Not exact matches
The
new film about Salinger's career, Rebel in the Rye, is a work of searing mediocrity
about an author who was horrified by the very idea of mediocrity, eventually sealing himself
away from public life rather than subject his work to mainstream scrutiny.
Hazanavicius has his fun with his smartarse
New Wave pastiches, but the core of his
film is
about how a self - important goon treats a blameless young woman terribly, then gets
away with it — having only a lifetime of adulation to look forward to.
Ridley Scott «s 2012 prequel remains divisive and the public details
about the
new film paint the picture of a production that keeps everything that worked in that first
film while quietly throwing
away everything that did not.
Baby Driver is the latest
film from writer / director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs the World), and a
new featurette reveals that the action flick
about a getaway driver trying to get
away from his chosen profession is chock full of real stunt driving, with real cars, on real locations, with real people.
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FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy
about a promising musical prodigy who runs
away from an orphanage to
New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.
With its ambiguous ending, Tattoo seems to evoke François Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), the legendary French
New Wave
film about another «troubled» teenager who experiences freedom only when he is in motion — whether while spinning in a rotor's drum or when running
away from the reformatory in the
film's famous concluding tracking shot that culminates in a zoom - in - on - freeze - frame image of his gaze addressing the camera.
Other winners announced include «The Peanuts Movie» for Best Animated
Film; Nelson George's
film about Misty Copeland, «A Ballerina's Tale,» for Best Documentary»; Rick Famuyiwa's «Dope» script for Best Screenplay; the «Furious 7» tune «See You Again» for Best Song; ABC's «Black - ish» for Best TV Comedy; ABC's «How to Get
Away With Murder» for Best TV Drama; and Starz's «Survivor's Remorse» for Best Cable /
New Media TV Show.
That is part of it, sure, as Zero Dark Thirty is worlds
away from
films like Point Break or K 19: The Widowmaker, but what sticks with you
about this
new film is Bigelow and Boal's obstinate refusal to give in to convention.
The kind of faulty reasoning that Stanley Fish writes
about so incisively in the
New York Times («So's Your Old Man») derails meaningful discussions in politics and
film criticism all the time, and it's so transparently bogus that I wonder how people keep getting
away with it.
We are still well over a year
away from that release date, but Blumhouse is wasting no time in working on the marketing and official product tie - ins that will come with the
new movie, attending the annual Licensing Expo on Las Vegas in May 2017, where a very early piece of promo art was on display in the form of a teaser poster that recalls Carpenter's minimalist approach to the original
film and echoes the team's comments
about taking the franchise back to basics.
A
new Black Panther trailer has finally arrived, but did it give
away too many details
about the
film?
The «Frances Ha» director / co-writer talks
about co-writing a
new film with Greta Gerwig, and how he gets
away with shooting movies in secret.
Tully, Jason Reitman's
new film about the trials of baby - rearing, doesn't shy
away from the physical toll of having a
new kid in the house.
Mudbound, from co-writer and director Dee Rees blew
away its audience, as did her considered, thoughtful answers during her post-
film Q&A, and the special panel moderated by Washington Post's Ann Hornaday, who has a
new book
about film, which you can buy HERE.
Yes, I'm talking
about film grain, that reality of celluloid that modern
films have been so effectively been scrubbing
away in the
new film - to - digital - and - back post-production process.
I'm sure many of you will be watching one (if not several)
films today
about the galaxy far, far
away, I was busy trying on Po - Zu's
new Porg sneakers!!