Clockwise from left: The Big Lebowski (Working Title Films/Gramercy Pictures), Barber (Fubar Films), Stars At Noon (Canal+)Image: The A.V. Club
For the first full month of spring, Hulu adds some fan-favorite films as well as some recent indie movies before the summer movie season begins and we turn our attention to big-budget blockbusters.
For the first full month of spring, Hulu adds some fan-favorite films as well as some recent indie movies before the summer movie season begins and we turn our attention to big-budget blockbusters.
- 4/2/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
(Clockwise from top left:) How To Train Your Dragon (Universal Entertainment), The Handmaiden (Magnolia), The Big Sick (Nicole Rivelli), The Silence Of The Lambs (Amazon Prime Video screenshot), Licorice Pizza (MGM)Graphic: The A.V. Club
Amazon Prime Video has a wide selection of terrific films, from classic dramas and comedies...
Amazon Prime Video has a wide selection of terrific films, from classic dramas and comedies...
- 3/23/2024
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: Mission Impossible (screenshot), The Godfather (Paramount/Getty Images), Hey Arnold! The Movie (Nickelodeon), Orphan: First Kill (Warner Bros.), To Catch A Thief (screenshot), The Ring (screenshot)Graphic: The A.V. Club
If Paramount+ isn’t your go-to choice yet when you’re in a movie-watching mood, you might want to reconsider.
If Paramount+ isn’t your go-to choice yet when you’re in a movie-watching mood, you might want to reconsider.
- 1/27/2024
- by AVClub Staff
- avclub.com
If you caught up with "M*A*S*H" sometime after the beloved wartime sitcom ended its much-lauded original run, you'd be forgiven for having no clue about the series' spinoffs. After all, 50 years after it first aired, "M*A*S*H" remains a major pillar of TV history -- for its rollicking anti-authority spirit and bleeding heart attitude, its genre-blending and experimental episodes, and its record-breaking finale telecast, which is still by some measures the most-watched in the history of television. "AfterMASH," though? Well, not so much.
It's a testament to the flagship series' strengths that decades after it ended, its bizarre and short-lived spinoffs haven't tainted its reputation at all. In fact, they've mostly been forgotten, in part because they're unavailable on streaming and tough to find on home video. Three "M*A*S*H" spinoffs were made in hopes of capitalizing on some of the original series' magic, but only one -- the...
It's a testament to the flagship series' strengths that decades after it ended, its bizarre and short-lived spinoffs haven't tainted its reputation at all. In fact, they've mostly been forgotten, in part because they're unavailable on streaming and tough to find on home video. Three "M*A*S*H" spinoffs were made in hopes of capitalizing on some of the original series' magic, but only one -- the...
- 10/16/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted entries on three of the films on the Asian Cinema 100 list: Lee Chang-dong's Poetry, Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us and Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day. Also in today's roundup: A guide to Alfred Hitchcock's "visual proclivities," two interviews with John Carpenter and one with Sion Sono, Charles Mudede on why Alien is not a horror movie, Mike D'Angelo on what makes It Follows an instant classic of the genre and news of projects in the works: Jennifer Jason Leigh joins Twin Peaks, Adrian Lyne returns to direct Nicole Kidman—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/30/2015
- Keyframe
Jonathan Rosenbaum's posted entries on three of the films on the Asian Cinema 100 list: Lee Chang-dong's Poetry, Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us and Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day. Also in today's roundup: A guide to Alfred Hitchcock's "visual proclivities," two interviews with John Carpenter and one with Sion Sono, Charles Mudede on why Alien is not a horror movie, Mike D'Angelo on what makes It Follows an instant classic of the genre and news of projects in the works: Jennifer Jason Leigh joins Twin Peaks, Adrian Lyne returns to direct Nicole Kidman—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/30/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
On the 25th anniversary of Whit Stillman's feature debut, Rialto Pictures is sending Metropolitan, featuring Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Carolyn Farina and Elizabeth Thompson, out on limited runs in New York, Los Angeles and Maryland. "Few will identify with the ludicrously wealthy characters, who speak in perpetual bon mots and are virtually never seen in anything but formalwear," grants Mike D'Angelo at the Av Club, "but their stubborn refusal to evolve with the culture—forever sounding as if they’re in one of the Jane Austen novels they so earnestly discuss—is part of their charm." We've got the new trailer and we're collecting more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
On the 25th anniversary of Whit Stillman's feature debut, Rialto Pictures is sending Metropolitan, featuring Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Carolyn Farina and Elizabeth Thompson, out on limited runs in New York, Los Angeles and Maryland. "Few will identify with the ludicrously wealthy characters, who speak in perpetual bon mots and are virtually never seen in anything but formalwear," grants Mike D'Angelo at the Av Club, "but their stubborn refusal to evolve with the culture—forever sounding as if they’re in one of the Jane Austen novels they so earnestly discuss—is part of their charm." We've got the new trailer and we're collecting more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/6/2015
- Keyframe
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above: Jim Jarmusch photographed by Wim Wenders.The lineup for the 2015 Locarno Film Festival has been revealed, and includes new films by Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, Chantal Akerman, Athina Rachel Tsangari.A sad ending to an ambitious enterprise: The online, Us-based film publication The Dissolve has had to fold after only two years. Best of luck to their talented staff of editors and writings.Some good news from the online-film-criticism scene: the Norweigan film magazine Montages has launched its English-language international edition.!Portuguese great Manoel de Oliveira passed away last April at the age of 106. The documentary short Um Século de Energia, above, seems to be his final film.Critic Mike D'Angelo, a contributor to The Dissolve among many other publications, has written in defense of the "first-person review."If you were annoyed,...
