Sing Sing (2024)Director: Greg KwedarScreenwriters: Clint Bentley, Greg KwedarStarring: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Sean San Jose, Paul Raci, David Giraudy, Patrick Griffin, Mosi Eagle, James Williams, Sean Dino Johnson We’ve seen a lot of art about art recently. Some of it has been used to express contemporary concerns on the future of all art in […]
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AfrAId (2024)Director: Chris WeitzScreenwriters: Chris WeitzStarring: John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian, Keith Carradine In late 2022, Blumhouse, a studio known for making one good and successful movie every so often which then in turn funds ten abominations, released M3GAN, a sci-fi thriller about a robotic doll that gains sentience
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The Third Man (1949)Director: Carol ReedScreenwriters: Graham GreeneStarring: Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee The Third Man is a film that is more legend than picture. A Palme d’Or winner in 1949, and winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography – Black and White for Robert Krasker in 1951, Carol
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Black Dog (2024)Director: Hu GuanScreenwriters: Rui Ge, Hu GuanStarring: Eddie Pang, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yi, Zhou You, Yuan Hong, Vision Wei, Wang Yanhui, Hu Xiaoguang Winner of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard award, Black Dog is an affecting, low-key piece of social realism interspersed with moments of stunning beauty. Director
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Strange Darling (2023)Director: JT MollnerScreenwriter: JT MollnerStarring: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr. Movies about serial killers are nothing new, and the enduring popularity of true crime media shows the fascination with such stories will continue. Like many genres, audiences have a growing understanding of the machinations of killer thrillers, so how can
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The Crow (2024)Director: Rupert SandersScreenwriters: Zack Baylin, William SchneiderStarring: Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston Contrary to popular belief, lightning can, in fact, strike the same place twice. Additionally, the odds of getting struck by lightening are low – but never zero. The same could be said of reboots, remakes, and reimaginings of films. Although
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Alien: Romulus (2024)Director: Fede ÁlvarezScreenwriters: Fede Álvarez, Rodo SayaguesStarring: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renauz, Isabela Merced, Spike Dearn, Aileen Wu The Alien franchise has had its ups and downs. The first film, from 1979 and directed by Ridley Scott, is a stone cold classic, one of the best horror and science-fiction films of all
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It Ends with Us (2024)Director: Justin BaldoniScreenwriter: Christy HallStarring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Brandon Sklenar BookTok, a literary-focused subcommunity on the popular and controversial app TikTok, exploded online in early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning to sweep the globe. Born out of a need to escape the frightening
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Trap (2024)Director: M. Night ShyamalanScreenwriter: M. Night ShyamalanStarring: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Alison Pill, Hayley Mills, Jonathan Langdon M. Night Shyamalan is, in many ways, the archetypal 21st Century studio auteur. His work is largely concept driven – centred around the type of ideas marketers and executives can rest assured their money is
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The Dead Don’t Hurt (2024)Director: Viggo MortensenScreenwriters: Viggo MortensenStarring: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Danny Huston It was 2022’s The Fabelmans that regaled the time Western pioneer, John Ford, sat a young Steven Spielberg down and stated “When the horizon’s at the bottom, it’s interesting. When the horizon’s at the top, it’s
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