The Christophers – first-look review
[ad_1] The aging painter Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) of Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is introduced recording cameos, donning a beret for the occasion and signing off each
The Fence – first-look review
[ad_1] A period piece inspired by her own childhood as the daughter of a French colonial official in Africa, Claire Denis’s first feature film, 1988’s Chocolat, concerned
Maddie’s Secret – first-look review
[ad_1] A film about a bulimic with the surname “Ralph,” starring cis male writer-director John Early as the cis female title character, seems at the outset
Hamlet – first-look review | Little White Lies
[ad_1] There are shades of Succession in Aneil Karia’s Hamlet: a stylish, uneven adaptation that takes pleasure in entropy and extremity. Set at the estate of a wealthy desi family in present-day
Sacrifice – first-look review | Little White Lies
[ad_1] At a Davos-like gathering inside a cavernous marble mine, global elites in dinner dress enjoy a tweezer-precise amuse-bouche and a performance of Cerrone’s all-time Italodisco banger “Supernature” by
Christy – first-look review | Little White Lies
[ad_1] When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was serious about his craft,
Below The Clouds – first-look review
[ad_1] If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak, there is not much
Silent Friend – first-look review
[ad_1] It’s a truism to point out that trees, plants, rivers and all flora and fauna contain as much lifeforce as any human. Fortunately, Hungarian director,
Re-anticipating Megalopolis | Little White Lies
[ad_1] Some see cinema as a form of theatre, and others see it as a form of circus. The great American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola sits very
100 Nights of Hero – first-look review
[ad_1] No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual flair and deadpan drollery