“Saltburn” is Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to 2020’s “Promising Young Woman.” That film garnered five Oscar nominations and won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2021. The movie is most like 1999’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” It is a baroque, dark, stylish, sexy R-rated story. “Saltburn” takes place in 2006 at … [Read More]
Actors don’t always succeed when they try their hand at directing. It’s a huge jump from going in front of the camera to behind the scenes. However, watching Emerald Fennell make the transition from actor to director makes it look easy. She blew us away with Promising Young Woman in … [Read More]
British actress Carey Mulligan (An Education, Never Let Me Go, The Great Gatsby) stars in Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Wildlife, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. The “Hollywood Reporter” recently named her one of the eight “Best Actresses Working Today” and she is very good in this film. Wildlife Trailer WILDLIFE Trailer 14-year-old Joe … [Read More]
Actress Carey Mulligan (“An Education,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Never Let Me Go,” “Drive”, “Wall Street: Money Never Stops,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Far From the Madding Crowd,” “Mudbound”) stopped in Chicago on October 10th at the Chicago International Film Festival to collect a Career Achievement Award prior to the screening of … [Read More]
Last week the Gothams’ nominating committee lauded Dee Rees’ epic drama Mudbound with a special award for the ensemble cast. On November 5 Mudbound, starring Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke, Rob Morgan and Jonathan Banks, will receive the Hollywood Breakout Ensemble Award at the 21st … [Read More]
The last movie written and directed by the Coen brothers was the brilliant True Grit. The last film they wrote was Gambit, which was far from the greatness of True Grit, but enjoyable nonetheless. Their next treat for us, Inside Llewyn Davis is due for release in December, after showing … [Read More]
Synopsis: A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor. The Great Gatsby is a book that has been translated to film many times. Despite F. Scott Fitzgerald’s achievements as an author, the many film adaptations of his book have not … [Read More]
A singer-songwriter navigates New York’s folk music scene during the 1960s. Source: Dark Horizons
The Great Gatsby is quickly becoming one of the films that really stand out in the crowd of upcoming films with a few neat posters, a pretty stellar trailer with that catchy Safe House music, and more being released about this movie as the days go by. Personally … [Read More]