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Will Arnett and Andra Day On Midlife Reckonings and Movies Without Villains

According to Arnett, his character’s breakthrough in 'Is This Thing On?' has nothing to do with comedy and everything to do with finding his voice.

26.12.2025 4

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Sphere’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Walks an Uneasy Line Between Cinematic Enchantment and A.I. Slop

As 'Wicked: For Good' hits big screens, Sphere is hosting a wildly distended, dazzlingly supersized and grotesquely manipulated version of the 1939...

22.11.2025 4

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Wes Anderson Explains the Genesis of ‘The Phoenician Scheme’

At the Cannes Film Festival, Anderson explained his black comedy started out about "the darkness of a certain type of capitalist" who doesn't care...

30.05.2025 6

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Screening at Cannes: Directing Debuts from Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johannson and Harris Dickinson

'The Chronology of Water,' might be the most Kristen Stewart movie ever made. Along with Scarlett Johannson and Harris Dickinson she presented her...

26.05.2025 9

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Screening at Cannes: Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky In Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’

The presentation of an honorary Palme d'Or took Denzel Washington by surprise at Cannes, where he and Spike Lee unveiled their latest collaboration,...

23.05.2025 3

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Screening at Cannes: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson In ‘Die My Love’

Lynne Ramsay’s film—about a woman suffering from severe post-partum depression—is designed for maximum discomfort, with frenzied physicality,...

20.05.2025 4

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Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: ‘Blue Moon’

Set on one night and almost entirely in one location, 'Blue Moon' features Ethan Hawke in every scene giving a virtuoso performance as the manic,...

19.02.2025 6

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Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: ‘Mickey 17’

"Although it’s a story of the future, it feels like a story that could happen in the present," said director Bong Joon-ho of his dystopian science...

17.02.2025 10

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Inside the Making of ‘The Brutalist,’ One of the Year’s Best Films

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Courtesy of A24 One of the most ambitious films of the year, Brady Corbet’s 215-minute psychodrama The Brutalist...

20.12.2024 5

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