[This story contains spoilers from season two, episode two of Pachinko, “Chapter Ten.”] Pachinko, Apple TV+’s ambitious series adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel about a Korean family’s fight for survival during and after the Japanese occupation of Korea, has never used episode titles. But if creator and showrunner Soo Hugh had to assign a …
The release plans for the long-embattled Donald Trump movie The Apprentice have taken another turn as the filmmakers, who are coming off a warm reception at the Telluride Film Festival, are launching a Kickstarter campaign. The crowdfunding campaign, titled “Release the Apprentice,” will aim to “lend additional support in order to keep the film in …
The 2024 Busan International Film Festival is kicking off on Oct. 2 with the international premiere of Uprising, director Kim Sang-man’s historical war epic with a script written by an auteur Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) and distributed by Netflix. The 29th edition of the 10-day event closes with Singaporean director Eric Khoo’s Spirit World, starring French …
The shadow of Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 drug war classic, Traffic, hangs heavily over all the narcs, cartel members, native gangsters and fentanyl addicts populating director John Swab’s hard-nosed thriller, King Ivory. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Taking cues from a modern classic that depicted the battle to stop crack-cocaine from destroying America, Swab …
Netflix has dated Ellen DeGeneres’ next standup special, which she insists will be the last of her career. Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, as she’s titled the new hour, will roll out on the global platform Sept. 24. It follows her last special, ironically titled Relatable, which was her first in 15 years when it …
Hulu’s standup lineup continues to grow. The platform has inked a deal with Atsuko Okatsuka for her second special, which will be taped at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre in early November. Though the details are being kept under wraps for the time being, she is joining a roster that also includes Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, …
It is sometimes amazing to see what directors who have made a successful movie can get away with. One hit, and studios are willing to hand these people a fortune for their dream projects. Heaven’s Gate comes to mind as one archetypal example, but there are many other misfires from award-winning filmmakers. A few years …
Wait, did he really just say that? He did, and Luca Guadagnino doesn’t care. The director got candid in front of a jam-packed room of journalists Tuesday afternoon — who were lapping up every word — at the press conference of his new film Queer. The racy movie gets its world premiere at the 2024 Venice …
An opulent coastal setting, a dead body, a bunch of quick shots of police interrogations, and Nicole Kidman. It’s not Big Little Lies season three — it’s The Perfect Couple, the star-studded Netflix limited series that has released a full trailer just a couple of days ahead of its Sept. 5 premiere date. The trailer (watch …
Most coming-of-age stories deal in the vagaries of adolescence — that confusing time defined by dramatic confrontations with unfamiliar feeling. But Sarah Friedland’s affecting debut Familiar Touch, remixing the genre, considers the emotional valence of older adulthood. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, follows Ruth Goldman, an inquisitive …