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‘Madame Web’ Review: She Shoots but She Doesn’t Score

The month of February is not particularly known for the top echelon of studio releases and is usually reserved for… Read More

February 13, 2024

Sundance Institute announces 2023 ‘Beyond Film’ conversations with Dakota Johnson, Jonathan Majors, Marlee Matlin and more

Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Beyond Film conversations, all of which are… Read More

January 6, 2023

Interview: Carrie Cracknell on modernizing ‘Persuasion’ and how the pandemic allowed her to make the film she wanted

Carrie Cracknell showed tremendous guts in choosing Persuasion as her first feature film to direct, but for those who know… Read More

July 13, 2022

‘Persuasion’ review: Netflix mangles and modernizes Jane Austen’s most pensive and mature novel in its new adaptation [D+]

Persuasion, published six months after the author’s death in 1817, is often considered Jane Austen’s most mature novel. 27-year-old Anne… Read More

July 8, 2022

Interview: Writer/director/actor Cooper Raiff gets his groove on with ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’

It has been a crazy start to the career of Cooper Raiff, the talented writer, director, editor, and star of… Read More

June 15, 2022

Sundance Review: Not even a charming Dakota Johnson can save bland coming out rom-com ‘Am I OK? [Grade: D]

It has taken Hollywood a long time to embrace the full breadth of the queer experience, only recently discovering that… Read More

January 25, 2022

Interview: Dakota Johnson talks ‘The Lost Daughter,’ shooting under COVID and how she feels about her fans (she loves them)

"You're so sparkly." That's what Dakota Johnson said in the middle of introducing her film, The Lost Daughter, with her… Read More

October 19, 2021

Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson star in the haunting trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’

Netflix has released the trailer for actress Maggie Gyllenhaal's feature film directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, starring Academy Award winner… Read More

October 18, 2021

Venice Review: With ‘The Lost Daughter,’ Maggie Gyllenhaal exposes mother-daughter relations in their vile, discomforting essence [Grade: B]

Leda, a middle-aged comp-lit professor, arrives at a lavish Greek island accompanied solely by her books. Played by an overwrought… Read More

September 3, 2021

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