The new opioid drama Crisis weaves its way through three alternating stories all tied to the same subject — the tragic addictive nature of these drugs, and three individuals aiming to combat it in their own ways. A movie that undoubtedly will be compared to two multiple-Oscar-winning movies, Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 Tr…
UPDATED with latest winner:Â The Palm Springs Film Festival said Wednesday Yuh-Jung Youn is the recipient of the 2021 Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in A24’s Minari.
The Lee Isaac Chung-directed pic about how one generation of a Korean American family risks everything to plant dreams for the next on their…
In 2018, Gary Oldman nabbed his first Golden Globe award for his performance and transformation as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour. Three years later and Oldman’s in the Golden Globes’ best actor in a drama race for his unveiled performance as Citizen Kane co-scribe Herman J. Mankiewicz in David Fincher…
“There is no greater scourge facing America from within,” we’re told. “The president takes the opioid crisis very seriously.”
Such begins the first trailer for Crisis, a thriller about the horrid epidemic that’s told in three interwoven stories. Check it out above.
Here is the logline for writer-director Nicholas…
With Mank, director David Fincher realized a long-held dream to shoot a screenplay by his father Jack Fincher, who died in 2003. It’s story set in the Hollywood's Golden Age and against the making of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, a movie many consider still the greatest ever made. But as members of the…
David Fincher turns Netflix homes into 1940s movie houses with his latest opus, Mank, which explores the life and frustrations of Citizen Kane's screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he works his way through the draft of what will become Orson Welles' seminal directorial debut. With its title role imbued with Mankiewic…
Coming off a Best Actor Oscar win for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman had a lot of choices. But following up that remarkable portrait of Winston Churchill during the war years with another real-life figure an alcoholic screenwriter from Hollywood’s golden era, could not be more of a polar opposite. The result however is…
For decades a majority of film historians and critics have placed Orson Welles’ seminal 1941 classic Citizen Kane at, or near, the top of just about every list of the greatest films ever made. I recently re-watched it in preparation for seeing David Fincher’s remarkable new film Mank .
Mank tells the tale of…
It’s Terrific!
That was the simple advertising line that adorned most posters and newspaper ads for the landmark film Citizen Kane when it was released in 1941. Let me say the same line applies to David Fincher’s masterpiece Mank, a film centering on the creation of the script for Kane and the man who shares official…
Following the first teaser earlier this month, the official trailer for David Fincher's Mank has dropped today with a deeper look at the movie about Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz and his tumultuous development of the Orson Welles classic. Check it out above.
Netflix will release Mank in…