Tag: The Innocents
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Rebecca Hall Scares Up a Classic Ghost Tale in ‘The Awakening’
Rebecca Hall is a profoundly gifted performer, and evidence is steadily mounting in favor of her being a force to be reckoned with within the horror genre in particular as well. Before she sought to solve the mystery surrounding the premature death of her secretive husband in the twisty, sharply original The Night House, Hall…
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‘Hellbender’s’ Adams Family Next, ‘Where the Devil Roams,’ Swooped on by Fox’s Tubi (Exclusive)
Fox Corp.’s Tubi, its free, ad-supported streaming TV service, has pounced on two high-profile Fantasia titles, led by “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams family’s follow-up to “Hellbender,” Rotten Tomatoes No. 1 movie on its Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022, just besting Eskil Vogt’s “The Innocents.”Estimating that it reaches 64 million monthly…
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Sarah Jessica Parker’s 10 Best Movies and TV Shows, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes
Sarah Jessica Parker has been acting since she was a child, starting with The Innocents on Broadway. She transitioned from stage to screen and has won six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmys and has also started her own production company, Pretty Matches Prods. She is best known for her role as sex columnist…
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51 Directors’ Favorite Horror Movies: Bong Joon Ho, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, and More
[Editor’s note: The following list was originally published October 15, 2019 and has been updated with new entries multiple times since.]Whether you’re looking for a scary movie to watch on Halloween or conjuring up the creeps some other time of year, there’s no better way to score top-tier recommendations than to ask other movie-lovers about…
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My streaming gem: why you should watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Continuing our series of writers picking out lesser-known gems available to stream is an ode to a murderous Jodie Foster thrillerCinema’s murderous children are legion, but Jodie Foster’s Rynn Jacobs in 1976’s The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane often falls among the forgotten. It was understandable given the especially prolific year she was…
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Danish Drama ‘As In Heaven’ Nabs Best Nordic Film at Hybrid Göteborg Fest
Danish debut feature helmer-writer Tea Lindeburg’s period drama “As In Heaven,” that portrays a fateful summer day and night in 19th century farming society, came away the biggest winner at the 44th Göteborg Film Festival, scoring on Saturday the best Nordic film kudo, this year worth approx. $44,000.Meanwhile, Seidi Haarla of Finland’s Oscar-shortlisted drama, “Compartment…
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‘Compartment No. 6’ to Open Haugesund’s Hybrid New Nordic Films 2021
After the Viking conquest at July’s Cannes Festival, where Norway (“The Worst Person in the World”), Finland (“Compartment No. 6”) and Iceland (“Lamb”) collected kudos, more than 60 possible gems from the North are to be unveiled at the hybrid market New Nordic Films which will unspool over Aug. 24-27.Scandinavia’s major film showcase, New Nordic…
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‘The Innocents’ Review: Beautifully Creepy Fable About Kids With Powers
Not every child with nascent paranormal abilities gets scooped up into Professor Xavier’s school for incipient X-Men. Some, like those in Eskil Vogt’s superbly atmospheric, deftly crafted horror “The Innocents,” live in massive Norwegian tower blocks — concrete jungles set in deep forests bathed in cool, endless Nordic summer sun — and hone their powers…
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‘Haunting of Bly Manor’: How a Retelling of a Classic Can Champion Diversity
Henry James is a popular storyteller to adapt, with numerous versions of his works presented in practically every medium known to man. Much of this is to say: “Do we really need another adaptation of ‘Turn of the Screw’?” The answer is, yes, especially as it’s laid out in Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix series “The…
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Norway’s ‘Beware Of Children’ wins world’s largest film prize in Goteborg
Buzzy works-in-progress presentations include Lamb from Iceland and The Innocents from Norway.Beware Of Children, directed by Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud, has won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film in Goteborg tonight.The prize money of $104,000 (Sek 1m) makes it the world’s largest film prize. The backers are Volvo Car Group, Region Västra Götaland and…