Director: Sam Mendes Writers: Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns Starring: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman If there’s one indisputable fact about 1917, it’s that the film is masterpiece of technical achievement. Constructed as a sequence of extensive sustained shots, threaded together as if the entire film is taking place in one entirely continuous movement (though the seams of Lee […]
Director: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Writers: Chris Bremmer and Peter Craig and Joe Carnahan Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Paola Núñez As, respectively, his graduation into feature filmmaking and the first film he made with no restraints of any kind, earthly, morally, or financially, the first two Bad Boys movies represent the emergence and crystallization of […]
Director: Nicolas Pesce Writer: Nicolas Pesce Starring: Andrea Riseborough, John Cho, Demián Bichir Whether in its original Japanese incarnation Ju-On or in its Americanized form, The Grudge has always been a solid-enough concept in an everlasting search for a worthy movie, with iterations ranging in quality from merely dull to truly dire. The series is an icon of J-Horror without […]
The end for the Daniel Craig era of Bond is imminent with the impending release of No Time to Die. After fourteen years, five movies – two all-timers, one bastion of mediocrity, one outright car-wreck, and one as-yet-unknown-but-hopefully-brilliant finale – and enough whiplash-inducing variance between euphoric highs and despondent lows to wonder if the whole […]
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Director: Jeff Wadlow Writers: Jillian Jacobs & Christopher Roach & Jeff Wadlow Starring: Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Michael Peña Over the last thirteen years, Blumhouse has risen from upstart to conqueror. Operating in the ever-lucrative, creatively liberate realm of genre cinema, and given initial steam by the gargantuan return-on-investment of the Paranormal Activity films, Jason Blum’s […]
Director: Alan Yang Writer: Alan Yang Starring: Tzi Ma, Fiona Fu, Christine Ko With Tigertail, director/writer/producer Alan Yang paints a picture of the mid-century immigrant experience that’s strikingly tender and deftly told, replete with the kind of personal detail that imbues its modesty with an interior life that’s bold and touching and grasps greatness with frequency enough to forgive […]
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Director: Guillermo del Toro Writers: Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain Upon its release, Crimson Peak was met with an indifferent response from the mainstream, to whom the marketing department had promised a nightmare-inducing horror film, which Guillermo Del Toro’s film most certainly isn’t. Despite possessing certain trappings of many a […]
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Director: Sam Hargrave Writer: Joe Russo Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Golshifteh Farahani The first thing worth noting about Extraction is that Chris Hemsworth stars as a man by the name of Tyler Rake. Tyler Rake is buff, tough, and comes prepackaged with a standard-issue dark backstory like a haunted G.I. Joe. And, indeed, he does come to […]
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Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Ted Griffin Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon After sex, lies, and videotape became the archetype for the 1990s’ boom of immensely successful independent cinema, indie iconoclast Steven Soderbergh spent ten years in the wilderness with experimental and underseen fare. Then he steered back to the mainstream with an incredible streak of movies […]
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Director: Rachel Mason Featuring: Karen Mason, Barry Mason, Rachel Mason Circus of Books is a genuine stranger-than-fiction story; a documentary telling the tale of the titular Silver Lake bookstore, which sold gay pornography, science-fiction novels, Bibles and foreign newspapers side-by-side. It was run by Barry and Karen Mason (whose daughter Rachel directed this documentary), an unassuming couple […]
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First Scene Screenplay Festival 