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Exclusive Interview – Causeway director Lila Neugebauer

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Robert Kojder chats with Causeway director Lila Neugebauer about authenticity, vulnerability, Brian Tyree Henry, New Orleans, soundscape, deaf character implications, and more… With a background in theatre, Lila Neugebauer crafted her first feature-length film, Causeway, which was picked up by Apple TV+ and played at North American festivals. Immersively authentic, the film follows Afghanistan veteran […]

Jennifer Lawrence battles PTSD in new trailer for A24’s Causeway

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Apple and A24 have debuted a new trailer for director Lila Neugebauer’s upcoming drama Causeway ahead of the film’s premiere tomorrow. The film follows Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence), a soldier struggling to adjust to life back home after suffering from PTSD and a debilitating brain injury, as she forms a friendship with mechanic James (Brian Tyree […]

Lynne Ramsay to direct Jennifer Lawrence in Die, My Love

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With Jennifer Lawrence about to wow audiences with her performance in Apple TV+ drama Causeway (read our ★★★★ review here), the actress has revealed that her previously announced collaboration with Lynne Ramsay will be an adaptation of the Ariana Harwicz book Die, My Love.  During an interview with The New York Times in which the […]

Movie Review – Causeway (2022)

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Causeway, 2022 Directed by Lila Neugebauer. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson Russell, Harvard Frederick Weller, Sean Carvajal, Will Pullen, and Neal Huff. SYNOPSIS: A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home. Causeway is a touching […]

2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Causeway

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Causeway, 2022. Directed by Lila Neugebauer. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Frederick Weller. SYNOPSIS: A US soldier (Jennifer Lawrence) suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.  Jennifer Lawrence returns to the kind of small character-driven, sparsely […]

Movie Review – Don’t Look Up (2021)

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Don’t Look Up, 2021. Written and Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Melanie Lynskey, Himesh Patel, Michael Chiklis, Tomer Sisley, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert Joy, Ashleigh Banfield, Gina Gershon, Meghan Leathers, Ross Partridge, […]

Movie Review – Don’t Look Up (2021)

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Don’t Look Up, 2021. Written and Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Melanie Lynskey, Himesh Patel, Michael Chiklis, Tomer Sisley, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert Joy, Ashleigh Banfield, Gina Gershon, Meghan Leathers, Ross Partridge, […]

Video Review – Don’t Look Up is an apocalyptic failure

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EJ Moreno with a scathing video review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up… At its best, Don’t Look Up feels like a horrible SNL opening sketch. At its worst, it’s a reminder that Trump-era satire has run its course. Maybe the film needed a creative team behind it because it all felt painfully unfunny. Most […]

Don’t Look Up gets a star-studded batch of character posters

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Ahead of its theatrical release this Friday, twelve character posters have been released for Adam McKay’s sci-fi comedy drama Don’t Look Up featuring stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothee Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Scott Mescudi, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande, and Rob Morgan; take a look here… SEE ALSO: […]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence try to save the world in new trailer for Don’t Look Up

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Netflix has released a new trailer, poster and batch of images for the star-studded sci-fi comedy drama Don’t Look Up. Written and directed by Adam McKay, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an astronomy professor who along with his grad student Jennifer Lawrence as they attempt to warn the world about a comet on a […]