Mark Forster, who brought us Finding Neverland, Christopher Robin and A Man Called Otto, directed White Bird. The story is from White Bird: A Wonder Story, by the best-selling author of Wonder.
The film follows Julian, played by Bryce Gheisar, who has struggled to belong. It all started when his former school expelled him for his treatment of Auggie Pullman.
Bryce Gheisar as Julian. Photo Credit: Julia Vrabelova
To transform his life, Julian’s grandmother, played by Helen Mirren, finally reveals her story of courage to Julian. During her youth in Nazi-occupied France, a boy shelters her from mortal danger.
Helen Mirren as Grandmère. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
In his grandmother’s story, we find first love in an enchanting, magical world of their creation, while the boy’s mother, played by Gillian Anderson, risks everything to keep her safe.
Gillian Anderson as Vivienne. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Screenwriter Mark Bomback brings R.J. Palacio’s uplifting book to the screen, telling how one act of kindness can live forever.
Orlando Schwerdt as Julien and Ariella Glaser as Sara. Photo Credit: Larry Horricks
James Cameron’s Titanic is a timeless love story. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet look so young. It’s hard to believe the film hit theaters 25 years ago.
Enjoy its re-release in movie theaters this Valentine’s Day.
Jeff Loveness wrote the screenplay and Peyton Reed directed Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania.
The movie stars Paul Rudd, Bill Murray, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton and Evangeline Lilly. They all head to the Quantum Realm. Watch the trailer because it tells more about the story.
Written and directed by award-winner Todd Field, Tár is a psychological drama starring Cate Blanchett as a fictional and celebrated conductor and composer.
The movie introduces Tár at the height of her career, as she’s preparing both a book launch and a much-anticipated live performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks, her life unravels in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power and its impact and durability in today’s society.
Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field’s TÁR, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features
Set in Berlin, Lydia Tár struggles emotionally with life as she prepares for her symphony recording. Her adopted daughter Petra, played by Mila Bogojevic, gives her emotional support as Lydia comes to terms with being a formidable international classical musician.
Todd Field only had Blanchett in mind for this role. “This script was written for one artist, Cate Blanchett. Had she said no, the film would have never seen the light of day. Filmgoers, amateur and otherwise, will not be surprised by this. After all, she is a master supreme.
“Even so, while we were making the picture, the superhuman skill and verisimilitude of Cate was something truly astounding to behold. She raised all boats. The privilege of collaborating with an artist of this caliber is something impossible to adequately describe. In every possible way, this is Cate’s film.”
Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field’s TÁR, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features
“Cate and I started our work together in September 2020,” says Field. “She made two other films while she prepared for TÁR. She’d wrap during the day and call me at night, then put in several more hours of work. She learned to speak German, play the piano —yes that’s Cate playing, every note—and performed the most exhaustive amount of research. She’s a real autodidact, and she accomplished more in a year—again while making two other films—than Lydia Tár herself would have in 25. During production, she didn’t sleep.
“After a day of shooting, she’d go straight to a piano, German, American-dialect, or baton technique/beat pattern lesson. She spent her “day off” on a racetrack mapped out to the precise dimensions as the roundabout at Alexanderplatz to rehearse a scene with Nina Hoss while swerving and braking at 60 miles per hour between eight cars driven by stunt people. There was absolutely nothing we could throw at her that she wouldn’t run with. She set the bar for everyone, and we had to do everything we possibly could just to try to keep up with her.”
Blanchett relished the intellectual charge of Field’s script but connected with the story, first, on an instinctual, human level. “I could see there were many, many layers to peel back as I, along with the audience, discovered who this fascinating enigma Lydia Tár was. Todd has created an utterly unique creature.” Blanchett was also fascinated by the script’s rhythmic musical qualities and Todd’s unique approach to depicting the character.
“I am very language focused, and when I read the script, there were many reference points I simply was not familiar with. I knew I needed to understand them inside and out so that the audience would trust that the character knew exactly what she was talking about at all times. Strangely, the audience does not need to know these references at all, they just need to know that Lydia is a genius.”
“I was riveted by this portrait of a woman unravelling, but I also responded to the script on a rhythmic level through the music. Music is often a key for me as an actor for unlocking a character or the atmosphere to finding a connection to the story. Todd’s film was turbocharged for me in this regard.”
Directed by Ridley Scott, The Last Duel follows a true story about France’s last sanctioned trial by combat. The story originates from Eric Jager’s book of the same title.
In 1386, Jean de Carrouges, a knight, played by Matt Damon, and Jacques Le Gris, a squire, played by Adam Driver came to blows to the death after Marguerite, the knight’s wife, played by Jodie Comer, accuses Le Gris of raping her, which he denies.
Watch the trailer, and you’ll see Affleck playing Count Pierre d’Alencon, donning blond hair.
If Marguerite’s husband dies, she ends up burning at stake for perjury. The winner of the duel ends up as divine providence.
According to the New York Times article, the movie forms into three chapters based on a video interview with the three writers of the movie version, Damon, Affleck and Nicole Holofcener: Carrouges story, Le Gris story and Marguerite story. The men, according to Damon, took fastidious notes while women did not because they had no public respect nor held any kind of power. Holofcener wrote Marguerite’s perspective, made of whole cloth, the book lacked the wife’s perspective.
Based on Frank Herbert’s book and directed by Denis Villeneuve, Dune follows Paul Atreides, played by Timothee Chalamet, who goes on a mythical and emotionally charged journey. Paul is a brilliant young man born into a destiny beyond his comprehension.
He travels to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure his family and people’s future. Malevolent forces explode into conflict over the pant’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s most significant potential. But it is those who can conquer their fear that will survive.
Villeneuve co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. Hans Zimmer composes the music for the science fiction film. The rest of the cast includes Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, Javier Bardem, Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista.
Directed by Todd Robinson, The Last Full Measure tells the true story of William Pitsenbarger, played by Jeremy Irvine, an Air Force medic who saved over sixty men in one of the harshest battles of the Vietnam War.
Offered the chance to escape on the last helicopter out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend the lives of his fellow soldiers.
Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger’s comrade in arms, played by William Hurt, and father, played by Christopher Plummer, seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman, played by Sebastian Stan. Along with other surviving veterans of the battle, they finally procure him The Congressional Medal of Honor he deserved.
The movie also stars Samuel L. Jackson and Ed Harris.
The next four movie clips show you what the comrades in arms had to push through to give this war hero a much-deserved medal of honor.