- 7/15/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In today's roundup of news and views: Charles Mudede on John Sayles's The Brother from Another Planet, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn's list of top ten Criterion releases, Terrence Rafferty on Bernhard Wicki’s The Bridge, Mike D'Angelo on John Ford and Native Americans, Philippa Snow on Ana Lily Armirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, Patrick Wang on Lisa Joyce's performance in Jonathan Demme's A Master Builder, Kevin Hatch on Bruce Conner, Ryan Gilbey on Wim Wenders, interviews with Jia Zhangke, Hannah Gross and Deragh Campbell—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/29/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Charles Mudede on John Sayles's The Brother from Another Planet, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn's list of top ten Criterion releases, Terrence Rafferty on Bernhard Wicki’s The Bridge, Mike D'Angelo on John Ford and Native Americans, Philippa Snow on Ana Lily Armirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, Patrick Wang on Lisa Joyce's performance in Jonathan Demme's A Master Builder, Kevin Hatch on Bruce Conner, Ryan Gilbey on Wim Wenders, interviews with Jia Zhangke, Hannah Gross and Deragh Campbell—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/29/2015
- Keyframe
"In Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon "plays Thierry, an unemployed husband and father struggling to find a new career after being laid off from his longtime factory job," writes Mike D'Angelo, dispatching to the Dissolve. And he's not the only one to note that La loi du marché, literally, The Law of the Market, could well serve as a companion piece to Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night. "Brizé (Mademoiselle Chambon) spends the first half of the film detailing just how screwed Thierry is, with each scene constituting a protracted argument that goes in maddening circles. Then, abruptly, in a single nondescript cut, Thierry has a job, working as a security guard for a huge department store." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 5/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"In Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon "plays Thierry, an unemployed husband and father struggling to find a new career after being laid off from his longtime factory job," writes Mike D'Angelo, dispatching to the Dissolve. And he's not the only one to note that La loi du marché, literally, The Law of the Market, could well serve as a companion piece to Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night. "Brizé (Mademoiselle Chambon) spends the first half of the film detailing just how screwed Thierry is, with each scene constituting a protracted argument that goes in maddening circles. Then, abruptly, in a single nondescript cut, Thierry has a job, working as a security guard for a huge department store." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 5/19/2015
- Keyframe
In the 1990s, novelist and political activist Nadja Tesich looked back on her days in Paris, specifically the day in the mid-1960s when Eric Rohmer asked her to work with him on Nadja à Paris. Meantime, at the Av Club, Mike D'Angelo picks a scene from Love in the Afternoon, a montage featuring actresses Rohmer had worked with: Françoise Fabian, Béatrice Romand, Marie-Christine Barrault, Haydée Politoff, Laurence De Monaghan and Aurora Cornu. And for Artinfo, Craig Hubert talks with Corina Copp about her first book, titled after and inspired by Rohmer's 1986 film, The Green Ray. » - David Hudson...
- 5/4/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In the 1990s, novelist and political activist Nadja Tesich looked back on her days in Paris, specifically the day in the mid-1960s when Eric Rohmer asked her to work with him on Nadja à Paris. Meantime, at the Av Club, Mike D'Angelo picks a scene from Love in the Afternoon, a montage featuring actresses Rohmer had worked with: Françoise Fabian, Béatrice Romand, Marie-Christine Barrault, Haydée Politoff, Laurence De Monaghan and Aurora Cornu. And for Artinfo, Craig Hubert talks with Corina Copp about her first book, titled after and inspired by Rohmer's 1986 film, The Green Ray. » - David Hudson...
- 5/4/2015
- Keyframe
"Tsai Ming-Liang is one of the few uncontestable giants of what was once quaintly called 'art house' cinema still working at peak power," begins Nick Pinkerton, writing for the L. The occasion is the retrospective opening tomorrow at the Museum of the Moving Image and running through April 26. Also tomorrow, a new restoration of Tsai's debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God (1992), sees its first theatrical release in the Us at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At the Av Club, Mike D'Angelo notes that "almost every preoccupation that will dominate subsequent films like The River, What Time Is It There?, and last year’s Stray Dogs appears here in embryonic form." » - David Hudson...
- 4/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Tsai Ming-Liang is one of the few uncontestable giants of what was once quaintly called 'art house' cinema still working at peak power," begins Nick Pinkerton, writing for the L. The occasion is the retrospective opening tomorrow at the Museum of the Moving Image and running through April 26. Also tomorrow, a new restoration of Tsai's debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God (1992), sees its first theatrical release in the Us at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At the Av Club, Mike D'Angelo notes that "almost every preoccupation that will dominate subsequent films like The River, What Time Is It There?, and last year’s Stray Dogs appears here in embryonic form." » - David Hudson...
