ZolaBefore the outgrowth of incel culture, the on-screen representation of antisocial, white American males peaked in the early 2000s. With the success of films like 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) and Superbad (2007)and the glut of R-Rated coming of age sex comedies that followed, Hollywood became a lucrative “empathy machine” for the white boys and men who once lurked on the sidelines of the screen. Nerds with hearts of gold were getting laid in the movies and quirky actors like Michael Cera spearheaded the cause. In fact, Hollywood did a pretty good job representing white men of all ages, bodies and personality types dating women who epitomized the contrived beauty standards of a given moment. A few years later, Janicza Bravo also centered the virginal white male in her filmography, but examined their potential menace and perversions. Casting Michael Cera as the scrutinized subject of her dark-comedy shorts Gregory Go Boom (2013) and...
- 7/9/2021
- MUBI
Cinelicious Pics has debuted an official trailer for a super low budget indie drama titled Dark Night, from New York-based director Tim Sutton. The film premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival in the low budget Next category, and is opening in limited theaters this February. It follows a troubled kid planning a mass shooting, loosely based around The Dark Knight Rises shooting a few years ago, even though it's not the same story (turned into a film). Starring Robert Jumper, Anna Rose Hopkins, Karina Macias. I saw this film at Sundance last year and it's definitely not for me: oh so boring, not much of a plot, really not impressive in any way. Of course, that's just my opinion, other critics found more to appreciate. Have a look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Tim Sutton's Dark Night, direct from YouTube: A haunting, artfully understated critique of American gun culture,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. If intentions were synonymous with results then Tim Sutton‘s new film, Dark Night, would be a powerful and important commentary on the issue of gun violence in the United States. There are scenes that hit here, moments and images that burn into the brain with a harrowing and haunting effect, but the film as a whole suffers some from a lack of precision and subtlety both. It’s a summer day in Florida, and while news reports on the radio and TV cover shootings in Louisiana and Colorado, a mix of strangers and friends go about their day. None of them share our knowledge that this might be the last one of their lives. The film opens in media res with a close-up of one young woman, in the dark as brightly colored lights reflect in her watery eyes — lights that could easily be from a film screen are instead...
- 1/28/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Shame Contest Giveaway Sweepstakes. This Shame Blu-ray contest, giveaway, sweepstakes illustrates Shame‘s release on DVD and Blu-ray on April 17, 2012. Shame stars Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Amy Hargreaves, Elizabeth Masucci, Hannah Ware, Nicole Beharie, Lucy Walters, Briana Marin, Anna Rose Hopkins, Alexandra Vino, Charisse Bellante, Jake Richard Siciliano, Alex Manette, and Robert Montano. Shame‘s plot [...]
Continue reading: Contest: Shame (2011) Blu-ray: Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender...
Continue reading: Contest: Shame (2011) Blu-ray: Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender...
- 4/18/2012
- by R.W.
- Film-Book
Shame (2011) Film Review, a movie directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Amy Hargreaves, Elizabeth Masucci, Hannah Ware, Nicole Beharie, Lucy Walters, Briana Marin, Anna Rose Hopkins, Alexandra Vino, Charisse Bellante, Jake Richard Siciliano, Alex Manette, and Robert Montano. Shame relies on the viewer’s intelligence to fill in the past of [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Shame (2011): Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender...
Continue reading: Film Review: Shame (2011): Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender...
- 3/29/2012
- by R.W.
- Film-Book
Shame Trailer. Steve McQueen‘s Shame (2011) international movie trailer stars Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Amy Hargreaves, and Elizabeth Masucci. Shame‘s plot synopsis: “Shame centers around a New Yorker named Brandon (Fassbender) who avoids intimacy but is compulsively addicted to sex. When his troubled younger sister (Mulligan) comes to stay with him in his apartment, he finds his orderly life disrupted by her presence and reminders of their unhappy past.”
I saw a brief clip for this film months ago and instantly became intrigued by the film. Now the international movie trailer has been released and I like what I see and more importantly what I do not see.
More on the film:
Though it is, by all accounts, a powerful character-driven drama, it’s gained some notoriety for reports of its rather explicit portrayals of “male and female full-frontal nudity, graphic depictions of straight/gay/threeway sex,...
I saw a brief clip for this film months ago and instantly became intrigued by the film. Now the international movie trailer has been released and I like what I see and more importantly what I do not see.
More on the film:
Though it is, by all accounts, a powerful character-driven drama, it’s gained some notoriety for reports of its rather explicit portrayals of “male and female full-frontal nudity, graphic depictions of straight/gay/threeway sex,...
- 10/14/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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