Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

Pain and trauma permeate Michel Franco's new drama " Memory, " about two lost souls who find surprising comfort in one another. Both Jessica Chastain's Sylvia and Peter Sarsgaard's Saul are hostage to their own minds, though in vastly different ways. Hers haunts her. His is failing rapidly. And...

Friday, Dec. 29, 2023

One cinematographer took on a feature which is now generating Oscar buzz, thus continuing what’s been a fruitful collaborative relationship with writer-director Ava DuVernay

Another DP embraced a return engagement with director George C. Wolfe, also on a movie that’s considered an Academy...

Friday, Dec. 29, 2023

With the guild awards season fast approaching, we can expect as in years past a series of currently Emmy-nominated TV shows, telefilms and limited series to gain recognition as they retain eligibility for the ACE Eddie, Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design, ASC, VES, Golden Reel,...

Friday, Dec. 29, 2023

It’s that time of year--for a new beginning, for New Year’s resolutions, which often aren’t kept, and predictions, which often aren’t accurate. Nonetheless SHOOT called upon a brave cross-section of advertising agency executives, chief creative officers, creative directors, heads of...

Friday, Dec. 22, 2023

Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule's stirring "The Color Purple," adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway production.

Alice Walker 's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel, which Steven Spielberg...

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023

Director George Clooney both begins and ends "The Boys in the Boat " on a sun-dappled lake. It's a seductive sight, calm and soothing, and aptly reflects the ethos of a film that often feels like one has walked into an oil painting: well-crafted, lovely to look at, and rather old-fashioned....

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023

Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh's transcendent drama "All of Us Strangers." His parents' death is not recent – they died when he was 12. Not that one ever really gets over that kind of loss. But we meet Adam at a moment where he is not...

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023

It doesn't take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to "The Iron Claw" as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich. Just one look at the taut mass of muscle and sinew he's become for the role will do the trick.

It's also clear from the get-go how invested writer-...

Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023

Illumination, maker of "Despicable Me," "Sing" and "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," has built its animation empire by mostly staying close to a child-like outlook. Illumination's in-house mascots, the Minions, are basically themselves careening toddlers.

But the studio's latest, "Migration...

Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023

Napoleon Bonaparte. Leonard Bernstein. Willy Wonka. Aquaman — there are a ton of Guy Movie Heroes out there as 2023 ends. And yet up zooms another — in "Ferrari."

Director Michael Mann has put his stylish spotlight on yet one more stoic, brilliant and broken uber-masculine dudes, Enzo...

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