Jake Coyle

1 week ago | argus-press.com | Samuel Petrequin |Jake Coyle

PARIS (AP) — New films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday. Coming off a 2024 edition that produced the Academy Award best-picture winner “Anora,” as well as a number of Oscar contenders in “Emilia Pérez,” “The Substance" and “The Apprentice," the French film festival responded with a 2025 lineup full of big-name auteurs.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Jake Coyle

It’s oddly comforting that a movie can still dial M when it wants to. Smart phones have largely been a bit of a buzzkill for horror films, leading filmmakers to find all kinds of reasons — dead batteries, no service — to strand potential prey. But at least since 1949’s “Sorry, Wrong Number,” phones have also been a reliable conduit for terror capable of reaching into the home, or your pocket.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Jake Coyle

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland ’s “Warfare” is more defined by what it isn’t than what it is. In their Iraq War -set film, there’s never any description of a wider strategy. There are no backstories to the American Navy SEALs whom we follow on an unspectacular mission. There’s not a short monologue about mom’s cooking back home, let alone a speculative word about life after the war. There’s not even a dramatic close-up to be had. “Warfare” aspires to be, simply, just that.

1 week ago | normantranscript.com | Samuel Petrequin |Jake Coyle

Coming off a 2024 edition that produced the Academy Award best-picture winner “Anora,” as well as a number of Oscar contenders in “Emilia Pérez,” “The Substance” and “The Apprentice,” the French film festival responded with a 2025 lineup full of big-name auteurs. kAm%9:6CCJ uCé>2FI[ r2??6D’ 2CE:DE:4 5:C64E@C[ 2??@F?465 E96 D6=64E:@?D :? 2 ?6HD 4@?76C6?46 :?

1 week ago | pressenterpriseonline.com | Jake Coyle

Guts are glorified in effective ‘Warfare’ Published: April 11, 2025 In Ray Mendoza’s and Alex Garland’s “Warfare,” there are no backstories to the American Navy SEALs we follow on a mission. There’s not a short monologue about...