- 4/9/2015
- Keyframe
Mike D'Angelo's informal poll of critics, the Skandies, has begun its countdown with #20 (Whiplash). The Dissolve has posted an annotated list of the best films of the past five years, noting that "Boyhood won this poll by a healthy margin." Atom Egoyan's listed his top ten Criterion releases. #1: David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977). In France, Timbuktu has scored at the Lumières and with the French Union of Critics. Lars von Trier has made his first appearance ever at a national film awards presentation in Copenhagen to collect a slew of awards for Nymphomaniac. And we've got more awards news as well. » - David Hudson...
- 2/4/2015
- Keyframe
Mike D'Angelo's informal poll of critics, the Skandies, has begun its countdown with #20 (Whiplash). The Dissolve has posted an annotated list of the best films of the past five years, noting that "Boyhood won this poll by a healthy margin." Atom Egoyan's listed his top ten Criterion releases. #1: David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977). In France, Timbuktu has scored at the Lumières and with the French Union of Critics. Lars von Trier has made his first appearance ever at a national film awards presentation in Copenhagen to collect a slew of awards for Nymphomaniac. And we've got more awards news as well. » - David Hudson...
- 2/4/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Screen Actors Guild handed out the 21st annual SAG Awards Sunday night live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Here is a rundown of all the nominees and winners as they are announced. And be sure to re-live our live blog of the show here! Theatrical Motion Pictures Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Steve Carell / John du Pont – "Foxcatcher" (Sony Pictures Classics) Benedict Cumberbatch / Alan Turing – "The Imitation Game" (The Weinstein Company) Jake Gyllenhaal / Louis Bloom – "Nightcrawler" (Open Road Films) Michael Keaton / Riggan – "Birdman" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) **Eddie Redmayne / Stephen Hawking – "The Theory Of Everything" (Focus Features)** - Winner Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jennifer Aniston / Claire Bennett – "Cake" (Cinelou Films) Felicity Jones / Jane Hawking – "The Theory Of Everything" (Focus Features) **Julianne Moore / Alice Howland-Jones – "Still Alice" (Sony Pictures Classics)** - Winner Rosamund Pike / Amy Dunne – "Gone Girl...
- 1/26/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
With Z for Zachariah, Craig Zobel (Compliance) turns Robert C. O’Brien’s 1973 novel into "a love triangle that lacks a right angle," as David Ehrlich puts it in Little White Lies. Most critics agree that, despite strong performances from Margot Robbie, "confirming the promise of her scene-stealing performance in The Wolf of Wall Street," Chiwetel Ejiofor, "brilliant as ever," and Chris Pine, "This is," as Mike D'Angelo writes at the Dissolve, "just about the least interesting way to explore the end of the world, which is presumably why O’Brien eschewed it." We're collecting more reviews, a video interview with Zobel and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 1/25/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
With Z for Zachariah, Craig Zobel (Compliance) turns Robert C. O’Brien’s 1973 novel into "a love triangle that lacks a right angle," as David Ehrlich puts it in Little White Lies. Most critics agree that, despite strong performances from Margot Robbie, "confirming the promise of her scene-stealing performance in The Wolf of Wall Street," Chiwetel Ejiofor, "brilliant as ever," and Chris Pine, "This is," as Mike D'Angelo writes at the Dissolve, "just about the least interesting way to explore the end of the world, which is presumably why O’Brien eschewed it." We're collecting more reviews, a video interview with Zobel and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 1/25/2015
- Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Jean-Luc Godard, Rossana Rossanda on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Alain Resnais, J. Hoberman on Jacques Tati and Stanley Kubrick, Peter Bogdanovich on Vincent Minnelli, Isla Leaver-Yap on Stan Brakhage, Alexandre Rockwell on John Cassavetes, Christoph Huber on Jean Rollin, Kiva Reardon on Denis Côté, Michael Guarneri on Lav Diaz, Mike D'Angelo on Les Blank, Patton Oswalt on Jerry Lewis, Grantland on Paul Thomas Anderson, Lankester Merrin on Paul Schrader, Nigel Andrews on Hayao Miyazaki, Carson Lund on Walerian Borowczyk, Budd Wilkins on Alain Robbe-Grillet and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/29/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Jean-Luc Godard, Rossana Rossanda on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Alain Resnais, J. Hoberman on Jacques Tati and Stanley Kubrick, Peter Bogdanovich on Vincent Minnelli, Isla Leaver-Yap on Stan Brakhage, Alexandre Rockwell on John Cassavetes, Christoph Huber on Jean Rollin, Kiva Reardon on Denis Côté, Michael Guarneri on Lav Diaz, Mike D'Angelo on Les Blank, Patton Oswalt on Jerry Lewis, Grantland on Paul Thomas Anderson, Lankester Merrin on Paul Schrader, Nigel Andrews on Hayao Miyazaki, Carson Lund on Walerian Borowczyk, Budd Wilkins on Alain Robbe-Grillet and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/29/2014
- Keyframe
As some of you may know, I'm a bit of a jack(ass) of all trades. I follow the film industry for Lr, and critique films. But I'm also an actor, I front a rock band, I'm a DJ, film editor, and director as well. Basically, when it comes to entertainment, there's nothing I don't do. For some time now, I've been mulling over bringing some of my other interests to Lr, and I'll be starting with the SAG Awards. How? Well, I've been a member of SAG for 6 years now and I also am part of the voting process. That means every year I am sent screeners of all the films being considered for awards.
