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‘The Grand Tour’ Review: Jeremy Clarkson Recreates ‘Top Gear’ in America, Because This Is Where Disgraced Reality Stars Thrive
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In an age where Donald Trump can become President of the United States, it’s sadly fitting that English reality host Jeremy Clarkson had to flee to America to keep doing whatever the hell he wants. You see, the former “Top Gear” host’s contract wasn’t renewed by the BBC because of not one, but many controversial incidents involving the volatile “car journalist” (self-described), including accusations ranging from jokes about murdering prostitutes and imitating a Nazi salute to tossing around so many ethnic slurs it seems as though he’s offended every race and gender imaginable.
But what put him over the line across the pond was a March 2015 altercation with Oisin Tymon in which he allegedly punched the “Top Gear” producer for serving him soup and a meat platter instead of steak. Despite protests from fans (including a petition garnering over 1 million signatures), the BBC stood by their »
- Ben Travers
‘Black Mirror’ Short Film: Twisted Netflix Ad is a Scary Vision of the Future – Watch
12 hours ago
Netflix’s buzzed-about “Black Mirror” anthology series tells sharp and suspenseful tales that explore themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. There’s no doubt that technology has transformed all aspects of our lives, and at times even controlling it.
A new ad for the series was released by Netflix which introduces us to “Netflix Vista,” an innovative and terrifying way to watch shows and movies directly from your eyeballs. Oh, what an eerie future awaits us!
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The video features various people doing regular activities like eating dinner, standing by the ocean, working out, among other things. The scary part is that they’re all zoned out, with a trance-like look on their faces, while they watch Netflix without needing a TV, computer or any other device.
Adding to the techno-paranoia, the video asks, “What do you love most in life? »
- Liz Calvario
‘Manchester by the Sea’: Watch Kenneth Lonergan, Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams Discuss the Film’s Psychology
13 hours ago
Kenneth Lonergan’s family drama “Manchester by the Sea” premiered almost 10 months ago at the Sundance Film Festival and is still plowing full steam ahead into awards season. On November 17, the director was joined by the film’s stars, Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams, at a New York Times “TimesTalks” event, where the trio discussed Lonergan’s career, as well as the film’s development.
Contrary to the more traditional practice of casting extras or locals for smaller speaking roles, Lonergan instead cast trained actors – some even Tony winners – for those parts. Both Williams and Affleck relayed this seemingly minute detail to Lonergan’s appreciation for actors and their craft.
“At the time, I wasn’t even thinking about this, but now looking back, it’s a really, very beautiful expression of faith in actors and what they can do and what they’re capable of,” said Affleck. “Even for the tiniest role, »
- Mark Burger
‘How to Meet a Mermaid’ Exclusive Trailer: Three People Find Refuge In The Sea In Search of a Better Place
13 hours ago
Coco Schrijber’s documentary “How to Meet a Mermaid” examines the unpredictable nature of the sea and the stories of Lex, Rebecca, and Miguel, three protagonists who entrust their lives to the water in search of a better place. Though the sea has many faces — friendship, beauty, solace, strength — it’s what we choose to see it in that matters most. Schrijber conquers her fear of the sea by taking a plunge to the bottom in search of an answer for her brother’s disappearance, all the while meditating on what the sea means to others. Watch an exclusive trailer for the film below.
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“‘Life of Pi,’ ‘All is Lost,’ ‘Dead Calm,’ ‘Cast Away’; all are stunning films, each with the sea as their subject,” says Schrijber. “Nonetheless, they all deal with ‘the will to survive’, as emphasized in their trailers. »
- Vikram Murthi
‘The Beguiled’ New Photo: Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst Channel Beyoncé on Sofia Coppola’s Set
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Production is currently underway on Sofia Coppola’s remake of the 1971 film “The Beguiled,” and the stars of the film, Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst, shared a new fun image from the set.
Channeling their inner Beyoncé and Serena Williams, the actresses are seen dressed in their characters’ costumes and posing on what looks like the same chair the singer used in her “Sorry” video.
Both Fanning and Dunst simply captioned the side-by-side images “#lemonade.”
Read More: Sofia Coppola’s New Film ‘The Beguiled’: See Production Images From The Set of Her Western
The original film starred Clint Eastwood was based on Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 novel “A Painted Devil.” Set during the Civil War, the story followed a Union soldier imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school who disrupts the environment and slowly turns the women against each other.
