Tag: Ethan Hawke
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‘Tesla’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Brings The Electricity In Michael Almereyda’s Unconventional Biopic
In case you didn’t know, today marks the 164th birthday of the great electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. Sooooo uhhh flip on a generator in his honor, I guess? Or you can go the easy route and just check out the new trailer for Tesla, which reunites director Michael Almereyda with his Hamlet and…
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‘The Good Lord Bird’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is A Nutty, Gun-Toting John Brown In Blumhouse’s Showtime Series
So I need to get Showtime now. It wasn’t something at all on my list until I saw Ethan Hawke doing a “nuttier than squirrel turds” take on abolitionist John Brown in The Good Lord Bird. And now it’s skyrocketed to the top of shows that simply must be seen. The Good Lord Bird is…
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‘The Truth’ Trailer: Juliette Binoche & Catherine Deneuve Squabble In Hirokazu Koreeda’s Latest Family Drama
For the first time ever, I came away from a Middleburg Film Festival without seeing the latest from my favorite director, Hirokazu Koreeda. The Truth played there a couple of months ago, but I couldn’t fit its one screening into my packed schedule. The wait to see it has been interminable, and there’s still a…
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First Teaser For Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘The Truth’ With Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, And More
Thank goodness Hirokazu Koreeda doesn’t make us wait years between movies. He’s been on one Helluva roll lately, with last year’s drama Shoplifters winning the Palme d’Or. And now he’s preparing for the Venice Film Festival where his latest film, The Truth, will have its world premiere, accompanied no doubt by Koreeda’s starriest cast yet:…
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‘Stockholm’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke And Noomi Rapace Set The Bar For Stockholm Syndrome
Maybe a reunion of Ethan Hawke and director Robert Budreau isn’t all that exciting to other folks, but to me it’s something I’ve been dying to see. The duo worked together before on the vastly underrated Chet Baker biopic, Born to be Blue, and now they’re back on something far different. If you’ve heard the term…
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Indie Spirit Awards Names ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Best Film
It was a huge night for If Beale Street Could Talk at tonight’s Film Independent Spirit Awards. Barry Jenkins’ loving drama won three awards including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Regina King. What this bodes for it and its three Oscar nominations we’ll have to wait a little while to find…
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‘The Kid’ Trailer: Chris Pratt, Dane DeHaan, And Ethan Hawke Lead Vincent D’Onfrio’s Western
Vincent D’Onofrio, Chris Pratt, and Ethan Hawke starred together in The Magnificent Seven, and clearly gunslinging has gotten into their blood. The trio have reunited on The Kid, a new take on Billy the Kid’s legend that finds D’Onofrio behind the camera for only the second time in his career. D’Onofrio’s assembled a Hell of a…
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Ethan Hawke Doesn’t Think There Can Be A Great Superhero Movie
Ethan Hawke is coming off a career-best performance in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, and has his latest directorial effort Blaze just arriving in theaters. He remains an indie stalwart who will forever be linked to films like the Before Sunrise trilogy and Boyhood, but Hawke hasn’t been against starring in the occasional mainstream studio film.…
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Review: ‘Juliet, Naked’, Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke And Chris O’Dowd Charm
Roadside Attractions Based on the novel by Nick Hornby, director Jesse Peretz and writers Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor, and Tamara Jenkins take the characters of Juliet, Naked on a journey of love, doubt, and self-realization. The film is an above-average rom-com that takes care to focus on the depth of its characters and the ways…