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Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ Has A Runtime of 2 Hours 20 Minutes

Luca Guadagnino doesn’t make short movies. His latest, “Artificial,” is yet another example of the indulgence he tends to bring to all of his films.

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Gary Oldman Claims Next Bond Already Chosen, Supports Jack Lowden

Did Gary Oldman just reveal who the next James Bond might be? He’s also supporting his “Slow Horses” co-star Jack Lowden to get the gig.

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‘Maserati’ Has Pacino, Hopkins, Garcia and Alba; $100M Budget; 36 Producers, Will Self Distribute

What is “Maserati: The Brothers”? Well, it cost $100M — sketchy stuff — was directed by Bobby Moresco, who shared an Oscar for co-writing “Crash” with Paul Haggis.

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Nathan Fielder’s A24 Elizabeth Holmes Doc ‘You Can See Everything’ Gets WTF Reactions at Telluride; Teaser Online

The announcement and trailer for A24’s “You Can See Everything,” a 174-minute documentary about Elizabeth Holmes made by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, premiered last night at Telluride.

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Léa Seydoux and Bill Murray to Star in Ursula Meier’s ‘The Quiet Land’

Meier also calls the project a “love story,” which might mean we’re in for an unusual age-gap romance. A fall shoot in Alberta is now planned.

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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
August 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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“MLK/FBI": Incomplete, But Somewhat Gripping Take of an Infamous Deep State Hit-job [Review]

January 13, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

The secret life of Martin Luther King Jr is explored in Sam Pollard’s doc, “MLK/FBI.” Seen through the lens of an FBI adamant at destroying King’s credibility back in 1963, we learn of the various ways Hoover’s hoodlums managed to infiltrate King’s inner circle and spy on his personal life, sneakily recording hundreds of hours of personal encounters with his mistresses in hotel rooms.

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Bruce Willis Asked to Leave a Store After Refusing to Wear a Face Mask

January 12, 2021 Jordan Ruimy
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The always-entertaining Page Six has Bruce Willis being asked to leave a Los Angeles Walgreens on Monday after he refused to wear a mask. Willis didn’t comply and walked away without making his purchase.

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The 10 Most Underrated Movies of 2020

January 12, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

On 12.31.20 I published the 15 best films of 2020, but here are a few more streaming/VOD suggestions from the past year. Ten, to be exact.

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Darren Aronofsky Sets Next Film ‘The Whale’ At A24; Brendan Fraser Set To Star as 600-Hundred-Pound Loner Eating Himself to Death

January 12, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

It’s well-known that filmmaker Darren Aronofsky takes a few years off in-between projects. The last film he directed was the polarizing “Mother!” back in 2017. His rumored return to small-scale filmmaking, with A24’s upcoming “The Whale,” would mean something along the lines of “Black Swan,” “Requiem For A Dream” and his 1998 debut film “The Wrestler.”

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‘White Lie': Girl Fakes Cancer For Social Media Attention in Prescient Drama [Capsule]

January 11, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

A female undergrad student fakes cancer to nab as much money and fame as she can. This small Canadian indie is not just about deception, but about the fear of being on the wrong side of the moral compass.

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The Death of Moviegoing?

January 11, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

A Variety piece by Rebecca Rubin is already laying out the doom and gloom for the movie industry in 2021, at least for the first half of the year.

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The 10 Best Unreleased Movies of 2020

January 9, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

It has become a yearly tradition for me to publish my list of the best unreleased/undistributed films of the year.

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‘PVT Chat’: 21st Century ‘Last Tango’ is Sexy, Provocative and Timely

January 5, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

“PVT Chat” stars Julia Fox, who turned a lot of heads in last year’s “Uncut Gems,” but even in the wake of that visceral movie, she goes for broke here, pulling out all the stops as a leather-clad cam girl/femme fatale in director Ben Hozie’s film. “PVT Chat” defies description as it keeps its focus on a wide-eyed burnout (Peter Vack), with a talent for online blackjack and the dominatrix (Fox) he meets in a chat room and masturbates to during private calls every night. When the opportunity for an in-person meeting starts to get flirted with, doubt arises, mistrust comes into the game and reality hits our protagonist like a sledgehammer.

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‘Locked Down’: A Couple Takes Advantage of the COVID-19 Pandemic By Pulling Off a Jewellery Heist [Trailer]

January 5, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, and Ben Kingsley star in this drama about a couple who, taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown, attempt a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a luxurious department store.

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‘Grease’ Attacked as “Racist, Rapey, Homophobic and Slut-Shaming.”

January 4, 2021 Jordan Ruimy
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Randall Kleiser‘s Grease has made its mark in movie history, nobody is doubting that, the silly and ironic ’50s nostalgia, which was a thing in the mid-70s to early ’80s, made the John Travolta-Olivia Newton John musical a worldwide pohenomenon. This resulted in a haul of $366 million at the box-office, a staggering amount for 1978. And yet, “Grease” is now back in the news for all the wrong reasons as British millennial wokesters, of all people, went straight on social media, after the film had aired on the BBC, to condemn Kleiser’s film for being “racist, rapey, homophobic and slut-shaming.”

