Drama

Endless drama, perpetual pouting and nonstop narcissism in this epically tiresome movie from director Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi and screenwriter Agnes De Sacy about a generation of highly-strung and mercurially talented young drama students in the 1980s who are admitted to the prestigious acting school at Patrice Chéreau’s Theatre Des Amandiers in Nanterre.Among the ranks of yearning and deeply serious hopefuls, Stella (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) is a passionate blonde star who is sort of embarrassed about the hugely wealthy home…

Nobody in modern Hollywood personifies the clear distinction between an actor and a movie star than Dwayne Johnson. He’s the highest-paid and arguably most bankable name in the business, but he’s done so by almost exclusively sticking to type and delivering exactly the sort of broad popcorn fodder that earned him that position in the first place. In fact, you’d have to back over 15 years to 2006’s Gridiron Gang to find the last time the former professional wrestler played a significant part in a relatively…

A pair of college buddies planning to complete the “legendary” – a tour of every frat house party in a single evening – hit an early snag when they discover a stranger passed out in the living room of their apartment. What makes it a whole lot trickier to negotiate is the fact that Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) and Sean (RJ Cyler) are Black, their stoner roommate Carlos (Sebastian Chacon) is Latino, and the stranger is a white girl.They might be the victims in this scenario – their rug is awash with vomit – but as Sean…

Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar are the middle-aged lovers defying familial prejudice and cultural barriers in Ali & Ava (arriving on major VOD platforms on Monday), but that’s only one of the romances unfolding in British director Clio Barnard’s gentle, sentimental film. More metaphorically, Ali & Ava extends Barnard’s ongoing devotion to the Yorkshire city of Bradford, not far from her own home town of Otley.It’s her third film set in the once-booming beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution, and while she…

Johnny Depp’s ‘Unprofessional Behaviour’ Was The Reason Behind His Drowning Career, He Asked For $20 Million Loan Way Before Amber Heard’s Allegations: Former Agent(Photo Credit–Poster/Instagram/Twitter) With each day, new witnesses take the stand and take sides in the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard defamation trial. So far, Jennifer Grey, Whitney Henriquez, and Rocky Pennington are among others who have testified in the court. Now, the Pirates Of The Caribbean actor’s former agent Tracey Jacobs is making a…

The mystery of what the heart wants, and what it might get in return, is the theme of this humane, sympathetic movie from Mia Hansen-Løve. For all its tendency to soap opera, it has a lovely happy-sad sweetness. The setting is the briskly and urbanely photographed Paris that Hansen-Løve showed us in her second film, Father of My Children from 2009. Just as in that movie, she shows us familiar tourist landmarks without them seeming cliched. And of course, fathers again loom very large.Léa Seydoux plays Sandra, a single…

During a 13-minute montage of Tom Cruise career highlight clips, which was played to a standing ovation at the “Top Gun: Maverick” premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday, one notable person from the mega-star’s personal and professional life was left on the cutting room floor. That was Cruise’s second wife, Nicole Kidman. The acclaimed Oscar-winning actor co-starred with Cruise in three films, was married to him for 11 years, and is the mother of his two oldest children. Cruise and Kidman split in a bitter 2001…

This film, from screenwriter Shane Crowley and co-directors Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, is a tense cine-ballad of guilt and shame. It is set on a remote coastal village in Ireland where there is a precarious living to be made from fishing and oyster farming and the wind’s howling creates an unearthly and doom-laden atmosphere.This is a movie which has some dramatic redundancy and is sometimes submerged too deeply in its own sense of tragic destiny. But it is fiercely acted by its excellent cast, including Emily…

Jesse Eisenberg was Oscar-nominated for his fast-talking turn as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network – a performance that persuaded the world to think of the Facebook supremo as a garrulous, injured soul. He is also the author of accomplished stage plays, short stories and pieces for the New Yorker. Now he makes his feature film debut as a writer-director with a sweet-natured and well acted movie about Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), an insufferable and naive teenage boy in high school, who preens himself on all the followers he…

The Broken News first look is here. Zee5 has unveiled the poster for its Hindi-language adaptation of the British journalism series Press. It marks the streaming platform's first collaboration with BBC Studios India-- the production and distribution arm of the BBC. The first look introduces us to The Broken News cast, headlined by Sonali Bendre, Jaideep Ahlawat, and Shriya Pilgaonkar. The show marks Bendre's debut on subscription-based streaming service, colloquially known as OTT (over-the-top) services. Bendre said that…