The Trip: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Make Great Impressions
Michael Winterbottom’s faux-fake movie provides an immediate and lasting kick as well as the spectacle of two comic combatants at the top of their game
Michael Winterbottom’s faux-fake movie provides an immediate and lasting kick as well as the spectacle of two comic combatants at the top of their game
Filmmaker J.J. Abrams tells TIME’s Richard Corliss all about his teen years, working with Steven Spielberg, and making ‘Super 8,’ the most eagerly awaited film of the summer
Richard Ayoade’s feature debut lives inside a boy’s roiling soul while finding the human comedy in his desperation. From either aspect, it’s a cagey delight
Something — some thing — is terrifying the good folks of Lillian, Ohio, but what is it? A gas-station attendant, his face blanched with fear, sees it and screams; all we see is his body being jerked out of the frame. A …
The prequel has all the makings of a smart fantasy parable, but it torpedoes its lofty intentions with flights of idiocy so wrongheaded as to be almost endearing
The sequel has a bright palette, an amiable vibe and enough vivacity to keep kids entertained — and any accompanying moms from bolting for Bridesmaids
…the messages would’ve been madly multi-part, with as many chapters as the whole Harry Potter opus. My editors know I can’t say ‘Hi’ in 140 words, let alone 140 characters. I think I’m already over the l
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In French, it is spelled ‘tuite’?
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The chatter onscreen, in the press conferences, at café tables, among the …
The noted plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) believes that his radical experimentation in “transgenesis” could cure diseases and correct deformities. But what the doctor really wants to do is direct — to …
How far is too far? For the gentlefolk who run the Cannes Film Festival, too far is when a crazy-great director like Lars von Trier uses Europe’s version of the N word: Nazi.
Wagner’s Overture for Tristan und Isolde thunders its ominous beauty on the soundtrack, and a blond woman (Kirsten Dunst) in a bridal gown watches anxiously as birds fall dead from the sky. In a farther region of the sky, one …
The mob scene of a couple thousand critics pushing and shoving, pleading and shouting, to get in; the hushed anticipation as the film began; and at the end, the belligerent booing answered by defiant applause. What stoked the …
Today two action films invaded the stately art house that is the Cannes Film Festival. In line with the Festival’s policy of keeping the slate of pictures competing for the Palme d’Or pure and rigorous, Pirates of the Caribbean: …
Will they show the death photo? A week after that question dominated U.S. news in the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, all of Cannes — or, rather, many in the British press reporting on the film festival — was …