Laika Studios has shared the first teaser trailer for Wildwood, director Travis Knight’s upcoming adaptation of writer Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis’ bestselling children’s novel. The stop-motion animated fantasy follows the journey of Prue and her friend Curtis as the journey into a dangerous, magical forest to rescue her younger brother after he was […]
Trailer for Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell
Searchlight Pictures has shared a trailer and poster for Wild Horse Nine, the upcoming dark comedy from writer-director Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Set in 1973, the film follows CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) as they are sent on a mission to Easter Island, where the longtime partners find […]
Movie Review – Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Father Mother Sister Brother, 2025. Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Starring Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat. SYNOPSIS: Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents. Jim Jarmusch has been […]
Take flight with the magical trailer for Laika Studios’ Wildwood
Laika Studios has released a look at their first stop-motion animated feature film in seven years with the trailer for fantasy-adventure Wildwood. Directed by Travis Knight, the man responsible for Laika’s finest moment, the majestic Kubo and the Two Strings, Wildwood is based on the bestselling novel by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis. […]
First trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother
Coinciding with its world premiere this weekend at the Venice Film Festival, MUBI has released the first trailer writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s comedy drama Father Mother Sister Brother. The film tells the intertwined stories of two estranged siblings, a mother and a father as they are forced to confront and reevaluate their strained relationships after years […]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Overblown, Excessive and Indulgent But Brilliant
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Francis Ford Coppola’s adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, released on this day in 1992… The early 90s. One of the greats of cinema, Francis Ford Coppola had seen his star fall from its apex in the 70s, after some indulgent experimentation in the 80s. Still considered one of […]
Blu-ray Review – Licorice Pizza (2021)
Licorice Pizza, 2021. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, and Benny Safdie. SYNOPSIS: Licorice Pizza arrives on home video in a Blu-ray + DVD + digital code edition that’s light on bonus feature, although it does include a small poster, if you’re into that sort […]
Movie Review – Licorice Pizza (2021)
Licorice Pizza, 2021. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Christine Ebersole, Skyler Gisondo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Harriet Sansom Harris, Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Emma Dumont, Joseph Cross, Emily Althaus, John Michael Higgins, Ray Chase, George DiCaprio, […]
Video Review – Licorice Pizza is good, bad, and problematic
EJ Moreno with a video review of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza… Paul Thomas Anderson is a prolific filmmaker with years of some of the most amazing cinematic work. Unfortunately, his latest outing, Licorice Pizza, couldn’t reach the heights of his other masterworks. While the film has some positives, critic EJ Moreno feels the weak […]
First trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film Licorice Pizza
MGM has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film Licorice Pizza which tells the story of a teenagers Alana and Gary as they fall in love and grow up in 1970s San Fernando Valley; take a look here… LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing […]
