Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Poolman, A Man in Full and Hacks.
TCM Classic Film Festival
After kicking off with a Pulp Fiction reunion on April 18, the TCM Classic Film Festival continued through the weekend, as Jodie Foster had her handprints and footprints enshrined in concrete at the Tcl Chinese Theatre and then appeared at a screening of her film The Silence of the Lambs; Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins reunited for a screening of their film The Shawshank Redemption; and Mel Brooks introduced a closing night presentation of his film Spaceballs.
Jodie Foster signs her autograph in cement during the Handprint and Footprint Ceremony TCM Host Eddie Muller, Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins and TCM Host Dave Karger attend ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ screening Mel Brooks speaks onstage at the ‘Spaceballs’ screening
Poolman premiere...
TCM Classic Film Festival
After kicking off with a Pulp Fiction reunion on April 18, the TCM Classic Film Festival continued through the weekend, as Jodie Foster had her handprints and footprints enshrined in concrete at the Tcl Chinese Theatre and then appeared at a screening of her film The Silence of the Lambs; Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins reunited for a screening of their film The Shawshank Redemption; and Mel Brooks introduced a closing night presentation of his film Spaceballs.
Jodie Foster signs her autograph in cement during the Handprint and Footprint Ceremony TCM Host Eddie Muller, Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins and TCM Host Dave Karger attend ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ screening Mel Brooks speaks onstage at the ‘Spaceballs’ screening
Poolman premiere...
- 4/26/2024
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Joseph (Ben Whishaw) sits at the table with his parents (Ellie Haddington and Ian Gelder), he puts his mouth to a glass. He wraps his lips around the rim as his breathing starts to heave. The others continue eating; he starts to lock his jaw. Then the glass cracks. He’s done this before a lot but never like this, and when he finds himself spitting blood into the bathroom sink with his mom screaming on the other side of the door, it seems that his tics have finally caught up with him.
That’s not to say he’s ever been a lax guy, but, to put it lightly, some things are getting to him. There are too many people, not enough manners. It’s too loud outside his apartment, too quiet inside his own head. It seems that only his job as an airport checkpoint officer grants...
That’s not to say he’s ever been a lax guy, but, to put it lightly, some things are getting to him. There are too many people, not enough manners. It’s too loud outside his apartment, too quiet inside his own head. It seems that only his job as an airport checkpoint officer grants...
- 1/29/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
There’s mannered, there’s manic, and then there’s the malfunctioning pinball-machine delirium that Ben Whishaw brings to “Surge”: a blinking, buzzing, flashing clatter of hyper-accelerated impulses, chicken-fried synapses and staggered hypnic jerks that never culminate in sleep. You wouldn’t expect stillness from a film called “Surge,” and in that respect only does Whishaw zig where you expect him to zig — to say nothing of his character, a humdrum airport worker who one day snaps in spectacularly feral fashion, embarking on the unlikeliest of London crime sprees. It’s quite a performance, sure to exhilarate some and aggravate others, and it joins the dots of Aneil Karia’s stylish if somewhat overstimulated debut feature while adding several disconnected ones of its own.
A rare shot of genuinely frenzied energy in British genre cinema, “Surge” seems likely to prompt comparisons to the recent work of Benny and Josh Safdie — in particular,...
A rare shot of genuinely frenzied energy in British genre cinema, “Surge” seems likely to prompt comparisons to the recent work of Benny and Josh Safdie — in particular,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Brian Cox, Greg Kinnear, Blythe Danner, Mena Massoud | Written by Eric Garcia | Directed by Rowan Athale
Strange But True is directed by Rowan Athale (The Rise) and penned by Eric Garcia (Matchstick Men), based on a novel by John Searles. It’s a dark thriller about a woman who shows up at the home of her deceased boyfriends family and tells them she is pregnant with his child. Trouble is, he’s been dead for five years. It’s a obscure and intriguing concept and with a cast that includes Amy Ryan (The Office), Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Brian Cox (Adaptation), Nick Robinson (Love Simon), and Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), I was on board. A nice assembled group of actors and a curious plot is easy to be on board with, after all.
We follow Philip (Robinson) who...
Strange But True is directed by Rowan Athale (The Rise) and penned by Eric Garcia (Matchstick Men), based on a novel by John Searles. It’s a dark thriller about a woman who shows up at the home of her deceased boyfriends family and tells them she is pregnant with his child. Trouble is, he’s been dead for five years. It’s a obscure and intriguing concept and with a cast that includes Amy Ryan (The Office), Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Brian Cox (Adaptation), Nick Robinson (Love Simon), and Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), I was on board. A nice assembled group of actors and a curious plot is easy to be on board with, after all.
We follow Philip (Robinson) who...