Here's where a new running feature comes into play:
As I start receiving these screeners, I will write special reviews for each one and publish them here. Then, as we near the voting deadline,...
Here's where a new running feature comes into play:
As I start receiving these screeners, I will write special reviews for each one and publish them here. Then, as we near the voting deadline,...
- 12/10/2014
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
The Screen Actors Guild announced this year's nominees for the 2014 SAG Awards. The winners will be announced during a live telecast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 25. The nominees are as follows... Theatrical Motion Pictures Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Steve Carell / John du Pont – "Foxcatcher" (Sony Pictures Classics) Benedict Cumberbatch / Alan Turing – "The Imitation Game" (The Weinstein Company) Jake Gyllenhaal / Louis Bloom – "Nightcrawler" (Open Road Films) Michael Keaton / Riggan – "Birdman" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Eddie Redmayne / Stephen Hawking – "The Theory Of Everything" (Focus Features) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jennifer Aniston / Claire Bennett – "Cake" (Cinelou Films) Felicity Jones / Jane Hawking – "The Theory Of Everything" (Focus Features) Julianne Moore / Alice Howland-Jones – "Still Alice" (Sony Pictures Classics) Rosamund Pike / Amy Dunne – "Gone Girl" (20th Century Fox) Reese Witherspoon / Cheryl Strayed – "Wild" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in...
- 12/10/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
In today's roundup of news and views: Tom Paulus on Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, the new issue of The Seventh Art, featuring video interviews with Joe Berlinger, Atom Egoyan, Ruben Östlund and Evan Calder Williams, Don Hertzfeldt's top ten Criterions, Film International's issue on independent Iranian cinema, Alexandre Aja on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Neil Marshall on Ridley Scott's Alien, Mike D'Angelo on John Carpenter's Halloween, Julien Allen on Mario Bava's Black Sunday, Michael Koresky on Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/31/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Tom Paulus on Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, the new issue of The Seventh Art, featuring video interviews with Joe Berlinger, Atom Egoyan, Ruben Östlund and Evan Calder Williams, Don Hertzfeldt's top ten Criterions, Film International's issue on independent Iranian cinema, Alexandre Aja on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Neil Marshall on Ridley Scott's Alien, Mike D'Angelo on John Carpenter's Halloween, Julien Allen on Mario Bava's Black Sunday, Michael Koresky on Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/31/2014
- Keyframe
One of the things I like to do every year for Halloween is re-watch "The Blair Witch Project." 15 Years after it stormed Sundance, made crazy worldwide money and changed online movie marketing, the fact is, it's still simply one of the most agonizingly scary movies ever made. Horror was never the same again. The film's final image is an ultimate movie moment you never forget. And, in a feat of extraordinary method acting, Heather Donahue's infamous panic-stricken, on-camera snot-drippage rivals even Viola Davis, patron saint of nasal drippage. The folks over at The Dissolve seem to think so too, as they've given Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's fake-umentary extra attention this week. It landed high on their list of the 30 Best American Indie Horror Movies, and film writer Mike D'Angelo an essay about the hype and hate for this cult horror classic about three film students who, while chasing a legend,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
"Boardwalk Empire" has come to an end. As I've done after each previous season — and as I also did at the start of this final one, just because of the big time jump and the decision to end the show — I spoke with the show's creator Terence Winter about everything that went down, and how he arrived at the various fates for Nucky, Margaret, Chalky, and his other creations, in addition to how he intertwined them with the real-life stories of Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and company. My finale review is here, and the Winter interview is coming up just as soon as I ask you an important question about Marlene Dietrich... How does it feel to be only a few days away from the finale airing? Terence Winter: Really bittersweet. It's funny; there's still "Boardwalk Empire"-related business that I have to do. Doing interviews, obviously, but little things for post,...
- 10/27/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Boardwalk Empire" coming up just as soon as I catch you in a good mood... "So I did one thing for him, and then another..." -Lindsay Though we have one episode of the series to go, "Friendless Child" essentially brings the story of Nucky Thompson's empire to a close. He gives it all away — save maybe whatever he's doing with Margaret and the Mayflower Grain stock — to Luciano and Lansky, whose takeover of crime in New York and New Jersey is complete, even as they have bigger plans to make organized crime be truly organized on a national scale(*). The war's over, Nucky conceded utterly — choosing to save Willie over continuing a fight he'd likely lose anyway — and that's the show, right? A boardwalk empire falls, and you roll credits. (*) Probably the biggest casualty of the decision to end the show now — and skip over...
- 10/20/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Boardwalk Empire" coming up just as soon as the room is as occupied as a room can get... "What sense that make? We headed to different places." -Chalky There's always been this pattern with each season of "Boardwalk Empire." You get midway through any year of this show, and you start wondering exactly where these stories are going, why the writers are spending so much time on characters who seem like dead ends, when Richard Harrow's going to take out his gun collection, etc. In those previous years, all the seeming randomness and narrative throat-clearing inevitably led to a riveting final three or four episodes that inevitably made you realize that almost all of what seemed like a waste of time was actually really important to the great conclusion. With its shorter length, large amount of story ground to cover, plus the decision to spend time on Nucky's origin story,...
