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Kenya Barris will make his directorial debut with a Richard Pryor biopic

by Charles Bramesco

The accomplished screenwriter and Black-ish showrunner is stepping behind the camera.
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Feast your eyes on hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos from Mank

by Charles Bramesco

A newly surfaced website also previews Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor’s score.
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Tom Hanks hits the country roads in the News of the World trailer

by Charles Bramesco

He ferries a young girl to safety in an old-school western from Paul Greengrass.
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It’s Hollywood versus Hearst in the full trailer for Mank

by Charles Bramesco

David Fincher pits art against commerce in the story of Herman Mankiewicz’s tragic downfall.
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Review

Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

by Charles Bramesco

Sacha Baron Cohen’s calamity-prone Kazakh reporter takes dead-aim at US conservatism in this rip-snorting sequel.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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The first trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom strikes up the band

by Charles Bramesco

Viola Davis stars alongside the dearly departed Chadwick Boseman in the musical period piece.
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Bill Nighy will lead an English-language reworking of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru

by Charles Bramesco

The newly-announced update will be scripted by none other than Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Dev Patel is starring in a film about the male striptease troupe Chippendales

by Charles Bramesco

Sorry, but he’ll not be doing any of the scantily-clad dancing in Craig Gillespie’s upcoming drama.
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Bong Joon-ho’s early shorts are coming to the UK for the first time

by Charles Bramesco

Influenza and Incoherence will screen later this month at the London Korean Film Festival.
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Park Chan-wook has begun work on his next film, a romantic murder mystery

by Charles Bramesco

Decision to Leave marks the director’s return to Korea following his English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl.