Welcome to this week’s review of Tna Wrestling, Let’s get straight into the review and see what went down on the show…
Match #1: Matt Hardy & Ryan Nemeth def. The System The following is courtesy of tnawrestling.com:
The match kicks off with Matt Hardy and Eddie Edwards locking up. Hardy grabs a Headlock, and the two go back and forth until Edwards catches Hardy in the corner with a series of Chops. Edwards attempts a roll-up, but Hardy bites his fingers and jerks his arms around. Hardy tags in Ryan Nemeth, who holds Edwards’ arm in place for Hardy to drop an Axe Handle and Nemeth to deliver a Headbutt. Edwards shoves Nemeth to the corner and tags in Myers. Myers strikes Nemeth, but Nemeth fires back with a Dropkick and starts talking trash to Alisha. Edwards takes advantage with a cheap shot to Nemeth and continues...
Match #1: Matt Hardy & Ryan Nemeth def. The System The following is courtesy of tnawrestling.com:
The match kicks off with Matt Hardy and Eddie Edwards locking up. Hardy grabs a Headlock, and the two go back and forth until Edwards catches Hardy in the corner with a series of Chops. Edwards attempts a roll-up, but Hardy bites his fingers and jerks his arms around. Hardy tags in Ryan Nemeth, who holds Edwards’ arm in place for Hardy to drop an Axe Handle and Nemeth to deliver a Headbutt. Edwards shoves Nemeth to the corner and tags in Myers. Myers strikes Nemeth, but Nemeth fires back with a Dropkick and starts talking trash to Alisha. Edwards takes advantage with a cheap shot to Nemeth and continues...
- 5/27/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
When it comes to collaborating with various IPs, then nothing comes close to Fortnite. Be it with John Wick, Jujutsu Kaisen, or Deadpool, this Epic Games Battle Royale title has always stood front. According to rumors, Fortnite is going to collaborate with the famous anime series My Hero Acadmia for the third time.
Talking about reliving favorite franchises in your favorite battle royale title, Fortnite is going to tie up again with the renowned space opera series Star Wars. And Fortnite has revealed one of the collab’s most highly anticipated skins.
Fortnite Announces Chewbacca Skin
Popular Star Wars character Chewbacca will be in Fortnite.
In a recent X post, Fortnite announced that fan-favorite Star Wars character Chewbacca will be available as a skin in the game. The skin will be added to the game on May 2, 2024.
Intrigue awaits.
5.3.2024 pic.twitter.com/sFvKF8Pyfw
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 29, 2024
The highly anticipated...
Talking about reliving favorite franchises in your favorite battle royale title, Fortnite is going to tie up again with the renowned space opera series Star Wars. And Fortnite has revealed one of the collab’s most highly anticipated skins.
Fortnite Announces Chewbacca Skin
Popular Star Wars character Chewbacca will be in Fortnite.
In a recent X post, Fortnite announced that fan-favorite Star Wars character Chewbacca will be available as a skin in the game. The skin will be added to the game on May 2, 2024.
Intrigue awaits.
5.3.2024 pic.twitter.com/sFvKF8Pyfw
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 29, 2024
The highly anticipated...
- 5/1/2024
- by Nilendu Brahma
- FandomWire
A mere 17 days after its July 2023 release, Barbie earned a billion dollars — not to mention positive reviews and a broad fan base that kept coming back and bringing friends. Mattel’s advertising may have initially lured viewers to the theater, but the film itself made them return and proselytize.
In a just world — even a not-especially-feminist world — the film’s guiding forces, director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie, would have received Oscar nominations in their respective individual categories for conceiving, directing and acting in this phenomenon. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the Academy recognized Ryan Gosling’s performance as Ken—or as @yosomichael posted on X: “Ken getting nominated and not Barbie is honestly so fitting for a film about a man discovering the power of patriarchy in the Real World.”
Social media erupted in a Vesuvius of angry memes. The heated conversation — with slurs, accusations and conspiracy theories — continues,...
In a just world — even a not-especially-feminist world — the film’s guiding forces, director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie, would have received Oscar nominations in their respective individual categories for conceiving, directing and acting in this phenomenon. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the Academy recognized Ryan Gosling’s performance as Ken—or as @yosomichael posted on X: “Ken getting nominated and not Barbie is honestly so fitting for a film about a man discovering the power of patriarchy in the Real World.”
Social media erupted in a Vesuvius of angry memes. The heated conversation — with slurs, accusations and conspiracy theories — continues,...
