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‘Bones And All’: Luca Guadagnino On Violence’s Nature, Having The “Guts” To Release A Longer ’Bigger Splash’ & More [Interview]

November 15, 2022 3:50 pm

New kid at school Maren (Taylor Russell), has been invited to a sleepover by a few popular girls, a rite of passage she correctly recognizes as fraught with potential for catastrophe. She doesn’t totally fit i...

‘Moonage Daydream’ Director Brett Morgen Talks Creating A “Non-Biographical” David Bowie Doc & More [Interview]

Charles Bramesco

September 19, 2022 2:10 pm

Features, Interviews, News

At this point, we’ve all seen enough documentaries about 20th-century musical geniuses that the average viewer could direct one in their sleep: archival footage of the greatest-hits performances, behind-the-sc...

‘Keane’: Lodge Kerrigan Recalls His Striking 2004 & Second Breakthrough Thriller Starring Damian Lewis

Charles Bramesco

August 19, 2022 12:55 pm

Features, Interviews, News

While his unnerving 1993 debut, "Clean, Shaven," really floored audiences who saw it back in the day, when director Lodge Kerrigan’s belated third film “Keane” first made the rounds on the festival circuit in ...

‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Ruben Östlund Falters In This Broad Class Satire [Cannes]

Charles Bramesco

May 21, 2022 1:54 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It’s one of modern life’s most beguiling paradoxes that social media influencers are, of course, the scum of the earth, and yet the pop culture skewering them always plays so uncharitably that a viewer feels c...

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’: Quentin Tarantino’s Novelization Is An Authoritative Act Of Self-Made Fan Fiction [Review]

Charles Bramesco

July 10, 2021 10:45 am

News, Reviews

Those who knocked “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as nothing more than a pretense for Quentin Tarantino to meticulously recreate and hang out in the 1969 Los Angeles located somewhere between his boyhood memor...

‘A Chiara’: Jonas Carpignano’s Completes His Calabrian Trilogy On An Unexpected, But High Note [Review]

Charles Bramesco

July 9, 2021 7:06 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Before Jonas Carpignano makes a movie, first, he must find it. His last two features integrated themselves into the terrain of a distinctly modern Italy and imposed a loose narrative on the real-world subcultu...

Abel Ferrara Talks ‘Siberia,’ Working With Dennis Hopper, Staying Sober & Much More [Deep Focus Podcast]

Charles Bramesco

June 25, 2021 1:20 pm

Features, Interviews, News, Podcasts

Abel Ferrara’s latest film, “Siberia,” finds his constant muse, Willem Dafoe, in an icy, isolated wasteland not explicitly meant to be the Russian tundra but rather an abstract plane of sol...

Todd Haynes Talks ‘Dark Waters,’ Studio Filmmaking & Directing Other People’s Scripts [Interview]

Charles Bramesco

November 20, 2019 2:33 pm

Features, Interviews, News

There’s been an overtone of befuddlement to the reception for Todd Haynes’ latest picture, the legal procedural “Dark Waters.” Where’s the smoldering queer angst, the reverent evocation of a stylized past, the ...

‘Bad Education’: Hugh Jackman Excels As A Superintendent At The Center Of A High School Conspiracy [TIFF Review]

Charles Bramesco

September 12, 2019 10:08 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

In Cory Finley’s new film “Bad Education,” Hugh Jackman stars as the impossibly put-together school superintendent Dr. Frank Tassone. With hair so perfectly jet-black it has to be dyed, an impeccable physique m...

‘Color Out Of Space’: Richard Stanley’s Lovecraft Adaptation Is A Perfect Vessel For Pure Nicolas Cage [TIFF Review]

Charles Bramesco

September 9, 2019 9:44 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

“A Nicolas Cage movie” is defined by more than simply starring the inimitable Nicolas Cage. A true film du Cage loosens its grip on realism to embrace expressionistic freedom in both his performance and the ove...