Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Welcome to a different kind of science fiction experience! Embark on a journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories and soundscapes, installations and projections, costumes and tapestries, movie miniatures and speculative artefacts. This is In Other Worlds, an immersive experience created by designer, director, and producer Liam Young (Planet City),…

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Diego Luna, ‘Andor’ Star Denise Gough, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Ayoade Lend Their Voices to Liam Young’s Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Diego Luna, ‘Andor’ Star Denise Gough, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Ayoade Lend Their Voices to Liam Young’s Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

A new and star-studded immersive experience at London’s Barbican Centre invites us to explore “imagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities,” and imagine a better one. The voice of Diego Luna (Rogue One, Andor, Y tu mamá también) takes us out of everyday life with a prologue to In Other…

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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Denzel Washington and Spike Lee Reunite in Dazzling Thriller Suffused With Lush New York City Vibes

‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Denzel Washington and Spike Lee Reunite in Dazzling Thriller Suffused With Lush New York City Vibes

A single card credit at the end of Spike Lee’s hugely entertaining crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest reads: “Inspired by the master, Akira Kurosawa.” That tribute feels not in the least like someone paying lip service. Reinterpreting the giant of Japanese cinema’s 1963 classic, High and Low, a tense police procedural with a sharp dissection…

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#Santa Barbara Film Fest: Jeffrey Wright Collects Montecito Award, Says ‘American Fiction’ Helped Him “Rebuild” After Tough Personal Time

#Santa Barbara Film Fest: Jeffrey Wright Collects Montecito Award, Says ‘American Fiction’ Helped Him “Rebuild” After Tough Personal Time

The 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival came to a close on Sunday, but one of its highlights came three days earlier, with the last of the filmmaker tributes that serve as the spine of the fest. On Thursday evening, inside Santa Barbara’s historic 2000-seat Arlington Theatre, veteran stage and screen actor Jeffrey Wright —…

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#Robert Downey Jr., Paul Giamatti and the THR Actor Roundtable – The Hollywood Reporter

#Robert Downey Jr., Paul Giamatti and the THR Actor Roundtable – The Hollywood Reporter

There aren’t many places where one might encounter two Avengers, three chameleons and a hot priest. But that’s precisely who gathered in mid-November for THR’s Actor Roundtable at The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer), Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction), Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Colman Domingo (Rustin) and Andrew…

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#Santa Barbara Film Fest: ‘American Fiction’ Star Jeffrey Wright Set for Montecito Award

#Santa Barbara Film Fest: ‘American Fiction’ Star Jeffrey Wright Set for Montecito Award

Jeffrey Wright, the veteran actor who, for his performance as the lead of Cord Jefferson’s social satire American Fiction, is poised to land the first Oscar nomination of his distinguished career, has been tapped to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival‘s Montecito Award, the fest announced Monday. Wright, 58, will collect the honor following…

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#Bland and forgettable new caped crusader film

#Bland and forgettable new caped crusader film

“#Bland and forgettable new caped crusader film” Gotham City just can’t get its act together. It’s been a hotbed of crime and decrepitude for — what? 83 years now? — And try though Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck and now Robert Pattison might, the metropolis gets worse and…

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