- 1/26/2024
- by M.G. Lord
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Veni, vidi, vici: “I came, I saw, I conquered,” reportedly said Julius Caesar after an especially swift victory. Now, his words echo in Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann’s satire about a family so powerful it can get away with murder. Literally.
“Imagine you are above the law. You can do anything. It’s frustrating, because sometimes you want the world to wake up and yet nothing happens. It’s really funny and really sad,” Hoesl tells Variety.
“These people want to be stopped. They leave all these traces, so why does no one speak up? There is more than one Jeffrey Epstein out there.”
Premiering at Sundance and Rotterdam – and produced by Ulrich Seidl for Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion, with Magnify handling sales – “Veni Vidi Vici” takes a closer look at the Maynard clan where “family is everything,” but human life means nothing.
“Our main character always wins. It...
“Imagine you are above the law. You can do anything. It’s frustrating, because sometimes you want the world to wake up and yet nothing happens. It’s really funny and really sad,” Hoesl tells Variety.
“These people want to be stopped. They leave all these traces, so why does no one speak up? There is more than one Jeffrey Epstein out there.”
Premiering at Sundance and Rotterdam – and produced by Ulrich Seidl for Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion, with Magnify handling sales – “Veni Vidi Vici” takes a closer look at the Maynard clan where “family is everything,” but human life means nothing.
“Our main character always wins. It...
- 1/18/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The Oscar-shortlisted and Annie-nominated animated short “War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” couldn’t be (sadly) timelier with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The 11-minute indie takes place in an alternate World War I, where a secret chess match is played across enemy lines with the assistance of a heroic carrier pigeon that delivers the chess moves over the battlefield. Pixar alum Dave Mullins wrote and directed the short, animated by Wētā FX Limited and executive produced by Sean Ono Lennon.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine coincided with Lennon wanting to make an animated project around his parents’ popular protest song “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” So he approached a friend at Pixar, who recommended Mullins (“Lou”), who left Pixar on his 20th anniversary in 2021 and started ElectroLeague, a real-time animation company with co-founder Brad Booker (producer of “War Is Over”).
“And so we met,...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine coincided with Lennon wanting to make an animated project around his parents’ popular protest song “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” So he approached a friend at Pixar, who recommended Mullins (“Lou”), who left Pixar on his 20th anniversary in 2021 and started ElectroLeague, a real-time animation company with co-founder Brad Booker (producer of “War Is Over”).
“And so we met,...
- 1/13/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Action icon Dolph Lundgren and Frasier himself Kelsey Grammer – who have actually worked together before, on The Expendables 3 – star in the upcoming action thriller Wanted Man, which is set to receive a theatrical, VOD, and digital release on January 19th. With that date just one month away, a trailer for Wanted Man has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above. A poster for the film has also been unveiled, and that can be found at the bottom of this article.
Lundgren also directed this film, working from a screenplay he wrote with Hank Hugues and Michael Worth. Here’s the synopsis: Johansen (Lundgren) is an aging detective, whose outdated policing methods have given the department a recent public relations problem. To save his job, he is sent to Mexico to extradite a female witness to the murders of two DEA agents. Once there, he finds...
Lundgren also directed this film, working from a screenplay he wrote with Hank Hugues and Michael Worth. Here’s the synopsis: Johansen (Lundgren) is an aging detective, whose outdated policing methods have given the department a recent public relations problem. To save his job, he is sent to Mexico to extradite a female witness to the murders of two DEA agents. Once there, he finds...
- 12/15/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The film won the special jury award at this year’s SXSW film festival.
Another Body, a documentary about a student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself online, has secured UK-Ireland and Canada theatrical release deals.
Modern Films and Willa will release the film in the UK and Ireland this autumn, day and date with a digital release; with levelFilm handling the Canadian release.
Another Body had its world premiere at SXSW in the US in March, where it won a special jury prize. Subsequent festival play has included Canada’s Hot Docs and Germany...
Another Body, a documentary about a student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself online, has secured UK-Ireland and Canada theatrical release deals.
Modern Films and Willa will release the film in the UK and Ireland this autumn, day and date with a digital release; with levelFilm handling the Canadian release.
Another Body had its world premiere at SXSW in the US in March, where it won a special jury prize. Subsequent festival play has included Canada’s Hot Docs and Germany...
- 9/21/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“The Continental” boasts that it’s “From the World of John Wick.” But the Peacock spin-off is thankfully uninterested in providing a microwaved version of the same story. Instead, the miniseries takes its cues from stylized crime auteurs, folks like Joe Carnahan or Guy Ritchie who have as much fun, if not more, with their eccentric character archetypes, rat-a-tat banter and bold needledrops as they do with any blood shed on screen.
