There were walkouts at my screening of Ben Wheatley’s HIGH RISE, a provocative adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s equally incendiary novel of the same title about an isolated, modernistic apartment tower whose economically-segregated inhabitants devolve into anarchy and class warfare. At Tribeca Most of the walkouts occurred in the last thirty minutes of the film, the bulk of which consisted of a ... more >
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Tribeca Film Festival “High-rise”

Crimson Peak
"Ghosts are real. That much I know." So begins Guillermo del Toro’s spellbinding dark fairy tale, CRIMSON PEAK. Set in the late 1900s it follows aspiring fiction writer Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) as she falls for, and marries, a penniless, seductively handsome English Baronet, Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). Along with his older sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain), Thomas brings Edith back ... more >

Only Lovers Left Alive
Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) are vampires living between Detroit and Tangiers. He is a reclusive rock star going through a personal crisis and collecting rare guitars and living in a Detroit that's a shell of its former self. Eve, a distinguished bookworm, wanders the streets of Tangiers at night and gets accosted by shady street vendors desirous to cater to all her whims, except ... more >

Bloodsuckers in Cannes
A Jim Jarmusch movie is rare and mysterious. Today in Cannes his latest film “Only Lovers Left Alive” starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska and Anton Yelchin was shown as a part of the competition program. “Lovers” is your average love story between centuries-old people (Swinton and Hiddleston). One lives in Detroit and the other, Tangier. Adam is depressed because he’s ... more >