Joshua Encinias

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Joshua Encinias

Minutes into the the opening of Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, there is a vision: a dying tycoon, Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), sits in a celestial courtroom, flanked by spectral jurors. The charge? A lifetime of moral negligence. This is not the Anderson of The Grand Budapest Hotel or Moonrise Kingdom, but something more metaphysical, more searching. Here, he’s meticulously staged a reckoning with family, death, and faith.

1 week ago | inweekly.net | Joshua Encinias

By Joshua EnciniasSummer movies are back with a little something for everyone. Whether you crave blood-soaked Southern Gothic vampires, high-octane spy thrills or a heartwarming alien misfit, this season’s lineup is stacked with bold originals, reboots and sequels. So grab your popcorn and brace yourself for a wild ride—killer dolls, cosmic rom-coms, rampaging dinosaurs and superheroes both blue and blue-skinned are all vying for your attention.

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Joshua Encinias

“When you’ve made a lot of movies, you develop your own systems for how to go about them,” says Wes Anderson. He’s in Paris, where he lives much of the time, far from Hollywood, giving one of the first interviews about his 13th feature film, The Phoenician Scheme. “Movies are complicated,” he explains. “Sometimes you’re trying to do something difficult very fast, and when you have a group that works together, they find their own way to navigate these missions.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Joshua Encinias

"When you’ve made a lot of movies, you develop your own systems for how to go about them,” says Wes Anderson. He’s in Paris, where he lives much of the time, far from Hollywood, giving one of the first interviews about his 13th feature film, The Phoenician Scheme. “Movies are complicated,” he explains. “Sometimes you’re trying to do something difficult very fast, and when you have a group that works together, they find their own way to navigate these missions.

2 weeks ago | moviemaker.com | Joshua Encinias

Lloyd Lee Choi’s inspiration for Lucky Lu was meeting Brooklyn delivery drivers during the pandemic. He says the movie, debuting today as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors Fortnight, explores their lives beyond being “nameless, faceless men in hefty jackets and beat-up helmets whipping through the streets on their e-bikes.”He acknowledges the temptation to present a fictional story as if it were a documentary, especially when drawing inspiration from real people.