Alison Willmore

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

Tom Hardy plays a dirty cop in the new movie from the director of The Raid, which is all cool elements and no coherence. Havoc takes place in a grimy American metropolis that’s part Chicago, part Detroit, and part Gotham City. This is by design, though I’m also not convinced the production could have aimed for geographic specificity if it wanted to. Havoc may be set in the U.S., but it was shot in Wales, where its writer-director Gareth Evans is from.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Alison Willmore

NowDerricks, who handled the show’s choreography, cast about 20 dancers in each of the series’ Paris and New York companies, a process that began in typical fashion: an open call. In New York, they saw about 1,000 dancers, she says. Then, Derricks opted to receive videos of dancers in companies who …

1 month ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

G20 is a thriller in which a group of terrorists holds several heads of state hostage at the South African hotel where they’ve gathered for the annual Group of 20 summit, using them as leverage to destabilize the world economy — until the American president, played by Viola Davis, saves the day through a combination of dedication and bloodshed. The irony is not the sort that’s possible to miss.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

Rami Malek won his Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody in 2019, and ever since, he’s idled in a series of increasingly unmemorable roles, from the less grizzled of the two detectives in the odd neo-noir The Little Things to a lesser Bond villain in No Time to Die, then onto a nefarious textile heir in Amsterdam and a small appearance as David L. Hill, one of the sprawling assemblage of physicists in Oppenheimer.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore

Newark, New Jersey, doesn’t get showcased onscreen all that often — almost never when compared to New York, which sprawls about ten miles and a whole universe of urban mythology away. But Gazer, a promising indie from Ryan J. Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni, stretches into the city and its surrounding areas like a long-limbed cat.