- 10/13/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Boardwalk Empire" coming up just as soon as I protect my fur... "I don't think you know what you are." -Mr. Jeffries That comment by Nucky's future father-in-law is repeated in one form or another to many of the major characters in "King of Norway," who have to figure out who and what they intend to be before it's too late. Is Nucky the upstanding young man he presents himself as to Mabel's father, or the pragmatic climber who offers to help Sheriff Lindsay on special projects for the Commodore to get ahead? Is Chalky the man who wants revenge on Narcisse at all costs, or the man who might be able to reconnect with his old family — or, for that matter, the new one he appears to have with Daughter Maitland? Is Van Alden the henpecked, cuckolded husband of Sigrid, and Eli his blackout drunk sidekick,...
- 10/6/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Boardwalk Empire" coming up just as soon as I rob Peter to pay Paul... "Year in, year out: different dogs, same bone." -Nucky By shifting the final season into 1931, Terence Winter and company have brought us into a year where Al Capone isn't just a mob boss, but a celebrity, and when Lansky, Luciano and Siegel are making moves that will turn them into organized crime legends in their own right. The series could conceivably do a major pivot at the end and do a serialized version of "The Untouchables," with Stephen Graham and Jim True-Frost (Prez!) standing in for De Niro(*) and Costner, and/or focus heavily on the schemes of the not-so-young triumvirate of New York wiseguys. But the show has always been about Nucky's story, right or wrong, and "The Good Listener" plays interestingly off of the ways that this show's main character...
- 9/15/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
First Things First: at Movie City News the "Gurus of Gold" have begun (yes, I'm a part of it again) and as David Poland points out there are seven films that made almost every list: Birdman, Gone Girl, Boyhood, and Unbroken tied at 1st place with Foxcatcher, Selma, and Interstellar just behind them. Most pundits are feeling these as Best Picture threats. Look at the whole chart though to see how everything fared. The highest ranking films that were not on my list (we were asked to submit 15 films) are Wild and Inherent Vice.
Birdman Flies
Early rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival from The Telegraph, Variety and THR and a couple positive but not ecstatic reviews from The Guardian and The Film Stage are up and surely bode well for the film. I'm holding off on reading them as I want the movie fresh when I see it.
Birdman Flies
Early rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival from The Telegraph, Variety and THR and a couple positive but not ecstatic reviews from The Guardian and The Film Stage are up and surely bode well for the film. I'm holding off on reading them as I want the movie fresh when I see it.
- 8/27/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The documentary Project Wild Thing hopes to get kids off computers and embracing nature. But do protest films ever change anything – and who actually watches them?
What are you doing about global warming? Or fracking? Arab democracy? Diminishing bee populations? Nuclear energy? Gun control? Repression in Uganda? Russia? Burma? Increasingly, what we're doing about the world's problems seems to be watching documentaries on them – which does feel like doing something, while at the same time being very close to doing nothing. Now, at least, we can do nothing about more issues than ever before. The current cinema landscape is saturated with documentaries and fictionalised movies highlighting important political, humanitarian or environmental issues. That should be a good thing, but somehow, it doesn't always feel like it.
In the past month we've already had films on bees (More Than Honey), the internet and children (InRealLife), and climate change denial (Greedy Lying...
What are you doing about global warming? Or fracking? Arab democracy? Diminishing bee populations? Nuclear energy? Gun control? Repression in Uganda? Russia? Burma? Increasingly, what we're doing about the world's problems seems to be watching documentaries on them – which does feel like doing something, while at the same time being very close to doing nothing. Now, at least, we can do nothing about more issues than ever before. The current cinema landscape is saturated with documentaries and fictionalised movies highlighting important political, humanitarian or environmental issues. That should be a good thing, but somehow, it doesn't always feel like it.
In the past month we've already had films on bees (More Than Honey), the internet and children (InRealLife), and climate change denial (Greedy Lying...
- 10/17/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Deal Central Anne Hathaway will star in a modernized version of Taming of the Shrew. Good luck besting braying fab Elizabeth Taylor, Anne.
Movie|Line Michael Haneke is actually aware of that lolz twitter account in his name. Too cool or perhaps too Haneke to care.
Av Club Mike D'Angelo on the art of compression in Moonrise Kingdom (the letter sequence is my personal favorite in the film)
Vulture attends a slew of parties and eavesdrop on Jennifer Lawrence (who loves Kara Hayward from Moonrise Kingdom) and Damian Lewis who does it gangnam style... no really.
Pajiba on new television series in the works including a Heathers adaptation and a new drama from... Cher (!)
A Blogwork Orange on the director blame game regarding Oscar snubs
Movies on Demand has a ton of nominees for your instant renting perusal. I almost didn't link to this because their press release was so condescending.
Movie|Line Michael Haneke is actually aware of that lolz twitter account in his name. Too cool or perhaps too Haneke to care.
Av Club Mike D'Angelo on the art of compression in Moonrise Kingdom (the letter sequence is my personal favorite in the film)
Vulture attends a slew of parties and eavesdrop on Jennifer Lawrence (who loves Kara Hayward from Moonrise Kingdom) and Damian Lewis who does it gangnam style... no really.
Pajiba on new television series in the works including a Heathers adaptation and a new drama from... Cher (!)
