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When Australia's George Miller came here in 2016 to serve as jury president, just months after his "Mad Max: Fury Road" won six Oscars, he swept in like a conquering hero. His movie was undeniable: a reinvigoration of both his career and the action genre. Often, the relationship between Cannes and the blockbuster directors it invites comes off as strained — see French artist Zaho de Sagazan serenading this year's jury president Greta Gerwig at Tuesday's opening ceremony — but with Miller, the moment felt right. Things change. His "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" (in cinemas May 24), a somewhat dutifu...
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The newest blockbuster from George Miller's legendary "Mad Max" film series, in which a couple of criminal gangs rule a post-apocalyptic desert, proves that films don't need a fancy plot to be good. Miller has created an iconic franchise from spectacular stunts, great sets, crash scenes and unusually turbulent camera angles, which earned him six Oscars for the fourth film in the series in 2016. With its cult status and star-studded cast, the blockbuster was made for the Cannes Film Festival. The fifth instalment, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," celebrated its premiere there - just like its predeces...
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Strange thing: The recent 2011-17 films in the “Planet of the Apes” franchise, now joined by the chapter opening this week, follow a similar narrative cycle of peril, punishment, survival. And yet these these movies, spaced out in ways Marvel never learned to respect, feel just fresh enough to matter — as long as you don’t mind the adverb “grimly” in front of a word like “compelling.” “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” leaps roughly 300 years into the future, after the death of the great Caesar, rough-hewn, tender-hearted warrior leader. In the 2011-17 trilogy, Andy Serkis made this motion-ca...
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US stars Kristen Stewart ("Spencer") and Oscar Isaac ("Dune," "Star Wars") are about to give us a white-knuckle ride through '80s LA in hedonistic vamp thriller "Flesh of the Gods." In it, they play a married couple who spend their nights weaving their way through the city's electric club scene during the 1980s. A mysterious acquaintance leads them into Los Angeles' underworld of glamour, pleasure and violence, according to the producers on Thursday. Canadian Panos Cosmatos directs the film, after bringing us Nicolas Cage who starred in horror flick "Mandy" (2018). "Flesh of the Gods" is a joy...
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When Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt paired up on stage at the Oscars this year, millions around the world cooed as one, instantly smitten with these two as romantic-comic screen partners. So deft; so sly; so free and easy on the draw, as the Lucky Strike ads used to say. Give those two charmers a movie! They did. They already had. And now it’s here: “The Fall Guy,” which comes perilously close to sidelining its own headliners in favor of bone-crunching mayhem, especially in the second, less fun half. Still, it’s entertaining enough for all normal moviegoing purposes. Funny, sometimes. Laden, alw...
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It was only in March that Hollywood star Ryan Gosling made an iconic appearance at the Oscars performing the "Barbie" song "I'm just Ken." Now, the 43-year-old has traded in his musical talents to portray a stuntman in the high-octane action comedy "The Fall Guy" alongside "Oppenheimer" star Emily Blunt. In the blockbuster, Gosling embarks on a perilous quest to find a missing actor. Director David Leitch ("Bullet Train", "Deadpool 2") drew inspiration for his new film from the 80s cult TV classic of the same name about stuntman and bounty hunter Colt Seavers (Lee Majors). With many spectacula...
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Sweaty bodies grunting during tennis. Then more of the same away from the court in cheap motels and student rooms. "Challengers" is the story of how a love triangle plays out on the tennis court, in a stylish and steamy film directed by Luca Guadagnino, who many will recall made "Call Me by Your Name." Starring Zendaya and Josh O'Connor, "Challengers" is more than just an erotic film. Guadagnino has created a highly entertaining work packed with suspense that explores desire, power and control on multiple levels. The film centres on tennis pro played by Zendaya, who is becoming one of the most...
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Director Alex Garland is out to prove that you can make a movie about a modern American civil war without getting political. And he wants to do it in an election year. The question is: Why? His new film "Civil War," which opened in cinemas on Friday, follows an unlikely group of journalists as they make their way from New York to Washington, D.C., as the rebel "Western Forces," made up of California and Texas, close in on the capital. Two of those journalists — Lee (Kirsten Dunst), a legendary conflict photographer, and Joel (Wagner Moura), a writer — hope to secure the final interview and ima...
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The buzzy upcoming Bruce Springsteen film Deliver Me From Nowhere officially has its lead: Jeremy Allen White. The biopic, based on the book of the same title by Warren Zanes, follows the making of Springsteen's 1982 iconic solo album Nebraska. Over the weekend, it was the subject of a bidding war between A24 and 20th Century Studios who vied to finance and release the film, according to Deadline. A24 had been an early contender to distribute the film, but 20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell and David Greenbaum, the new head of Disney's live action arm and 20th Century, are reportedly ...
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"The First Omen," as it happens, is neither the first "Omen" (1976's half-loved horror hit) nor the first "Omen" reboot (a misbegotten 2006 attempt). It's not even this spring's first movie about nuns in trouble and baby bumps in the night; that would be March's "Immaculate" starring an unbound Sydney Sweeney, a film that compares favourably to this one for being crazier, gorier and ultimately more defiant. But "The First Omen" does have a certain swagger, like it was the only evil-pregnancy thriller in the world. Let's credit debuting feature director Arkasha Stevenson (a former photographer ...
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