Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike star as a couple trying to mend a marriage that is unraveling in “State of the Union,” directed by Stephen Frears (“A Very English Scandal,” “Philomena,” “My Beautiful Laundrette”) and written by Nick Hornby (“High Fidelity,” “An Education,” “Juliet, Naked”). “State of the Union” takes … [Read More]
Teenage heart throb Zac Efron plays the diabolical Ted Bundy in the Netflix film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” which premiered Thursday evening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Efron acquits himself well in a part that must have been excruciating to inhabit; he plays a psychopath who murdered women … [Read More]
Glenn Close’s long and illustrious career was honored by the Museum of the Moving Image Monday evening at their annual gala tribute in New York City. Featured speakers who introduced clips from some of her film roles — there have been more than 80 —were Ethan Hawke, Christian Slater, Bob … [Read More]
“The Rider,” a modern-day Western starring non-professional actors, won best feature film, and Ethan Hawke took home the best actor prize for “First Reformed” at the Gotham Awards. The Gotham Independent Film Awards, which were presented Monday evening at Cipriani Wall Street, officially kick off the Oscar season and are … [Read More]
Hugh Grant said a sequel of “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” the romantic-comedy that came out in 1994 and made his career, may be in the works. Grant was in Manhattan last week at the Landmark Theater for a Q&a following a screening of the first hour of his new … [Read More]
Hidden behind a grey wig and dowdy clothes, her unadorned face in a perpetual frown, Melissa McCarthy has the role of her career as celebrity literary forger Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Directed by Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl) and written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff … [Read More]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the new anthology Western by Ethan and Joel Coen, revisits the genre with an absurdist bent while looking through the lens of mortality. The film screened last week at the New York Film Festival to a sold out crowd. The Coens are familiar with the … [Read More]
Robert Pattinson stars as an astronaut who swears off sex in High Life, a kinky and perverse sci-fi adventure by French director Claire Denis.’ High Life, which is the acclaimed director’s English language debut, had its U.S. premiere Tuesday evening at the New York Film Festival. Pattinson walked the carpet … [Read More]
Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz play the force-field of powerful and complicated women in “The Favourite,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s twisty, perverse and decidedly unconventional period piece set in 18th-Century England. The tragic-comedy from the director of “The Lobster” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” kicked off the 56th … [Read More]
“You gotta embrace the sexiness,” said Dwayne Johnson Tuesday evening on the red carpet at the premiere of his new action thriller Skyscraper. He added, “I’m the sexiest man alive.” The comments, which he made in front of the AMC Lincoln Square, on a red carpet that extended from 67th … [Read More]
Gotti, John Travolta’s passion project about the late mafia don, opened Friday and got whacked by the critics. The New York Times called the John Gotti biopic a “mess,” and the New York Post reviewer said he’d rather wake up with a horse’s head than have to see the movie … [Read More]
In Always at the Carlyle Matthew Miele’s documentary about New York City’s oasis of sophistication, glamour and civility, Jon Hamm says of the legendary Carlyle hotel, “If you’re staying here you feel like you’ve made it.” When the director asks him if he’s ever stayed there, Hamm concedes sheepishly, “I’ve … [Read More]