A Blogwork Orange on the director blame game regarding Oscar snubs
Movies on Demand has a ton of nominees for your instant renting perusal. I almost didn't link to this because their press release was so condescending.
- 1/16/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Gawker on Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, just issued in a deluxe Criterion version
BBC Skyfall wins the best Bond opening ever overseas. Remember when we didn't even know if we would get any more James Bonds due to legal issues and rights and studio problems?
The Guardian on Daniel Day-Lewis' infamous ghostly father sighting all those years ago when he played Hamlet on stage (he has not returned to the stage since)
In Contention George Clooney lines up a very starry cast for his next Oscar attack, the World War II drama Monuments Men: Craig, Blanchett, Goodman
Av Club Mike D'Angelo on the directors cut of one of my favorite films Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
The Film Doctor 8 notes on Cloud Atlas
Cinema Blend Cloud Atlas karmic interconnectivity infographic
Towleroad Madonna visits Ellen Degeneres!
Coming Soon Tom Cruise isn't done with the Mission: Impossible franchise yet. And here...
BBC Skyfall wins the best Bond opening ever overseas. Remember when we didn't even know if we would get any more James Bonds due to legal issues and rights and studio problems?
The Guardian on Daniel Day-Lewis' infamous ghostly father sighting all those years ago when he played Hamlet on stage (he has not returned to the stage since)
In Contention George Clooney lines up a very starry cast for his next Oscar attack, the World War II drama Monuments Men: Craig, Blanchett, Goodman
Av Club Mike D'Angelo on the directors cut of one of my favorite films Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
The Film Doctor 8 notes on Cloud Atlas
Cinema Blend Cloud Atlas karmic interconnectivity infographic
Towleroad Madonna visits Ellen Degeneres!
Coming Soon Tom Cruise isn't done with the Mission: Impossible franchise yet. And here...
- 10/30/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Editor’s note: Critical Consensus is a biweekly feature in which two critics from Indiewire’s Criticwire network discuss new releases with Indiewire’s chief film critic, Eric Kohn. Here, Time Out New York critic Keith Uhlich joins freelancer Mike D'Angelo (The A/V Club, The Man Who Viewed Too Much) to discuss "The Dark Knight Rises" and other aspects of director Christopher Nolan's career. They conclude by exploring where both Batman and Nolan may wind up next. There's no question that director Christopher Nolan's Batman movies have managed to gain the admiration of more audiences than countless other recent comic book adaptations. This may have something to do with his roots: He's known for cultivating a distinctive atmosphere and using narrative trickery rather than merely pandering to the demands of Comic Con purists. And yet much of that crowd has embraced Nolan's adaptations as well, perhaps because they.
- 7/20/2012
- by Mike D'Angelo, Eric Kohn and Keith Uhlich
- Indiewire
David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis is not garnering unanimous praise, but who would expect a Cronenberg film to do so? In Michal Olezczyk's (Hammer to Nail) positive review, he writes that, "for all its talk of world economy, the movie pursues the same theme one of Cronenberg’s masterpieces did, which is to say that—just like in Spider—we’re once again sentenced for life to a solitary confinement within our minds and bodies."
Sight & Sound's Jonathan Romney finds Sergei Loznitsa's In the Fog to be "among the handful of truly eloquent and moving films here," but many critics seem to be conflicted regarding the extent of the film's merit.
Other Take: Mike D'Angelo (The Av Club)
The Taste of Money, directed by Im Sang-soo, is getting more than its fair share of criticism. Robert Koehler referred to it as "trash" on Twitter and it received what might be...
Sight & Sound's Jonathan Romney finds Sergei Loznitsa's In the Fog to be "among the handful of truly eloquent and moving films here," but many critics seem to be conflicted regarding the extent of the film's merit.
Other Take: Mike D'Angelo (The Av Club)
The Taste of Money, directed by Im Sang-soo, is getting more than its fair share of criticism. Robert Koehler referred to it as "trash" on Twitter and it received what might be...
- 5/27/2012
- MUBI
Holy Motors, Léos Carax's first feature since 1999's largely misunderstood Pola X, has inspired the most entertaining critic responses at this year's festival. Mike D'Angelo labels it a "bugfuck masterpiece," and Michal Oleszczyk enthusiastically proclaims it to be "a mind-blowing absurdist vaudeville, an acting tour de force, a Franju-by-way-of-Feuillade cine-homage, a howl, a hoot, and a treat." The film could be a Palme d'Or contender, and, moreover, word is that the brilliant Denis Lavant could be rewarded with a Best Actor Award. Eugene Hernandez celebrates Carax's return and covers the film's press conference over at Cannes Daily. If you missed the astonishing trailer for Holy Motors, take a look.
Other Take: Demetrios Matheou (Sight & Sound)
Walter Salles' On the Road has mostly been greeted with negative attention or faint praise. Manohla Dargis writes on the film for The New York Times.
The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious...
Other Take: Demetrios Matheou (Sight & Sound)
Walter Salles' On the Road has mostly been greeted with negative attention or faint praise. Manohla Dargis writes on the film for The New York Times.
The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious...
- 5/26/2012
- MUBI
This year at the Notebook, we're not going to be rounding up everything being said about Cannes—an "old" friend is doing a great job of that elsewhere—but we're still following the festival closely, and will be posting updates on some of the pieces we've enjoyed reading.
