“Memento” “The purpose of the movie is not for us to solve the murder of the wife (“I can’t remember to forget you,” he says of her). If we leave the theater not sure exactly what happened, that’s fair enough. The movie is more like a poignant exercise, in which Leonard’s residual code of honor … Read more
A new The Venture Bros. movie clip has been released, showing a meeting of various members of the Guild of Calamitous Intent—including the iconic character Dr. Mrs. The Monarch. The film, titled The Venture Bros: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart, is set to release digitally on July 21 and on Blu-ray on … Read more
The full trailer for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Season 4 includes romance and a reunion of the original High School Musical cast, previewing the show’s final episodes ahead of its Disney+ debut on August 9. The trailer includes a glimpse of the secret romance between Gina (Sofia Wylie) and Ricky (Joshua Bassett), … Read more
The Audrey Hepburn-starring Roman Holiday is getting its first-ever 4k Ultra HD release from Paramount Home Entertainment this August. Paramount Home Entertainment announced Roman Holiday, the classic Hepburn and Gregory Peck film from 1953, is getting a special 4K Ultra HD release with a number of different special features in celebration of the film’s 70th … Read more
Q&A with director Aaron Hughes What was the inspiration for this? Years back, I was working for the museum at the Federal Reserve of New York, right in the middle of the financial district. Being surrounded so much by finance really got me thinking a lot about capitalism. At the same time, I was dealing … Read more
Now streaming on: “Showing Up” From the housewife trapped in a malaise in “River of Grass” to two strivers in the American West in “First Cow,” the people who live on the margins of the margins have long fascinated Kelly Reichardt. It would therefore seem odd that her newest film, “Showing Up,” set in the … Read more
“So why was I born a woman?” “Even Heaven makes mistakes.” This feels so distinctly a trans narrative that I actually gasped when I read it. When I was young, I too thought heaven had made a mistake in the form given to me. I asked this question, about whether that form was a mistake, … Read more
Eustache reportedly drew the film’s emotional content from his own life, and I think that is one key to its greatness: It has the gut-level passion and authenticity of a first-hand account, one by an artist who perhaps sensed that he needed to pack everything he had to say into one massive opus. Autobiography in … Read more
Vertical Entertainment has released the official trailer for its new horror film Natty Knocksstarring genre icons Robert Englund, Danielle Harris, and Bill Moseley. Natty Knocks is slated to release day-and-date on July 21. Set against the backdrop of Halloween Eve, the film stars Charlotte Fountain-Jardim as a babysitter who fights to save herself and the … Read more
“The Servant” is a noir, a horror film, an “Upstairs/Downstairs” satire, a thriller about power, a romantic comedy for a long middle stretch, a pair of terse love triangles, a survival melodrama at the end when at its most Brechtian. It’s a frightening and funny film, a low story told in high style. It’s an … Read more