The Best Documentaries Of 2021
After another year of being inside, the documentaries of 2021 have provided us with plenty of adventure. They have inspired a sense of looking all around you, or of going back into history to understand how we...
Todd Haynes Talks ‘The Velvet Underground,’ Lou Reed What-Ifs & His Peggy Lee Biopic [Interview]
Musical biography, with its well-worn beats of sudden stardom and hedonistic self-immolation, lends itself to cliché like few other cinematic genres. But Todd Haynes has spent a goodly portion of his career de...
Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films
Trust us when we say we hope there’s a day when the words pandemic and COVID-19 are never written on the pages of this website again, specifically in any intros to any features. However, the reality is that th...
‘The Velvet Underground’ Trailer: Todd Haynes Chronicles The Outsiders Who Disrupted Rock ‘N Roll
Filmmaker Todd Haynes' career is arguably one long marriage of art school tendencies and an obsession with formative rock n' roll from the '60s and '70s. His career began with the experimental short, "Superst...
Best Of Cannes 2021: 15 Must-See Movies From The Festival
Well, that's a wrap on the 2021 Cannes Film Festival; 56 reviews and counting (there might be one or two more stragglers to come, but we are basically done). It was a pretty great festival and strong year desp...
‘The Velvet Underground’: Todd Haynes Captures The Chaotic, Brutal Beauty Of Rock’s Most Important Underground Band [Cannes Review]
The always artful filmmaker Todd Haynes totally ignores the one clichéd anecdote about the iconoclastic rock group The Velvet Underground in his superb, eponymic doc “The Velvet Underground,” a film that shoul...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Preview: 25 Films To Watch
It's that time of year again, though a little delayed. Following the cancellation of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival last year, thanks to the global pandemic, Cannes is triumphantly back this year with a whopper...
‘The Velvet Underground’ First Look Clip: Todd Haynes’ Documentary On The Legendary Band Premieres At Cannes
Director Todd Haynes is no stranger to musically-inclined films. He took on the glam rock genre with 1998's "Velvet Goldmine" and made a truly singular biopic about Bob Dylan with 2007's "I'm Not There." Now, ...
The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2021
I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. Aside from the election result, Trashfire 2020™ was a shitty year. And a weird and disorienting year thanks to COVID-19 and having to shelter-in-place, quarantine, ...
Todd Haynes Will Direct A Series About Freud For Amazon Studios
Things have been slightly quiet on the Todd Haynes front as of late given the muted response to his last film, the adaptation of author Brian Selznick's "Wonderstruck." However, late last week, the Cannes Film...