But “The Continental” merely aspires to these authors of cinematic cool. And in its Icarus-esque reach, what it faintly grasps only reminds us how hard it is to make something look easy.
Over three sprawling, 90-minute episodes, “The Continental” is centered on a simple story, one that has roots as recent as “The Raid” and as far back as “Rio Bravo” – or more accurately, John Carpenter’s riffs on “Rio Bravo” like “Assault on Precinct 13” or “Escape From New York.
But “The Continental” merely aspires to these authors of cinematic cool. And in its Icarus-esque reach, what it faintly grasps only reminds us how hard it is to make something look easy.
Over three sprawling, 90-minute episodes, “The Continental” is centered on a simple story, one that has roots as recent as “The Raid” and as far back as “Rio Bravo” – or more accurately, John Carpenter’s riffs on “Rio Bravo” like “Assault on Precinct 13” or “Escape From New York.
- 9/20/2023
- by Gregory Lawrence
- The Wrap
What if you woke up alone, only to find that you were the only one in a completely deserted town? While the loneliness might be bearable, the mounting paranoia of being silently watched by those who cannot be perceived would gradually consume you from within. Even the most psychologically sound folks would hurtle toward acute hysteria, as the terror of being alone, yet being secretly perceived in an abandoned setting is a uniquely human one.
Writer Rob Serling captured this unutterable fear in the pilot for his explosively popular sci-fi-horror anthology show — one which aimed to touch upon psychological fears surrounding the Cold War. The show, "The Twilight Zone," would forever alter how this genre was perceived on the small screen, and inspire countless shows that shared a DNA with Serling's intriguing stories. The pilot, titled "Where is Everybody?" effectively set the tone for such an anthology series that delved...
Writer Rob Serling captured this unutterable fear in the pilot for his explosively popular sci-fi-horror anthology show — one which aimed to touch upon psychological fears surrounding the Cold War. The show, "The Twilight Zone," would forever alter how this genre was perceived on the small screen, and inspire countless shows that shared a DNA with Serling's intriguing stories. The pilot, titled "Where is Everybody?" effectively set the tone for such an anthology series that delved...
- 9/17/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
One cannot hold it against Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash that their Beanie Babies biopic, appropriately titled The Beanie Bubble, is arriving late in what has suddenly become something of a trend. Just a few months ago, the prospect of a “Michael Jordan movie” being actually about Mike’s Air Jordan sneakers seemed like a bizarre novelty. In (brief) hindsight though, it now seems like the kickoff for a spate of films with their hearts set on streaming. Air, Tetris, BlackBerry, Pinball, and Flamin’ Hot have all attempted to tell stories of American (or Canadian) capitalism gone super-turbo. Some of them are feel-good human interest yarns (or perhaps just commercials) while others are Icarus parables about company executives who flew too close to the sun.
Either way, the best of them (and I’d argue about half are at least pretty good) have something to say beyond eulogizing a consumerist...
Either way, the best of them (and I’d argue about half are at least pretty good) have something to say beyond eulogizing a consumerist...
- 7/28/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Despite its soft and malleable aesthetic, Lina Kalcheva’s stop motion animation Other Half asks some pretty intense philosophical questions surrounding the nature of relationships in contemporary society. Fundamentally, Kalcheva’s short is an exploration of the pressures both society and we as individuals, place on the requirement to find a relationship. The short follows Ren, a lone individual who is on a heroic quest to find a partner with the hopes of becoming ‘complete’. This ‘completeness’ is manifested in Ren’s world through the merging of two people enact once they form a relationship. It’s a potent visual metaphor that asks questions of who we are and what we might lose when we become so devoted to another person. Dn is delighted to share Other Half below alongside a conversation with Kalcheva where she offers us a deep dive into the process of making the film as part...
- 7/10/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Amazon Studios has landed worldwide rights to the U.S. naval aviation documentary “The Blue Angels,” which is backed by production companies of J.J. Abrams and “Top Gun: Maverick” star Glen Powell.
The film, shot with Imax cameras, chronicles a year in the cockpit with one of the world’s top aviator teams, the Navy and Marine Corps flight squadron, through their intense training and aerial touring show. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Powell’s Barnstorm Productions, Zipper Bros Films and Dolphin Entertainment produced the project.
“This fascinating and layered documentary is wholly representative of the kind of work ethic, teamwork, and perseverance that goes into being a Blue Angel,” said Brianna Oh, Amazon’s head of documentary features. “We are incredibly honored to join this talented filmmaking team in bringing their story to audiences around the world.”
The film will play in theaters on a yet-to-be determined date before landing on Amazon Prime Video.
