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“Old,” Shyamalan’s 14th feature film, gives us another mindbender that is meant to be all about the payoff. The plot involves a family of four, including parents played by Gael Garcia Bernal and Vicky Krieps (both miscast here), who arrive at a Dominican resort with their two kids. One of the activities recommended by the sketchy hotel manager involves being bussed to a picturesque private beach, which he describes as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience....

The latest Almodovar isn’t a towering and personal achievement like his last film, “Pain and Glory,” but it encompasses everything we love about the legendary Spanish director with some added political subtleties. Tackling two women who give birth at the same time in the same room at a Madrid hospital, “Parallel Mothers” has single mothers Janis (Penelope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smith) paving through the hardships and pleasures of motherhood as the two form a close friendship, which, by lack of luck, develops into a complicated dilemma....

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Emma Seligman’s “Shiva Baby,” her feature debut, was originally slated to premiere at SXSW last March. A few days before its world premiere, the COVID-19 virus was declared a pandemic, and every event in the country, including SXSW, was forced to be canceled. I saw Seligman’s film around that time and was floored by the swirling energy of her camera and the edge-of-the-seat mise en scène. Seligman, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, manages to turn a Jewish day of mourning into a frightfully comic treat....

This A24-produced movie seems to just be an excuse for Lowery to indulge in these aforementioned dreamy visuals, completely omitting the fact that there is a clearcut lack of substance in his screenplay. In “The Green Knight,” Gawain (Dev Patel), a man supposedly driven by a sense of “honor,” gets his integrity tested. While at a Christmas party, the Green Knight, a hybrid monster of tree and human, invites anyone in attendance to behead him, but only on the condition that, in a year’s time, he’ll repay the favor at the mystical Green Chapel....

“The Hateful Eight” is one of Tarantino’s most underrated films, but it was deemed a box-office “failure” and was met with mixed reviews back in 2015. I loved it. It harkened back to some of the talkier fare he delivered back in the ’90s with an added tinge of John Carpenter and Sergio Leone added in for good measure. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

Bratton’s film will have its world premiere at TIFF. However, many expected one of the bigger fall titles to take this slot, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Not even Todd Field’s “TAR” could secure one of the three gala spots at NYFF. Bratton is primarily known for non-fiction, especially the documentary “Pier Kids”, and the Viceland series “My House.” This is his first narrative feature, and is based on Bratton’s own experiences as a gay man in Marine Corps basic training after a decade living on the streets....

I reviewed “The Lodge” for The Playlist last January at Sundance [Read More]. In my review I wrote: ’The Lodge’ is a meditative plumbing of the darkest parts of the human psyche, our vulnerabilities, and self-doubts and it’s these personal fears that resonate loudly.” Except for an all-too-safe climax, the film is a complete horror knockout. The kind of arthouse horror we should continue to support. NEON nabbed the rights to the film, it’s not going to be a major hit quite like past Sundance faves such as “Hereditary” and “Get Out,” but it is a cant-miss-experience for cinephiles that have been craving for quality genre fare this year....

I don’t even think it’s just COVID that should be blamed either — it’s also the fact that Hollywood just didn’t deliver good movies. In other words, most of the big titles sucked. One of the most significant bombs of the past year was Lana Wachowski’s “The Matrix Resurrections, which reportedly cost $190 million to make, and had only earned $106 million globally since its Dec. 22nd release. It didn’t help that the film was extremely divisive, earning a “B-” audience survey ranking from Cinemascore and a 64% on Rotten Tomatoes....

My apologies to those who emailed me the past few weeks over my reluctance to tackle the GLOWING 99% audience score “The Woman King” garnered on Rotten Tomatoes. A peculiar oddity occured this morning. The above screenshot I gathered lays down the fact that ‘Woman King’ went from a pristine 99% RT audience score to an 83% overnight. This is mathematically impossible. An article that kept being sent to me was an Evie Magazine piece, from about a month ago, titled, “There’s Speculation That “The Woman King” Audience Score And Reviews On Rotten Tomatoes Are Manufactured....

