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LFF 2022 Interview: Leslie Odom Jr. and Kathryn Hahn
While they appear second in our Glass Onion Interviews series, I meet Leslie Odom Jr. and Kathryn Hahn last on a long day of interviews. It’s nearly five PM, and it doesn’t seem like they’re getting a break any time soon. But any sign of weariness is nonexistent as we settle in for one last roundtable. Odom Jr. and Hahn are in good spirits. Tonight is the big gala premiere. Before we even begin, a PR rep reminds us to keep the discussion away from spoilers, which has become harder as the day goes on. Luckily, Odom Jr. and Hahn are hilarious, eloquent, and totally up to race down whatever path our conversation takes us. Frankly, it’s amazing we get anything coherent out of our fifteen minutes
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Glass Onion Interviews: Leslie Odom Jr. and Kathryn Hahn
While they appear second in our Glass Onion Interviews series, I meet Leslie Odom Jr. and Kathryn Hahn last on a long day of interviews. It’s nearly five PM, and it doesn’t seem like they’re getting a break any time soon. But any sign of weariness is nonexistent as we settle in for one last roundtable. Odom Jr. and Hahn are in good spirits. Tonight is the big gala premiere. Before we even begin, a PR rep reminds us to keep the discussion away from spoilers, which has become harder as the day goes on. Luckily, Odom Jr. and Hahn are hilarious, eloquent, and totally up to race down whatever path our conversation takes us. Frankly, it’s amazing we get anything coherent out of our fifteen minutes
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LFF 2022 Interview: Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline
I met with actors Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline to talk about Glass Onion before its European premiere at the London Film Festival. The roundtable conversation was strictly moderated, with multiple areas we had to tiptoe around. This is, after all, a murder mystery, so spoilers are kept strictly under wraps. Nevertheless, during our freewheeling conversation, Hudson, Henwick, and Cline touch upon multiple topics related to the film, their work around it, and what it feels like to grow into a family on set, and then potentially never see each other again once it’s all done. This interview is condensed and edited for clarity. In the movie, the painting of the Mona Lisa is a d
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Glass Onion Interviews: Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline
I met with actors Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline to talk about Glass Onion before its European premiere at the London Film Festival. The roundtable conversation was strictly moderated, with multiple areas we had to tiptoe around. This is, after all, a murder mystery, so spoilers are kept strictly under wraps. Nevertheless, during our freewheeling conversation, Hudson, Henwick, and Cline touch upon multiple topics related to the film, their work around it, and what it feels like to grow into a family on set, and then potentially never see each other again once it’s all done. This interview is condensed and edited for clarity. In the movie, the painting of the Mona Lisa is a d
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LFF 2022 Review: SHTTL
On a long, fading summer evening, a young man returns to his shtetl. That word is Yiddish, which means a town of Ashkenazi Jews, used until the 1940s before the Nazis wiped out their culture from the face of the earth. The shtetl is preparing for a wedding. It rests by a riverbank in Ukraine, bordering Poland. The Soviet military machine found them some years earlier. Stalin’s men spend their days conscripting those they can and sermonising those they can’t. The returning man, Mendele, has left behind friends, family, unresolved conflicts, and the woman he loves. They all have something left unsaid. Things that can’t linger in their soul any longer. It is the summer of 1941. Days before Oper
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Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (PC)
Swinging to the PC just a hair under four years after its debut on the PlayStation 4, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is the definitive take on the web-slinging superhero. It’s really that simple. If you haven’t experienced the adventures of Peter Parker yet, you’re in for a treat. For returning true believers, the updated visuals and crisp presentation should warrant another swing. On the PC, Spider-Man soars with breathtaking visual updates that fill New York with vivid beauty, making Insomniac’s power fantasy feel more alive than before. The story lifts elements from most Spider-Man films and comics, but the big picture never feels messy or convoluted. Peter, now separated from Mary-Jane,
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Hocus Pocus 2
I never saw the original Hocus Pocus. Yeah, yeah, get your gasping out of the way. I eventually checked it out this year, but only after I saw the sequel. I wasn’t the target audience at the time, and over the years I just didn’t get around to it. But, and this is the important part, I enjoyed the sequel so much, that a quick viewing of the original was in order. To my surprise, I liked it just as much. I mean, they’re effectively the same film. If you like one, you’ll probably like the other. OK, review done. What’s next? * Hocus Pocus 2 picks up nearly thirty years after the first one. Another generation of youngsters stumble upon the legend of The Sanderson Sisters, and shenanigans ensue.