The remake will be Coppola’s first feature-length film »
- Liz Calvario
‘The Frontier’ Exclusive Clips: Oren Shai’s Debut Film Follows a Drifter, A Million Dollars In Stolen Cash and a Gang of Thieves
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This past October, Kino Lorber picked up the distribution rights to Oren Shai’s debut feature film “The Frontier,” a noir western about a drifter who starts working at a diner on the outskirts of Phoenix only to discover its inhabitants are all accomplices in a million-dollar heist. She soon plans to steal the cash for herself. The film stars Jocelin Donahue (“The House of the Devil”), Kelly Lynch (“Drugstore Cowboy”), Jim Beaver (“Deadwood”), Izabella Miko (“Step Up All In”), Jamie Harris (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”); Aj Bowen (“The Sacrament”), and Liam Aiken (“Ned Rifle”). Now, the film is available on VOD and digital platforms. Watch two exclusive clips from the film below.
Read More: ‘The Frontier’ Exclusive Trailer: A Female Drifter Hatches a Plan To Steal Stolen Cash From a Gang of Thieves
“With ‘The Frontier’ I wanted to capture the feeling of reading an old vintage paperback, »
- Vikram Murthi
Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane to Star in Desiree Akhavan’s ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’
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Desiree Akhavan’s directorial debut “Appropriate Behavior” received critical acclaim at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay the following year. Now the Iranian-American director, writer, and actress has lined up her next project.
Akhavan is set to direct “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” with Chloë Grace Moretz and “American Honey” breakout star Sasha Lane to star. The film is based on Emily Danforth’s acclaimed and controversial coming-of-age novel of the same name. Set in 1993, the story follows a girl who is forced into a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with the prom queen.
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Moretz will portray Cameron, an orphan who’s taken in by her ultra-conservative aunt, and Lane is Cameron’s friend and fellow “disciple” at the »
- Liz Calvario
5 Tips For Making a Badass Feminist Movie From the Director of ‘The Love Witch’
15 hours ago
As a filmmaker, Anna Biller is an obsessive. She holds a staggering 10 credits on “The Love Witch,” an homage to genres as diffuse as 1970s-era sexploitation films and 1960s-set Giallo features, starring breakout Samantha Robinson as Elaine, a young witch looking for love in all the wrong places. Driven by her desire to literally charm a man, Elaine’s powerful magic often backfires in spectacular fashion – love is a dangerous thing, especially when aided by stellar spell-casting – and the witty and wild feature tracks her story with both style and substance.
Biller’s aesthetic is unique and bold, and harkens back to the heyday of exploitation features with plenty of old Hollywood touches and deliciously feminist messaging. Pulpy, melodramatic, and totally badass, there’s nothing quite like “The Love Witch,” and it’s all Biller.
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- Kate Erbland
‘Paranormal Action Squad’ Exclusive Clip: YouTube Red’s New Animated Series Follows Three Supernatural Enthusiasts
15 hours ago
Whether it’s the new “Ghostbusters” reboot or “The Conjuring 2,” paranormal investigators have had quite good a good year. But paranormal activity isn’t relegated to the franchise by the same name or even just feature films, it also exists in our web series’. The new YouTube Red animated series “The Paranormal Action Squad” follows two paranormal enthusiasts and their enthusiastic neighbor on their mission to uncover the mysteries of the ghostly universe. The series stars video game commentators SeaNanners, an alias for Adam Montoya, TheMrSark, aka Scott Robinson, and VanossGaming, aka Evan Fong. Watch an exclusive clip from the third episode below.
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The series was created and written by Michael Rowe. He’s a TV writer best known for working on shows like “Coach,” “Becker,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and “Family Guy.” He won »
- Vikram Murthi
‘Fences’ Star Viola Davis On How Denzel Washington’s Film Allowed Her Second Chance at Beloved Role
15 hours ago
Viola Davis knows Rose Maxson. Six years ago, the actress won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her turn in the Kenny Leon-directed revival of the classic August Wilson play, the sixth offering in his ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle. Davis starred in the film alongside Denzel Washington, who played Rose’s husband Troy Maxson, and who also picked up a Tony for his part in the play. Washington’s affection for the production has never abated, and the Oscar winner has now adapted the 1983 play into a film by the same name, doing double duty as both director and star.
