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 …
In Jackie and Spencer, Pablo Larraín removed any trace of starch from the historical bio-drama to examine, with penetrating intimacy, famous women in moments of extreme emotional distress played out in the glare of a global spotlight. Intimacy is the key factor lacking in the third part of the gifted Chilean director’s unofficial trilogy, Maria. …
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. …
Madonna‘s biopic is back in the works, nearly a year and a half after news broke that it wasn’t moving forward. The film about the singer’s life, which was set to chronicle her decades-long career, was originally set at Universal Pictures, but plans for it fell through in January 2023. In a new Instagram post, …