Butler has been making nostalgic, midbudget action films so steadily, for so long, that he has perfected his own formula.Images and themes from “300” recur across Butler’s films. There’s loyalty to the...
Read moreThis month’s offbeat selections on the subscription streamers include familial comedy, religious drama, tales of sin and redemption, and a strange foodie-meets-performance artist comedy.
Read moreFilms can take years to make, and at age 80, the director Martin Scorsese is aware he has a finite amount of both films and years left.“He’s got many things in his...
Read moreRecognizing the internality Schrader was asking him to portray, Isaac recruited one of his teachers from Juilliard, Moni Yakim, and did mask work. “I was like, well, my face is going to...
Read moreOn Saturday, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s harrowing epic about one of America’s favorite pastimes — mass murder — had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, screening out of...
Read moreCorsini is one of the seven women with a movie in the 21-title main lineup, which is a very good number. Cannes has always been happy to have young, beautiful women in...
Read moreYou might not know where you are when “The Zone of Interest” begins, and that’s by design. This new film from the director Jonathan Glazer, which has been hotly tipped for a...
Read more3‘Snake’D.H. Lawrence builds the poem dramatically about how he found a snake sipping out of his water trough and clumsily throws this lump of wood. Then he says, “I think it did...
Read moreJim Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history, and who remained in the public eye as a Hollywood action hero and...
Read more‘A Family’Stream it on Netflix.Turning away from the portrayal of Yakuza as reckless renegades guided solely by blood lust, Michihito Fujii’s “A Family” paints the mobsters in a different, melancholic light. Known...
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