A familiar sub-genre of time travel-movies has characters going into the past to see a loved one who has died. Writer and director Ned Benson gives that idea a musical twist In The Greatest Hits. Harriet (Lucy Boynton) was in the same car crash that killed her boyfriend, Max (David …
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The terror beneath the evil spirits and unexplained phenomena in Family is based on a cruel reality: a young girl’s well-founded dread of her father dying. In his self-assured first film, writer and director Benjamin Finkel wraps this fear in horror tropes, taking us inside the mind of a child …
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It’s probably safe to say that Your Monster is the only film ever to score a sex scene to Jimmy Durante’s raspy voice singing, “I could turn the gray skies to blue, if I only had you.” Caroline Lindy‘s first feature (based on her short) is a singing, dancing, skewed …
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Movies about movies tend to be as sentimental as Cinema Paradiso, the all-time tearjerker in the genre, or as caustic as the recent Babylon. But Lone Scherfig finds a fine balance between love of movies and the harsh wider world in The Movie Teller, a beautifully made coming-of-age film about …
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Like Agatha Christie herself, Kenneth Branagh found a reliable formula for mysteries. In his two previous adaptations of Christie novels, he directed and played the cerebral detective Hercule Poirot amid a star-filled cast, in an exotic location with at least one killer on the loose. Murder on the Orient Express …
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Kristin Scott Thomas’ first film as director has the prettiest production design in ages, done by the great Andrew McAlpine, who long ago did Jane Campion’s The Piano. Scott Thomas also plays Diana, about to be married for the third time, which brings her daughters — the starry trio of …
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As an actress, Maggie Smith can do no wrong. She’s a lot more fallible at choosing projects, as evidenced by this treacly story about Irishwomen of different generations who travel to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, praying for a miracle. Smith is at the center of …
Read More »Richard E. Grant & Julie Delpy in Exquisite Noir – The Hollywood Reporter read full article at worldnews365.me
Alice Troughton’s first feature is a jewel, an exquisitely made chamber piece with Richard E. Grant as J.M. Sinclair, an acclaimed novelist on his way down, Julie Delpy as Helene, his art-curator wife, and Daryl McCormack as Liam, a would-be novelist who idolizes Sinclair. With a clever script that keeps …
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The title of Mark Jenkin’s elegant psychological drama, Enys Men, is Cornish for Stone Island, a reference to the isolated landscape where a woman identified in the credits only as the Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) lives alone in a vine-covered cottage. A monolithic stone nearby, in a roughly human shape and …
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Casting father and daughter in a drama loosely based mostly on their very own relationship creates a fuzzy line between actuality and fiction in You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder. This uneven indie road-trip drama is at instances too by-the-numbers however is at all times charming due to its two …
Read More »Raven Jackson’s Dazzling Debut – The Hollywood Reporter read full article at worldnews365.me
Raven Jackson began out as a poet, a background that’s on the coronary heart of her eloquent, imagistic first characteristic. All Filth Roads Style of Salt presents the lifetime of a Black girl within the rural South via elegantly composed vignettes. On paper, that strategy sounds too treasured to dwell. …
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