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How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation of Iconic Filmmakers MIA
Earlier this year, John Waters — whose last movie, A Dirty Shame, was released a full decade ago — finally got the offer he’d been waiting for all this time. According to his hitchhiking chronicle...
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How ‘True Detective’ Shot McConaughey’s Monologues and Other Revelations From...
It probably says something not altogether confidence-inspiring about the current state of cinema that one of the most interesting and versatile independent filmmakers on the scene had to go to...
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Cary Fukunaga Might Not Direct Stephen King’s ‘It’ After All
Last month, True Detective director Cary Fukunaga sounded positively giddy as he told a Tribeca Film Festival audience, “I’m eight weeks away from starting Stephen King’s It.” He’d been working on the...
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Netflix Goes Big, Acquires New Brad Pitt Movie, ‘War Machine’
In their latest salvo against the majors, Netflix has picked up distribution rights for War Machine, an upcoming war satire from director David Michod (Animal Kingdom, The Rover) and producer/star...
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Watch: The Trailer for Cary Fukunaga’s Netflix Film, ‘Beasts of No Nation’...
Cary Fukunaga has very quickly become a huge-name director, especially with the exposure of the dregs (aka Season 2) of post-Fukunaga True Detective.With the first season of True D, he and Nic...
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Cary Fukunaga Speaks Out About Leaving the ‘It’ Adaptation
“I’m eight weeks away from starting Stephen King’s It,” Cary Fukunaga announced confidently at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring, confirming a start date for a project that he’d been working on for...
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David Cronenberg Thought Season 2 of ‘True Detective’ Was “Bad” Too
Andy Samberg summarized it best during the opening monologue at the Emmys: “We also said goodbye to True Detective even though it’s still on the air.” The second season had to not only contend with the...
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How Netflix’s Patronage Could Save Challenging Films Like ‘Beasts of No Nation’
The first shot of Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation is framed through an empty television — a flourish that eventually makes sense (our protagonist and his friends are trying to sell it as an...
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Z for Zachariah,’ ‘The Wolfpack’
The highest-grossing movie in many a moon hits DVD and Blu-ray today; too bad it’s not very good. And there’s not much competition for it on the new release shelf, aside from a would-be YA blockbuster...
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Netflix Releases (High!) Viewing Numbers for ‘Beasts of No Nation’
When Netflix paid $12 million for distribution rights to Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, they were embarking on a bold experiment: could they stream a movie for free on the same date it opened in...
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Cary Fukunaga to Direct All Episodes of an Emma Stone and Jonah Hill-Starring...
After Cary Fukunaga left True Detective — which in its first season he provided with a striking, singularly cohesive vision atypical of serial television — many may have mourned the form having at...
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‘Petrochemical America’: The Richard Misrach Photos That Inspired ‘True...
The look of True Detective is one of the most distinctive things about the show: all sickly yellows and greens, a world that’s rotting and diseased, a world that’s dying in slow motion. To accurately...
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How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation of Iconic Filmmakers MIA
Earlier this year, John Waters — whose last movie, A Dirty Shame, was released a full decade ago — finally got the offer he’d been waiting for all this time. According to his hitchhiking chronicle...
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Stanley Kubrick’s Lifelong Project ‘Napoleon’ Coming to HBO with Spielberg...
Stanley Kubrick was busy man. So busy, in fact, that several of the projects he’d hoped to complete before his death in 1999 went unfinished. Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. was one of them, and now...
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Here’s Who Should Direct ‘The Batman’
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a toilet fire, even graded on the generous curve of shitty comic book franchise flicks, but it grossed (deep breath) $873 million worldwide, which is all the...
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Missing ‘The Knick?’ The Trailer for ‘The Alienist’ Depicts the Pretty...
The Steven Soderberg directed The Knick was perhaps the most exquisitely filmed and scored series on television — creating a tone of alienation that made the turn of the 20th century feel science...
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The Long-Awaited Film Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘It’ Is… Fine
Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It (the first part of it, anyway) comes to the screen carrying more baggage than a Jerry Lewis bellboy, so it probably deserves the benefit of our doubt....
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