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‘Kings’ Trailer: Halle Berry & Daniel Craig Face The L.A. Riots

February 20, 2018 1:27 pm

Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut “Mustang” was a quiet marvel. The 2015 Foreign Language Oscar nominee showed the coming of age of five sisters, balancing moments of joy and wonder with stifling social forces and sp...

‘Kings’ Starring Halle Berry & Daniel Craig Is A Disastrous Faceplant [TIFF Review]

Bradley Warren

September 18, 2017 11:19 am

News, Reviews

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One sure lesson to be learned from the relatively tepid reception and box office of “Detroit” earlier this summer is that wrangling racial flashpoints on-screen is no easy task. If Kathryn Bigelow faltered some...

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2017 Toronto International Film Festival: 21 Must-See Films

Rodrigo Perez, Ally Johnson, Lena Wilson and Gary Garrison

September 5, 2017 4:36 pm

Features, News

The Telluride Film Festival is in the rear-view mirror and the Venice Film Festival will finish up this week and that means they’ll both give way to the Toronto International Film Festival, easily the largest f...

First Look: Halle Berry In ‘Mustang’ Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s ‘Kings’

Kevin Jagernauth

July 25, 2017 11:42 am

News

Deniz Gamze Ergüven burst on the international filmmaking scene with "Mustang" two years back, and it hasn't taken her long to make her followup. In fact, the director has not only leaped to working with Hollyw...

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TIFF 2017 Lines Up ‘mother!,’ ‘Hostiles,’ ‘I, Tonya,’ ‘The Current War,’ ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ & More

Kevin Jagernauth

July 25, 2017 10:54 am

Festivals, News

This morning, the Toronto International Film Festival unwrapped their first wave of titles, and their 2017 lineup is looking very impressive out of the gate. It's auteurs and high profile titles left and rig...

50 Films We Hope To See At The 2017 Fall Festivals

Jessica Kiang and Oliver Lyttelton

July 11, 2017 2:57 pm

Features, News

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This time last year we were feeling pretty down about the state of the blockbuster summer, having had a run of duds so instantly forgettable that we had to look them up again to remember (stuff like “X-Men: Apo...

21 Films We Hope To See In The Cannes 2017 Lineup

Jessica Kiang

March 9, 2017 2:43 pm

Features, Festivals, News

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It feels like spring is the best time to be a cinema lover: the Oscars and all the attendant politicking and campaigning are in the rear-view mirror and the noisy blockbuster summer has not yet kicked into gear...

Daniel Craig Joins ‘Mustang’ Director Deniz Gamze Erguven’s L.A. Riots Drama ‘Kings’ With Halle Berry

Kevin Jagernauth

June 28, 2016 6:01 pm

News

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In news that, at this point, should surprise nobody, Daniel Craig has joined another project that doesn't involve martinis or have a license to kill. The actor continues to carve a career path away from 007, wh...

‘Mustang’ Director Deniz Gamze Erguven To Helm L.A. Riots Drama Starring Halle Berry

Kevin Jagernauth

May 11, 2016 4:44 pm

News

For years, filmmakers including Spike Lee and Justin Lin have been trying to bring the explosive riots that rocked L.A. in the aftermath of the acquittal of the cops who brutally assaulted Rodney King to life o...

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