Posts

“God’s Country” is directed Julian Higgins, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shay Ogbonna. Jeremy Bobb, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White, Kai Lennox, and Tanaya Beatty also star. The film first at 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and is produced by Miranda Bailey, Halee Bernard, Julian Higgins, and Amanda Marshall. Executive producers include Jason Beck and Anthony Ciardelli. Director Higgins said in a press statement that he and co-writer Ogbonna opted to reimagine the lead character from Burke’s “Winter Light” as a Black woman to “respond to the deep-rooted racism, sexism, and misogyny reflected by the [2016] election results....

Decades later, while he was digging around in his office during the COVID lockdown, Pellington made an exciting discovery. “I found an old Betacam tape,’” Pellington told IndieWire. “It was three-and-a-half hours long and had everything my editor Leo Trombetta had assembled when we came back from the shoot in Indianapolis.” Pellington and Trombetta looked at the footage and decided to create a new edit to keep themselves occupied during the pandemic....

Few actresses are willing to discuss how aging affects their looks. This January, her no-holds-barred performance as an AARP-aged woman who hires a sex worker for her first orgasm in “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” was the talk of virtual Sundance. Searchlight scooped up the movie for Hulu, where it’s available June 17. (The winner of acting and screenwriting Oscars for “Howards End” and “Sense and Sensibility,” respectively, will be eligible for a second acting Emmy....

“It’s the perfect way to tell the story,” del Toro told IndieWire, following a sneak peek of the first 38 minutes of his Netflix movie (premiering this weekend at the London Film Festival ahead of its closing-night special presentation at L.A.’s Animation Is Film Festival on October 29). “Everyone is a puppet. Being animated makes the existence of Pinocchio completely naturalistic the way you’re telling the tale. I’m surprised, happy, that it hasn’t been tackled like that before....

Such is the problem with “High Score,” a show that sets out to look at the early decades of gaming, from arcade glory days through to the advent of 3D graphics. With pivotal figures from that evolution as the viewer’s guides, tiny snippets of coding, design and manufacturing history all blend together over distinct eras. The early-’90s console wars, the rise of digital RPGs, and the general cultural intensity of Nintendo each get their own tidy overviews....

In directing the film, Soderbergh took a guerrilla approach. He eschewed the usual trove of lights and equipment, favoring natural lighting and a wheelchair for dolly shots. Much of the dialogue was unscripted, too — Streep has said that Soderbergh provided the actors with outlines of each scene and directed them to improvise their lines. The result is an organic, off-the-cuff feel, and much of the magic of “Let Them All Talk” lies in watching Streep, Wiest, Bergen, and Chan act naturally and follow their own guide as they navigate the story....

It’s hard to pick the perfect “How To with John Wilson” joke, but a strong contender comes at the start of the Season 1 finale. While constructing a lightning-fast history of risotto, John Wilson stumbled on a particular piece of footage filmed at a New York City street corner. When he matched it to the intro to the episode he’d already written, he knew he had gold. “I like to have a new shot for each line....