Michael Almereyda

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Eddie Van Halen: Legendary musician passes away from throat cancer at 65

Iconic musician Eddie Van Halen, known for his eponymous band, has passed away from throat cancer at age 65. While not directly connected to the world of movies, Van Halen's signature style was a mainstay of the 1980s including countless...

Posted 5 years ago

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Ethan Hawke is electric in the trailer for Michael Almereyda’s Tesla biopic

Posted 6 years ago

You learned about Nikola Tesla in middle school, but now you'll get to see Ethan Hawke portray one of history's most iconic inventors in a stylish biopic from director Michael Almereyda called TESLA. IFC Films dropped a trailer for the drama-filled...

Peter Sarsgaard pushes sociological boundaries in the Experimenter trailer

Posted 11 years ago

In 1961, Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designed a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people thought they were delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite...

Review: Cymbeline

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: An update of William Shakespeare‘s play involving the patriarch of a biker gang who refuses to allow his daughter to be with a member of his club. REVIEW: Either William Shakespeare had a rare off day when he conceived...

Review: Experimenter (Sundance 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: The true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) who – in the sixties – conducted a landmark behavioral experiment concerned with the willingness of participants to inflict pain on others if told to do so by...

Keep your head while watching the new bullet-filled trailer for Anarchy

Posted 11 years ago

There’s a new trailer for the film ANARCHY, which was previously titled Cymbeline. The new trailer turns down the speed a little and cranks up the violence, no complaints. It’s based on William Shakespeare‘s Cymbeline and was written and directed...

New trailer for Cymbeline; a crime and drug filled Shakespeare adaptation

Posted 12 years ago

We have a new CYMBELINE trailer for you tonight, and as we’ve mentioned, if you’re a fan of Sons of Anarchy which is heavily influenced by William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", then you’re likely to enjoy this badass movie. This time, it’s...

Sons of Anarchy meets Shakespeare in the trailer for Cymbeline starring Ed Harris and Ethan Hawke

Posted 12 years ago

Fans of the FX biker series SONS OF ANARCHY are already fully aware that the series is heavily influenced by William Shakespeare‘s HAMLET. While that series deviates from the classic play in some ways, The Bard’s immortal tale is front...

Updated adaptation of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline casts Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich and more!

Posted 13 years ago

We’ve seen quite a few Shakespeare adaptations in the last decade, some being wildly successful (Baz Luhrman’s ROMEO + JULIET) and some barely blipping on the radar (Ralph Fiennes CORIOLANUS). The trend recently continued with Joss Whedon‘s MUCH ADO ABOUT...