Dashrath, repudiating the kind of love the real-life Natwarlal received, is enraged that the pair are being valorized by young people on college campuses and celebrated in newspapers. There is very little Amitabh Bachchan cannot do, so his ability to defend the necessity of his mission to his boss is just as convincing as the montage … Read more
David Slade’s new horror film showcases a kill scarecrow that will now be hunted by a small posse. A new urban legend comes to life in the new trailer for Dark Harvest. The trailer starts with the ominous, almost Grimm fairy tale-esque narration that says, “It’s Halloween. You know what that means. Old Sawtooth Jack … Read more
Toho is celebrating Godzilla’s 70th anniversary with his 37th film, a prequel called Godzilla Minus One, which just got a new trailer. While Godzilla’s been busy in American movies and TV, with 2024 promising the return of the iconic kaiju in both Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and the Apple TV Plus series Monarch: … Read more
Heat and The Insider director Michael Mann’s first movie in eight years is almost here. Ferrari is about the famed racer car driver turned businessman Enzo Ferrari during a period of crisis in his personal life and career in middle age. And, of course, it features plenty of cool cars. An almost unrecognizable Adam Driver stars as Ferrari. Long … Read more
WALTER CHAW William Friedkin was deeply into sin. His films operate on what the disgraced psychiatrist (Robin Williams in his greatest role) of Kenneth Branagh’s bonzer “Dead Again” called the “karmic payment plan,” namely, you “buy now pay forever.” Most often grouped with the film brats of the New American Cinema, Friedkin was an autodidact, … Read more
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
What is light without darkness? This is what Tim Curry’s character of Darkness ponders in the 1985 film Legend. This fairy tale film from visionary director Ridley Scott would start filming in 1984 and even though the movie followed characters through a magical world, it would end up running into some very real problems. Scott … Read more
Her bio became a biopic 30 years ago, and even before then, the details of her life had been common knowledge. She was born Anna Mae Bullock in poverty in the Jim Crow South to a couple in a loveless and abusive marriage, and abandoned by both parents before adolescence. In an East St. Louis … Read more
Production company A24 recently unveiled a new upcoming project called The Legend of Ochi. The film is considered a fantasy epic. It will be the directorial debut for Isaiah Saxon. He will be directing a main cast that includes Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Finn Wolfhard and Helena Zegel. The title is based on Saxon’s original … Read more