The 65th Cannes Film Festival kicked off with the latest work in symmetrical, dollhouse-cinema from Wes Anderson—his first to play there. In most corners of cinephilia, the debate over his merits as an auteur persist, but the word on Moonrise Kingdom has thus far been decidedly positive. Robert Koehler, covering Cannes for Film Journey, sees the film as an "ideal opening night vehicle", stating "there’s a kind of absolute auteurism, a hyper-aggressive formalism, an insistence on the camera’s view as a proscenium arch inside of which an entirely theatrical universe is created, alongside a lightness, a preference for melancholy...
The 65th Cannes Film Festival kicked off with the latest work in symmetrical, dollhouse-cinema from Wes Anderson—his first to play there. In most corners of cinephilia, the debate over his merits as an auteur persist, but the word on Moonrise Kingdom has thus far been decidedly positive. Robert Koehler, covering Cannes for Film Journey, sees the film as an "ideal opening night vehicle", stating "there’s a kind of absolute auteurism, a hyper-aggressive formalism, an insistence on the camera’s view as a proscenium arch inside of which an entirely theatrical universe is created, alongside a lightness, a preference for melancholy...
- 5/24/2012
- MUBI
Romanian New Wave director Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills is his first feature since taking home the Palme d'Or in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and it's eliciting differing opinions amongst critics. The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Dalton calls it "an engrossingly serious work, and confirms Mungiu as a maturing talent with more universal stories to tell than those defined by Romania’s recent political past." The articulate Mungiu discusses the themes of his film rather frankly in the press conference, which is recommended viewing.
Other take: Karina Longworth (La Weekly)
John Hillcoat's new film boasts an impressive cast, featuring the likes of Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy and Jessica "throw-a-rock-at-Cannes-and-you'll-hit-her" Chastain, but they're the only thing that Lawless seems to be receiving unanimous praise for. Otherwise, reception has been more lukewarm, noting that it's often effective, but ultimately flawed and conventional. Jason Solomons of The Guardian finds that Hillcoat's...
Other take: Karina Longworth (La Weekly)
John Hillcoat's new film boasts an impressive cast, featuring the likes of Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy and Jessica "throw-a-rock-at-Cannes-and-you'll-hit-her" Chastain, but they're the only thing that Lawless seems to be receiving unanimous praise for. Otherwise, reception has been more lukewarm, noting that it's often effective, but ultimately flawed and conventional. Jason Solomons of The Guardian finds that Hillcoat's...
- 5/21/2012
- MUBI
Andrzej Żuławski does not like the title of the first retrospective of his work in the Us. Hysterical Excess: Discovering Andrzej Żuławski opens tommorrow and runs through March 20 at New York's BAMcinématek. At the top of his piece for the New York Times, J Hoberman allows the director to explain his objection and then suggests himself that the "word to best describe the Żuławski oeuvre might be 'awful' in its root sense of inspiring dread. Exuding charm and urbanity on the phone, Mr Żuławski is nonetheless an auteur to be approached with trepidation. His movies are seldom more than a step from some flaming abyss, with his actors (and audience) trembling on the edge. Typically shot with a frenzied, often subjective moving camera in saturated colors that have the over-bright feel of a chemically induced hallucination, these can be hard to watch and harder to forget."
Bam's presenting all 12 features...
Bam's presenting all 12 features...
- 3/9/2012
- MUBI
Frances Farmer
Relax. That's just a hairdresser behind her.
Before today's roundup gets rolling, I want to mention that David Phelps is conducting an experiment you should know about, The Secret History of America.
The liveliest read of the day comes from Matt Evans in the Morning News, a furious pitch for Frances Farmer — the actual woman and actress, not the lobotomized zombie portrayed by Jessica Lange in Frances (1982). Have fun.
"Why I Pirate Movies: A Self-Justification." Mike D'Angelo can't be surprised that he's kicked up a virtual storm. It began in the comments following that entry and has since blown over to Twitter.
Andy Warhol died 25 years ago today. Alex Needham examines the legacy in the Guardian and, in the Voice, Camille Dodero asks, "what does Andy Warhol's New York City look like today?"
Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from R Emmet Sweeney at Movie Morlocks.
Relax. That's just a hairdresser behind her.
Before today's roundup gets rolling, I want to mention that David Phelps is conducting an experiment you should know about, The Secret History of America.
The liveliest read of the day comes from Matt Evans in the Morning News, a furious pitch for Frances Farmer — the actual woman and actress, not the lobotomized zombie portrayed by Jessica Lange in Frances (1982). Have fun.
"Why I Pirate Movies: A Self-Justification." Mike D'Angelo can't be surprised that he's kicked up a virtual storm. It began in the comments following that entry and has since blown over to Twitter.
Andy Warhol died 25 years ago today. Alex Needham examines the legacy in the Guardian and, in the Voice, Camille Dodero asks, "what does Andy Warhol's New York City look like today?"
Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from R Emmet Sweeney at Movie Morlocks.
