For a book that not many people know about or have read, James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890) has had quite an impact on cult cinema, particularly in the ’70s. For reasons that would take too long to go into here — and thanks to its influence on Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The Hero…
EXCLUSIVE: Premiering tonight at the Princess of Wales, Easy’s Waltz marks the directing debut of True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto. It also marks the coming out party for Vince Vaughn as a Vegas lounge singer with great potential. As the singer’s mentor, Al Pacino plays perhaps the most dangerous man since his Michael Corleone days….
Retirement seems to have been treating Steven Soderbergh well; since he first mooted his withdrawal from film-making in 2012 — resulting in a four-year hiatus — he’s made at least one film a year since 2017. His return, however, has seen quite a different output, even for a director who came out swinging as a…
EXCLUSIVE: After creating the John Wick and Nobody action franchises, screenwriter Derek Kolstad is at it again. Premiering last night in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto Film Festival as an acquisition title – I’ll eat my hat if it doesn’t get a distribution deal as Kolstad already ponders a sequel – comes Normal….
It has been exactly 80 years since the infamous Nuremberg tribunal established international law and put the Nazis on trial for unspeakable evil acts in war. It has been the subject of a landmark 1961 movie from Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg, which was nominated for 11 Oscars and won two, as well as TV…
Don’t dare call Maude Apatow a mere “nepo baby.” Her winning directorial debut proves she has the chops behind the camera as well as in front (Euphoria), Apatow name or no Apatow name. Poetic License, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in a prime Saturday night slot, is evidence of…