The film, shot with Imax cameras, chronicles a year in the cockpit with one of the world’s top aviator teams, the Navy and Marine Corps flight squadron, through their intense training and aerial touring show. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Powell’s Barnstorm Productions, Zipper Bros Films and Dolphin Entertainment produced the project.
“This fascinating and layered documentary is wholly representative of the kind of work ethic, teamwork, and perseverance that goes into being a Blue Angel,” said Brianna Oh, Amazon’s head of documentary features. “We are incredibly honored to join this talented filmmaking team in bringing their story to audiences around the world.”
The film will play in theaters on a yet-to-be determined date before landing on Amazon Prime Video.
- 5/1/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Studios is going airborne with a spectacular squadron of the U.S. military.
The production-distribution company today announced it has acquired worldwide rights to the Imax Original Documentary The Blue Angels, directed and edited by Paul Crowder and filmed aloft with “awe-inspiring Imax cameras.” Bad Robot, Glen Powell’s Barnstorm Productions, Zipper Bros Films, and Dolphin Entertainment produced the documentary.
“The Blue Angels follows the newest class of the storied Navy and Marine Corps flight squadron through intense training and into a season of heart-stopping aerial artistry, and the veterans on the team who, this year, will take their final flights,” according to a description of the project. “It marks the first time the iconic blue and yellow F/A-18 Super Hornets will be featured in Imax. The film also captures the spectacle of this traveling air show through key members of the support staff on the ground, as...
The production-distribution company today announced it has acquired worldwide rights to the Imax Original Documentary The Blue Angels, directed and edited by Paul Crowder and filmed aloft with “awe-inspiring Imax cameras.” Bad Robot, Glen Powell’s Barnstorm Productions, Zipper Bros Films, and Dolphin Entertainment produced the documentary.
“The Blue Angels follows the newest class of the storied Navy and Marine Corps flight squadron through intense training and into a season of heart-stopping aerial artistry, and the veterans on the team who, this year, will take their final flights,” according to a description of the project. “It marks the first time the iconic blue and yellow F/A-18 Super Hornets will be featured in Imax. The film also captures the spectacle of this traveling air show through key members of the support staff on the ground, as...
- 5/1/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Did you catch “Cocaine Bear” in theaters? The film was one of 2023’s funniest and most ridiculous cinematic outings thus far, but it may have caught your attention when the “Based on a True Story” title card flashed across the screen. Now, you can learn the real history of the cocaine bear in “Cocaine Bear: The True Story,” a new documentary coming to Peacock on Friday, April 14. You can watch with a subscription to Peacock.
How to Watch 'Cocaine Bear: The True Story' When: Friday, April 14, 2023 Where: Peacock Stream: Watch with a subscription to Peacock. Sign Up$4.99+ / month peacocktv.com About 'Cocaine Bear: The True Story'
In the hit Hollywood movie “Cocaine Bear”, a huge bag full of cocaine drops out of the sky into the woods of North Georgia and is eaten by a black bear, who goes on an epic rampage. It all seems like fantasy, but it...
How to Watch 'Cocaine Bear: The True Story' When: Friday, April 14, 2023 Where: Peacock Stream: Watch with a subscription to Peacock. Sign Up$4.99+ / month peacocktv.com About 'Cocaine Bear: The True Story'
In the hit Hollywood movie “Cocaine Bear”, a huge bag full of cocaine drops out of the sky into the woods of North Georgia and is eaten by a black bear, who goes on an epic rampage. It all seems like fantasy, but it...
- 4/14/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
The Sega Dreamcast made its Japanese debut just in time for Christmas 1998. It would take until September of 1999 for the console to reach North America, where fans welcomed it after roughly three years with the weakening PlayStation and the chunky Nintendo 64. Its fate would be a modern retelling of the myth of Icarus. The Dreamcast was a fifth-generation console loaded with gimmicks ahead of their time. It handled different graphical styles, like cel-shaded adventures and 3-D modeling, with ease. It could have been a revolution.
Instead, the Dreamcast would fail in less than two years and crash at the feet of the PlayStation 2. Yet it remains a remarkable system. Those of us lucky to still have an operational Dreamcast care for it, select spare TVs based on compatibility with it, and enjoy a slate of some of the most advanced games the turn of the century had to offer. Let...
Instead, the Dreamcast would fail in less than two years and crash at the feet of the PlayStation 2. Yet it remains a remarkable system. Those of us lucky to still have an operational Dreamcast care for it, select spare TVs based on compatibility with it, and enjoy a slate of some of the most advanced games the turn of the century had to offer. Let...
