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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ridiculously Long ‘Borat 2’ Title Reportedly Revealed

September 27, 2020 1:05 pm

Earlier this month, it was reported that Sacha Baron Cohen made a sequel to "Borat" completely in secret and was already screening it to people. Well, it seems we may finally know what to call "Borat 2," and i...

Jacques Audiard Begins Shooting His Next Film ‘Les Olympiades’, Co-Written By Céline Sciamma

Rafael Motamayor

September 27, 2020 12:24 pm

News

Two years after he made his English-language debut with "The Sisters Brothers," Jacques Audiard is back on set with his next film, "Les Olympiades." READ MORE: Léa Seydoux To Star In Mia Hansen-Løve’s Upcom...

Henry Cavill Would Still “Love” To Play The Next James Bond, Says “It Would Be Very, Very Exciting”

Rafael Motamayor

September 27, 2020 11:20 am

News

While we still wait for "No Time To Die" to finally hit theaters or do like every other movie and leave, the question of who will take over the mantle of 007 after Daniel Craig retires as the character continu...

‘Night Of The Kings’ Is A Striking Tribute To The Power Of Storytelling Set In An Ivorian Prison [NYFF Review]

Carlos Aguilar

September 27, 2020 10:28 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Philippe Lacôte understands the cyclical nature of human conflict and how invaluable the stories people tell about their collective past are. In the remarkable “Night Of The Kings,” the Ivorian director’s foll...

M. Night Shyamalan Reveals Title For Upcoming Thriller ‘Old’, Reportedly Inspired By Graphic Novel ‘Sandcastle’

Rafael Motamayor

September 27, 2020 10:15 am

News

M. Night Shyamalan has had a very interesting career path. The filmmaker skyrocketed with his third film, "The Sixth Sense," but quickly faded out of popularity with a series of big-budget critical and commerc...

‘Smooth Talk’ & The Dark Side Of Attraction: Unpacking Female Perspectives In The Laura Dern-Starring Overlooked ’85 Classic [NYFF]

Joe Blessing

September 27, 2020 9:00 am

Festivals, Interviews, News, Reviews

As Hollywood tries to balance the enormous gender disparity among directors, many critics and audiences are looking back with added respect on past works of female filmmakers, trying to reframe traditional not...

‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ Is Bare-Bones True Crime That Leaves Too Much Unsaid [Review]

Chris Barsanti

September 26, 2020 2:25 pm

News, Reviews

Jenny Popplewell’s true-crime documentary “American Murder: The Family Next Door” takes place in the kind of neighborhood where you can imagine somebody saying, “You don’t expect this sort of thing to happen h...

Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Leaves Oscar Race, Eyes Cannes 2021 Premiere Instead

Rafael Motamayor

September 26, 2020 1:02 pm

News

When SXSW and then the Cannes film festival canceled their 2020 editions earlier this year, the question of what would happen to the official film selection became a big talking point. Would they release in a ...

‘Spiderhead’: Jurnee Smollett, Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller Set To Star In Joseph Kosinski’s Netflix Film

Rafael Motamayor

September 26, 2020 11:15 am

News

Joseph Kosinski has found his next project after "Top Gun: Maverick" and it seems he's returning to the sci-fi genre, and he's got company. Jurnee Smollett, Chris Hemsworth, and Miles Teller are set to star in...

‘Days’: Tsai Ming-liang’s Latest is Minimalist But Moving [NYFF Review]

Jason Bailey

September 26, 2020 10:30 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Nothing “happens” in the opening scene of Tsai Ming-liang’s “Days,” at least not in any conventional sense: Kang (Lee Kang-sheng), a middle-class, middle-aged man, is sitting at his window, look...

Disney’s Live-Action Peter Pan Finds Its Tinkerbell In ‘Grown-ish’ Star

Rafael Motamayor

September 26, 2020 9:55 am

News

Despite low box-office numbers for their latest live-action adaptation, "Mulan," it seems Disney is moving ahead with a live-action adaptation "Peter Pan and Wendy." And the film has found its new Tinkerbell i...

Aldis Hodge Will Play Hawkman In ‘Black Adam’

Edward Davis

September 25, 2020 6:43 pm

News

Following standout dramatic turns in "Clemency," Showtime's "City On A Hill," and most recently, the critically acclaimed "One Night In Miami" from director Regina King, actor Aldis Hodge is about to try somet...

‘Mangrove’: Revolution Sparks In Steve McQueen’s Uplifting ‘Small Axe’ Courtroom Drama [NYFF Review]

Robert Daniels

September 25, 2020 6:21 pm

Features, News, Reviews

A West Indian proverb holds, “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.” “Lovers Rock,” the first film made available of Steve McQueen’s Amazon miniseries “Small Axe,” first interpreted the saying as a me...

Henry Cavill Denies Being Involved In ‘Justice League’ Reshoots & Says He’s “Just Watching The Party”

Charles Barfield

September 25, 2020 2:47 pm

News

The best part about the upcoming HBO Max release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is that when everything is all released and the fans can see what the filmmaker’s vision of the film actually was, we can all ...

‘Blood’: Michelle Monaghan To Star In Brad Anderson’s Latest Thriller

Charles Barfield

September 25, 2020 2:29 pm

News

It’s really shocking that Michelle Monaghan remains an underrated actress. She’s had no shortage of major roles in films and TV projects such as “True Detective,” “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” “Gone Baby Gone,” and t...