‘Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney co-wrote and stars in the film about a man who has spent his life locked away, watching a TV show created just for him.
Musician Steven Ellison first came to prominence under the moniker Flying Lotus, anointed as the toast of the hip-kid music blogs for his mind-expanding fusion of glitchy electronica and free jazz. He assumed the alias of Captain Murphy in 2012, pivoting from composing into rapping with the instant cult smash mixtape Du∆lity, a dense stew of stoner wordplay and snippets of audio from forgotten B-movies. His encyclopedic knowledge of bizarro cinema has evidently informed his newest career move — the poster for Ellison’s debut feature film Kuso simply reads “A film by Steve,” but the polymath’s latest project looks like anything but a return to basics. It’ll debut at the Sundance Film Festival in the days to come, and with a brief trailer now running online at Deadline, us folks at home can get a taste of the acid tab Ellison’s about to drop on Park City.
Despite being around for more than a century, one of the major failings of cinema as an art-form is that it hasn’t found a way to make an entire film where Cate Blanchett plays every single role. Thankfully, 2017 will bring that horrifying streak to a close with Manifesto, a film adaptation of the Julian Rosefeldt art installation that will feature Blanchett in a total of 13 different roles. The only downside is that we’re going to have a tough time adjusting back to the non-Cate Blanchett characters out there. It all seems like such a waste of time now.
Nobody asked for this movie. But someone was going to make it. I'm just glad it was Matthew Johnson, a young (but not as young as he looks!) Canadian director/co-writer/co-star who has the chutzpah to take on a really difficult subject and the chops to deliver without coming off as crass or exploitative. There are plenty who will refuse to give 'The Dirties' the time of day, and that's somewhat un
Amanda Seyfried appears nude in 'Lovelace' - this we pretty much knew, considering it's a biopic based on the life of legendary adult film star Linda Lovelace. While some audience members at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere were taken aback by the nudity, Seyfried herself didn't think much of it and spoke out about any potential controversy.
The warm smell of colitas will be rising up through the air at this year's Sundance festival, thanks to the scheduled premiere of the new two-hour documentary 'History of the Eagles, Part One.'