Anatomy of a Fall starts out with an extraordinary act of passive-aggressiveness: A German writer, Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) is sitting in her home in Grenoble, a part-cabin, part-winter-getaway mini-mansion tucked away at the snowy foot of the French Alps. She’s being interviewed by a female student (Camille Rutherford) about …
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You’ve seen it a million times in a million different movies: A dude is cruising in his neighborhood, bumping bass-heavy tunes out of his car and dragging on a cigarette. His baseball cap is tilted, the heart tattoo inked on his cheek looks like a birthmark, and thanks to the …
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Imagine you’re a filmmaker, and you’ve assembled a dream cast of A-list stars, crack character actors, and your usual stock company of famous faces. Your production-design team has gifted you with a set that’s evocative of a 1950s Southwestern desert landscape, complete with Monument Valley vistas and Route 66 iconography. …
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Memo to showrunners: When in doubt about your lead character, just cut to her masturbating while choking herself. It’s a little past the halfway mark of the first episode of The Idol — the HBO series about the pressure chamber of pop stardom from the minds of Abel “The Weeknd” …
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The Osage called it the “Reign of Terror.” Once upon a time, long after they’d been forcibly displaced and sold land in the Oklahoma territories deemed barren and unfruitful, the Indigenous tribe had discovered oil under the ground. And more oil. And still more oil after that. They became rich. …
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Indiana Jones has fought a lot of screen villains: Nazis, assassins, evil high priests, corrupt rich douchebags, Cate Blanchett, Cate Blanchett’s hair. Yet Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — the fifth movie to feature Harrison Ford’s globetrotting, snake-hating, whip-cracking, fedora-rocking archeology professor — pits our man Indy against …
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The teaser trailer for Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon is finally upon us. The film’s first look dropped Thursday before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars three Best Actor Oscar winners: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Brendan Fraser, along with Jesse Plemons …
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The guy with the slick, black ponytail worked the crowd, signing autographs and pressing the flesh, and posing for selfies, like it was still 2011 and nothing had changed at all. In France, maybe nothing had really changed. Here, on this red carpet, Johnny Depp remained the biggest movie star …
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Pedro Pascal is going to see a man about a horse. Actually, you can scratch the “about a horse” part. Riding the range in the Wild, Wild West, his cowboy rides into town, hitches his stallion, and walks right into the sheriff’s office. The lawman — he’s named Jake, and …
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The head of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, defended the inclusion of Johnny Depp’s comeback move in this year’s festival and rebuffed criticism from French actress Adèle Haenel, who recently wrote that Cannes would “do anything to defend their rapist chiefs.” As Variety reports, Fremaux addressed the issues during …
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