‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Get Lost in A24’s Creepy but Underbaked Liminal Horror

‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Get Lost in A24’s Creepy but Underbaked Liminal Horror

Appropriately for a surreal realm comprised of inexplicable angles that stretch across impossible dimensions and seem, as one explorer puts it, cobbled together by “construction workers on acid,” the Backrooms, as a premise, have no precise parameters. You might think of it less as a story than a shared alternate reality, originating as a creepypasta…

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Mark Duplass Defends ‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Amid Speculation About 20-Year-Old Filmmaker’s Role

Mark Duplass Defends ‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Amid Speculation About 20-Year-Old Filmmaker’s Role

Mark Duplass is defending Backrooms director Kane Parsons in light of social media speculation about the 20-year-old filmmaker and YouTuber’s role on the forthcoming horror movie. Hitting theaters Friday from A24, Backrooms stars Duplass alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell in the film about a therapist tracking down a missing patient…

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‘Eleanor the Great’ Review: June Squibb Steadies Scarlett Johansson’s Wobbly Directorial Debut

‘Eleanor the Great’ Review: June Squibb Steadies Scarlett Johansson’s Wobbly Directorial Debut

In her directorial debut Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson tries to shape a portrait of aging, loneliness and grief in America through the misadventures of her eponymous protagonist, played by the reliably funny June Squibb (Thelma). You want Eleanor the Great to succeed because of its charming lead and compelling premise (the screenplay is by…

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#‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Review: Renée Zellweger Shines in Poignant Moments of Closing Chapter Flush With Fan-Service

#‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Review: Renée Zellweger Shines in Poignant Moments of Closing Chapter Flush With Fan-Service

It’s been almost a quarter-century since Renée Zellweger first stepped into the shoes of the wine-guzzling, smoking, babbling, pratfall-prone and terminally awkward title character in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Over the course of four movies, the erstwhile singleton, forever sorting out complicated romantic entanglements and riddled with self-doubt, has become a virtual compendium of tics and mannerisms…

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#Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Winterbottom to Receive Raindance Film Festival’s Icon Awards

#Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Winterbottom to Receive Raindance Film Festival’s Icon Awards

British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and British director Michael Winterbottom will receive this year’s Raindance Icon Awards. Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, The Martian) will be presented with his award at Raindance’s opening gala U.K. premiere of Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo in London, and Winterbottom during Raindance’s jury awards ceremony a week later. Raindance founder Elliot Grove…

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#‘Rob Peace’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor Crafts a Conventional but Stirring True Story of Talent, Struggle and Tragedy

#‘Rob Peace’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor Crafts a Conventional but Stirring True Story of Talent, Struggle and Tragedy

In his feature directorial debut, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Chiwetel Ejiofor crafted a humanizing portrait of a gifted Malawian boy who saves his village from famine by building a DIY windmill. That film — based on the true story of inventor William Kamkwamna — leaned into the conventions of inspirational movies to shape a…

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#Paramount+ drops wild, action-packed ‘Infinite’ trailer

#Paramount+ drops wild, action-packed ‘Infinite’ trailer

“#Paramount+ drops wild, action-packed ‘Infinite’ trailer” Even Tom Cruise would be jealous of these stunts. Paramount+ dropped a wild trailer for the upcoming action film “Infinite,” starring Mark Wahlberg (“Ted”) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”), Friday. The teaser is packed with sword fights, blazing guns, a fight scene atop a sky-high crane and…

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