international brightlight film festival Archives

Sep92024 by cineverseNo Comments

The Wild Robot’ Review: It’s No ‘Iron Giant,’ Though DreamWorks’ Tale of a Wayward Droid Is a Keeper

News

By Peter Debruge According To The variety A gorgeous computer-generated cartoon with a human heart beating beneath its sleek, state-of-the-art surface, DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” arrives at a time when the public seems more concerned than ever about being outsmarted by artificial intelligence. It’s somewhat ironic then that the movie, a lovely chosen-family fable adapted from the first book in Peter Brown’s open-ended series, features no human characters of consequence. Instead, “The Wild Robot” concerns an overzealous automaton named ROZZUM 7134 (or simply “Roz” for short), whose personality comes partly from Lupita Nyong’o and the rest from the artists at DWA. Together with “How to Train Your Dragon” co-director Chris Sanders, they imbue this bot — basically,...

Sep92024 by cineverseNo Comments

Bruce Springsteen Contemplates Mortality With Toronto Film Festival Documentary ‘Road Diary’: ‘If I Went Tomorrow, It’s OK. What a F—ing Ride!

News

By Brent Lang, Rebecca Rubin According To The variety Toronto welcomed “The Boss” on Sunday night. But it was a more contemplative Bruce Springsteen on display at the Roy Thomson Hall for the world premiere of “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” a look at the rock legend and his tight-knit group of collaborators, which also served as a meditation on mortality. Throughout the film and in the post-screening Q&A, though, the 74-year-old rocker stressed that he doesn’t plan to hang up his guitar any time soon. He wants to keep rocking until “the wheels come off.” “If I went tomorrow, it’s OK,” Springsteen told the crowd to loud applause. “What a fucking ride!” Also in the documentary, Springsteen’s wife and E Street bandmate Patti Scialfa revealed s...

Sep82024 by cineverseNo Comments

Nightbitch’ Review: Amy Adams Ferociously Resists the Changes Imposed by Parenthood in Didactic but Welcome Ode to Moms

News

By Peter Debruge According To The variety It’s been more than half a century since Helen Reddy sang, “I am woman, hear me roar!” but the line remains as good a mantra as any for Amy Adams’ ferocious lead performance in Marielle Heller’s tamer-than-expected “Nightbitch.” Identified only as “Mother” in the credits, Adams plays a woman who gave up her career to raise her son, but is only now, four years in to stay-at-home motherhood, realizing just how much the experience has changed her. “Transformed” might actually be a better word, since her primeval awakening gives off serious werewolf-movie vibes. This mother believes she might be turning into a dog. Novelist Rachel Yoder opens “Nightbitch” with the words “for my mom & for all the moms.” To some, that might sound like...

Sep72024 by cineverseNo Comments

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Bring Steamy Sex, Sobs and Wild Birthing Scene to TIFF With ‘We Live in Time’

News

By Tatiana Siegel According To The variety Like a football player emerging from the huddle, Florence Pugh squatted and grunted as she reenacted a dramatic scene from “We Live in Time” after the film made its splashy debut on Day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival. During a post-screening Q&A with co-star Andrew Garfield and director John Crowley, Pugh described the making of a wild scene from the tear-jerker cancer drama in which she gives birth in a dingy gas station bathroom while Garfield and two strangers looked on. “It was amazing. I mean, you saw like seven minutes of it. We did 15-minute births like eight times. It was insane,” she told the sniffling audience. “The only problem was, I didn’t have a baby that came out, so I was just so exhauste...

Sep12024 by cineverseNo Comments

Jude Law Is Officially Back After 7-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice for Fighting White Supremacy in ‘The Order’

News

By Alex Ritman, Nick Vivarelli According To The variety Jude Law lit up the Lido with his powerful performance as an FBI agent fighting neo-Nazi terrorists in Justin Kurzel‘s timely crime thriller “The Order” that elicited a seven-minute standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere. Prior to the screening Jude Law, looking dashing in a black shirtless suit, took selfies with screaming fans on the Palazzo del Cinema red carpet. When the lights went up, Law was glowing as he and director Kurzel and co-stars Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett soaked up the rapturous seven-minute applause, which could have lasted longer had they not exited the theatre waving to the still cheering crowd. Based on true events, the film is set ...

Aug312024 by cineverseNo Comments

Conclave’ Review: Ralph Fiennes, Looking Tortured, Leads a Tense Search for a New Pope

News

By Peter Debruge According To The variety If you think the American presidential election has been unpredictable, wait’ll you see how capricious things get at the Vatican when the cardinals assemble to choose a new pope in “Conclave.” Adapted from the Robert Harris novel by Edward Berger, who assumes a very different challenge after “All Quiet on the Western Front,” this thinking man’s thriller unfolds like a murder mystery behind the locked doors of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the College of Cardinals is cloistered, except no one suspects foul play in the previous pontiff’s death. Still, intrigues abound as the papabili — those considered next in line for the job, played by such formidable actors as Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow — pull whatever levers ...

Aug312024 by cineverseNo Comments

Charli XCX Cast in Erotic Thriller ‘I Want Your Sex,’ With Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, From Black Bear

News

By Matt Donnelly According To The variety Charli XCX has booked her second big-screen role, as the mother of brat summer has been cast in Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex.” A feature described as a descent into a world of “sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder” — albeit with an irreverent tone — the singer joins previously announced leads Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman (“Licorice Pizza”). Details on Charli’s role are under wraps. Director Araki penned the script with Karley Sciortino and production is set for October in Los Angeles via Black Bear. Charli, born Charlotte Emma Aitchison, was also cast last spring in Daniel Goldhaber’s forthcoming remake of the cult classic “Faces of Death” from Legendary Entertainment. The full synopsis of “I ...