Review: Shirley
Creating a movie about any real life historical figure is always a difficult task. The struggle of portraying their life usually comes down ...
Tag: Historical
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Review: Midway
War movies have always been in a weird spot for me. Usually the material is based on a significant event or an interesting ...
Timothée Chalemet is The King in final trailer for Netflix epic
From David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, The Rover), The King is Netflix’s epic historical drama adapting Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V, with Timothée Chalamet in the ...
Jonathan Glazer will reteam with A24 for his next film
Since his feature film debut in 2000 with the Ben Kingsley-mad crime drama Sexy Beast, English filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s mantra would seem to ...
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LFF Review: Harriet
It’s remarkable that the feats of Harriet Tubman, former slave-turned-civil-rights-activist, is a story that’s not been told in film before. A woman who ...
NYCC 2019: Sam Mendes discusses writing 1917 with the one shot mentality
During the 1917 panel, one question was frequently asked to every member of the cast and crew attending the event; Was Sam Mendes’ idea ...
Blonde, Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe film, starts production
Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik has been confirmed to be beginning production on his Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, to be made by and for ...
Sam Mendes takes us to the trenches with 1917
It feels like it’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Sam Mendes. Giving us Skyfall in 2012 and Spectre in 2015, he’s been ...
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Review: The Nightingale
The Nightingale is a rough film. Which is to say, it covers some serious ground in its trek across the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, ...
First teaser for The King’s Man hits the trenches
Leaning heavily into its World War I era aesthetic, we’ve got our first look today at The King’s Man, the upcoming prequel in ...
Russia developing its own series in response to HBO’s Chernobyl
Everyone seems to be absolutely enamored with HBO’s five-part Chernobyl miniseries. A lot of us here on Flixist love it (I’m sure I ...
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Review: Ophelia
Shakespeare can be a very polarising subject, as we’ve been debating at length here among the Flixist staff. But if the long-winded passages ...