As mentioned in the past few weekend roundups, this is no doubt of concern for not just Disney but Hollywood as well, due to the numerous box-office disappointments which have happened this summer — the people have responded and they have had it with the sequels, reboots and franchises. The ‘Toy Story 4’ numbers are already concerning given the fact that just last year “The Incredibles 2” opened to a $182 million father’s day weekend....

The film stars Natalie Portman as Celeste, a singer that rose to fame after surviving a mass shooting as a teenager. The film is split into two halves. The first half portrays young Celeste (played by Raffey Cassidy) whom after going through the trauma of a school shooting, teams up with her songwriting sister (Stacy Martin) and manager (Jude Law) to produce these catchy pop songs that strike a chord with the mainstream....

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Beware if you haven’t watched these as yet: Spoilers ahead! 3. Austin Powers Blackjack Scene The Austin Powers set of movies is a treasure trove of silly and hilarious jokes as well as a fair few of them that just fall flat. The movies are spoofs of the James Bond movies, and are still quotable now although it’s died out a bit over the past 20ish years - yeah, baby!...

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Clearly the legendary actress doesn’t give a fuck anymore. She bashed critic John Simon, who nastily panned the actress’s debut performance in 1969’s “A Walk With Love and Death,” directed by her father, John Huston, by focusing on her looks: “There is a perfectly blank, supremely inept performance by Huston’s daughter Anjelica, who has the face of an exhausted gnu, the voice of an unstrung tennis racket, and a figure of no discernible shape....

IW asked over 60 actors, directors, writers, and so forth, what their 10 favorite movies of the ’90s were. There are definitely some eclectic choices, but I’ll just highlight six of the lists, those of Ari Aster, Sean Baker, The Safdies, Edgar Wright, Rian Johnson and Paul Schrader. ARI ASTER Goodfellas, Eyes Wide Shut, Topsy-Turvy, Starship Troopers, Life, And Nothing More, Defending Your Life, Safe, The Kingdom, Raise the Red Lantern, The Hudsucker Proxy SEAN BAKER Lovers on the Bridge, Buffalo ’66, Bad Lieutenant, Naked, Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, Slacker, Seven, Groundhog Day, Hard Boiled BENNY & JOSH SAFDIE Goodfellas, The Lovers on the bridge, Close-Up, Jackie Brown, Short Cuts, The Player, Kids, Beau Travail, Fargo, Indecent Proposal, Naked, Single White Female, Narrow Margin, Ed Wood, Crooklyn, The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, Boogie Nights, The Slums of Beverly Hills, Total Recall, Cliffhanger, Buffalo ’66, Fire in the Sky” RIAN JOHNSON Goodfellas, Barton Fink, Pulp Fiction, Chungking Express, Fight Club, The Matrix, Dead Man, Unforgiven, Terminator 2, American Movie EDGAR WRIGHT Boogie Nights, Delicatessen, Election, Goodfellas, Hard Boiled, Reservoir Dogs, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, The Silence of the Lambs, Trainspotting PAUL SCHRADER A Brighter Summer Day, Affliction, All About My Mother, Boogie Nights, GoodFellas, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Taste of Cherry, Three Colors, The Truman Show Of course, as he always does, Schrader decided to add one of his own movies to his list....

We are almost halfway done with the movie year, and there have only been two films released so far, although one of them a long shot, that have had people touting possible Best Picture vibes: The Daniel’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick.” A surprising summer development has been the traction of “Top Gun: Maverick,” a critically-acclaimed action movie that some are projecting will reach the $500 million mark at the domestic box-office....

First off, I’ve only been in-depth covering the fest since 2011, so my experiences comes from that starting point. With that being said, I have very fond memories of 2017. That year, almost every day there was a great movie being screened. The lineup of films included Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, The Big Sick, Columbus, A Ghost Story, Mudbound, Ingrid Goes West, Icarus, Wind River, Beach Rats, and Menashe....

Do We Have Faith in Anything? The monetary function systems play in a country’s economy is critical to understanding why governments are wary about Bitcoin. Government-issued fiat currency is known as fiat. Federal Reserve notes are known as fiat currency since they are with no independent audit or review. To print or generate money for the economy, the United States government relies upon this Federal Reserve, a fiat currency over which Congress has minimal power....