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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’ Was the Movie That Defined 2020

January 4, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

Opening on a black screen and the sound of a harsh cough. The first image is that of a bartender picking up a customer’s coin. There’s an emphasis on the touching. Germs, we’re being shown, is the primal enemy here. Then a woman - played by Gwyneth Paltrow - on a Hong Kong business trip has a layover in Chicago before returning home to Minneapolis, the film posits her as “patient zero,” the person who would be catching the mystery virus during her trip, only to have her symptoms fatally worsen and spread.

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Tanks at the Box-Office as Moviegoers Still Hesitant to Visit Theaters

January 3, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

Warner Bros’ “Wonder Woman 1984” dropped a massive 67 percent in its second weekend of domestic release. its domestic total is now at a paltry $28.5 million in 10 days and $118.5 million worldwide. Don’t expect it to go that much higher in the coming weeks as WW84 is projected to end its theatrical run at around the $130 million mark.

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3-Hour Cut of Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Margaret’ Now Available to Stream on HBO Max

January 3, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

We’re about to relaunch this column. I hope you all had wonderful holidays. It’s 2021, and since we’re all still stuck indoors, unless you live in Florida, then maybe it’s time that you watch Kenneth Lonergan’s 3-hour extended cut of “Margaret“. Lonergan’s cinematic “spiritual” cannot be more relevant today. It’s about disillusionment. Feeling disenfranchised. Being “red-pilled,” so to speak, if you want it in simpler terms. It was previously only available on DVD. The extended cut is now available to stream on HBO Max as a bonus feature accompanying the two-and-a-half-hour theatrical version.

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The 15 Best Movies of 2020

December 31, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

Through the context of a movie year that had most of its post-March theatrical releases canceled, the number of great movies that actually came out this year was surprisingly plentiful. Have we finally reached the point when, even if almost an entire year of theatrical moviegoing gets thrown out of the window, we could still find a bountiful amount of quality films via streaming platforms? I believe we’ve reached that point.

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‘Herself’: Irish-Produced Indie Is A Saccharine-inducing Female Empowerment Melodrama [Capsule]

December 30, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

Clare Dunne stars in “Herself” as Sandra Kelly, a determined woman who decides to build her own home in this Dublin-set drama. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with director Phyllida Lloyd (‘Mamma Mia!’). The result is the kind of saccharine-inducing female empowerment tale that may even give hardcore feminists severe allergies.

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Clangs and Crashes [Review]

December 29, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s the thing about ”Wonder Woman 1984,” it starts off like gangbusters only to whimper out into CGI overkill in its final hour. That’s the sad truth about director Patty Jenkins’ ambitious 2 1/2 hour sequel – it damn-near pummels you to submission by the time its climax is over with. Until then, this sequel to the 2017 mega-hit “Wonder Woman,” for the most part, works.

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‘Bacurau’ Director Kleber Mendonça Filho Talks Brazil, Genre Cinema and Bong Joon-ho [Interview]

December 28, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

Back in March, with the pandemic shutting down theaters worldwide, 2020 was guaranteed to have at least one indisputably great movie released in its calendar. Regardless of how many films were released, “Bacurau,” which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, was definitely going to make the top 10 lists of more than a few critics — it has most certainly landed a spot on mine (being published this week).

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Box-Office Success Proves Moviegoers Still Prefer Theaters Over Streaming

December 28, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

On Christmas Day, Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman 1984” was unveiled simultaneously in 2,151 theaters nationwide and on HBO Max. The experiment seems to have worked because, despite audiences having the opportunity to stay indoors and watch WW84 in the comfort of their own homes, millions decided to go to the movie theater instead.

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Darren Aronofsky Working on A “Small Film” With Cinematographer Matthew Libatique

December 28, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

In an interview with Rappler, DP extraordinaire Matthew Libatique confirmed that he would be reuniting with frequent collaborator, director Darren Aronofsky, for his next project. “I’m planning to make a small film with [Darren] Aronofsky that obviously I can’t talk about,” Libatique said. “But yeah, that’s the next thing for me.”

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‘Pieces Of A Woman’: Vanessa Kirby is Mesmerizing in Ambitious Netflix Drama [Review]

December 27, 2020 Jordan Ruimy

For 128 minutes, Vanessa Kirby has you hooked to her every move in Kornel Mundruczo’s “Pieces of a Woman.” As Martha, a high-powered executive who loses her child during a harrowing home birth, Kirby mesmerizes by showcasing the human frailty and devastation that happens when tragedy comes knocking at her door. Her acting tour-de-force reminded me of Gena Rowlands’ masterful work in John Cassavetes’ 1974 classic, “Woman Under the Influence.”

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Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Tops the Best Films of the 1930s, According to 100+ Critics

We’ve gone through the decades. The ‘40s ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘2000s, and ‘2010s. — all revisited, argued over. Now, here are the results for the best films of the 1930s.

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Critics Poll: ‘Citizen Kane' Named Best Film of the 1940s

The results are in, and according to critics, this decade filled with cinematic riches did not have a better film than Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Nobody should be surprised by this result. “Citizen Kane” changed cinema forever.

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

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