Joe Utichi

Jun 7, 2024 | deadline.com | Joe Utichi

Debra Granik put stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Thomasin McKenzie on the map with her films Winter’s Bone and Leave No Trace respectively. After Good One premiered in Sundance and then went to Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, there’s a sense that India Donaldson has just done the same thing for Lily Collias.

May 29, 2024 | deadline.com | Joe Utichi

It is three o’clock in the morning at a blackjack table inside Las Vegas’s sprawling Caesar’s Palace casino. A woman in town on business has just turned a $150 bankroll into $800, and she moves to retire to the nearby bar to buy her work family, whose fortunes at the same table have varied, a drink. “I swear I barely know how to play,” she tells them.

May 29, 2024 | flipboard.com | Joe Utichi

entertainment news5 hours agoJean Smart: New heights ahead with 'Hacks'? Los Angeles Times - By Carla Meyers • 5hThe return of “Hacks” sets Jean Smart up for a potential third lead Emmy for portraying complicated comedy legend Deborah Vance. But the HBO series isn’t her first rodeo. Smart has graced TV screens in all sorts of stories.

May 24, 2024 | deadline.com | Joe Utichi

Game, set, and match for Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, and Tudor D. Popescu, who co-direct Nasty, a pleasingly hagiographic portrait of Romanian tennis icon Ilie Năstase. What fun tennis must have been in the 1970s, as it was on the turn from a knockabout sport into the sharp-footed profession it is today. Năstase and his contemporaries brought finesse and genius to the game, but tennis hadn’t yet been fully corrupted by corporate greed and mechanical elite athleticism.

May 19, 2024 | deadline.com | Joe Utichi

It has been seven years since Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki presented CARNE y ARENA at the Cannes Film Festival. In an airport hangar 20 minutes down the coast from the Palais, the pair had created a vast volume with a sand floor as participants strapped into a virtual reality headset and found themselves joining a group of immigrants on their perilous passage from Mexico into the United States.