Movie news and opinions by Jeffrey Wells
There’s a degree of irony, methinks, in Demi Moore starring in The Substance, a riveting David Cronenberg-ian body-horror flick about...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/substance-burns-through-but-overstays-its-welcome/
19 days ago I predicted that certain Cannes critics would take issue with Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (which HE is seeing...
Either you get with the program and drop to your knees as you enthusiastically agree that Jacques Audiard‘s Emilia Perez...
Kevin Costner’s Campari Lounge sitdown with THR exec editor Scott Feinberg ended about 40 minutes ago. It lasted a good...
Scott Feinberg’s Awards Chatter podcast interview with Horizon maestro Kevin Costner begins in a few minutes so distraction levels are...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/armand-best-film-of-the-festival-so-far-hands-down/
F. Murray Abraham, Paul Schrader, Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson…who else has recently come out and said “it’s time to ease...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/beginning-of-kevin-spacey-rehab/
Please try to process today’s Emilia Perez buzz about how mindblowing it is and what a wild and wonderful genre...
Paul Schrader‘s Oh, Canada isn’t as good as First Reformed, but it’s definitely better than the last two (The Card...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/bitter-resignation-respectful-approval/
I heard yesterday about this 2016 video of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs assaulting Cassie Ventura, but I didn’t see it until...
…at the end of yesterday afternoon’s Salle Debussy screening. It’s a kind of darkly humorous, oddly grotesque, Bunuelian satire of...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/yorgos-lanthimos-kinds-of-kindness-was-booed/
Early this morning I was late to my 8:30 screening of Emanuel Parvu‘s Three Kilometres to the End of the...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/barred-from-seeing-parvus-hate-crime-drama/
…that women as attractive as Sienna Miller, Abbey Lee, Jena Malone and Ella Hunt were part of the common community...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/one-aspect-im-having-trouble-believing/
Most of us have a basic impression about the late Dabney Coleman, who passed yesterday at age 92. Aside from...
…of ticket buyers don’t regard “insane” (as in unstable, directionless, subject to whim, blown by the wind) as a cinematic...
I’ll post the official festival video of the just-concluded Megalopolis press confererence when it pops through…sometimes it takes a few...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/as-long-as-coppola-is-front-and-center/
From David Ehrlich’s 5.16 IndieWire review of Francis Coppola’s Megalopolis: “Madison Square Garden has naturally been reimagined as a sandy...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/coppolas-madison-square-garden-vs-present-version/
Anya Taylor-Joy‘s Theda Bara-meets-Clara Bow look (i.e., beaded headpiece, heavy eye shadow) plus the cropped jacket and naughtily sticking her...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/cant-beat-that-beaded-headpiece/
So far the Cannes reviews of Francis Coppola‘s Megalopolis, which screened this morning for elite crickets and late this afternoon...
I’m sorry but I found George Miller‘s relentlessly eye-filling Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros., 5.24) a chore to...
https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/millers-furiosa-is-no-road-warrior/