Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist was the talk of the Lido on Sunday as the seven-years-in-the-making period epic finally received its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival‘s historic Sala Grande cinema. The audience inside the premiere erupted in applause as the credits began to roll on the film’s epic three-hour, 35-minute running time, giving the …
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 …
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 …
Marvel and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine is poised to break box office records this weekend, and the raunchy, expletive-filled R-rated superhero mashup received a ringing endorsement from none other than… Taylor Swift! “Over the past few years I have watched one of my best friends on this planet pour every bit of his heart, soul, …
Subtlety is on short display in the new Telugu-language sci-fi fantasy epic that borrows from so many similarly-themed predecessors that the film could be shown at copyright lawyer conferences. Boasting eye-popping CGI visuals, spectacular action set pieces and the sort of hugely entertaining, over-the-top performance by Indian superstar Prabhas that shows why movie stars were …
For U.S. fans of Babylon Berlin the wait is finally over. The epic, ground-breaking German series, a noirish crime drama set during the Weimar Republic, was unceremoniously dropped by Netflix, which had been streaming the show stateside, after three seasons. Season 4 premiered in Europe in late 2022 but American viewers had to wait until …
Robert Eggers‘ first Nosferatu trailer shows The Witch and The Lighthouse filmmaker’s dark and intense new take on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The horror film stars Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok (a.k.a. Nosferatu/Dracula) along with Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Willem Dafoe. The official description from Focus Features: “Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of …