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The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some films are tentatively scheduled for big-screen releases while others will be available digitally via video on demand. ‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ Genre: Comedy and animation Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, ...

Anson Mount plays the title character, who gets his assignments from Anthony Hopkins. But he keeps messing things up.

Playing a mysterious ‘Mentor’ to the eponymous assassin, this year’s Best Actor can’t bring a po-faced script to more than momentary life

This gloomy – literally so – thriller is set mostly over the course of one night, starting out with a big wodge of voiceover narration by the film’s unnamed hitman protagonist (Anson Mount), all of it using the second person voice with a cello sawing away in the background. For a minute your hopes are raised that this will be some kind of playful postmodern narrative, along the lines of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Robert...

Verdict: Admirable, but not lovable Heaven knows what ‘Uncle’ Walt Disney would have made of Nomadland, with its story of Americans made refugees in their own country, trying almost literally to consign grief, loss and economic hardship to the rear-view mirror. I raise the rhetorical question (he’d have hated it, of course) because the film, based on a non-fiction book of the same name and anointed Best Picture at last Sunday’s Academy Awards, becomes available from today to watch at ho...

THE VIRTUOSO MOVIE REVIEW Director: Nick Stagliano Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/8/21 Opens: April 30, 2021 Once back in high school when we were sitting around having a bull session, he gave us advise. “The way to attract girls is to be a man of mystery. Don’t reveal too much about yourself. Don’t show much emotion.” This is probably not bad advice, because if you watch the title character (Anson Mount) in “The Virtuoso” as he drives around a rural section of our country, ...

At the movies in Milwaukee: Michael B. Jordans new action movie, post-Oscars films with Anthony Hopkins, Glenn Close Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Nadja Klier/Amazon Studios Michael B. Jordan stars in "Without Remorse." Note: This is updated for the week starting April 30.  You know how you can tell the Academy Awards are really over?   The nominees have new movies sneaking into theaters. Well, two of them, anyway (Glenn Close in “Four Good Days,” Anthony Ho...

The Virtuoso Review: Anson Mount & Anthony Hopkins Cant Save This Dull Crime Thriller The Virtuoso Review: Anson Mount & Anthony Hopkins Cant Save This Dull Crime Thriller The Virtuoso has a meticulous hit man searching for a mysterious target in a small town. Anson Mount leads an esteemed ensemble cast to nowhere in a dull and plodding crime thriller. The Virtuoso has an introspective hit man searching for a mysterious target in a sleepy town. He narrates almost every action as he methodicall...

In the clip, which you can see above, Mounts assassin reports back into his cold-blooded boss and mentor (Hopkins) after his latest job. Hes clearly still haunted by one "loose end" from a past job though: "I keep seeing them burning." Grim. Lance Skundrich/Lionsgate The thriller sees the assassin visit a sleepy country town on a new assignment from his mentor. Hes given a time, a location and a cryptic clue, and left to identify his mysterious foe from several possible targets, including a lo...

Directed by Nick Stagliano. Starring Anson Mount, Abbie Cornish, Anthony Hopkins, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, Diora Baird, Chris Perfetti, and David Morse. A lonesome stranger, secure, nerves of steel, must track down and kill a rogue Hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he’s been given is a time and location where to find his quarry – 5 pm at a rustic diner in the dying town. No name, no description, nothing. When the assassin arrives there are several possible ...