Tag: Hold the Dark
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This Forgotten Alexander Skarsgård Film Was a Bigger Hit Than You Remember
Alexander Skarsgård has more or less dominated television screens for the past decade. Between his Emmy winning villainous turn in Big Little Lies, his quietly charismatic espionage agent in Little Drummer Girl, and his scene-stealing tech giant on Succession, Skarsgård is a true chameleon that embodies the “character actor in a leading man’s body” description…
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John Boyega’s Abrupt Netflix Movie Exit: Agent Denies Report He Left Without Telling Anyone
News broke at the start of June that John Boyega was abruptly exiting Jeremy Saulnier’s Netflix movie “Rebel Ridge” due to “family reasons.” The movie, Saulnier’s second Netflix original feature after “Hold the Dark,” was only a week into filming in Louisiana after being delayed for a year because of the pandemic. A new report…
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Director Jeremy Saulnier To Team With John Boyega On Upcoming Thriller ‘Rebel Ridge’
Despite a bit of a creative setback in “Hold the Dark,” there’s no denying that Jeremy Saulnier is one of the best young filmmakers working today. And for his next film, “Rebel Ridge,” it appears as if he’s snagged one of the best young actors to star.According to Variety, John Boyega has been signed on…
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Auteurs On Netflix: ‘Maniac’ & ‘Hold The Dark’ [Ayt Podcast]
On this episode of Adjust Your Tracking, Joe and I eschew the theatrical route for a discussion on two recent high profile Netflix releases. With the streaming service’s current release mode set to full-on tidal wave, it can be overwhelming just thinking about what to watch and even keeping up on what’s new and worth…
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‘Hold the Dark’: Jeffrey Saulnier Crafts A Moody, Post-Peckinpah Thriller [Tiff Review]
“Three days ago my son Bailey was taken by wolves,” she writes in the letter, and she harbors no illusions about what happened next: “I don’t expect you to find my son alive. But you could find the wolf that took him.” When Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) arrives at her door, Medora (Riley Keough) holds…
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Toronto Film Review: ‘Hold the Dark’
Jeremy Saulnier’s 2016 breakthrough, “Green Room,” depicted a traveling punk band held captive by a gang of white supremacists in a remote corner of Oregon. For his fourth and most ambitious film, “Hold the Dark,” the director returns again to sinister goings-on within secluded, rural communities, only this time the evil at hand is much…
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‘Hold the Dark’ Review: Jeremy Saulnier Delivers an Icy Cold Work of Existential Dread [Tiff]
With Hold the Dark, Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier crafts a bleak, unforgiving film with an ever-increasing body count. Shot through with menace and unapologetically nasty, Hold the Dark is bound to horrify some viewers to the point of disengagement. Call it No Country for Cold Men. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark is a chilly,…
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‘Hold the Dark’ Review: Jeffrey Wright Battles Wolves and Demons of the Alaskan Wilderness in Jeremy Saulnier’s Unpredictable Survival Saga — Tiff
Jeremy Saulnier was a breakout genre sensation with his taut revenge thriller “Blue Ruin,” but “GreenRoom” solidified his aesthetic with a punks-versus-skinheads survival story that dovetailed from taut survival drama to war movie. With “Hold the Dark,” he continues that fascinating hodgepodge approach, transforming the eerie backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness into an expansive playground…
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‘Hold the Dark’ Trailer: Jeffrey Wright Faces Down a Wolf in Jeremy Saulnier’s Netflix Film
Jeremy Saulnier is following up 2015’s genre hit “Green Room” with “Hold the Dark,” a Netflix original film about a man fighting nature to save a young child. Jeffrey Wright leads a starry cast including Riley Keough, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, and Julian Black Antelope. The film debuts on Netflix and in select theaters…
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‘Green Room’s’ Jeremy Saulnier Says Upcoming Film ‘Hold The Dark’ Features His “Highest Body Count” To Date
If you haven’t heard the name of filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier before, you definitely need to drop everything and watch his previous films ASAP. “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room” are two of the most interesting indie films of the last several years and have firmly planted Saulnier as one of the brightest up and coming filmmakers…