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2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Blaze

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Blaze, 2018. Directed by Ethan Hawke. Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, David Kallaway, Richard Linklater, Jenn Lyon, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Ritchie Montgomery, Wyatt Russell, D. Taylor Loeb, and Kris Kristofferson. SYNOPSIS: A biopic of the largely unknown country musician Blaze Foley, charting his tumultuous life, from his early marriage to his short but […]

Ethan Hawke backtracks on his criticism of Logan and superhero movies

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Ethan Hawke ruffled a few feathers back in August with his remarks about last year’s acclaimed X-Men spinoff Logan, with the actor suggesting that the Hugh Jackman-headlined blockbuster wasn’t a “great movie”, but rather “a fine superhero movie” and seemingly insinuating that comic book films are inferior to others. Well, speaking to Collider, Hawke has […]

An Intervention: Superheroes, Snobbery and Liking What You Like

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Henry Bevan on superhero movies, snobbery, and liking what you like… When Marvel released the Captain Marvel trailer, the predictable happened. Most of the internet loved it (we at Flickering Myth were lukewarm)  and the rest of the internet questioned why people are excited about a new movie churned out by the blockbuster machine. The […]

Ethan Hawke Is Kind of Right, Logan Is Over-Praised, But He Misses Something Important

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Samuel Brace on Ethan Hawke’s comments about Logan and superhero movies… Logan is a great superhero movie, on this, there can be no doubt. But to call Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine swansong a great movie in the general sense is quite clearly not the case. This was Ethan Hawke’s point when his now viral statement caused […]

Ethan Hawke criticises Logan, says its not a great movie

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While superhero movies continue to do great business at the box office (well, mostly), it’s only recently that the films in the genre have begun to get the wider recognition that many feel they deserve. Take last year’s Logan for example; a huge critical and commercial success, the James Mangold-directed Wolverine movie even managed to […]

Ethan Hawke, Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve set for La Verite

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Variety is reporting that Palme d’Or winning Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) has tapped Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and Ethan Hawke to star in his next film La Verite, which translates to The Truth in English. A co-production between France’s 3B Productions and Kore-eda’s Bunbuku, La Verite will see Binoche and Hawke playing “a married […]

Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O’Dowd star in trailer for Juliet, Naked

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Lionsgate has released the first trailer and poster for the romantic comedy Juliet, Naked, director Jesse Peretz’s upcoming adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, which stars Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, and Chris O’Dowd; check them out here… Annie (Rose Byrne) is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) – an obsessive […]

Trailer for Ethan Hawke’s Blaze

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IFC Films has released the first trailer for the upcoming musical biographical drama Blaze. Directed by Ethan Hawke, the film is based on the life of Blaze Foley and is adapted from Sybil Rosen’s novel Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze. Newcomer Ben Dickey leads the cast as the country musician alongside Alia […]

Paul Schrader’s First Reformed gets a poster and trailer

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A24 has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Paul Schrader’s upcoming thriller First Reformed. The film stars Ethan Hawke as a parish pastor struggling from a crisis of faith following a series of tragic events, and also features Amanda Seyfried and Cedric Kyles. Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a […]