Aaron Rodgers, Jets coach riff on ‘darkness’ after upset loss to Patriots
The New York Jets made some major changes to try to jumpstart a once-promising season that was heading downhill. Robert Saleh was fired as coach after a 2-3 start, interim….
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Nick Frost Stars In Slasher Comedy Riff On ‘Midsommar’ This December
Find Ari Aster‘s 2019 cult horror film “Midsommar” a little too self-serious? Well, director Steffen Haars has a remedy for you: “Get Away,” a slasher comedy about a family who….
TIFF 2024: The Return, Riff Raff, The Friend | Festivals & Awards
With over two hundred films programmed at TIFF, you notice recurring thematic and narrative patterns. For this dispatch of films, Leo Tolstoy’s famed quote from Anna Karenina kept coming to….
Wry Italian Riff on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life
Wry and melancholic, “Nonostante” (or “Feeling Better”) is a ghost story of sorts – one that rather uniquely decentralizes the hereafter. Instead, filmmaker Valerio Mastandrea imagines a very present-tense purgatory,….
Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Himesh Patel Can’t Save An Uninspired Coen-Esque Crime-Comedy Riff
It’s giving Coen Brothers, That’s the immediate vibe of “Greedy People,” a new crime comedy from director Potsy Ponciroli (the revisionist Wester “Old Henry”) and playwright and screenwriter Michael Vukadinovich….
An Uneven Riff on Pasolini
After a world premiere in Tribeca’s international narrative competition, Slovenian director-writer Sonja Prosenc brings her third feature, the social satire “Family Therapy,” to contend in Sarajevo. The filmmaker’s latest provides….