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Month: September 2025
September 02, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Venice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Testament of Ann Lee, Father Mother Sister Brother
The bit in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘60s film “Pierrot le Fou” where Belmondo asks maverick filmmaker Sam Fuller, playing himself, to…
September 02, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, Interviews, News, TV show
Healers and Nurturers: Ethan Hawke on the Artists of “Blue Moon” and “Highway 99: A Double Album”
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” is a phrase a young Ethan Hawke took to heart while filming “Dead Poets…
September 02, 2025
Entertainment, Film, MZS, News, The Unloved, TV show
The Unloved, Part 140: Shattered
I grew up with Wolfgang Petersen’s films. I saw them in theaters; they were always on TV. The fabled original…
September 02, 2025
Benny Safdie, Dwayne Johnson, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Reviews, The Smashing Machine, TV show, Venice 2025
Venice Review: An Impressive Dwayne Johnson Softens Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine
The Smashing Machine is a movie with a lot of heart and soul. It’s also a movie with great love…
September 02, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals, Film, News, Olivier Assayas, Reviews, The Wizard of the Kremlin, TV show, Venice 2025
Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian
In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a…
September 02, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, George Clooney, Jay Kelly, News, Noah Baumbach, Reviews, Telluride 2025, TV show
Telluride Review: Noah Baumbach Makes His Fellini Film with Jay Kelly
Let’s start here: Billy Crudup is one of our truly great actors. Early into Jay Kelly, written by Noah Baumbach…
September 01, 2025
Chloé Zhao, Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Hamnet, News, Reviews, Telluride 2025, TV show
Telluride Review: Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet Reminds Us Why Art Matters
Hamnet is a great work of empathy and the best film Chloé Zhao has made by quite a wide margin.…
September 01, 2025
Critic's Pick, Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Mark Jenkin, News, Reviews, Rose of Nevada, TV show, Venice 2025
Venice Review: Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada is a Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story
The films of Mark Jenkin ooze a hypnotic, seasick sensibility; to watch them is to be lulled by their restless…
September 01, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro, News, Reviews, TV show, Venice 2025
Venice Review: With Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro Crafts an Intricate World and Rhythmically Off-Kilter Adaptation
In the rather niche academic field of monster studies, the common understanding of monstrosity is very similar to that of…