Bill Newcott
Film Critic at Saturday Evening Post Magazine
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Travel Writer and Web Producer at National Geographic
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3 days ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Bill Newcott
If it’s a ghost town you’re looking for, there’s none in America more haunted than Texas’s Washington-on-the-Brazos, where even the buildings are ghosts. When Texans talk about The Revolution, there’s an even chance they’re not referring to the spat that involved George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in 1776, but instead the one headlined by Sam Houston and Stephen Austin in 1836. For nearly 190 years, the eyes of Texas have seldom gazed much farther back than the Texas Revolution.
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1 week ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Bill Newcott
The Shrouds⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Rating: R Run Time: 1 hour 59 minutesStars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy PearceWriter/Director: David CronenbergReviewed at the Toronto International Film FestivalOften — too often — art is born of pain. The resulting work can be difficult to look at, and everyone is welcome to turn away. But there’s no telling the artist to ignore their personal agony. It has to be expressed, like a cry…or a howl.
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2 weeks ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Bill Newcott
The Luckiest Man in America ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Rating: RRun Time: 1 hour 30 minutesStars: Paul Walter Hauser, David Straithairn, Walton GogginsCo-writer, Director: Samir OliverosReviewed at the Toronto International Film FestivalIf TV game shows didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent them for the movies, where, in films like Slumdog Millionaire and Quiz Show, everyman combatants immerse themselves in greed, heartbreak, and stubborn determination with all the passion of figures in Greek drama.
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3 weeks ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Bill Newcott
William Tell⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Rating: RRun Time: 2 hours 13 minutesStars: Claes Bang, Ben Kingsley, Jonathan Pryce, Golshifteh FarahaniCo-Writer/Director: Nick HammReviewed at the Toronto International Film FestivalWell, we can’t say “They don’t make sprawling medieval war movies like they used to” anymore.
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4 weeks ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Bill Newcott
The Penguin Lessons ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Rating: PG-13 Run Time: 1 hour 50 minutes Stars: Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Alfonsina Carrocio Writers: Jeff Pope, Tom Michell Director: Peter Cattaneo Reviewed at the Toronto International Film Festival Steve Coogan brings on the warm and fuzzies in this sweet-hearted story about an embittered British teacher who tries to escape his personal misery by signing up at a private Argentine boarding school — only to find himself the reluctant foster parent of a...
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