The prospect of Patrick Stewart playing a badguy kind of makes you balk when you first hear it. Stewpat? Professor X? CAPTAIN PICARD? A baddie? Nope, can’t see it. But if reviews of Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room are to be believed, Stewart is frighteningly good in the role of the patriarch of a clan of white-supremacist hillbillies. …
If one was to look at filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier’s filmography, he has three motion pictures to his credit and the first two could not be more different than The Green Room. Murder Party is a hilarious, low-budget, Halloween-centric comedy that also serves as an acerbic satire of the art world.
Is there a Jeremy Saulnier project we aren’t excited for? The director of Blue Ruin and the upcoming, Green Room, is set to work on his third project — an adaptation of the William Giraldi novel, Hold the Dark. A24 will distribute the film with Saulnier’s Blue Ruin star, Macon Blair, co-writing the screenplay. According …
Dwight (Macon Blair) is an unassuming vagrant who receives startling news: the man who murdered his parents has been released from prison early. Dwight goes on an improbable quest for revenge, throwing his quiet existence into violent disorder.