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‘Heat 2’ Adds Odessa Young as Charlene, With More Casting Still Underway

Here’s another “Heat 2” update. Odessa Young has nabbed the role of Charlene, previously played by Ashley Judd. Young is coming off her supporting turn in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”

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‘Unabomber’ Trailer: Jacob Tremblay is Ted Kaczynski, Russell Crowe is His Professor

What are the odds this turns out to be good? Netflix isn’t giving it an awards-qualifying theatrical release, and the just-released trailer isn’t doing anything for me.

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‘Alone at Dawn’ First Reaction: Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway Shine in Ron Howard’s War Movie

Some wondered if it might arrive this year, but its absence from the fall festivals and continued lack of a release date suggest Amazon/MGM may be holding it for next year.

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Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Possible Love’ Gets First Trailer: Netflix Sets Fall Release for ‘Burning’ Director’s First Film in Eight Years

Netflix has finally released a trailer for “Possible Love,” which will hit theaters on October 23 and arrive on Netflix on November 6. The official runtime is 2 hours and 44 minutes.

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Jane Schoenbrun Really Wants to Direct ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Reboot: “I’m Trying to Get A Meeting”

Beyond the fact that ‘Camp Miasma’ plays like a meta tribute to ‘80s horror slashers, it’s easy to understand why Schoenbrun would want a crack at the franchise.

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August 19, 2019
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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Matthew Vaughn Rumored as “Top Choice" to Direct James Bond

September 14, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

After Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve and Danny Boyle, here’s another name that is added to the list of potential Bond directors.

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Trailer for Wes Anderson’s ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’

September 14, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s the trailer for Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar.” I know some of our readers, actually, a lot of them, have grown to dislike Anderson’s highly stylized cinema, but I’m not one of them.

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Guy Maddin’s ‘Rumors’ Set for October Shoot

September 14, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, the man behind “The Saddest Music In The World” and “My Winnipeg,” among many others, is one of the most eccentric filmmakers out there.

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Sony CEO: If Strike Continues, There Will Not Be A Lot of Films Around in Early to Mid-2024

September 14, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman-CEO Tony Vinciguerra is sounding the alarm on a potential lack of movies for next year. It was to be expected.

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‘The Color Purple’ Reaction …

September 14, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Yesterday, I asked around for any additional “The Color Purple” reactions, I found one and it’s pretty positive:

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TIFF Report #7 — All Hail Jamie Foxx in Conventionally Made ‘The Burial’

September 14, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

“The Burial,” a courtroom drama directed by Maggie Betts and written by Doug Wright, is the type of baity drama that used to get made in the ‘90s and I do mean that as both a good and bad thing.

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‘Past Lives’ Secures SAG-AFTRA Exemption, Allowing the Film’s Cast to Oscar Campaign

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

There’s no end in sight with the strike, it could very well go on until next year, which means awards campaigning will be severely affected by this situation,

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The Best TIFF 2023 Films, So Far ..

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

There are still five days left at the Toronto International Film Festival, but practically every big title has premiered now. I can safely say that this has been one of the best TIFF editions in recent years.

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Martin Scorsese is Against Making “10 Best Lists” of Films

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Ranking your favorites films, listing them, has been part of cinephile culture for years. Critics’ year-end ten best lists have been around since, at least, the late ‘60s. However, Martin Scorsese wants no part in that tradition.

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‘The Color Purple’ Oscar Buzz Might Be Artificial, Test-Screened Four Times Already

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

The general reactions I had gathered about “The Color Purple,” when it was test screened in the fall of 2022, was that it wasn’t a very good movie.

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Celine Song Says the Film That’s Influenced Her the Most is … ‘Inglourious Basterds’?

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Celine Song’s first film, “Past Lives,” is one of the most acclaimed movies of the year. A delicately hushed debut feature that has had critics raving about it ever since its world premiere at Sundance this past January.

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France’s Oscar Shortlist Revealed

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

France hasn’t won a Foreign/International film Oscar in over 30 years. Maybe this will finally be the year.

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‘Pain Hustlers’ Reviews Are Bad

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s another movie that rips off Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ — there have been many of them lately. David Yates’ “Pain Hustlers” premiered at TIFF, and the reviews have been terrible.

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New ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Trailer Released …

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

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Martin Scorsese Says Modern Cinema is “Fragmented and Broken Up” and Filmmakers Are Being “Co-Opted” by Studios

September 13, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Martin Scorsese has described modern cinema as being “fragmented” in comparison to his earlier years. This comes from his Time interview from yesterday.

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TIFF Report #6 — ‘His Three Daughters’

September 12, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a film that needs to be tackled. Azazel Jacobs’ “His Three Daughters” which still has no distributor, has turned into one of the more acclaimed films of this year’s festival.

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Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’ Still Has No Distributor

September 12, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

The big question here at TIFF is who will pick up Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man”? The film has screened to great reviews and Glenn Powell could get a serious push for Best Actor this awards season. He’s that good in it.

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Michel Franco and Jessica Chastain “Secretly” Shot A Film in July

September 12, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

If you’ve been reading this site then you must already know that I had previously reported on a new Michel Franco film, titled “Dreams,” was being shot in secret this past July.

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TIFF Report #5 — Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’ Will Probably Win the Audience Award

September 12, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

In a nutshell, what “The Holdovers” signifies is a back-to-the-basics approach for director Payne, albeit done in a very mainstream, comfort-food type of fashion. It’s far from Payne’s best film, but an immensely likeable one.

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What’s Missing: Part 3

September 12, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s the third, and possibly final, instalment of what’s missing at the fall festivals. Most of the big fests (save for AFI) have announced their entire lineups, so expect all of these to be bumped to 2024.

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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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