Tag: Brad Pitt
Mickey 17 | Review
Born to Die: Joon-ho Beguiles with Irreverent Sci-Fi Socio-Satire
After significant delays, Bong Joon-ho’s highly anticipated Mickey 17 at last arrives with all his signature...
Nickel Boys | Review
No Country for Black Men: Ross Reforms the Cinema with Distinctive Adaptation
In many ways, Nickel Boys, the narrative debut from director RaMell Ross,...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Review
Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon
There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or,...
Babylon [Video Review]
Something to Talkie About: Chazelle Swings Hard with Homage to Hollywood’s Unruly Infancy
If there’s a film deserving of the Leone-esque moniker Once Upon a...
Women Talking | Review
Polley's Fierce and Tender Adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel is a Stirring Exploration of Faith, Love & Survival
There may not be a word in...
Blonde | Review
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl: Dominik Explores Our Assassination of Iconicity
There’s no human who’s quite bedazzled the zeitgeist like Marilyn Monroe, the most...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #17. Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
Women Talking
Produced by Hear/Say Productions' Frances McDormand, Plan B Entertainment's Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt and Jeremy Kleiner.
Directed by Sarah Polley
Written by Sarah Polley
Starring: Frances...
Kajillionaire | Review
Money Monsters: July Returns with Poignant Puzzle of Curious Criminals
Con artists come in all shapes and sizes, but nowhere are they as decidedly low...
Irresistible | Review
Elephant Walk: Stewart Dulls the Sting of Political Campaigning Hypocrisy with Broad Satire
The trick of a successful satire is to highlight stupidity or hypocrisy...
Ad Astra | Review
All Alone in the World: Gray Elegantly Propels Trademark Themes & Style into Outer Space
The curiosity of witnessing James Gray try his hand at...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Review
California Dreamin’: Tarantino Dons Nostalgic Pastiche of Doomed Decadence
The lurid fascination and mildewed devotion for the transitional glory days of late 1960s Hollywood, informed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #7. Untitled Miranda July Project
Director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author, complete artist, app creator and probably a cat-sitter Miranda July hadn't made a feature since 2011's The Future, but I'd...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #9. The Tiger – Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
The Tiger
Ukraine’s Miroslav Slaboshpitsky is finally set to commence on his sophomore effort, The Tiger, a project which has been in limbo since Darren...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #46. Joe Talbot – Last Black Man in San Francisco
Perhaps making the leap from former short filmmaker alumni (2017's American Paradise) to debuting his directorial debut, Sundance are not the only ones to...
Allied | Review
Only Lovers Left Alive: Zemeckis Mounts Handsome Production atop Warbling Wartime Romance
Of all the gin joints in town, he had to walk into hers....
By the Sea | Review
The Sterile Cuckoo: Jolie’s Handsome Relationship Drama is Long in Tooth
Moving on from last year’s suffocatingly honorable POW reenactment drama Unbroken, Angelina Jolie returns...
Fury | Review
This Time, It’s War: Ayer’s Latest Depiction of Men Under Fire
At last leaving behind the pulpy, sometimes overly chewy cop action/dramas he’s been churning...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #16. Ava DuVernay’s Selma
Selma
Director: Ava DuVernay
Writers: Ava DuVernay, Paul Webb
Producers: Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: David Oyelowo
In July of 2013, it...
Killing Them Softly | Blu-ray Review
Director Andrew Dominik is obviously upset about the current political climate in the US. His latest, Killing Them Softly, unsubtly comments on the empty...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #15. Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Writer(s): McQueen & John Ridley
Producer(s): Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul...