- 12/17/2022
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
Philippe Le Guay’s “The Man in the Basement” scooped the top prize at the U.K. Jewish Film Festival on Sunday evening.
The 2021 film, which stars François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo, was awarded the prize for best film.
Runner-up “Karaoke,” from director Moshe Rosenthal, which had opened the festival earlier this month, was given a special mention.
The best film winner was selected by a jury comprised of “Made of Honor” director Paul Weiland, Kefi Chadwick, Liraz Chamami, producer Dominique Green, Sharon Levi and Michael Samuels.
“The jury was impressed by this tense thriller, with its strong performances and direction, and bristling with symbolism that intelligently explores France’s hidden history and contemporary issues around antisemitism,” they said in a statement. “‘The Man in the Basement’ confronts Jewish identity, Holocaust denial and attitudes to France’s Jewish minority, but yet the film still works effectively as compelling and suspenseful storytelling.
The 2021 film, which stars François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo, was awarded the prize for best film.
Runner-up “Karaoke,” from director Moshe Rosenthal, which had opened the festival earlier this month, was given a special mention.
The best film winner was selected by a jury comprised of “Made of Honor” director Paul Weiland, Kefi Chadwick, Liraz Chamami, producer Dominique Green, Sharon Levi and Michael Samuels.
“The jury was impressed by this tense thriller, with its strong performances and direction, and bristling with symbolism that intelligently explores France’s hidden history and contemporary issues around antisemitism,” they said in a statement. “‘The Man in the Basement’ confronts Jewish identity, Holocaust denial and attitudes to France’s Jewish minority, but yet the film still works effectively as compelling and suspenseful storytelling.
- 11/20/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The story of the Chippendales dancers is far more intense and scandalous than one might expect it to be. While the troupe today is known for the shirtless gyrating and silky-smooth chests of its dancers, it is also a company plagued by the things founder Somen "Steve" Banerjee did to fuel its meteoric rise. Nothing was off limits for the business owner as he chased his version of the American Dream. Human lives didn't even matter, as long as they had wronged him in some way.
A story that is truly stranger than fiction, it's now been turned into "Welcome to Chippendales," the latest biographical limited series from Hulu. Having immigrated to the United States from India, Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani) envisions himself as a businessman along the likes of Hugh Hefner. However, he realizes that achieving such success isn't as easy as simply buying an abandoned club and hosting niche events.
A story that is truly stranger than fiction, it's now been turned into "Welcome to Chippendales," the latest biographical limited series from Hulu. Having immigrated to the United States from India, Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani) envisions himself as a businessman along the likes of Hugh Hefner. However, he realizes that achieving such success isn't as easy as simply buying an abandoned club and hosting niche events.
- 11/17/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the movie "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."
If you're reading this, you likely cared for the life and career of Chadwick Boseman, the late 43-year-old actor who played T'challa the Black Panther across four Marvel movies and made an indelible impression on pop culture forever. Boseman will forever be inseparable from the role that made him legendary. "Wakanda Forever" makes that crystalline clear, which is why T'challa will appear on this list of the best characters in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." The sequel knows the light of a young, gifted, Black artist and superhero is too bright to be snuffed out forever. Boseman is the guiding light of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," just as those who leave the mortal coil illuminate the path for those still living.In many ways, this is what "Wakanda Forever" is about. In Ryan Coogler's blockbuster, grief meditation...
If you're reading this, you likely cared for the life and career of Chadwick Boseman, the late 43-year-old actor who played T'challa the Black Panther across four Marvel movies and made an indelible impression on pop culture forever. Boseman will forever be inseparable from the role that made him legendary. "Wakanda Forever" makes that crystalline clear, which is why T'challa will appear on this list of the best characters in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." The sequel knows the light of a young, gifted, Black artist and superhero is too bright to be snuffed out forever. Boseman is the guiding light of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," just as those who leave the mortal coil illuminate the path for those still living.In many ways, this is what "Wakanda Forever" is about. In Ryan Coogler's blockbuster, grief meditation...
- 11/15/2022
- by Scott Thomas
- Slash Film
Doc to get Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco in November.
Icarus Films has acquired Natalia Almada’s 2021 Sundance award winner Users and has additionally signed a deal to represent the Mexican filmmaker’s back catalogue.
Users will get an Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco on November 25 and is a cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
The film earned California-based Almada the Sundance documentary directing award, the same prize she won at the festival in 2009 for The General (El General), her account of the life of her great-grandfather and former Mexican president, General Plutarco Elías Calles.
Both the Users...
Icarus Films has acquired Natalia Almada’s 2021 Sundance award winner Users and has additionally signed a deal to represent the Mexican filmmaker’s back catalogue.
