Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version evokes memories of Woody Allen + Paul Mazursky.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee effectively provides a 21st-century setting to Aristophanes’ 2,400-year-old play in Chi-Raq. Teyonah Parris plays Lysistrata.
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Bryce Dallas Howard. Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World? Howard possibly the next female star in Jurassic Park franchise Bryce Dallas Howard, Rush director Ron Howard’s daughter perhaps best known…
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With the mostly Havana-set refugee drama Una Noche, narrative feature newcomer Lucy Mulloy proves herself a capable screenwriter-director.
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Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax with Ted (Zac Efron), Audrey (Taylor Swift) March 4 update: Partly thanks to 3D ticket surcharges – and the fact that five- and ten-year-olds can’t go…
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British street gangs top San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds directed by Peter Mullan. Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds, about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early…
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Revolutionary Road with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Sam Mendes – Winslet’s husband and the director of the 1999 Oscar-winning Suburbia Hell effort American Beauty – the dysfunctional…
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Inside Man offers a long day’s journey into nought: I’ve seen little of Spike Lee’s oeuvre. As far as I’m concerned, the overblown portrayal of ethnic relations in Do the…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: domestic blockbuster or box office disappointment? + surprising Victor Hugo musical and slur-filled Western hits.
Alain Delon, Bianca di Sofia at the Cannes Film Festival screening of ‘To Each His Own Cinema’ At Cannes Film Festival, Roman Polanski blames computers for journalists’ idiocy “I believe…