‘The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)’ Review: Adam Sandler Is Genuinely Fantastic in…
Noah Baumbach’s dysfunctional family dramedy stars Adam Sandler in his best dramatic role since ‘Punch-Drunk Love’ alongside Dustin Hoffman and Ben Stiller.
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Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and Dustin Hoffman Do a Lot of Running in ‘The Meyerowitz Storie…
We’re all a little bit embarrassed by our parents, especially the parental types who don’t seem to give a hoot about what anyone else thinks of them. That’s pretty much Dustin Hoffman’s Harold Meyerowitz in Noah Baumbach&CloseCurly…
Adam Sandler Plays Piano, Gets Punched by Ben Stiller in ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ Trailer
We live in a world where we get one good Adam Sandler performance for every dumpster truckload of bad Adam Sandler movies. Netflix may be shoveling Sandler original movies at us like coals into a fire – and hey, you’re to blame, America – but they’re also behind the lates…
Cannes Won’t Allow Non-Theatrical Movies in Competition, Starting Next Year
Those of you with an interest in the changing face of theatrical exhibition and film festival bylaws (there are dozens of us!) may have caught wind of some recent meshugas unfolding in France. This year’s main Competition slate at the Cannes Film Festival included two films from online-stream…
Adam Sandler Is Coming to Cannes: Here’s Your First Look at Noah Baumbach’s ‘The Meyerowit…
Adam Sandler’s reign over Netflix is far from over. After the streaming service renewed his movie deal, Netflix bought Noah Baumbach’s upcoming The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), which is set to premiere at this month’s Cannes International Film Festival. Today, we got o…
French Exhibitors Attack Netflix’s Cannes Film Festival Selections
With two high-profile films premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Netflix is hard at work proving to filmmakers and financiers alike that it deserves to be taken seriously as both a commercial and artistic distribution platform. And while fans might be excited to watch Bong Joon-Ho&…
Cannes Film Festival 2017 Lineup Unveiled: Sofia Coppola! Todd Haynes! Bong Joon-ho!
Good morning! Chances are that you’re just getting up and at ’em now, but a few time zones ahead in sunny France, the film industry has had a busy day. This morning saw the official announcement of the Cannes Film Festival’s class of 2017, with the full Competition and Un Certai…
Yet Another Adam Sandler Movie Coming to Netflix, Except This One Will Be Good
Netflix, for all their diverting original series and Bong Joon-ho subsidization, has also been responsible for the introduction of a great evil into the world. I am referring, of course, to their seemingly infinite-picture development deal with chronic Phoner-of-It-In Adam Sandler. Netflix signed Sa…
‘De Palma’ Documentary Trailer Salutes the Life and Works of a Cinematic Master
In the generation of filmmaking greats that came up during the ’60s and ’70s, Brian De Palma can still stand comparison to such film school dropouts and Hollywood rebels as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg. His distinct brand of highly stylized, formally audacious thriller…
Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller Starring in Noah Baumbach’s Next Film
The film, which will reunite Baumbach with his While We’re Young star Ben Stiller as well as Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, and Grace Van Patten, centers on an “estranged New York family coming together in preparation of artist and patriarch Harold’s career retrospective.”…