Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has assembled a characteristically stacked cast to dig into some prickly family dynamics in the new teaser for his next film, Father Mother Sister Brother. Like some of Jarmusch’s most renowned works — Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes — Father Mother Sister Brother is …
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When Cate Blanchett spoke with Radio Timesfor their latest issue, the veteran and two-time-winning Academy Award actress made fans and film lovers across the globe do a double take when she revealed her quite serious intentions to step away from the silver screen. “My family roll their eyes every time …
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“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” — Henny Youngman Boundaries are important in any relationship, much less a till-death-do-us-part union in which both parties are spies involved in highly classified operations for a British intelligence agency. Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp get it. They understand the need …
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Black Bag reveals the consequences of mixing work and pleasure. In the Black Bag trailer, released Tuesday, Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star as happily married intelligence agents. All seems well for the lovebirds, until an intelligence breach challenges their marriage, leaving Fassbender’s George to decide between love or the …
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The first big laugh in Rumours hits before the opening credits have even finished rolling: “The producers would like to thank the G7 leaders for their support and consultation during the making of this movie.” As political bloggers, chronic doomscrollers and any conspiracy theorist with access to the internet will …
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What if a novel showed up on your doorstep, and you were not only a main character in it, but its villain? And what if copies of the book — which begins by noting that “any resemblance to persons living or dead is not a coincidence” — started appearing in …
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In the opening scene of the Rumours red band trailer, an archeologist unearths an Iron Age corpse, mummified with its severed penis hanging from its neck. As the summit host and German representative Hilda Orlmann, played by Cate Blanchett, describes the bog body, the G7 leaders in attendance can’t help …
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Cate Blanchett has played queens, prime ministers, psychiatrists, artists, hipsters, thieves, Southern belles, evil stepmothers, Norse deities, Nazis, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Dylan, and an elf. She’s an actor who’s fearless in her choices and boundless in her versatility. So you can imagine her being approached to play a bounty hunter …
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“Beware of narrative and form,” declares a God-like voiceover to start the teaser for Apple TV+‘s Disclaimer. On Wednesday, the streaming service released a minute-long teaser for the Alfonso Cuarón-directed, seven-part series, Disclaimer, out Oct. 11. The teaser flashes several scenes from the show to introduce its several characters: Cate …
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The directors of the Cate Blanchett-starring Rumours, one of the movies that premiered this week at the Cannes Film Festival, confirmed at a press conference Sunday that the film is named after the classic Fleetwood Mac album. Rumours — described as “dark comedy” about a group of G7 world leaders …
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