Accidental Texan, 2024. Directed by Mark Lambert Bristol. Starring Rudy Pankow, Thomas Haden Church, Carrie-Anne Moss, Bruce Dern, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Brad Leland, AnnaClare Hicks, Jennifer Griffin, Sarah J. Bartholomew, Elizabeth Maxwell, Jake Ryan, Luis Olmeda, David DeLao, Selase Botchway, Mark Nutter, Carlton Caudle, Jessica Irvine Drake, Jack Leblond, Ashley Ella Park, Brian Villalobos, and […]
Blu-ray review – Asteroid City (2023)
Asteroid City, 2023. Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, and Jeff Goldblum. SYNOPSIS: Wes Anderson’s latest, […]
Movie Review – Asteroid City (2023)
Asteroid City, 2023. Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Revolori, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophia […]
Movie Review – Asteroid City (2023)
Asteroid City, 2023. Written and Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Revolori, Grace Edwards, Aristou […]
Johansson, Hanks, Schreiber and Schwartzman feature in clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
Hoping to make an impact when it receives its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Focus Features has dropped a series of clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, an off-kilter comedy with the requisite large ensemble that is centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention […]
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City trailer is very Wes Anderson
Focus Features has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Wes Anderson’s next film Asteroid City, a comedy centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention is disrupted by… a visitor from outer space? That doesn’t seem to matter, as the focus instead is on the usual Wes Anderson […]
Movie Review – Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021)
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, 2021. Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner. Starring Luke McKenzie, Jake Ryan, Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Tristan McKinnon, and Tasia Zalar. SYNOPSIS: Lone soldier Rhys searches the Australian wasteland for zombie specimens to deliver to the maniacal Surgeon General in the hope of finding a cure, but things don’t go smoothly. Making a […]
Movie Review – Savage (2019)
Savage, 2019. Directed by Sam Kelly. Starring Jake Ryan, John Tui, James Matamua, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, Seth Flynn, Poroaki Merritt-McDonald, Italiyah Wilson, Olly Presling and Chelsie Preston Crayford. SYNOPSIS: A journey into the dark heart of gang culture in New Zealand. It’s always an odd moment in a movie when you begin to notice how much […]
Movie Review – Savage (2019)
Savage, 2019. Directed by Sam Kelly. Starring Jake Ryan, John Tui, Chelsie Preston Crayford, James Matamua, Jack William Parker, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, and Seth Flynn. SYNOPSIS: As his gang starts to fracture into factions, the gang’s violent second-in-command questions his loyalty and friendship to his leader. Much can be told about a director from their debut […]
Movie Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Catherine Oliviere, Jake Ryan and Daniel Zolghadri. SYNOPSIS: On the verge of high school, an internet-obsessed young girl grapples with her place in the social hierarchy while vlogging about confidence and self-belief. In the vast canon of American high school movies, […]
