‘Exit 8’ TIFF Review – Liminal Looping Horror Has Endless Creativity But Minimal Plot
Video games’ capabilities of immersing players directly in their horror rarely translate evenly to film. Even more so…
A Spellbinding Argentinian Character Study
The venerable but overcrowded “unraveling woman” subgenre gets a shot in the arm with The Currents (Las Corrientes),…
Angelina Jolie in Wispy Paris Fashion Week Drama
Genre-hopping French writer-director Alice Winocour describes Couture as a “memento mori,” but its contemplative musings on mortality, trauma…
Russell Crow & Rami Malek in Potent, Timely Drama
In the days immediately following the end of World War II in Europe, a U.S. Supreme Court justice…
Baz Luhrmann Talks About His New Elvis Presley Documentary
Baz Luhrmann and Elvis Presley are, it seems, forever intertwined. While speaking with TheWrap on Sunday at the…
Leslie Mann in Maude Apatow’s Directorial Bow
Maude Apatow’s directorial debut Poetic License is an intergenerational coming-of-age film about an aimless middle-aged wife and mother…
Chris Evans in Romain Gavras’ Heady Cult Thriller
At first, it seems that Sacrifice, from French director Romain Gavras, is trying to do its best Triangle…
Cillian Murphy Swaps ‘Oppenheimer’ Bombast for Raw Drama in ‘Steve’
Post-Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy has used his Oscar cache to get the films he wants made. In the two…
Brendan Fraser Strikes Post-Oscar Gold
Oscar winners, especially those coming from left field, don’t always find worthy successors to their award-winning roles. But…
‘Nuremberg’ Film Interview James Vanderbilt: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek
Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek are engaging in a psychological game of chess in writer-director James…