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Tom Hanks must feel solitude is good luck. The two-time Oscar winner won another nomination for 2000’s Castaway in which he spent most of his screen time stranded on an island talking to a weathered volleyball named Wilson. Can the new movie Finch do the same thing for him? Hanks is, as often the case, is perfectly…

Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones will lead the cast of Two Wolves, a Vietnam War-set thriller being helmed by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. The pic tells the story of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who, during the Wwr, turned against his fellow soldiers to halt the massacre of unarmed civilians in the…

Caleb Landry Jones won Cannes’ Best Actor prize last night for his turn in Justin Kurzel’s Nitram. The film charts the events leading up to the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania in 1996, in which a lone gunman, Martin Bryant, took the lives of 35 people and left 23 others injured. It was the worst mass shooting in…

As the Cannes Film Festival draws near to a close, Justin Kurzel sat down to field a series of questions about his Palme d'Or contender Nitram, a deeply disturbing retelling of the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, Australia. Kurzel was joined by the film's star Caleb Landry Jones, writer…

A decade after making a strong impression with his debut feature, The Snowtown Murders, Australian director Justin Kurzel has turned up at the Cannes Film Festival with another arresting mass-murder drama in Nitram. The subject is the worst lone-gunman mass killing in the country's history, and the film disturbingly…

War movies have come in every stripe over the years — good ones and bad ones and in between — but I know the difference, and Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan-set The Outpost is top of the line. If exceptional works like The Hurt Locker and Dunkirk have defined what is good in the genre in recent years, this harrowing look at…

“Aren’t we supposed to be on top of the mountain to win this thing?” Here is the first trailer for Afghan War thriller The Outpost, director Rod Lurie’s adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller by CNN host Jake Tapper. It follows a small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired U.S. rights to The Outpost, the Rod Lurie-directed adapation of CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s bestselling non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. The military thriller is about a small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating deep in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for gritty-looking psychological drama To The Night, starring Three Billboards and X-Men: First Class actor Caleb Landry Jones as an artist suffering from PTSD. Written and directed by rising Austrian director Peter Brunner, a protege of The White Ribbon and Amour filmmaker Michael…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) and Jay Baruchel (Goon) are joining the cast of Lone Scherfig’s latest movie, I can reveal. The movie is now underway in Toronto and will soon head to Copenhagen and New York. As previously announced, Andrea…

Actor Tye Sheridan is doing double duty at SXSW. Many might be pressing start for his role in the festival’s surprise screening of Ready Player One, but his other film, Friday’s Child directed by A.J. Edwards speaks more to the independent bend of the film fest with a story that focuses on a Sheridan’s Richie, an…

EXCLUSIVE: Abbie Cornish (Limitless) and Caleb Landry Jones (Twin Peaks) have boarded the cast of Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Fox Searchlight and Film4 are co-financing the film, which is also set to star Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. The premise sounds like a…