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#cannes2020 is dead. Long live #cannes2020
PARIS – Finally, the suspense is over. Thierry Frémaux, programmer of the Cannes Festival, and Pierre Lescure, President, released today the names of the films that would’ve been screened at Cannes this year, had the event taken place. As we all know, the world went tits up in March, everything got canceled because of a wayward virus, including the Festival, and Donald Trump recently held a Bible in front of a shuttered church more >
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PREVIEW: “Blood Rider”
We haven't seen this yet, but it caught our eye (and we will talk about it on Screen Comment very soon). From director Jon Kasbe (he previously directed "When lambs become lions") ... more >
CANNES FESTIVAL – The sun sets on 73*
It's Sunday, May 24th. Normally I would've been be at the Cannes Festival for the 73* edition, the first of this new decade, hunkered down in the press room, gulping my umpteenth ... more >
NEWS: In a COVID world, Warner Brothers’s adapt-or-die move ups the ante for the home-delivery model
Could virtual movie parties be the wave of the coronavirus present? Warner Bros is betting on that very concept with this Friday’s release of “SCOOB!”, the animated origin-story ... more >
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
Elizabeth Moss in “Shirley” gives career performance
“A fictional biography” is a phrase that usually doesn’t work when it comes to films. Of course, when telling the story of a real person or event, some dramatic license is necessary and ... more >
MOVIE REVIEW: “The Droving”
With the current style of Hollywood thrillers that tend more toward flashy camerawork and preposterous chase scenes and situations, one feels appreciative when a film comes along that ... more >
MOVIE REVIEW: “Abe” is a film for the whole family that sidesteps the drawbacks of being a family film
It is rare in today’s filmmaking world that inspiring films about youth have something profound to say. Most films that claim to speak to today’s kids tend to condescend to their audience ... more >
MOVIE REVIEW: As Frank Tassone Hugh Jackman hit the right note in “Bad Education”
The culture of money, positions of power and white privilege has never been more prominent. With a little power (be it in the corporate world, Hollywood, or any place where the suits rule) ... more >
REVIEW: “Capone,” there was nary a word out of Tom Hardy’s Fonzo (but grunts and moans? Plenty)
Every mobster’s life is filled with the ghosts of the past and the nightmares of the dead that come back to haunt them. It is a dangerous life ruled by guns and muscle and stained in blood. ... more >
REVIEW: “Union Bridge,” directed by newcomer filmmaker Brian Levin
Elegiac and elusive from start to finish, Brian Levin's directorial debut "Union Bridge" certainly scores points for drumming up a foreboding atmosphere. Cinematographer Sebastian Slayter ... more >
REVIEW: “Spaceship Earth” is a timely documentary that trains the spotlight on the climate change crisis
2020 America is not the time or the place for the intellectual. We are living in a time that is aggressively pushing back against science and rational thinking. Extremely important ... more >
“True History of the Kelly Gang,” a defiantly vicious, one-man rogue’s gallery of style and substance
Being historically accurate in film is tough. Dramatic license is all but impossible to sidestep. When your film begins with the phrase, “Nothing you are about to see is true,” you are ... more >
PEOPLE TO WATCH
Born and raised in North London, Christian Tye has already made his mark on Hollywood by producing a short, entitled “Trip’s Duplage” at 22. There’s already some Cannes buzz about the film, which was produced by Tye with Mosaic Media Group. It stars British actress Stephanie Beacham and Spencer Squire. Tye has starred in stage productions and also had a part in Rupert Everett’s 2018 directorial debut “The Happy Prince,” alongside Everett and Colin Firth. He has various projects lined up for 2019, including roles in two major feature films. Not only does Christian excel at acting but also he is an incredible screenwriter, having written several scripts. more >
