Cultural phenomena like Elvis Presley simply don't come along very often. As a follow-up to his 2022 Elvis Biopic, energetic director Baz Luhrmann unearthed and restored never-before-seen footage of Presley, including 45 minutes of audio where he discussed his life and work, and made all of that
Bart Layton's star-studded "Crime 101" is a classic cat-and-mouse thriller, the likes of which we see (in his own words) few and farther between these days. While he wanted to deliver a rollercoaster ride for audiences that provided the requisite set pieces, tension, and character dynamics, he was
Luc Besson's career has twisted and turned down many paths since he burst onto the scene in the 1990s with his distinct visual style, and, on some level, it is surprising that he would now undertake yet another Dracula adaptation, seemingly out of the blue. There have been so many adaptations of
Luc Besson is an accomplished writer, producer, and director with a long list of successful projects and franchises. After decades in the industry, he recently found a collaborator he considers 'the ferrari' of actors. One of those actors is Caleb Landry Jones. Caleb Landry Jones and Luc Besson
Ric Roman Waugh knows his way around an action sequence, and an action star, having build his career as a writer/director on the back of decades as an accomplished stunt man and coordintator. It might also be why he likes taking risks. While a Jason Statham action movie isn't, on the surface, a
In their genre-defying landmark book about grief, 'H is For Hawk', Helen McDonald dug deep into the time-honored tradition of falconry and how it connects human beings closely to the line between life and death. Her personal story was adapted into a major release this year, starring Claire Foy and
AI is seemingly everywhere these days. In Hollywood, questions about its role in the filmmaking process are accompanied by legal concerns that have embroiled the embattled entertainment world for some time now. It's also frequently a subject of the stories onscreen themselves, as in "Mercy."
Daisy Ridley's latest movie We Bury the Dead, allowed her to take a new look at a popular genre. No stranger to genre films of all scales, Ridley was attracted to this project because it was a humanistic spin on the familiar zombie movie. The story takes place in a world reckoning with a disaster
We're in the era of liminal spaces, folks. Movies like Skinamarink, Backrooms, and Exit 8 have all proven that audiences, especially younger audiences, can't get enough of them. it Ends brings us really two liminal spaces in one movie. The film tells the story of four friends who are getting
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger feels like a movie that’s selling itself as something deeper than it ultimately is. There’s an expectation that we’re going to get this grand story about the Gallagher brothers reconciling, putting aside their differences, and coming back together for these
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia shows us the power of wisdom, for good and for evil, in the titular Ep. 10 "Wisdom". With Boraqchin showing Sitara / Fatima that she's both very crafty and utterly ruthless in her pursuit of her goals. However, for all that she is wise, she is by no means omniscient.