Tim Fehlbaum‘s September 5 — a Venice Film Festival world premiere about the terrorist attack that occurred at the 1972 Munich Olympics — is not a documentary. But the filmmaker, who made a mark in science fiction films like The Colony and Hell, treated it like one. That meant that Fehlbaum and his team spent many …
A hundred years later, the sequence still radiates an otherworldly aura: a man wearing a porkpie hat walks down the aisle of a movie theater, steps up onto the stage, and slips into the motion picture screen. The film we have been watching — a conventional enough story of a boy who loses his girl due …
It’s a Pogue world after all. Netflix premiered the first teaser for Outer Banks season four on Thursday. The show will release in two parts in October and November this year. “We finally did it. We finally found the gold,” Chase Stokes‘ John B says in the 50-second teaser. “That’s where the story should have …
Brazilian documentarian Petra Costa continues to chronicle the dire state of democracy in her homeland with the eye-opening exposé Apocalypse in the Tropics (Apocalipse nos Trópicos), delving into the troubling ties linking Christian evangelism and politics all the way up to the highest office. As in her Oscar-nominated 2019 feature, The Edge of Democracy, Costa …
Upon his death in 2010 at age 42, the former Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman was memorialized in many obituaries in a familiar way — as a brilliant child actor who encountered personal difficulties later on in life. The new documentary Gary, on Peacock, seeks to bring a fresh perspective to his well-publicized story. Helmed …
This year’s Venice Film Festival is the most star-studded in recent memory. The list of A-listers heading to the Lido’s red carpet — Brad Pitt and George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Jenna Ortega, Daniel Craig, Joachim Phoenix and Lady Gaga — boggles the mind. But the international film journalists attending this year’s festival …
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody tackle the unconventional in the trailer for Netflix‘s Nobody Wants This, a new rom-com series premiering in September. In the trailer, released Thursday, Bell plays Joanne, an agnostic podcast host, who meets Noah (Brody), a rabbi, at a party. At the end of the clip, Noah asks Joanne, “Is there …
Barry Keoghan is the latest actor to join the Peaky Blinders movie at Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He’ll star alongside Peaky Blinders original castmember Cillian Murphy and Rebecca Ferguson in the film. Keoghan has been nominated and won awards for his recent roles in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of …
Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan became the subject of The Reagans. Starring James Brolin and a superb Judy Davis, the very controversial TV movie elicited scornful reactions from Reagan acolytes and barely made it to the airwaves. But no one should have similar reactions to the reverential Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as the former president. …
Angelia Jolie is “La Divina.” The Hollywood star swept into Venice, Italy Thursday to walk the red carpet for the world premiere of Maria, which sees her transform into history’s greatest opera singer, Maria Callas. Directed by Argentine filmmaker Pablo Larrain, the tells the beautiful but tragic story of Callas final days in Paris in …