Equal parts beautiful and desolate like a part of Iceland’s own volcanic countryside, The Northman is auteur Robert Eggers’ most straightforward film, making up in style what it gives up in the complexity of his previous films. Grabbing relentlessly from the tales of Hamlet and Beowulf, Eggers delves back into his continued curiosity about the …
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Focus Features has revealed the new poster for The Northman movie, which is scheduled to open in theaters on April 22, 2022. Scroll down to view the new poster. From visionary director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch), the film was written by Eggers and Sjón. The Northman movie is an action-filled epic that follows …
NBCUniversal is celebrating the Focus Features 20th Anniversary today! Focus has united cinema’s most fearless filmmakers and gifted actors to create unforgettable experiences in theaters around the world. To kick off its two decades of powerful storytelling and remarkable filmmaking, the studio is commemorating the incredible milestone with a new reel, looking back at some …
This week, Focus Features provided updates about two of its upcoming films, including Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, and You Won’t Be Alone. Focus announced that Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, from Daniel Kaluuya’s 59% Productions, will open in theaters and stream on Peacock on Labor Day weekend, Friday, September 2, 2022. In …
Focus Features and Carnival Films have revealed the official Downton Abbey: A New Era trailer and poster! You can watch the Downton Abbey: A New Era trailer on YouTube, and you’ll find the poster by scrolling down. Downton Abbey: A New Era will be released in the United States on Friday, May 20, 2022. Universal …
For nearly twenty years, Participant Media has been producing quality films that have been socially relevant while also striving to entertain and educate. Directors like Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Ana DuVernay, and Stillwater’s Tom McCarthy, under the Participant banner, have found award-winning success with films that feel relevant and urgent, but those filmmakers also know …
Beautiful, sad, and distant, Land is like the mountainous horizon. Would-be woodswoman Edee (Robin Wright) spends much of her time gazing at a picture-perfect artifice that may be full of significance but is just as likely a mere empty view. On the surface, it is an elegantly paced tone poem of reflection, juxtaposing the uncaring …
Promising Young Woman is a dive into the deep end of cynicism. That is not a pejorative or a negative. It is simply a statement of the reality viewed by its writer/director and the scores of individuals she is speaking for. A world where painful, life-changing events are passed off as ‘youthful indiscretions’ that a …
For a long time, complex subjects have had to be dealt with in allegory and obscurity, working around their subjects due to commercial and cultural sensitivities. There is a lot of artistic good that can come from that, requiring filmmakers to create subtle and understandable spaces for audiences to fill in rather than having everything …
How do we know a story is a classic? Is it by the sheer universality of the characters or dialogue to the point where they are referenced consistently in later works? Is it the insight and depth of the story and what it says about the human condition? Is it the fact that it has …