Tag: Into The Wild
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Where to Watch ‘Butcher’s Crossing’
Before The Old Way was released in January 2023, Nicolas Cage had worked on another similar almost-Western movie, Butcher’s Crossing. Although the film premiered at the 2022 TIFF, it hasn’t seen the light of theaters… until now. The upcoming Western drama film is based on the novel of the same name written by John Edward…
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‘Flag Day’ Trailer: Sean Penn Directs His Daughter Dylan Penn in Family Crime Drama
Sean Penn delivered a filmmaking misfire in 2016 with his dramatic flop “The Last Face,” but his directing career gets back on track with “Flag Day.” The true-story crime drama finds Penn directing his daughter, Dylan Penn, who earned strong reviews earlier this month after the movie world premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.…
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‘Flag Day’ Review: Sean Penn Directs a Powerful Father-Daughter Drama That Reveals Dylan Penn to Be a Major Actor
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn has always had a flinty integrity, but the movies he directs work so hard to channel the values of ’70s films — they’re moody and fatalistic, with furrowed brows, and move at a pace of drop-dead deliberation — that early on, in the days of “The Indian Runner” (1991) and…
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Celebrities, Filmmakers Remember Hal Holbrook: ‘We Lost Another Giant Today’
Following the news of Hal Holbrook’s death on Monday night, Hollywood has taken to social media to remember the award-winning character actor. Holbrook was best known for portraying Mark Twain in “Mark Twain Tonight!” in 1967, along with his roles in “Into the Wild,” “All The President’s Men” and “Magnum Force.”In a statement to Variety,…
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Hal Holbrook, Emmy and Tony-Winning Actor Who Portrayed Mark Twain, Dies at 95
Emmy and Tony winner Hal Holbrook, an actor best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he portrayed for decades in one-man shows, died on Jan. 23. He was 95.Holbrook’s personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, confirmed his death to the New York Times on Monday night.Holbrook played the American novelist in a solo show called…
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Abandoned ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Airlifted From Alaskan Wilderness
The infamous bus in which Christopher McCandless, the subject of John Krakauer’s 1996 book “Into The Wild,” found shelter and ultimately died of starvation, was removed from the Alaskan wilderness via helicopter on Thursday.Fans of the book and its subsequent 2007 film adaptation directed by Sean Penn have sought out the bus for years, risking…