 1.
Bloom said he wants Island to be “the No. 1 label and home culture and creativity.”
While at Island, Bloom has signed major, multi-platinum-selling artists, including Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard and Hozier, as well as The Feeling, Goyte, and John Newman. Most recently he has signed Catfish and the Bottlemen (via Communion) and Jp Cooper.
- 5/30/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Denzel Washington notches up another Oscar nomination for Roman J Israel Esq. Here's our review of the movie...
Denzel Washington is on fine form as the title character in Roman J. Israel Esq, the second feature by writer-director Dan Gilroy. Picking up his sixth Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his work, Washington is right at the centre of this legal drama about a tireless activist attorney who goes through his own moral Gift Of The Magi, discovering that he has inspired change at the precise moment that he sells out his own values.
For the past 36 years, Roman has worked at a small defence firm, covering the invaluable backroom work while his respected senior partner, William H. Jackson faces judges and represents clients. When William has a serious heart attack, his firm is dissolved and Roman is offered work by a much larger firm run by his partner's former student,...
Denzel Washington is on fine form as the title character in Roman J. Israel Esq, the second feature by writer-director Dan Gilroy. Picking up his sixth Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his work, Washington is right at the centre of this legal drama about a tireless activist attorney who goes through his own moral Gift Of The Magi, discovering that he has inspired change at the precise moment that he sells out his own values.
For the past 36 years, Roman has worked at a small defence firm, covering the invaluable backroom work while his respected senior partner, William H. Jackson faces judges and represents clients. When William has a serious heart attack, his firm is dissolved and Roman is offered work by a much larger firm run by his partner's former student,...
- 2/6/2018
- Den of Geek
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