Tag: Love
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Starry ‘Colette’ and ‘The Sisters Brothers’ Ignite Fall Specialty Box Office
The specialized fall season, rife with awards contenders, launched in earnest this weekend. Two limited openings — “Colette” (Bleecker Street) with Keira Knightley as the legendary writer and western “The Sisters Brothers” (Annapurna), the first English-language film from director Jacques Audiard — notched bigger grosses than any platform debuts since early July.This weekend also saw…
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Climax review – bad trip at the danse macabre
A troupe of young dancers is sucked into an LSD-induced hell in Gaspar Noé’s latest grand guignol vision“It’s a nightmare!” Gaspar Noé’s latest is a typically confrontational cocktail of music and horror; a trance-like stew of contorting, krumping, waacking weirdness that drops on its audience like the bucket of blood from Carrie. It’s purportedly based…
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Gillian Jacobs to Star in Amblin Horror Thriller ‘Larry’ (Exclusive)
Gillian Jacobs, most recently the star of Judd Apatow’s Netflix series Love, will star in Larry, a horror movie being made by Amblin and writer-director Jacob Chase.Azhy Robertson is also starring in the project, which is being described as a two-hander in a similar fashion to the pairing of Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment…
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The Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)
As we pass the halfway point of 2018, the avid movie-watchers here at IMDb have revealed their favorite films of the year to date.Superheroes flew into the list of top movies of many here at IMDb, with Marvel blockbusters ‘Black Panther‘ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ making our list of staff picks.R-rated superhero sequel ‘Deadpool 2‘…
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Cannes Report, Day 5: Salma Hayek Sounds Off, Gaspar Noé Redeemed
It’s raining in France as we reach the halfway point of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where a gender parity conversation has taken center stage and filmmakers continue to serve up their wares.Speaking at the annual Kering Women in Motion panel, Salma Hayek touched on the scorched-earth op-ed she wrote last year about working with…
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‘Alex Strangelove’ Trailer: Netflix Gets in on the ‘Love, Simon’ Love With Its Own Gay Teen Comedy
Did you love Love, Simon but don’t have enough money in your bank account to see it for the fifth time in theaters? For those itching for their next teen comedy fix, Netflix has the answer. And better yet, Netflix has a sweet, raunchy gay coming-of-age comedy that has more than a few similarities to…
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Cannes: Nicolas Cage’s ‘Mandy’ and Gaspar Noe’s ‘Climax’ Lead 2018 Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Nicolas Cage is heading to Cannes. The festival’s parallel sidebar Directors’ Fortnight has announced the 17 features that will screen this year, and the group includes world premieres from international favorites like Gaspar Noe’ and Ciro Guerra, plus acclaimed titles like “Mandy” and “Leave No Trace” that first wowed audiences at Sundance earlier this year.2018…
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‘Alex Strangelove’ Review: Craig Johnson Delivers a Raunchy ‘Love, Simon’ For the Indie Set
When “Love, Simon” hit theaters earlier this year, it was celebrated as a moving but flawed studio movie about a gay teenager. For the first time ever, Lgbtq teens across the country could go to a movie theater, stuff popcorn in their faces, and witness a version of their lives on screen. Of course, we…
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‘A Kid Like Jake’ Trailer: Claire Danes, Octavia Spencer Explore Gender Nonconformity
It’s only April, and yet 2018 is turning out to be a landmark year for Lgbtq characters on the big screen. Earlier this year, “Love, Simon” broke ground by becoming the first major studio film to focus on a gay teenage romance. Now, “A Kid Like Jake” will introduce audiences to a story centered on…
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Love, Simon: Russell T Davies and more on why the gay teen movie is a ‘glorious victory’
With a lead whose sexuality isn’t a gimmick, this high-school drama may prove that film has caught up with its audienceFrom his clean-cut good looks to his inner angst, the titular character in Love, Simon seems like your average American high school movie hero. Except for one thing: he’s secretly gay. The story of Simon’s…