It seems such a long time ago that Gladiator walked away with not only $457million at the worldwide box office but five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. Made at a time when shared universes and countless sequels weren’t the favourite thing (well, at least to the extent that they are now), Gladiator was a rare blockbuster that was unto itself. But that’s not to say they haven’t tried to bring it back.

After the success of the first film, many rumours…
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It seems such a long time ago that Gladiator walked away with not only $457million at the worldwide box office but five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. Made at a time when shared universes and countless sequels weren’t the favourite thing (well, at least to the extent that they are now), Gladiator was a rare blockbuster that was unto itself. But that’s not to say they haven’t tried to bring it back.

After the success of the first film, many rumours…
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Joaquin Phoenix is in line to take on the role of Jesus Christ in Garth Davis’ upcoming biopic, Mary Magdalene.

Deadline reports that Phoenix is being considered for the role and looks set to join up with actress Rooney Mara.

Mara will be play the title role with the story focusing on “the life of the devoted follower of Jesus Christ, who is believed to have witnessed his crucifixion and been the first to discover his resurrection.”

Production is expected to begin this summer with…

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Casey Affleck will direct Joaquin Phoenix in his fiction directing debut. The pair have already worked together in 2010’s documentary I’m Still Here, but according to THR, Affleck and Phoenix are swapping raps for guns in Western action Far Bright Star.

Set in 1916, Joaquin Phoenix will play an aging cavalryman who is leading a posse on a hunt for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. But when the group is attacked and most of the men are killed, the cavalryman is left struggling to…
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At less than ninety minutes, Ramsay and editor Joe Bini manage to make You Were Never Really Here a film that feels simultaneously deeply rich and incredibly sparse.
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“Irrational Man may not be a great Wooden Allen picture, but it an entertaining little footnote in his illustrious career.”
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“this may end up making you laugh more than most straight comedies this year.”
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The Master is one of a kind. The layers of storytelling are seemingly endless – not unlike a cinematic labyrinth. You can watch Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic five or six times, and I guarantee you’ll come out with a new detail you hadn’t noticed before. On the exterior, it’s a story about an alcoholic drifter named Freddie Quell, his post-war turmoil, and his inability to reintegrate into peace time. Fighting the pacific has left him with a bruised soul. Quell’s body contorts in…
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A missing teenage girl. A brutal and tormented enforcer on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of violence that may lead to his awakening.
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On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
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When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly shows up out of nowhere with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just so happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin… well, easy for her to say. It’s the tail end of the psychedelic ’60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or…
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In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
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