Davis, of course, reprises her role in the film, an on-screen reunion that breathes new life into a production the pair have already excelled at making their own. But for Davis, the choice to return to Rose and the play itself, which chronicles the traumas and »
- Kate Erbland
‘Manchester By the Sea’: How Kenneth Lonergan & Crew Made a Non-Linear Masterpiece
15 hours ago
Flashback memories can be tricky, but director Kenneth Lonergan decided with his crew to embrace them head-on in the Oscar- contending “Manchester By the Sea,” in which Casey Affleck’s repressed, grief-stricken handyman returns to his hometown to confront his demons.
Cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (shooting digitally with the Alexa and older lenses for softness) wrapped the movie around the New England coldness. “But the problem we ran into was that even though that winter set a record for snowfall, by the time we started it was disappearing, and it was a struggle to include as much snow as we could. There were times we had to bring in snow,” he told IndieWire.
By contrast, the scenes at sea were shot to convey a sense of refuge. “It always felt like we were on the edge of not getting to the finish line. But something I learned from Kenny and »
- Bill Desowitz
‘Thanksgiving’ Review: Amy Sedaris and Chris Elliott Carry Wacky Holiday Series By ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Ep
15 hours ago
Political dynasties may find no love from Americans these days, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love our comedy dynasties. Fans of David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris will agree a little nepotism isn’t always a bad thing, as well as those who ate crow when Abby Elliott proved herself worthy of the strings (real or rumored) pulled by her father, “Saturday Night Live” alum Chris Elliott, to get her an audition for the show that started his career. Now, two great comedic families finally join forces as Amy Sedaris and Chris Elliott play the world’s worst parents in “Thanksgiving,” a loopy family comedy that — like its target audience — could use an Adderall.
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The short form comedy series takes place on Thanksgiving day in a town called Libertyville, where the »
- Jude Dry
How Live Film Scores Are Finding New Life in the Age of Netflix
16 hours ago
Later tonight, close to 2,000 moviegoers will fill Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn to watch Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life,” set to a live score played by a 110-piece orchestra and choir. It’s the seventh live score production by the New York-based Wordless Music Orchestra, which has previously staged live music productions of other modern day classics like “There Will Be Blood” and “Under the Skin.”
For the founder of Wordless Music, Ronen Givony, the need to create a heightened sense of occasion with a live event is vital in the age of Netflix and Spotify.
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“I think it’s fair to say that whether it’s an orchestra concert or a rock concert or a movie, it seems like especially in New York, the simple act of going out and seeing »
- Chris O'Falt
Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down Accuracy of 32 Famous Roles, From Brad Pitt to Will Smith – Watch
16 hours ago
Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzed the accents of some of Hollywood’s biggest names and explained how accurate they really were in a new video for Wired.
Singer first looks at Brad Pitt’s role of Lt. Aldo Raine in “Inglourious Basterds” and explains what makes a good Southern accent. After listening to the actor, Singer states that Pitt doesn’t really hit key words that he’s supposed to.
He then analyzes Will Smith’s Nigerian accent in “Concussion” and explains that Smith is playing real-life doctor Bennet Omalu, who has a “somewhat Americanized Nigerian accent.”
“Smith doesn’t seem to be going for Omalu’s voice so much as a kind of generalized Nigerian or African accent,” he adds.
Read More: ‘Empire’ Showrunner Ilene Chaiken on How to Handle Trump’s Presidency – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
With two actors down who haven’t perfected their role, »
- Liz Calvario
‘Graves’ Exclusive Clip: The Former President and His Family Have It Out In Therapy
16 hours ago
The new Epix series “Graves” follows former President of the United States Richard Graves (Nick Nolte) as he learns how his policies have damaged the country twenty years after leaving office just as his wife Margaret (Sela Ward) starts following through on political ambitions of her own. The show has garnered mostly positive reviews, with IndieWire’s Ben Travers giving it a B+ and saying that it’s a “well performed, warmly funny tale.” Watch an exclusive clip from this Sunday’s episode featuring the Graves family in therapy and Margaret unleashing a string of criticism against her husband two children (Heléne Yorke and Chris Lowell).
