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Telluride Film Festival 2015: Most Anticipated
The 42nd Telluride Film Festival is about to get underway in southwest Colorado. A box canyon provides a jaw-dropping setting for a fest jammed packed with premieres, retrospectives and classics over Labor Day weekend. This is my 10th year attending and my 9th year working for the festival. The production team works meticulously in the […] More
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SOS This Week #10: The Best Movies of 2015 So Far
After a week hiatus, we return with our picks for the Best Movies of 2015 so far this year, along with a rundown of many of the exciting new trailers and films coming soon to theaters this fall and winter. Plus, for our WTF of the Week, we take a diversion to the world of […] More
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Michael Fassbender is ‘Macbeth’ in the first trailer for Justin Kurzel’s adaptation
Is there any way to get more pumped up for this? The first full trailer for Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth dropped on Thursday and offered a better look at Michael Fassbender in the lead role. The film recently debuted at Cannes and also stars Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, Paddy Considine, David Thewlis, Jack Reynor, […] More
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The Best, The Middling and the ‘What-Happened-Here?’ of Cannes 2015
Who knew that watching films can be this exhausting? The first thing any press person at Cannes will tell you is probably how tiring festival grind is – press screenings from 8.30 am till midnight, endless queueing sessions (variously put to use for writing up or sun-tanning), the adrenaline rush of the literal rush to […] More
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Cannes 2015: ‘Macbeth’ and the reliable charm of Michael Fassbender
The final film in competition, Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth delivers a spectacle of dripping blood, slow-motion battle scenes, sprawling Scottish highlands and Michael Fassbender. Fassbender stars as the Scottish warrior turned regicide and paranoid monarch, who after a particularly bloody battle has a vision of three witches predicting he will be King of Scotland. Macbeth starts out as an honorable soldier loyal to King Duncan (David Thewlis) and decides to only become king the “natural way”. However, after imprudently sharing the witches’ prophecy with his wife, played by Marion Cotillard, Macbeth finds himself constrained by her ambitious power lust. More
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SOS This Week #8: Remakes, Reboots, and Rehashes
It seems like just about every movie coming out nowadays is either a reboot or remake of a classic film. With a slate of summer movies that includes this week’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Jurassic World, Terminator Genisys, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it seems every more likely that Hollywood won’t stop digging into […] More
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Cannes 2015: Michael Fassbender shows ferocity in first teaser for ‘Macbeth’
I’m completely okay with Michael Fassbender being the king. The first teaser for Macbeth showed off his kinging abilities as well as his co-star, Marion Cotillard, as Lady Macbeth. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel and also stars David Thewlis, Elizabeth Debicki, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, and Jack Reynor. It has been a film […] More
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New on Video: ‘Macbeth’
This is a somber, sorrowful, generally faithful, and visually satisfying version of one of Shakespeare’s most cinematic works More
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Thursday Comedies: Community 3.13 & 30 Rock 6.15
Community, Season 3, Episode 13, “Digital Exploration of Interior Design” Written by Chris McKenna Directed by Dan Eckman Airs Thursdays at 8pm ET on NBC Dan Harmon had said he wanted to work more serialization into season 3 and this is one of the first episodes that really bears that out. It draws on Shirley […] More