- 9/23/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
The last few years have already afforded us multiple opportunities to reflect on the remarkable talents of Margaret Qualley, an actor who, since breaking out in TV’s “The Leftovers,” has delivered pure, clear-eyed conviction to just about anything: She’s equally persuasive playing an anxious novice nun in “Novitiate,” the regally glamorous Ann Reinking in “Fosse/Verdon” or a dazed, flirty Manson girl in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” These are all good parts in good projects; the utter credibility she brings to “Strange But True” is another kind of achievement. Qualley shows up at the start of Rowan Athale’s daft behind-picket-fences thriller, so pregnant it’s a wonder she can walk at all, to announce with a sweet, straight face that she’s miraculously bearing the child of a boy who died five years before. And we utterly believe her, or at least we believe that she believes herself.
- 9/7/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Candy corn, the staple of the Halloween season, is now the name of a new horror movie? What a match made in heaven! Directed by Josh Hasty, Candy Corn's crowdfunding campaign and official poster are at the top of today's Highlights. Also: The Evil Within DVD release details, Bloodmania's worldwide distribution deal, a clip from the new episode of TLC's Paranormal Lockdown, and trailers for Phoenix Forgotten and The Last Scout.
Candy Corn's Indiegogo Campaign and Poster: Press Release: "Cleveland, Oh - March 1, 2017- Buzz has been growing rapidly around the new indie film, Candy Corn, from Josh Hasty (Director, In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn) and Butch Von Dreaux (Butchovision). The film, which stars Pancho Moler (Rob Zombie’s 31), has gained so much interest from fans that Hasty and Von Dreaux have decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign to get the fans involved. The 31-day campaign, which launched at midnight,...
Candy Corn's Indiegogo Campaign and Poster: Press Release: "Cleveland, Oh - March 1, 2017- Buzz has been growing rapidly around the new indie film, Candy Corn, from Josh Hasty (Director, In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn) and Butch Von Dreaux (Butchovision). The film, which stars Pancho Moler (Rob Zombie’s 31), has gained so much interest from fans that Hasty and Von Dreaux have decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign to get the fans involved. The 31-day campaign, which launched at midnight,...
- 3/2/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Doc about iconic horse race comes from Senna producer.
Ahead of the Efm, UK sales outfit Altitude has boarded enticing documentary Palio, about the thrills and spills of Italy’s iconic and dangerous horse race that takes place in the city centre of Siena.
The documentary will follow a young ‘outsider’ jockey keen to break into the dangerous but lucrative race - dubbed ‘the world’s oldest horse race’ - and the corrupt ‘insider’ who has manipulated Siena for over a decade.
Directed by award-winning BBC Storyville filmmaker Cosima Spender, the film is produced by Senna and Exit Through the Giftshop producer James Gay-Rees and John Hunt. I am Love producer Francesco Melzi d’Eril is executive producer.
Editor is Valerio Bonelli (Philomena), who is currently working as co-editor on Ridley Scott’s The Martian with Matt Damon and recently wrapped on Stephen Frears’ Icon, about the rise and fall of the Tour de France winner...
Ahead of the Efm, UK sales outfit Altitude has boarded enticing documentary Palio, about the thrills and spills of Italy’s iconic and dangerous horse race that takes place in the city centre of Siena.
The documentary will follow a young ‘outsider’ jockey keen to break into the dangerous but lucrative race - dubbed ‘the world’s oldest horse race’ - and the corrupt ‘insider’ who has manipulated Siena for over a decade.
Directed by award-winning BBC Storyville filmmaker Cosima Spender, the film is produced by Senna and Exit Through the Giftshop producer James Gay-Rees and John Hunt. I am Love producer Francesco Melzi d’Eril is executive producer.
Editor is Valerio Bonelli (Philomena), who is currently working as co-editor on Ridley Scott’s The Martian with Matt Damon and recently wrapped on Stephen Frears’ Icon, about the rise and fall of the Tour de France winner...
- 1/30/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A former soldier's award-winning film about disillusioned troops in Afghanistan is impressive
Writer-director Tom Petch picked up film of the festival prize at last year's Raindance bash with this gritty and downbeat account of British soldiers serving soul-destroying time in Afghanistan. Drawing on his own experiences of life in the army, Petch paints a convincing picture of demoralised troops; bitching about the shabby state of their weaponry, losing faith in the judgments of their superiors, generally disenchanted with risking life and limb in a war that is not their own.
Cinematographer Stuart Bentley shoots the Moroccan locations with enough grit to sand over the sometimes uncertain performances, and the wearing tedium of conflict is effectively evoked, broken occasionally by bursts of violence that are rightly harrowing.
Rating: 3/5
DramaMark Kermode
theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to...
Writer-director Tom Petch picked up film of the festival prize at last year's Raindance bash with this gritty and downbeat account of British soldiers serving soul-destroying time in Afghanistan. Drawing on his own experiences of life in the army, Petch paints a convincing picture of demoralised troops; bitching about the shabby state of their weaponry, losing faith in the judgments of their superiors, generally disenchanted with risking life and limb in a war that is not their own.
Cinematographer Stuart Bentley shoots the Moroccan locations with enough grit to sand over the sometimes uncertain performances, and the wearing tedium of conflict is effectively evoked, broken occasionally by bursts of violence that are rightly harrowing.
Rating: 3/5
DramaMark Kermode
theguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to...
- 2/9/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
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