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
The new Spring 2012 issue of Cineaste is out and selections online include James L Neibaur on Kino's Blu-ray releases of Buster Keaton's work (as well as eleven more DVD/Blu-ray reviews), Andrew Horton's remembrance of Theo Angelopolous, Anchalee Chaiwaraporn and Kong Rithdee on the politics of Thai film and the opening paragraphs of Thomas Doherty's review of Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director:
Generally admiring but never intoxicated, Patrick McGilligan's insightful biography is a chronicle not only of the troubled director but also of the Hollywood studio system at dusk, the vagaries of the multilateral skirmishes between French, British, and American film criticism, and the political follies roiling through twentieth-century America. The author of well-regarded biographies of Fritz Lang and Clint Eastwood and the editor of the invaluable Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters (who all prove to be much more than...
Generally admiring but never intoxicated, Patrick McGilligan's insightful biography is a chronicle not only of the troubled director but also of the Hollywood studio system at dusk, the vagaries of the multilateral skirmishes between French, British, and American film criticism, and the political follies roiling through twentieth-century America. The author of well-regarded biographies of Fritz Lang and Clint Eastwood and the editor of the invaluable Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters (who all prove to be much more than...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
In 2009, the best film in Competition at the Berlinale was Maren Ade's Everyone Else (Fwiw, it came away with 1.5 Silver Bears, the 1 for Best Actress Birgit Minichmayr, the .5 for tying with Adrián Biniez's Gigante for the Jury Grand Prix; the Golden Bear that year went to Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow). Three years on (!), the trio that made Everyone Else worth talking up to this day (see, for example, Kevin B Lee's new video essay on a key scene at Fandor; see, too, Mike D'Angelo on the same scene a year ago at the Av Club) is back in Competition, albeit in three different films. Lars Eidinger has drawn the shortest straw, taking on the lead in Hans-Christian Schmid's rather dismal Home for the Weekend. Minichmayr's fared better opposite Jürgen Vogel in Matthias Glasner's new film, though I seriously doubt many of us will...
- 2/18/2012
- MUBI
Oscar ballots are due tomorrow at 5 p.m., but as La Weekly reported, Fox Searchlight has booked Kenneth Lonergan's long-delayed, virtually ignored "Margaret" for a one-week run at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles, along with sending screeners to all Academy members and making star Anna Paquin available for interviews. As Indiewire's Reel Politik reported last month, "Margaret" also had a one-week run in New York's Cinema Village. However, that wasn't initiated by Searchlight, but by the theater. Said booker Ed Arentz, "I booked it because I missed it, and figured there were plenty like me that wanted to see it." The film is now going into its fourth weekend in New York. In Indiewire's 2011 Criticwire poll, "Margaret" came in at #9. The film also benefited from an online petition as well as a Twitter hashtag,#teammargaret. Wrote freelance critic Mike D'Angelo, "People just flat-out refused...
- 1/11/2012
- Indiewire
Sydney Morning Herald production halted on The Great Gatbsy (briefly). Baz Luhrman hit on head just before Christmas. Ouch.
Listen Eggroll Mike D'Angelo's Christmas movie viewing history. Hee.
Rope of Silicon on that revolving director chair for Thor 2. What will it mean for the movie?
Indie Wire Ninety-seven Original Scores that are eligible for Oscar this year. Only five can be nominated of course. A notable omission is Alexandre Desplat's work on The Tree of Life but we figured that would get disqualified due to the abundance of non-original music in the film. As Hans Zimmer promised, he did not submit his wonderful Rango score. (sigh)
Coming Soon Charlize Theron discusses her role in Prometheus
Wider Screenings [Nsfw] in terms of budget to profit ratio the most successful film of all time is... Deep Throat.
Horror Asylum the Whedon-less reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is apparently dead. Yay!
Listen Eggroll Mike D'Angelo's Christmas movie viewing history. Hee.
Rope of Silicon on that revolving director chair for Thor 2. What will it mean for the movie?
Indie Wire Ninety-seven Original Scores that are eligible for Oscar this year. Only five can be nominated of course. A notable omission is Alexandre Desplat's work on The Tree of Life but we figured that would get disqualified due to the abundance of non-original music in the film. As Hans Zimmer promised, he did not submit his wonderful Rango score. (sigh)
Coming Soon Charlize Theron discusses her role in Prometheus
Wider Screenings [Nsfw] in terms of budget to profit ratio the most successful film of all time is... Deep Throat.
Horror Asylum the Whedon-less reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is apparently dead. Yay!
- 12/26/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Though it barely edged out Asghar Farhadi's A Separation in indieWIRE's "Annual Critics Survey 2011," Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is enjoying an even stronger run in the major polls than David Fincher's The Social Network did last year. Fincher's Facebook movie was voted the best film of 2010 in polls conducted by indieWIRE, Sight & Sound and the Village Voice, but came in second behind Olivier Assayas's Carlos in Film Comment's poll. We've yet to see the Voice poll, but so far this year, The Tree of Life has come out on top of Sight & Sound's poll of 100 or so critics and curators ("by a country mile," according to editor Nick James), Film Comment's poll of over 120, and now indieWIRE's survey of "162 critics, journalists and other tastemakers," as Eric Kohn puts it in his introduction.
Whatever the reasons behind the two sets of results, 2010 and 2011, they can't be the same.
Whatever the reasons behind the two sets of results, 2010 and 2011, they can't be the same.
- 12/20/2011
- MUBI
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