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In Before Sunset and Boyhood) stars as militant abolitionist John Brown, the little-known historical figure credited with instigating the American Civil War. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our exclusive journalism and features today. Subscribe
Ham on Rye is streaming on Mubi. âDo you know what itâs like to be one of the lucky ones?â sings the John Peel-approved Australian outfit Even As We Speak over the opening credits of the baffling and seductive Ham on Rye. This is Blue Eyes Deceiving Me, one of several chiming pop songs (another is Tonight Iâm Gonna Fall in Love by the 1960s girl group The Teardrops) on the soundtrack. These numbers break ecstatically through a dreamy score drawn from the back catalogue of the German New Age composer Deuter, who favours a haunting, elegiac flute.
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in a humorous, dramatic and historical tapestry of antebellum America. Spittle flies. Ethan Hawke's eyes are a cloudy blue, his teeth crooked, his beard prophetically long and more salt than pepper. He is shouting Old Testament scripture in a quavering whiskey growl and pop-quizzing his sons about Bible verses in the thick of a gunfight. Hawke is John Brown, the violent anti-slavery crusader who collaborated with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, famously raided the federal armoury at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and stoked the Civil War. Playin...
Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui There’s the temptation every year to say, “This was a bad year for movies,” which is rarely ever the case. But 2020 certainly flirted with that idea, with the pandemic pushing many studio films to next year and making all other films nearly impossible to watch without a press badge at a film festival. More than anything, it was a weird year for movies, a year where entertainment became a safe haven from the horrors of reality and where we all flocked to films that either comforted us, or numbed us, or dared us to find the awful par...
Hollywood Rewind | Mean Girls: Still pretty ‘fetch’ It is 2020, and Mean Girls (2004) is still relevant. Its quotes are used as comebacks in everyday conversations, the sequences are meme material, and the movie has immense repeat value. Updated: December 27, 2020 12:26:43 pm Mean Girls released in 2004. (Photo: Paramount Pictures) The year was 2004. No one could have then predicted the cult status of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams-starrer Mean Girls. But today, in 2020, the Mark Waters directorial is still relevant. Its quotes are used as comebacks ...