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Most-Read Reviews
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9. WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
8. kid 90
7. The Green Knight
6. Dune
5. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
4. Mortal Kombat
3. The Girl Who Got Away
2. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
1. Saint-Narcisse
Most-Read Interviews
10. Adam Nayman on David Fincher’s Complicated Auteurism
9. Sparks on Annette, Polarizing Reactions, Leos Carax’s Vision, and Their Next Film
8. Sion Sono on Briefly Dying, His Favorite Nicolas Cage Performance, and Prisoners of the Ghostland
7. John Carpenter on Scoring Halloween Kills, Videogames, and Basketball
6. Gaspar Noé on Facing Death, Casting Dario Argento,...
Most-Read Reviews
10. The Dig
9. WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
8. kid 90
7. The Green Knight
6. Dune
5. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
4. Mortal Kombat
3. The Girl Who Got Away
2. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
1. Saint-Narcisse
Most-Read Interviews
10. Adam Nayman on David Fincher’s Complicated Auteurism
9. Sparks on Annette, Polarizing Reactions, Leos Carax’s Vision, and Their Next Film
8. Sion Sono on Briefly Dying, His Favorite Nicolas Cage Performance, and Prisoners of the Ghostland
7. John Carpenter on Scoring Halloween Kills, Videogames, and Basketball
6. Gaspar Noé on Facing Death, Casting Dario Argento,...
- 12/29/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Liz McCann, a groundbreaking Broadway producer who, as one of the first and most successful women to achieve a prominent leadership role in the theater industry – a term she hated, preferring “theater community” — died Thursday of cancer at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 90.
Her death was announced by her longtime associate and friend Kristen Luciani.
Elizabeth Ireland McCann — known throughout the Broadway community simply as Liz — started her career in theater as a production assistant and manager with Proscenium Productions at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the 1950s. In 1955, the company would be the first Off Broadway theater to win a Special Tony Award for its seminal productions of The Way of the World and Thieves’ Carnival.
Following a series of short-term theater jobs, McCann, who had acted in plays during her student years at Manhattanville College, completed a law degree at Fordham University. She later earned a...
Her death was announced by her longtime associate and friend Kristen Luciani.
Elizabeth Ireland McCann — known throughout the Broadway community simply as Liz — started her career in theater as a production assistant and manager with Proscenium Productions at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the 1950s. In 1955, the company would be the first Off Broadway theater to win a Special Tony Award for its seminal productions of The Way of the World and Thieves’ Carnival.
Following a series of short-term theater jobs, McCann, who had acted in plays during her student years at Manhattanville College, completed a law degree at Fordham University. She later earned a...
- 9/9/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Biff also announced 12 world premiere titles for its Korean Cinema Today - Vision section.
The 26th Busan International Film Festival has revealed 11 selections for its New Currents main competition, including Korea-Japan co-production Missing, directed by Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director to Bong Joon Ho.
The New Currents competition is made up of directors’ first and second features. They will be eligible to win the two New Currents Awards, the New Currents Audience Award, the Netpac Award, and the Fipresci Award.
Katayama worked with Bong on his installment for the omnibus film Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), both of which went to Cannes.
The 26th Busan International Film Festival has revealed 11 selections for its New Currents main competition, including Korea-Japan co-production Missing, directed by Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director to Bong Joon Ho.
The New Currents competition is made up of directors’ first and second features. They will be eligible to win the two New Currents Awards, the New Currents Audience Award, the Netpac Award, and the Fipresci Award.
Katayama worked with Bong on his installment for the omnibus film Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), both of which went to Cannes.
- 9/1/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
For years, the Nintendo Game Boy dominated the handheld gaming market en route to arguably becoming synonymous with the very idea of handheld gaming. So why did Nintendo stop using the Game Boy name almost 16 years ago?
To be honest, the answer to that question is complicated and open to a fair bit of speculation. While this is a topic that Nintendo has talked around over the years, there are not a lot of high-level Nintendo executives who have directly addressed that question in a way that eliminates all possible doubt.
Having said that, we do have a pretty good idea why Nintendo suddenly stopped using the Game Boy brand after they spent years establishing it as one of the strongest names in the video game industry.
The explanation dates back to the origins of the Game Boy name which are, appropriately enough, also somewhat mysterious. It’s been said...
To be honest, the answer to that question is complicated and open to a fair bit of speculation. While this is a topic that Nintendo has talked around over the years, there are not a lot of high-level Nintendo executives who have directly addressed that question in a way that eliminates all possible doubt.
Having said that, we do have a pretty good idea why Nintendo suddenly stopped using the Game Boy brand after they spent years establishing it as one of the strongest names in the video game industry.
The explanation dates back to the origins of the Game Boy name which are, appropriately enough, also somewhat mysterious. It’s been said...
- 8/31/2021
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
Christina Bowden (Lexi Johnson) is an elementary school teacher with aspirations to adopt. The paperwork is filed, the young teen (Willow McCarthy’s Lisa) targeted is on-board, and it seems the last remnants of Christina’s volatile past have been repurposed for good. Kidnapped and raised in a shack by her captor (Kaye Tuckerman’s Elizabeth Caulfield), fate somehow allowed her the second chance her four “sisters” tragically never received. She wants to therefore be a lightning rod for change in the community by using that experience from two decades ago to better understand and care for a new generation struggling to deal with similar psychological trauma. Being the lone survivor of a brutal ordeal gives her insight many would-be suburban parents can’t even fathom. And she’s ready to officially move forward.
Writer-director Michael Morrissey has other ideas, though. Rather than give Christina her happy ending, he concocts...
Writer-director Michael Morrissey has other ideas, though. Rather than give Christina her happy ending, he concocts...
- 8/19/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Massena, New York. It’s 1998, and a decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a serial killer who abducted and murdered the young girls she pretended were her own. All but one. Christina Bowden lives a lonely and unassuming existence until Caulfield escapes from prison. Under new investigation, the stories of Christina’s past begin to unravel. There’s good and evil in everyone, but as the lies are unearthed, Christina needs to choose a side before the darkness of her secrets swallows her whole. Michael Morrissey’s new horror/thriller The Girl Who Got Away is releasing this Friday, August 20th from Quiver Distribution. They have been kind enough to send us an exclusive clip from the horror flick. It has...
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- 8/17/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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