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The series is created by Joshua Michael Stern. He previously wrote and directed the film “Swing Vote,” about a U.S. presidential election that’s determined by the vote »
- Vikram Murthi
‘Empire’ Showrunner Ilene Chaiken on How to Handle Trump’s Presidency – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
16 hours ago
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The presidential election results hit a lot of Hollywood hard, including the producers, cast and crew of Fox’s megahit “Empire.”
“I don’t have anxiety attacks, but when I saw what was happening I did,” executive producer and showrunner Ilene Chaiken told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast, two days after the results came in and Donald Trump was named president-elect. “I’m going through the full range of emotions that I know many people are going through.”
Chaiken said one of the show’s writers was attacked on social media after commenting to NPR. “Most of my writing colleagues are African-American, and there was a lot of rage and fear and despair,” Chaiken said. “It necessitates our doubling down on our convictions. We were already telling those stories. [But] a lot of us feel more rage. »
- Michael Schneider
‘Van Helsing’: Vanessa’s New Friend Makes ‘A Deal with the Devil’ in Exclusive Clip
17 hours ago
Why would a man bargain with vampires to protect his sanctuary and then risk everything to protect Vanessa? Literally trading blood for safety, the group’s mysterious host, Micah (Tom Cavanagh), takes in Vanessa and a band of refugees but must hide them when Magdalene (Gwynyth Walsh) shows up to collect her payment.
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In this exclusive clip from episode 10, “Stay Away,” Magdalene shows up to “Eden” a few days early and Micah must scramble to protect Vanessa and her displaced companions. But Magdalene isn’t buying it, she’s already suspicious that he is hiding fugitives from the city, a “special” woman in particular. We come to find out later that their gracious host isn’t all that he seems and appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Meanwhile, the »
- Alec McPike
‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’ Score: Listen to James Newton Howard’s Spellbinding Compositions
17 hours ago
James Newton Howard has a long list of composing credits to his name including “The Hunger Games” franchise, “The Dark Knight,” “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Maleficent,” and many others. His latest is the spellbinding score for “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them,” which you can listen to below.
Recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios, the Academy Award-nominated composer worked with an orchestra of 97 musicians to create the magical sounds of J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. The soundtrack features 17 songs, with the deluxe version including nine additional tracks. The album is also available for purchase on vinyl.
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The title theme will definitely resonate with “Harry Potter” fans since it includes a bit from the enchanting “Hedwig’s Theme,” written by John Williams.
“You hear the main theme song of the movie »
- Liz Calvario
7 Movies That Will Make You Feel Better About the Future
18 hours ago
Editor’s Note: This article is presented in partnership with FilmStruck. Developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with the Criterion Collection, FilmStruck features the largest streaming library of contemporary and classic arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films as well as extensive bonus content, filmmaker interviews and rare footage. Learn more here.
These are dark times. Dark times for those of you dismayed by recent developments in American politics, and dark times for those of you who aren’t, but still have to reckon with the fact that the sun is going down while you’re still at work (daylight savings is a bi-partisan effort to depress the hell out of you every fall). But movies were meant to be watched in the dark, which makes us all the more grateful that FilmStruck is finally here, offering subscribers a thousand different ways to light up their lives. »
- David Ehrlich
‘Patriots Day’ Critical Roundup: Mark Wahlberg’s New Boston Marathon Bombing Film Receives Mostly Positive Reviews
18 hours ago
Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day,” his latest collaboration with Mark Wahlberg, examines the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its subsequent aftermath through the eyes of a large ensemble. Wahlberg stars as Sergeant Tommy Saunders alongside John Goodman (“Barton Fink”), J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), Vincent Curatola (“The Sopranos”), Jimmy O. Yang (“Silicon Valley”) and more. It premiered last night at the AFI Fest and the first reviews are in, and they’re mostly positive.
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Variety’s Peter Debruge praises the film, saying it “manages to take a widely reported event and make it feel immediate and at times even unpredictable,” and enjoys that the film “works as a composite celebration of the dozens of people who came together to make ‘Boston strong,’ even if it stars Mark Wahlberg.
The Guardian’s Lanre Bakare describes it as »
- Vikram Murthi
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