Why Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is an Underappreciated Modern Classic
With new episodes of Baz Luhrmann’s “The Get Down” about to premiere, we sing the praises of the director’s under-appreciated masterpiece.
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2017 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary
There’s many great docs, but there’s only five Oscar nominees. We pick the frontrunners for the Oscar. (Updated February 22, 2017.)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Netflix and Women: Hot Documentary Titles At The Toronto Film Festival
TIFF programmer Thom Powers takes a tour through this year’s documentary programme, from new talent to awards contenders.
50 Shades of Grey: Oscar Campaign Reformers Keep Rule Changes Vague
Blame Peggy Siegal for the new Academy rule changes designed to curtail excessive wooing of voters with star-studded lavish parties.
Inception
Dom Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: “inception”, the implantation of another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.
J. Edgar
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Shutter Island
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his own troubling visions and by Dr. Cawley.
Revolutionary Road
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Titanic
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
Django Unchained
A slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner.
The Revenant (2015)
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
