Sean Penn stars in Beau Willimon’s new series about the first mission to Mars
The opening scene of The First may be deceiving: you’ve been prepared to a space saga about the exploration of Mars, but you soon realize that …
The First
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Incident in a Ghostland
French director Pascal Laugier returns with another torture-horror film
After hitting french and american theaters in March, Incident in a Ghostland by Pascal Laugier debuts in Italy on December 6. The french director, who upset the audience in 2008 with …
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Disney embraces diversity in its new festive film
When you bring a 1816’s fairy tale to the big screen nowadays, you have to find a way make it relevant. That’s what Disney did with The Nutcracker and the Four Realms…
RFF2018: American Animals
Bart Layton elevates crime drama to thrilling heights
In American Animals’ opening scene, screenwriter and director Bart Layton starts joking with the caption “This is not based on a true story”. Then “not based on” disappears and you suddenly know …
RFF2018: Three Identical Strangers
Tim Wardle brings to Rome Film Festival an entertaining yet shocking documentary about triplets separated at birth
Tim Wardle brings to Rome Film Festival the extraordinary yet disturbing documentary Three Identical Strangers, a CNN Films project which dusts off …
RFF2018: Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back)
Tom Edmunds’ directorial debut is an enjoyable black comedy with a flaw
Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back) is the feature debut film from screenwriter-director Tom Edmunds, a black comedy which had its world premiere at Emden-Norderney Film …
RFF2018: Green Book
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen give fantastic performances in Peter Farrelly’s touching buddy movie
Think about an odd acting couple you might see on the big screen: many names will probably come to your mind except for a duo like …
RFF2018: Boy Erased
Lucas Hedges shines in Joel Edgerton’s solid gay conversion drama
Gay conversion therapy is a sensitive topic to handle but also one of the favorite of this season: after the triumph at Sundance Film Festival of female-driven The Miseducation of …
RFF2018: The Little Drummer Girl
Park Chan-wook makes his TV debut behind the camera directing a John le Carré adaptation
It’s hard to replicate a multiple award-winning series such as The Night Manager, but John le Carré sons, who lead the production company The …
RFF2018: Beautiful Boy
Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet star as father and son in the new addiction drama from belgian director Felix Van Groeningen
After the Oscar nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown and Belgica, director Felix Van Groeningen returns with Beautiful Boy…
