A few years ago, Jeremy Renner seemed poised to become the second lead of the Mission: Impossible franchise — or maybe even take the whole series over from Tom Cruise if he ever got tired of jumping out of planes or climbing up the sides of buildings. Renner co-starred in the fourth film, Ghost Protocol, and the fifth, Rogue Nation, … Read more
Those who find the movie willfully baffling — impenetrable for impenetrable’s sake — will be hard to convince. (In Jessica Kiang’s positive New York Times review, she observed, “The film is undeniably enjoyable, but its giddy grandiosity only serves to highlight the brittleness of its purported braininess.”) But for some, like Chinapen, that denseness — … Read more
Martin Scorsese blocked Leonardo DiCaprio from improvising on their new film. The filmmaker has reunited with the actor and his regular collaborator Robert De Niro for the epic Killers of the Flower Moon, and he has reflected on the actors’ respective approaches, with the former’s “endless” discussions and improvisation on set. Speaking to the Wall … Read more