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Driver’s Ed’ Review: Bobby Farrelly’s Tame Throwback Exhumes, But Can’t Revive, the ’90s Teen Comedy

Driver’s Ed’ Review: Bobby Farrelly’s Tame Throwback Exhumes, But Can’t Revive, the ’90s Teen Comedy

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By Jessica Kiang According To The variety Both an obvious product of ’90s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly‘s terminally innocuous “Driver’s Ed” can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? Though technically it is set in the current day, because smartphones exist and someone mentions Ritalin, the sensibilities of both director and screenplay (by Thomas Moffett) are so trapped in the past that the whole movie feels like a defrosted caveman sporting a pair of earbuds — which is essentially the plot of 1992’s “Encino Man,” apropos of nothing much except that after “Driver’s Ed,” all your comparisons will for a time gesture toward pre-millennial pop-cultural artifacts. It’s hard to remember that era being quite so unfunny, though, nor quite so ...
Geek Girl’ Star Emily Carey, ‘A Kind of Spark’s’ Lola Blue Lead Autistic-Centered ‘The Birth of a Mall Goth’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Geek Girl’ Star Emily Carey, ‘A Kind of Spark’s’ Lola Blue Lead Autistic-Centered ‘The Birth of a Mall Goth’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Two prominent autistic actors, Emily Carey (“Geek Girl“) and Lola Blue (“A Kind of Spark”), topline the short film “The Birth of a Mall Goth,” marking a rare project where neurodiverse talent controls the creative process both on-screen and off. Writer-director Samantha Locock developed the script around her fascination with goth subculture, though she didn’t realize until after receiving her autism diagnosis that the story reflected her own neurodivergent experience of seeking understanding in an often confusing world. “When I wrote this script, I don’t think I fully understood why I was so deeply intrigued by why people suddenly become goths,” Locock said. “Now, I see the film as the autistic need to try and make...
Guillermo del Toro on Sunday Paintings With Other Directors and the Brutality and Grace of ‘Frankenstein’: ‘Both Can Exist in the Same Body

Guillermo del Toro on Sunday Paintings With Other Directors and the Brutality and Grace of ‘Frankenstein’: ‘Both Can Exist in the Same Body

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By Clayton Davis According To The variety Guillermo del Toro doesn’t just direct monsters — he understands them. The Oscar-winning auteur behind “The Shape of Water” (2017) and “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) has built a career elevating genre cinema through stories of misunderstood outsiders. But with his long-awaited adaptation of “Frankenstein,” the Mexican filmmaker has returned to what he calls his creative origin — and maybe his most personal film yet. “To me, the point of origin was ‘Frankenstein,’” del Toro tells Variety. “This is not a monster movie. This is a story about what it means to be human.” Del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel isn’t horror in the conventional sense — it’s myth, metaphor and opera. After decades in development, “Frankenstein” finally pr...
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst Electrify Toronto Film Festival With True Crime Drama ‘Roofman

Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst Electrify Toronto Film Festival With True Crime Drama ‘Roofman

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By Brent Lang According To The varietyChanning Tatum, playing a robber with a serious case of arrested development, may have delivered the most mature performance of his career, at least if the thunderous standing ovation for “Roofman” at its Toronto Film Festival premiere is to be believed. The film tells the true story of Jeffrey Manchester, the so-called “Rooftop Robber,” who broke into dozens of McDonald’s restaurants, was sentenced to prison for 45 years, escaped, and hid in a Toys “R” Us, all while becoming romantically entwined with one of the store’s employees (Kirsten Dunst). Derek Cianfrance, best known for moody dramas like “Blue Valentine” and “I Know This Much is True,” saw Manchester’s incredible story as a chance to work in a different register. “I ju...
Rental Family’ Review: Hiring Actors to Play Relatives Would Be Weird Enough Without Brendan Fraser Being One of the Options

Rental Family’ Review: Hiring Actors to Play Relatives Would Be Weird Enough Without Brendan Fraser Being One of the Options

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By Peter Debruge According To The varietySix years ago, the inimitable Werner Herzog made “Family Romance, LLC,” an odd pseudo-documentary about a Japanese service that specialized in hiring actors to play a loved one, colleague or potential suitor — whatever the client required. The company was real (or inspired by one profiled in The New Yorker), but the examples were not. Need someone to absorb your wife’s anger over that extramarital affair without inconveniencing your mistress? Just ask Rental Family to send a proxy. Trying to fool your once-famous father into thinking he hasn’t been forgotten? Rental Family can send a “reporter” over to interview him. Maybe Herzog isn’t so inimitable after all, for Japanese director Hikari (best known for “Beef”) has made a ...
Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ Selected by Korea for Oscars

Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ Selected by Korea for Oscars

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety The Korean Film Council has selected Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” as the country’s submission for best international feature at the 98th Academy Awards. The move positions the acclaimed filmmaker — whose credits include “Oldboy,” “The Handmaiden” and “Decision to Leave,” which was shortlisted in the category, — for a fresh run at Oscar glory. The dark comedy, adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s novel “The Ax,” premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it is competing for the Golden Lion. Lee Byung-hun, best known globally from “Squid Game,” takes the lead as Yoo Man-su, a paper-industry veteran pushed to desperate, murderous extremes after 25 years of loyalty is abruptly discarded. Critics have hailed “No Other Cho...
Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård Turn a Freak Hostage Incident from 1977 Into a Miniature ‘Dog Day Afternoon’

Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård Turn a Freak Hostage Incident from 1977 Into a Miniature ‘Dog Day Afternoon’

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety It was “Dog Day Afternoon” in miniature, though with more loony-tunes firepower. On Feb. 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, a disgruntled resident of Indianapolis, walked into the offices of the Meridian Mortgage Company and took one of its executives, Dick Hall, hostage. He wired the sawed-off muzzle of a 12-gauge Winchester shotgun to the back of Hall’s head. One end of the wire was connected to the trigger; the other end was wrapped around Hall’s neck. This meant that if a police officer tried to shoot Kiritsis, or if Hall tried to escape, the gun would go off and kill him. With that gun poised, at any moment, to blow Hall to smithereens, Kiritsis then walked him out of the building and into a car (trailed by random onlookers and a news camera), and t...
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