Netflix has released the first trailer for Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, an upcoming drama based on the life of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein with him portraying Bernstein and Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Watch the trailer below… Maestro is directed by Cooper after he co-wrote the film with Josh Singer. Cooper and Singer are […]
Reality trailer sees Sydney Sweeney as whistle-blower Reality Winner
Vertigo Releasing has revealed a trailer for Tina Satter’s directorial feature debut Reality. Adapted from the FBI interrogation transcript of intelligence whistle-blower and former US Airforce member Reality Winner and the 2019 play Is This a Room, the drama stars Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The White Lotus) as Winner and tells the story of the 25-year-old […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Hand, 2023. Written and directed by Cory Finley. Starring Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Josh Hamilton, Michael Gandolfini, and William Jackson Harper. SYNOPSIS: A pair of teenagers come up with a plan to ensure their families’ futures when an occupying alien race’s promise of economic prosperity leaves most of humanity impoverished […]
Sydney Sweeney to play whistleblower Reality Winner
Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney has signed on to whistleblower Reality Winner in a drama based upon the true story of the military contractor who was accused of leaking an intelligence report into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. The as-yet-untitled film will mark the feature directorial debut of Tina Satter and is based upon her […]
Movie Review – False Positive (2021)
False Positive, 2021. Directed by John Lee. Starring Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan, Zainab Jah, Gretchen Mol, Sophia Bush, Josh Hamilton, Kelly AuCoin, Lucy Walters, Sabina Gadecki, Francesca Faridany, Taylor Ortega, S.J. Son, Sullivan Jones, and Nils Lawton. SYNOPSIS: As if getting pregnant weren’t complicated enough, Lucy sets out to uncover the unsettling truth […]
Movie Review – The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, 2021. Directed by Ian Samuels. Starring Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, Anna Mikami, Josh Hamilton, and Cleo Fraser. SYNOPSIS: Two teens who live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create the titular map. Highschooler Mark (Kyle Allen) starts his day with a rhythm that is too tuned […]
Movie Review – Tesla (2020)
Tesla, 2020. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda.Starring Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Donnie Keshawarz, Rebecca Dayan, Hannah Gross, Josh Hamilton, Lois Smith, Lucy Walters, James Urbaniak, Ian Lithgow, John Palladino and David Kallaway. SYNOPSIS: A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. […]
Movie Review – Tesla (2020)
Tesla, 2020. Written and Directed by Michael Almereyda. Starring Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Hannah Gross, Josh Hamilton, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Lois Smith, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Lucy Walters, James Urbaniak, Ian Lithgow, Donnie Keshawarz, Rebecca Dayan, John Palladino, and David Kallaway. SYNOPSIS: A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Written and Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis, Catherine Oliviere, Luke Prael, Nora Mullins, Missy Yager, Shacha Temirov, Greg Crowe, Thomas J O’Reilly, Frank Deal, Tiffany Grossfeld, Natalie Carter, Kevin R. Free, and Deborah Unger. SYNOPSIS: A teenager tries […]
Movie Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Catherine Oliviere, Jake Ryan and Daniel Zolghadri. SYNOPSIS: On the verge of high school, an internet-obsessed young girl grapples with her place in the social hierarchy while vlogging about confidence and self-belief. In the vast canon of American high school movies, […]
