The Venice audience stayed up late to take drugs and play video games with Harmony Korine. The midnight premiere of Korine’s latest, Baby Invasion, gave the festival a full dose of the video game/cinema mash-up Korine pioneered with AGGRO DR1FT, which hit Venice last year. And they seemed to like it. The crowd at the …
In Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, a reverential adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson produced by his father Denzel Washington, the actress Danielle Deadwyler is the center around which all other performances revolve. She plays Berniece, the devout and no-nonsense co-protagonist of Wilson’s bracing drama about generational trauma and inheritance. In this role, as in …
This story should come with a disclaimer or spoiler alert, something. Consider yourself warned. In advance of the Venice Film Festival world premiere of Harmony Korine‘s newest big-screen experiment, Baby Invasion, press notes were distributed featuring an explainer of the film’s message. Maybe? We’re assuming the message will make more sense after having seen the …
A year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a legion of state legislators across America moved quickly to restrict abortion access. Some targeted medication abortions and mandated counseling for those seeking the procedure. Others proposed outright bans and implemented “bounty hunter” laws, which widened the scope of implication from patient and provider to …
Iconoclastic auteur Harmony Korine delivers another tripped-out feat of movie gamer madness with Baby Invasion, which follows last year’s AGGRO DR1FT down a similar rabbit hole (one that includes lots of digital rabbits this time) in which violence, mayhem, masks and McMansions come clashing together in the Florida sun. Whereas DR1FT was a freewheeling assassin …
The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Justin Kurzel’s new neo-Nazi crime thriller The Order on Saturday night on the Lido. The audience inside Palazzo del Cinema’s Sala Grande responded to the dark tale with a rapturous standing ovation for stars Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult. The applause went on more than seven …
Laurence Fishburne isn’t looking to top himself when it comes to signing up for sci-fi projects like his new movie Slingshot. The Oscar-nominated actor continues to be among the most in-demand performers in Hollywood and has starred in a wide range of features running the gamut in genre and scope. Hitting theaters this weekend from …
If you think heavily armed white supremacists are some kind of new threat to America, you should take a look at The Order, a gripping, superbly made historical thriller about a neo-Nazi gang that terrorized the Pacific Northwest nearly four decades ago, robbing banks and armored cars to fund their plans for a full-scale insurrection. …
The Piano Lesson, a big screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play — the fourth in the late playwright’s celebrated “Pittsburgh Cycle” about the Black experience in that city during the 20th century — had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday morning at the Herzog Theatre. Reactions on the …
In December 2021, Jon Watts found himself standing in the back of the Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on the opening night of his last film, Spider-Man: No Way Home. The entry was one of the first major studio theatrical releases following the pandemic shutdown, and the audience was standing, screaming, crying and generally carrying …