Wrapped loosely in the packaging of a documentary, “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of the Midnight Cowboy,” is written and directed by Nancy Buirski. It features Jon Voight, Bob Balaban, Brian de Palma, Charles Kaiser, Lucy Sante, Brenda Vaccaro, the voice of John Schlesinger, and many others who either were in “Midnight Cowboy,” … Read more
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator offered no shortage of fantastic sets which instantly transported audiences to Ancient Rome, and the upcoming sequel looks to be just as impressive. Morocco’s Minister of Culture, Mohammed Mehdi Bensaid, recently visited the set of Gladiator 2 and shared a few photos and a video on Instagram. He met with Ridley Scott, … Read more
The human drama of the Asteroid City portion of the film, which finds Augie, his father-in-law Stanley (Tom Hanks), and the Steenback children, among others, negotiating with awful grievance, is interrupted by not one but two visitations by an alien spacecraft. The new knowledge of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe solves nobody’s problems—it just … Read more
And yet, like so many walkers before it, the universe simply refuses to die. Where the main series has ended, many smaller spinoffs have sprouted up to seek more flesh (and audience’s eyeballs) for some of its fan-favorite characters. “Dead City” is the first of these, and thus a test to see how these splintered … Read more
Like its namesake monsters, The Walking Dead is the show that won’t die. It keeps going—it gets revived, renewed, resurrected. The show’s first revival, The Walking Dead: Dead City brings back two favorite characters, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and sends them to Manhattan. Set an indeterminate time after the end of … Read more
Treat Williams, a long-time character actor and star of the well-loved cult movies Deep Rising and Dead Heat, has died at 71. According to a report via People Magazine, the actor died in a tragic motorcycle accident. His agent, Barry McPherson, told the magazine, “He was killed this afternoon. He was making a left or … Read more
FX has released the official trailer for Justified: City Primeval, which pits Raylan Givens against a ruthless killer. Raylan Givens is back in action and I couldn’t be happy. FX has released the official trailer for Justified: City Primevala new limited series inspired by Elmore Leonard’s crime novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. justified … Read more
Focus Features releases a trio of character posters for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, which recently debuted at Cannes. The release of Wes Anderson’s latest movie is just a few weeks away, and Focus Features have released a trio of Asteroid City character posters. They feature Tom Hanks (making his Wes Anderson movie debut), Scarlett Johansson, … Read more
Unless you count the desert-set “Asteroid City” or “Killers of the Flower Moon” as westerns, the best example of that genre at Cannes this year is “The Settlers,” a debut feature from the Chilean director Felipe Gálvez that was shown in the festival’s Un Certain Regard section. It dramatizes an episode from Chilean history in … Read more
This way of assembling images that disturb in order to provoke examination is also the subject of Wim Wenders’ remarkable new documentary “Anselm,” which screened immediately following McQueen’s film. A sister film of sorts to 2011’s celebrated “Pina,” this latest film provides a fascinating, and at times breathtaking, look at German artist Anselm Kiefer. My … Read more