Collective moments are a fascinating thing to examine. When society fixates on something, it tells us about our internal processes and what is bothering us or drawing our curiosity. This happened in the late 1990s with the explosion in popularity of World War II movies. Half a century after the defeat of the Nazis, filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Terrance Mallick, Clint Eastwood and more began pumping out historical military projects like 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'The Thin Red Line,' 'Flags of...
Civil War, 2024. Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jesse Plemmons, and Nick Offerman. SYNOPSIS: A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Alex Garland has […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post...
Civil War, 2024. Written and Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jefferson White, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Vince Pisani, Justin James Boykin, Jess Matney, Greg Hill, Edmund Donovan, Sonoya Mizuno, and Jesse Plemons. SYNOPSIS: A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original...
Also: “Fallout” brilliantly shows how a video game can be a great movie; and Robert Downey Jr. helps turn Park Chan-wook’s epic “The Sympathizer” into a 4-star triumph
Also: “Fallout” brilliantly shows how a video game can be a great movie; and Robert Downey Jr. helps turn Park Chan-wook’s epic “The Sympathizer” into a 4-star triumph
With all the noise today in media, from the most contentious election season in recent memory to the biggest rap beef since Nas and Jay Z, there are many reasons to be distracted. Sometimes, you must put the phone down and vegetate the old-fashioned way with a good movie. Whether you prefer to hit your […] The post Spring Movie Preview: ‘Civil War,’ ‘Abigail,’ ‘The Strangers’ & More first appeared on The Source.
After a contentious redrawing of Alabama’s congressional map, two candidates will compete in November for a seat, and perhaps congressional controlShomari Figures, an attorney and Obama White House executive from a politically-prominent civil rights family, has won the Democratic nomination to run in Alabama’s redrawn second congressional district Tuesday night, defeating state representative Anthony Daniels.The runoff election has been closely watched because of its implications for control of...
Although film company A24 has built up a pretty remarkable reputation for itself over its 12 years of existence—winning 16 Oscars, including the sweep executed by Everything Everywhere All At Once last year—it’s still pretty niche, as far as money-making goes. (Even EEAAO only ended up clearing $144 million at the global box office, despite what could be roughly described as the maximum amount of word of mouth possible.) Now, though, the studio is set to have its biggest opening weekend since...
Shomari Figures secured the Democratic nomination with 61% of the vote, totaling 21,926 votes over state House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, who received 13,990 votes.
Alex Garland’s speculative and apolitical action film might be a box office hit but it’s a frustratingly weightless experienceThe music video for MIA’s Born Free imagines a ginger genocide, with humvees of jackbooted, gas-masked stormtroopers raiding a high-rise housing complex to round up redheads. Even before the condemned are bussed out to the desert and used for target practice, the camerawork luxuriates in extreme content – needless collateral brutalization, a slow-mo closeup of a man...
Really Garland’s movie is no more vital to the discourse than “The Purge,” and is about 1% as entertaining.
Mashable host Josh Burstein sits down with Alex Garland and Wagner Moura to discuss the upcoming film 'Civil War'.