The day before the premiere of The Smashing Machine at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week, former mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr describes his emotional state as “vibrational.”
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Going back to his days in the wrestling ring, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has always been a showman who is unapologetically loud and proud. Such has also been the case for his movies: since his film debut in 2001's The Mummy Returns, he has appeared in no end of popcorn-friendly action movies that complement his ultra-charismatic, swaggering public image. His persona in-ring and on-screen are pretty much one and the same; he is a dyed-in-the-wool entertainer who will stop at nothing to entertain, like an addict hooked to applause.
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It's not small task to a) take on a remake of a popular cult classic, and b) take on a remake of a beloved cult classic that's classic not only in its own right, but firmly so because of it's low-budget, low-grade quality. If you throw money at a remake, does that take away its proverbial street cred? Can a film that succeeds, at least in part, because it is vastly imperfect, be remade with when expectations of perfection will exist?
Consult the article The Venice Film Festival kicks off the fall fest season Wednesday and moves awards season into another gear.
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The star took on the most intense, challenging role of his career in Benny Safdie’s new film. He speaks for the first time about how he pulled it off: “I realized that maybe these opportunities weren’t coming my way because I was too scared to explore this stuff.”
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One would expect the cast of “The Toxic Avenger” — a bloody, violent, unrated horror-comedy about janitor-turned-superhero Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) whose body is gruesomely deformed from toxic waste — to drop a few f-bombs during their panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday.
Consult the article Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Tuesday morning, when he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs August 27-September 6.
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Fantasia’s flagship Cheval Noir competition takes in buzzy ‘Terrestial,’ ‘The Well,' from Hubert Davis, and the Adams family’s ‘Mother of Flies.’
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If there’s one thing you should know about new dramedy Sorry, Baby before seeing it, it’s that main character Agnes is sexually assaulted by her professor when she was a grad student
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