Review: Tick, tick…Boom!
Tick, tick…boom! is the story of Jonathan Larson, playwright and composer extraordinaire, the man behind the musical Rent. Larson’s life was one of ...
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Movies
Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back gets a preview clip
Following a delay due to the pandemic, Peter Jackson’s hotly-anticipated documentary The Beatles: Get Back has released a sort of “montage” sizzle reel, introduced by ...
Movies
Review: Alex Wheatle (Small Axe)
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe has changed a little since three of its episodes premiered at the 2020 New York Film Festival (NYFF). Just ...
Movies
LFF Review: Ammonite
God’s Own Country director Francis Lee returns with another feature, but unlike its much-lauded predecessor, Ammonite trades Yorkshire for the Jurassic Coast. Set ...
Movies
NYFF Review: MLK/FBI
In the first days of the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, a number of people cited Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ...
Review: Burden
Love is an exceptionally powerful emotion. While hard to explain in rational terms, the feeling of warmth and acceptance one gets when madly ...
Soooooooo Julia Roberts was supposed to play Harriet Tubman
It’s not every day you hear the dumbest thing in existence. No, that isn’t a hyperbole. This is news that explains itself. It’s ...
Terrence Malick comes out of hiding with a trailer for A Hidden Life
Love him or hate him, you’d have a hard time denying the attention Terrence Malick garners from critics and fellow filmmakers. Since Badlands ...
First teaser for The Terror’s second season comes into focus
Going the route of successful anthology series like American Horror Story, AMC’s rooted-in-fact cocktail of historical and supernatural horror returns as The Terror: ...
Features
No way Ansel Elgort and his Converse compete with the original West Side Story
Flixist readers, you are in for an absolute treat (re: tragedy) because today I get to write a little history lesson. The first ...
Chadwick Boseman channels bushido for upcoming samurai biopic
Trading a kingship for a katana, Chadwick Boseman has signed on to play the historical figure of Yasuke in an upcoming, untitled biopic. ...
The story of Skate Jam, the failed follow-up to Space Jam
I’m always fascinated by the story of movies that could have been. Projects that get announced and fade into obscurity are a real ...