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
You’ve got to hand it to Peter Farrelly, at least he’s consistent. His previous film, Green Book, was dumb. This one is dumber. They’re both boomer fantasies about disgraceful periods of recent American history. But most of all, they’re stories of untold millions killed, and how that made one tangentially related white guy feel. After reducing the Jim Crow South and American segregation to a white thug explaining racism to a black man, Farrelly clearly felt that was just too subtle. In The Greatest Beer Run Ever, he might as well be making a fantasy picture. The tall tale of John ‘Chick’ Donahue delivering beer to his buddies in Vietnam is already suspect. But in Farrelly’s hands, it turns i
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Blonde
There’s a special level of cinema hell reserved for films like this. Films that are equal parts malicious, ignorant, and cowardly. Those that claim the authority of biography, yet hide behind fiction when called out on their nonsense. In theory, Blonde is a fantasy portrait of a fictional Marilyn Monroe, who in turn is a manifestation of dissociative identity disorder within Norma Jean. Ana de Armas plays both, though we stick with Marilyn for most of the film. Who either of these women really is remains a mystery. Her agency, personality, or inner life is not what interests director Andrew Dominick. For all he or the film cares, Marilyn could be a pound of flesh. She is a sacrificial lamb,
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Andor
Andor: Season One premieres on Disney Plus on September 21st. Led by Tony Gilroy, Andor is a smart, reasonably mature take on the Star Wars franchise. It’s still Star Wars, don’t get me wrong, but it’s closer to The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi than anything else. By discarding any references to the Jedi, The Force, or any sort of lineage, Gilroy strips the iconography to its bare essentials. Anchored instead by a nuanced, compelling performance by Diego Luna, Andor is Star Wars which finally allows for the franchise to breathe and expand. Living on a remote scrapyard of a planet, Andor (Luna) is a tough guy looking for a bullet with his name on it. His sister disappeared years ago
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HIFF 2022: See How They Run
We really should thank Rian Johnson for all of this. After all, without his superlative whodunit revival, Knives Out, I doubt there would be half as many murder mysteries out today. Sure, Kenneth Brannagh has done his part, but his classy-to-a-fault Hercule Poirot adaptations attract a wholly different kind of audience. Not a young audience, mind you. This is a genre for those who invariably begin sentences with “back in the day.” In between these takes lies something of a gulf. This is precisely where See How They Run tries to wedge itself. It’s not quite a classic chamber piece, nor a meta-commentary on the genre, but rather a half-measure. One that’s equally happy to make fun of something
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HIFF 2022: Sirens
Helsinki International Film Festival 2022 review: Sirens There’s a moment late in Sirens that encapsulates the entire picture in one probably-staged-but-so-beautiful-that-you-don’t-care scene. Two of our heroes share details from the others sordid late night escapades. They huddle together, all hushed tones and giggles. “We made out,” one professes. Behind them, a massive protest swells. It has every potential to turn violent, but it’s also so routine by now that it melds into the cityscape. This is their life. Rita Baghdadi‘s tremendous documentary is full of moments like this. Little details that lurk behind the normality that its subjects want to build for themselves. If you ask them, the
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HIFF 2022 Review: Triangle of Sadness
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HIFF 2022: Triangle of Sadness
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The 15 Films You Shouldn’t Miss At The Helsinki International Film Festival
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Preview
Alkuperäinen artikkeli It began with the forging of the great films. Three of them, in fact. Made by a Hobbit from New Zealand who, with his fellowship of craftsmen, actors, and trusted confidants, defied expectation at every turn. After six years of production, The Lord of the Rings trilogy redefined fantasy for the mainstream and created the definitive alphabet for how we saw J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic story. One film to rule them all. Film history became internet legend. Legend became a meme. And for two decades, rights for the book passed out of all knowledge. Until chance came, and The Tolkien Estate ensnared a new bearer. It came to the creature Bezos, who took them deep into the Amazon ful
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season One Preview
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House of the Dragon Season One Review
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Review
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