The past comes to life as a whole enveloping world in The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s fine-grained, novelistic third feature as director, about a man of genius who gets to taste the American Dream but also feel the stinging humiliation of a conditional welcome that turns ice-cold. While there are echoes of The Fountainhead, this expansive …
George Clooney has lauded President Joe Biden for stepping down as the Democratic presidential candidate to make way for Kamala Harris, describing the move as “the most selfless thing that anybody has done since George Washington.” The star spoke alongside co-star Brad Pitt for Jon Watt’s Wolfs, premiering at the Venice Film Festival Sunday. When …
George Clooney had some unfortunate news to share at the first press conference for Apple’s hotly anticipated action comedy Wolfs at the Venice Film Festival. The Hollywood actor, seated beside co-star Brad Pitt, revealed that the film’s director Jon Watts would be missing the movie’s world premiere in Italy Sunday night because he caught Covid. …
The Venice Film Festival is buzzing over director Brady Corbet’s monumental historical drama The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. The film won’t officially premiere until Sunday night, but the thunderous applause and rapt excitement that followed the film out of its first press screenings on the Lido has many festival-goers speculating that it’s the …
It was a role that solidified Richard Gere as one of Hollywood’s most dashing leading men, but the actor has admitted he hasn’t watched his performance in Pretty Woman for a long time. The star spoke at a masterclass at the 81st Venice Film Festival on Sunday on the art and craft of cinema through …
When the Syrian War broke out in 2011, triggering a wave of refugees to Europe, Thomas Vinterberg felt a surge of empathy towards the millions of families forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in foreign lands. But when the Oscar-winning director of Another Round, The Hunt, and The Celebration saw the response of …
While fans can look forward to Colin Farrell reprising his villainous Oswald Cobblepot role in The Penguin, they should not expect to see Robert Pattinson’s Batman. The HBO series is a spin-off of the 2022 movie The Batman, however, it centers on Farrell’s character trying to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham. “I …
From teenage model to upper-crust caterer to domestic doyenne to media-spanning billionaire to scapegoated convict to octogenarian thirst trap enthusiast and Snoop Dogg chum, Martha Stewart has had a life that defies belief, or at least congruity. It’s an unlikely journey that has been carried out largely in the public eye, which gives R.J. Cutler …
Oliver Stone said filming Natural Born Killers definitely had its challenges and Robert Downey Jr. didn’t make it any easier. Thirty years after the release of the 1994 crime romance, the Oscar-winning filmmaker looked back at the film for a recent oral history by Esquire. This included Downey’s improvisation in a scene, where his character dips …
At the Academy Awards ceremony held earlier this year, Emma Stone was awarded her second best actress Oscar, a mere seven years after winning her first. You might think that winning multiple acting Oscars would be an extreme rarity, but you would be wrong. Stone became the 45th performer ever conferred more than one. Why …