Users will get an Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco on November 25 and is a cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
The film earned California-based Almada the Sundance documentary directing award, the same prize she won at the festival in 2009 for The General (El General), her account of the life of her great-grandfather and former Mexican president, General Plutarco Elías Calles.
Both the Users...
- 9/22/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Despite reports of Gen-z’s progressive politics, it appears hyper-awareness around sexuality, consent, and toxic masculinity have only made high school popularity contests more sophisticated. That is, if we’re to take the outlandish feminist satire running through Netflix’s dark teen comedy “Do Revenge” at face value, anyway. If two-faced men’s groups and psychedelic mushroom stings seem a little ridiculous, it’s all part of the sickly fun and games of “Do Revenge,”
Starring Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) and Maya Hawke (“Stranger Things”) as two unlikely allies in a battle for teen justice, “Do Revenge” is a funny feminist take on the mainstream high school comedy. Touching lightly on class awareness and queer politics, the girls are firmly in control of this candy-coated world — though only one can come out on top. As their Machiavellian quest for revenge leads to some unlikely revelations, the self-righteous anti-heroines prove that boys...
Starring Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) and Maya Hawke (“Stranger Things”) as two unlikely allies in a battle for teen justice, “Do Revenge” is a funny feminist take on the mainstream high school comedy. Touching lightly on class awareness and queer politics, the girls are firmly in control of this candy-coated world — though only one can come out on top. As their Machiavellian quest for revenge leads to some unlikely revelations, the self-righteous anti-heroines prove that boys...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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Bryan Fogel’s work was cut out for him when he chose to direct a follow-up to Icarus, his 2017 deep dive into sports doping and the elaborate system of cheating among Russian Olympians. That film closed with a cliff-hanger. Having turned whistleblower mid-film, Grigory Rodchenkov, the architect of the state-sanctioned doping program, fled Russia and was in hiding stateside. To continue to tell his story, the challenge for Fogel lay not just in the artistic shadow cast by his vividly told Oscar winner. Complicating the making of a sequel was a crucial constraint: To protect the safety of the documentary’s central figure, Fogel wouldn’t be able to interact with him directly.
The solution was to embed a single cameraperson, producer Jake Swantko, with Rodchenkov and his security team. Tracking his life on the lam for nearly five years, Icarus: The Aftermath...
Bryan Fogel’s work was cut out for him when he chose to direct a follow-up to Icarus, his 2017 deep dive into sports doping and the elaborate system of cheating among Russian Olympians. That film closed with a cliff-hanger. Having turned whistleblower mid-film, Grigory Rodchenkov, the architect of the state-sanctioned doping program, fled Russia and was in hiding stateside. To continue to tell his story, the challenge for Fogel lay not just in the artistic shadow cast by his vividly told Oscar winner. Complicating the making of a sequel was a crucial constraint: To protect the safety of the documentary’s central figure, Fogel wouldn’t be able to interact with him directly.
The solution was to embed a single cameraperson, producer Jake Swantko, with Rodchenkov and his security team. Tracking his life on the lam for nearly five years, Icarus: The Aftermath...
- 9/12/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If Colin Farrell doesn’t get an Oscar nom this year for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” he never will. That was all I could think after watching his work in Martin McDonagh’s latest dark comedy.
And who would have thought that Farrell and Brendan Gleeson would become the perfect comedic duo of our day? I thought the pair’s magic in “In Bruges” (2008) was a one-hit wonder, but with “The Banshees of Inisherin,” the two men have recaptured their old alchemy.
The latest pitch black romp from “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” director and scribe McDonagh harnesses the simplest premise in recent memory: a man tries to understand why his best friend doesn’t want to talk to him anymore. What unfolds within that premise are moral complexities and refreshing takes on love and forgiveness.
Over 25 years in Hollywood, Farrell has had his share of setbacks and resurrections with...
And who would have thought that Farrell and Brendan Gleeson would become the perfect comedic duo of our day? I thought the pair’s magic in “In Bruges” (2008) was a one-hit wonder, but with “The Banshees of Inisherin,” the two men have recaptured their old alchemy.
The latest pitch black romp from “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” director and scribe McDonagh harnesses the simplest premise in recent memory: a man tries to understand why his best friend doesn’t want to talk to him anymore. What unfolds within that premise are moral complexities and refreshing takes on love and forgiveness.
Over 25 years in Hollywood, Farrell has had his share of setbacks and resurrections with...
