This year’s last Tribeca Film Festival featured some great offerings in the entertaining-yet-underrated short film category, films by female filmmakers particularly. Filmmaker Heather Jack presented her directorial debut LET’S NOT PANIC, an apocalyptic comedy about love and neuroses in fest's NY: Double Expresso program. Jack, a recent N.Y.U. graduate who also wrote the script, tells the story of a woman
Chaos, wrath and bucketfuls of drumming. The movie score that Dutch-born musical artist Junkie XL composed for MAD MAX: FURY ROAD punches up the film’s post-apocalyptic scenery like nobody’s business. The Grammy-nominated producer and composer was approached by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures to stamp his sonic signature unto the George Miller-directed action-thriller that stars Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron
The 68th Cannes Film Festival will open next Wednesday under the jury presidency of a pair of brothers from Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. The Coen Brothers aren't strangers to Cannes since most, if not all, of their films have been shown here over the years.
The brothers will be in good company: A-listers, stars and outstanding actors and actresses and filmmakers--the likes of
The six Angulo brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Wolfpack," they're all very bright, home-schooled, have no acquaintances outside their family and have practically never left their home. All they know of the outside world is gleaned from the films they watch obsessively and recreate meticulously,
If blue eyes could be weaponized ... Actress Alexandra Anna Daddario was born on March 16, 1986 in New York City to Christina, a lawyer, and Richard Daddario, a prosecutor. Her brother is actor Matthew Daddario, and her grandfather was congressman Emilio Daddario (Emilio Q. Daddario), of Connecticut. Fortunately, Daddario chose neither the law nor politics, but instead became a film actor.
Alexandra Anna Daddario has Italian, Irish, Hungarian, Slovak, German, and English ancestry. She wanted to be an actress when she was young. Her first job came at age sixteen, when she landed a role on “All My Children” (1970). Alex co-starred, with Logan Lerman and Brandon T. Jackson, in the role of Annabeth Chase