Americans Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and… Read more »
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman, F.W. Colqhoun, who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide, a vicious U.S. Army… Read more »
Original poster for Hud Jesse Pasternack explains why Paul Newman’s scorching performance as Hud Bannon paved the way for complicated, immoral protagonists in American cinema. In its own time, Hud (1963) received almost every mark of success that an American film could receive. After premiering at the Venice International Film Festival, it made $10 million… Read more »
Surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired by a mysterious client’s brusque aide (Harrison Ford) to tail a young couple, Mark (Frederic Forrest) and Ann (Cindy Williams). Tracking the pair through San Francisco’s Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan (John Cazale) manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of… Read more »
The cast of The Royal Tenenbaums Noni Ford recalls her first impressions of the Wes Anderson classic The Royal Tenenbaums and how she now approaches the film differently as an adult. Spoilers ahead! Some films you watch and it takes you a while to really call them a favorite — it might even take a… Read more »
After losing his mother in a fire in Tokyo, 11-year-old Mahito moves to the countryside with his father Shoichi to take up residence at the Gray Heron Mansion, a fusion of Japanese and Western architecture on a sprawling estate. Mahito struggles with his complex feelings toward his bold and forceful father, as well as his… Read more »