- 9/5/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Most of the time, documentaries don’t get sequels, which is strange. Unlike their scripted fiction counterparts, the story doesn’t end when the cameras stop rolling. If you’ve ever attended a filmmaker Q&a after the screening of a great documentary, you know the first question from the audience is almost inevitably either “What’s happened since?” or “Where are they now?” Bryan Fogel must have heard that more times than he can count in the five years since his game-changing Russian sports doping doc “Icarus” won the Academy Award. “Icarus: The Aftermath” is his response, a daring and sure-to-be-divisive movie that’s even more shocking than the 2017 original, even if the big news is already out of the bag.
“The Aftermath” follows Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov — former head of the Russian anti-doping agency Rusada — for five years, embedding itself in the paranoid new reality that awaits him...
“The Aftermath” follows Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov — former head of the Russian anti-doping agency Rusada — for five years, embedding itself in the paranoid new reality that awaits him...
- 9/4/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Five years ago, Bryan Fogel stumbled into a story that would change his life and help transform the world of international athletics. “Icarus” started as Fogel’s attempt to document whether he could use illegal doping to improve his results as an amateur cyclist. But it turned into something very different when the scientist he went to for advice on how to not be caught, Grigory Rodchenkov, turned out to be a key figure in Russia’s extensive, state-sponsored doping program.
“Icarus” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and by the time it came out, Rodchenkov was in hiding in the U.S. and Russia was under investigation by international doping authorities who would ban the country from the 2018 Winter Olympics and subsequent Olympic games (though the band would contain enormous loopholes).
But the story didn’t end there, and Fogel unveiled a sequel, “Icarus: The Aftermath,” on the...
“Icarus” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and by the time it came out, Rodchenkov was in hiding in the U.S. and Russia was under investigation by international doping authorities who would ban the country from the 2018 Winter Olympics and subsequent Olympic games (though the band would contain enormous loopholes).
But the story didn’t end there, and Fogel unveiled a sequel, “Icarus: The Aftermath,” on the...
- 9/3/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
You could, rightly, characterize director Bryan Fogel’s Academy Award-winning documentary “Icarus” as the product of dumb luck. It began as one film — a “Super Size Me”-type concept whereby Fogel, a cycling enthusiast, attempted to expose the ease of illegal doping by injecting himself with steroids — that became an arresting investigation into Russia’s decades-long use of performance-enhancing drugs, with the colorful Grigory Rodchenkov, head of the country’s anti-doping laboratory, as the primary whistleblower. With Rodchenkov’s testimony, Fogel made the pervasive rot of Russian sports into an enthralling piece of storytelling.
And yet, despite its envelope-pushing search for the truth, “Icarus” ended as almost all documentaries do: The audience’s eyes are opened and the subject who did the revealing fades into the background. Toward the end of the film, Rodchenkov’s lawyer, Jim Walden, appears to explain that his client is now in hiding, dodging the Russian government’s hit squads.
And yet, despite its envelope-pushing search for the truth, “Icarus” ended as almost all documentaries do: The audience’s eyes are opened and the subject who did the revealing fades into the background. Toward the end of the film, Rodchenkov’s lawyer, Jim Walden, appears to explain that his client is now in hiding, dodging the Russian government’s hit squads.
- 9/2/2022
- by Robert Daniels
- Indiewire
"Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience," said famed conductor Leonard Bernstein. "All his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning — the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence."
Bernstein serves as something of a guiding light to the titular character of writer/director Todd Field's "TÁR" — a title so serious it requires special instructions to ensure capitalization and with an acute Á. Cate Blanchett's Lydia Tár is a contemporary composer-conductor and protégé of Bernstein's who seeks to occupy a similar place in the cultural firmament. She's an Egot polymath on the verge of completing a famed cycle of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and writing a book extolling her own brilliance. It's no wonder Field claims the film...
Bernstein serves as something of a guiding light to the titular character of writer/director Todd Field's "TÁR" — a title so serious it requires special instructions to ensure capitalization and with an acute Á. Cate Blanchett's Lydia Tár is a contemporary composer-conductor and protégé of Bernstein's who seeks to occupy a similar place in the cultural firmament. She's an Egot polymath on the verge of completing a famed cycle of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and writing a book extolling her own brilliance. It's no wonder Field claims the film...
- 9/1/2022
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slash Film
“TÁR” is so much more than the Great American Movie about “cancel culture” — a phrase that it humiliates with every movement — but this dense and difficult portrait of a female conductor’s fall from grace also demands to be seen through that singular lens from its very first shot. Todd Field’s thrilling, deceptively austere third film exalts in grabbing the electrified fence of digital-age discourse with both hands and daring us to hold onto it for 158 minutes in the hopes that we might ultimately start to feel like we’re shocking ourselves.
“TÁR” is a provocation full of slow-motion suckerpunches and the driest of laughs (even its accented title is a knowingly pretentious in-joke) and yet Field seems as uninterested in trolling his liberal audience as he is in patronizing them. That sounds like a tough needle to thread for a film so micro-targeted that it opens with a long,...
“TÁR” is a provocation full of slow-motion suckerpunches and the driest of laughs (even its accented title is a knowingly pretentious in-joke) and yet Field seems as uninterested in trolling his liberal audience as he is in patronizing them. That sounds like a tough needle to thread for a film so micro-targeted that it opens with a long,...
- 9/1/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers.
Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 11
It’s no surprise that a series with a partial focus on the inner workings of a drug cartel would be so adept at presenting an addiction parable. Breaking Bad explored the theme of addiction with Jesse and Jane in a traditional albeit harrowing sense, but on Better Call Saul, Jimmy’s addiction isn’t chemical. Jimmy is addicted to the hustle, and not in the way that the worst guy you know from high school posts about on Facebook. The allure of the finer things in life, the thrill of the con, the sense of power and importance that Jimmy gets out of his scheme, it’s a high that’s greater to him than what any blue crystal could provide. There’s something immensely powerful about knowing what you’re good at. All it took was...
Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 11
It’s no surprise that a series with a partial focus on the inner workings of a drug cartel would be so adept at presenting an addiction parable. Breaking Bad explored the theme of addiction with Jesse and Jane in a traditional albeit harrowing sense, but on Better Call Saul, Jimmy’s addiction isn’t chemical. Jimmy is addicted to the hustle, and not in the way that the worst guy you know from high school posts about on Facebook. The allure of the finer things in life, the thrill of the con, the sense of power and importance that Jimmy gets out of his scheme, it’s a high that’s greater to him than what any blue crystal could provide. There’s something immensely powerful about knowing what you’re good at. All it took was...
- 8/2/2022
- by Nick Harley
- Den of Geek
French production giant takes majority stake in production company behind Netflix’s Oscar winner and ITV comedy Plebs.
Newen Studios has acquired Rise Films, the producer behind Netflix’s Oscar-winning doc Icarus.
The TF1-owned French production giant has taken a majority stake in London-based Rise, which was founded in 2006 by managing director Teddy Leifer.
Rise is best-known for its high-end documentary output which, alongside Icarus, includes Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning The Invisible War, Emmy-winning The Interrupters, Sundance winner Dreamcatcher and The Art of Political Murder.
The company is also a prolific producer of programming for broadcasters and streamers, with HBO...
Newen Studios has acquired Rise Films, the producer behind Netflix’s Oscar-winning doc Icarus.
The TF1-owned French production giant has taken a majority stake in London-based Rise, which was founded in 2006 by managing director Teddy Leifer.
Rise is best-known for its high-end documentary output which, alongside Icarus, includes Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning The Invisible War, Emmy-winning The Interrupters, Sundance winner Dreamcatcher and The Art of Political Murder.
The company is also a prolific producer of programming for broadcasters and streamers, with HBO...
- 7/27/2022
- by John Elmes Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Acquisitive French media giant Newen Studios has expanded its UK footprint with the purchase of a majority stake in Rise Films, the Oscar-winning producer of Netflix’s Icarus and All That Breathes, Deadline can reveal.
The deal closed very recently but Rise had been on Newen’s radar for a while, according to the TF1-backed studio’s Director of International Philippe Levasseur, and the acquisition of an undisclosed majority stake brings the number of UK labels Newen has an interest in to 10.
Deadline understands several buyers were interested in acquiring Rise, which has grown over 16 years to become one of the UK’s most respected premium documentary makers.
The firm was behind Netflix’s Icarus about doping scandals in sport, which won a 2018 Oscar, along with the likes of Oscar-nominee The Invisible War, HBO Max’s George Carlin’s American Dream from Judd Apatow and environmental pic All That Breathes,...
The deal closed very recently but Rise had been on Newen’s radar for a while, according to the TF1-backed studio’s Director of International Philippe Levasseur, and the acquisition of an undisclosed majority stake brings the number of UK labels Newen has an interest in to 10.
Deadline understands several buyers were interested in acquiring Rise, which has grown over 16 years to become one of the UK’s most respected premium documentary makers.
The firm was behind Netflix’s Icarus about doping scandals in sport, which won a 2018 Oscar, along with the likes of Oscar-nominee The Invisible War, HBO Max’s George Carlin’s American Dream from Judd Apatow and environmental pic All That Breathes,...
- 7/27/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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