Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes On A Celestial Embodiment Of Death

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes On A Celestial Embodiment Of Death

TELLURIDE – At a festival full of gutsy films Daina O. Pusić’s directorial feature debut, “Tuesday,” may be the most visionary of them all. No small feat when you’re premiering opposite works from Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Jonathan Glazer and…

Founders Day Featured, Reviews Film Threat

The screenplay for Founders Day, by director Erik Bloomquist and his brother Carson Bloomquist, feels like a reaction to the ever-growing political divisiveness in the United States. In the town of Fairwood, the mayoral election is heating up. Incumbent Blair…

Léa Seydoux Leads Bertrand Bonello’s Epic, Time-Spanning Sci-Fi Warning About A.I. [Venice]

You didn’t expect French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello to make a conventional sci-fi, did you? Good, because “The Beast” is far from it. It all starts in 2044 with beautiful actress Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) in desperate need of a job. To…

Imogen Poots Leads A Moody & Jagged Drama About Heiress Turned Marxist Radical [Telluride]

Based on a true story, they said, based on actual authentic events, but what does any of that matter if the actual story presented on screen doesn’t really resonate clearly or deeply? That’s the frustrating part of “Baltimore,” an intriguing…

Kevin Macdonald’s Fashion Doc Flirts With Cliché & Struggles To Tell A Bigger Story [Venice]

One viewing of “High & Low – John Galliano, “a documentary chronicling the impressive rise of British fashion designer John Galliano and his equally jarring fall from grace, should be more than sufficient to convince even the most uneducated of…

The Inflection Scheme Featured, Reviews Film Threat

For drama and theater students, James H. Lee’s short film, The Inflection Scheme, explores the idea of status and how it propels a story forward. Shaun Bedgood plays a shady crypto-trader who is in serious trouble. His current positions have…

Wrath of Khan Making Of Book Review

Can you believe that still to this day I’ve not seen one episode or one Star Trek movie, that’s quite some record as I always batted for Team Star Wars but after flicking through a few pages of this book,…

#ChadGetsTheAxe Featured, Reviews Film Threat

As Social Media ages past the 2000s, when it begins, it will morph into a farcical mess. There have been several films that have alluded to this situation. Still, no one quite revels in it the way Travis Bible and…

Alexander Payne And Paul Giamatti Reunite For a ’70s Nostalgia Dramedy

TELLURIDE – Considering the success and adoration of “Sideways,” it’s surprising it took Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti this long to find another film to make together. Almost 20 years later, the director and actor have reteamed for “The Holdovers,”…

‘Rustin’ Telluride Review: Colman Domingo

TELLURIDE – Every year, almost without fail, there is an American hero, somehow lost to history, who finally gets their moment on the big screen. This year’s honoree is Bayard Rustin, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement who…

Ibrahim Nash’at’s Terrifying Film Documents The Taliban’s Takeover Of Afghanistan [Venice]

A scene early in Ibrahim Nash’at’s chilling new documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes clear the stakes of Nash’at’s undertaking. Invited by the Taliban to film a top leader, the new air force commander Malawi Mansour, and a lower-ranking Taliban Mukhtar, after the…

Lily James & A Starry Cast Can’t Save A Painfully Dull Italian Drama [Venice]

Time is a relative construct stretched to the limits of elasticity by Saverio Constanzo with the period drama “Finally Dawn.” The bloated 140-minute runtime begins at a cinema in Rome in 1953 as three women watch the final scene of…

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