A ponderous yet mostly empty creature feature from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper confuses grimness for substanceIs Antlers, a grisly shift into body horror for the Crazy Heart and Hostiles director Scott Cooper, really about the curse of generation…
‘The Shop on Main Street’
‘Obchod na korze’
y/t. ‘The Shop on Main Street’ is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak State.”
Rust assistant director who gave Alec Baldwin gun ‘was subject of 2019 safety complaint’
Prop maker Maggie Goll says she raised complaints about Dave Halls in TV series Into the Dark but that issue is ‘in no way one person’s fault’A crew member disclosed that she had raised safety concerns in the past about the assistant director whom auth…
Accented Horror
Mainland Chinese Horror & Censorship [11:11]
Thai Horror Is So Underrated [13:35]
A Brief Overview on J-Horror (Part 1) [15:08] (Part 2) [13:18] For non-Mainland Chinese horror, see The Eye: Philosophy of Chinese Horror [11:49] and Mr. Vampire:…
If you just stood there and yelled BANG . . .
Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun while filming a scene in New Mexico on Thursday, causing the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. An on-set tragedy ends in the death of the DP and and an injured director. Too soon to…
Tom Holland is a dashing young fortune hunter in Uncharted trailer
Director Ruben Fleischer’s film is a prequel and origin story to the video games.
The Bacchus Lady review – Youn Yuh-jung leads tale of life on the margins in Seoul
The Oscar winner is a compelling lead in an unconventional drama about an ageing prostitute in the Korean capitalYoun Yuh-jung made history earlier this year by becoming the first Korean to win an acting Oscar, for her role as the bluff, pro-wrestling-…
Mulholland Drive at 20: David Lynch’s audacious puzzle remains a mystery
The daring film-maker’s 2001 Hollywood-set thriller is as dazzling, and unknowably ambiguous, as everThe greatest films are often the ones that we don’t completely know, that tease the mind with question marks and ambiguities, and leave you circling ba…
Adventures of a Mathematician brings an unsung scientist back into the light
Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam helped design the H-bomb and foresaw our digital universe.
‘There was always an excuse to take a drink’: Succession’s Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller, booze and bouncing back
After a decades-long slump, the actor’s career came roaring back with the role of Connor Roy. He talks about his 80s success, his ‘attitude problems’ and his excitement about Succession’s new seriesAlan Ruck is talking to me by video about the present,…