The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Babadook,’ ‘Steve McQueen’
With film critics and movie fans hyperbolically declaring It Follows the best horror movie in decades, this week’s best disc and streaming release is well timed — after all, that’s what everyone was...
View ArticleGenocide, the NSA, and Venice’s Short-Lived First Mosque: Scenes From a Biennale
Such Doge’s Palace. Wow. The Venice Biennale opened earlier this month, and among the throngs of artistic types descending on the famous city for the weekend was Flavorwire alumnus Geoff Mak. 1. We...
View ArticleKanye West and Director Steve McQueen Debut “All Day / I Feel Like That”...
Kanye West screened his nine-minute video for “All Day” and “I feel Like That,” from his forthcoming album SWISH (formerly So Help Me God), directed by 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen. The duo...
View ArticleCharlotte Rampling’s Tone-Deaf Comments Demonstrate Exactly Why Hollywood Has...
In today’s media climate, there’s no experience more vexing — yet routine — than watching a legitimate complaint about diversity, exclusion, or injustice gain traction and momentum, and then promptly...
View ArticleRami Malek in Talks to Star in Remake of Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman Prison...
It was announced back in 2015 that Papillon — the Steve McQueen movie about a prisoner attempting escape that isn’t The Great Escape — is getting remade by Danish director Michael Noer (via the...
View ArticleSteve McQueen Casts Viola Davis to Star in His Upcoming Heist Film, ‘Widows’
Hunger/Shame/12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen’s next project is, through the information that’s incrementally coming out about it, building into something that sounds quite exciting — especially...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Arrival,’ ‘Joan Didion,’...
Okay, I know every week I come on here and give you the big “boy, it’s quite a spread this week” but seriously, it’s quite a spread this week: two of the year’s best documentaries, one of last year’s...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018
The new year is upon us, and for moviegoers, it’s a time of hope and promise. We haven’t seen any of these yet! They could all be brilliant! I mean, y’know, probably not, but! But we’ve perused the...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Wonder,’ ‘Night of the Living...
Two of the finest damn horror movies of all time (period, full stop) make their Criterion Blu-ray bows this week, and that’s not even all! We’ve got one of last year’s most charming heart-tuggers, two...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw,’ ‘Widows’
Good news, folks: there’s a little something for everyone in this week’s new release line-up: a new and classic foreign film, a couple of fall prestige pictures, a nutso new satirical thriller, an...
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