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UPI
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Famous birthdays for June 27: Tobey Maguire, Vera Wang
1 of 4 | Tobey Maguire attends the premiere of "Killers Of The Flower Moon" at the 76th Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in France on May 20, 2023. The actor turns 50 on June 27. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eva Victor does it all in tragicomic character study Sorry, Baby
Sorry, Baby and its central figure, literature student-turned-professor Agnes (played by writer-director Eva Victor), form the lever that pivots around the film's invisible fulcrum, an unseen sexual assault. Broken up into five nonlinear chapters and multiple seasons spent over the course of years in the same New England college town, the memoir-like debut is as delightful as it is momentarily harrowing—that a story about post-traumatic dissociation and recovery is this funny and charming is a minor miracle. Its fragmented literary structure and Victor's captivating lead turn cohere theme, form, and content, melding the elliptical episodes into a canny representation of memory. Victor's script does this by preventing the assault from defining Agnes' life. It's still an event heavy enough to influence the orbit of everything that followed it, and to make that which led up to it seem like an inevitable march towards doom, but life goes one. Keeping with general relativity, though, Agnes' assault alters time and space. Vignettes move faster or slower depending on their proximity to it, and its taint poisons buildings, if not entire towns. This is all done elegantly: Hours leap in a blink, while an unbroken tracking shot captures the kind of absurd little details that calcify into long-term memory. Victor's tics and flinches signal how innocuous items, articles of clothing, or even specific words, can simply be ruined by someone. But, stuck as Agnes may appear to be, living in the same house and teaching at the same institution at which she finished her studies, she's not trying to escape. There's a stubbornness and bravery to her persistence, unspoken but not unappreciated by those around her. This speaks to the depth with which this community is drawn, whether that's in the cozy images of friendship that open the Sorry, Baby—as Agnes' ride-or-die ex-roommate Lydie (Naomi Ackie) cuddles up under light as warm as the pair's chunky-knit blankets and thick socks—the excellent teddy-bear turn by John Carroll Lynch, or the scene-stealing thorn in Agnes' side, her hilariously severe, one-sided departmental rival played by Kelly McCormack. There's a mannered specificity to the writing that not only applies to Agnes (kind of a pain, awkward, wry, silly, and putting Victor's lankiness to great use), but their entire academic bubble. The same lived-in familiarity that sets Ackie and Victor up for success, with their shorthand lingo between besties, has a dark shadow when applied to the professional sphere—one cast by Agnes' mentor Decker (Louis Cancelmi, who played a relentlessly evil murderer in Killers Of The Flower Moon and here finds yet another alluring angle to his sinister good looks), who teaches their crop of grad students and whose entire divorced being is a red flag. Yet this telegraphing doesn't feel false. Some things you can just see a mile away. The imperfect emotions driving Agnes and those around her are just as honest as the bitter, ridiculous aftermath of her assault, both logistical (criminally, professionally, medically) and psychological. Lia Ouyang Rusli's sparsely deployed, piano-driven score offers only brief respites from the film's reality, and Victor, in both excruciating speeches and snappy one-liners, traps you in their script. Their performance, with its realistic patter and rhythm, gives both the melancholy and the riffing an air of ease—even when driven by discomfort or seeming to escape from the mouth of a person who doesn't know how else to communicate. Only occasionally is the script too stiff or overwritten, consciously straining for a gag and undermining its understatements. The best moments of Sorry, Baby, which is most of Sorry, Baby, bloom beneath this subtlety. A low-key shooting style, contained and with a not-quite-depressive sameness where days easily fade into night, allows plenty of space for consideration, for mid-movie mullings of Agnes' fling with her oblivious soft-boy neighbor (Lucas Hedges) or her students' reaction to Lolita. It's a movie that wanders the house, stretches in the sunlight, balances energetic freak-outs with endearing lethargy; Sorry, Baby is cat cinema long before an excellent kitten enters the picture. And like a cat, or a painful old memory that's long scarred over, it's a film that lingers around you in the middle of the night, demanding to be sat with despite the danger of drawing blood, both disruptive and strangely reassuring. Director: Eva Victor Writer: Eva Victor Starring: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack Release Date: June 27, 2025 More from A.V. Club A death-obsessed Britain serves as the bloody spine of 28 Years Later Eva Victor does it all in tragicomic character study Sorry, Baby Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense begins and ends in same day
Digital Trends
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Martin Scorsese says he can no longer watch any movies in theaters
Few directors have spent more time advocating for movies and movie theaters over the course of their careers than Martin Scorsese. In a recent interview with film critic Peter Travers, Scorsese said that he can no longer stand watching movies in theaters, and that includes his own films. 'I asked the maestro why he doesn't see movies in theatres any more and he went all raging bull about audiences who babble on phones during the movie, leave to order snacks and vats of soda, and keep up a noise level loud enough to drown out the actors,' Travers said, per The Guardian. Recommended Videos ''Come on, Marty,' I said, 'we couldn't keep our mouths shut when we were kids,'' Travers said, explaining that he had tried to remind the director that bad behavior in movie theaters isn't new. 'His [Scorsese's] eyes darkened. 'Yeah, maybe,' he conceded, 'but when we talked it was always about the movie and the fun we had chewing over the details.'' Scorsese's stance comes several years after he made related, controversial comments suggesting that the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies were akin to theme park rides. Even as he has continued to make great films, Scorsese has also become one of the leading voices on the state of the American film industry. The director has been working in Hollywood for 50 years now, and has made classics like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas over the course of his careers. His two most recent films, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, were both partnerships with streaming services.
Forbes
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Martin Scorsese Swears Off Theaters Because Of Obnoxious Moviegoers
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 23: Martin Scorsese attends Reel Pieces With Annette Insdorf: Martin ... More Scorsese at The 92nd Street Y, New York on January 23, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by) Director Martin Scorsese is reportedly done with going to see movies in public because of the behavior of audiences in theaters. Scorsese, of course, is the legendary filmmaker behind such film classics as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, Hugo and The Irishman. Scorsese also won his first and only Oscar for Best Director for the 2006 Best Picture Oscar winner The Departed. More recently, Scorsese's 2023 historical crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon was nominated for 10 Oscars but came away from the ceremony empty-handed. In a recent conversation with Peter Travers for The Travers Take, Scorsese told the longtime ABC News and Rolling Stone film critic why he was finished seeing movies in theaters. 'I asked the maestro why he doesn't see movies in theatres anymore and he went all raging bull about audiences who babble on phones during the movie, leave to order snacks and vats of soda, and keep up a noise level loud enough to drown out the actors,' Travers wrote (via The Guardian). Travers noted that he pointed out to Scorsese how 'we couldn't keep our mouths shut when we were kids' when they went to movies, to which he said the filmmaker replied, ''Yeah, maybe,' he conceded, 'but when we talked it was always about the movie and the fun we had chewing over the details.'' NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 05: (L-R) Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro attend the "Casino" 30th ... More Anniversary Screening during the 2025 Tribeca Festivalat at the Beacon Theatre on June 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo byfor Tribeca Festival) While Martin Scorsese voiced what is likely the overwhelming sentiment of people who go to theaters to simply enjoy movies, he's also expressed opinions about cinema culture in the past that have not been as popular. In 2019, Scorsese told Empire Magazine (via Variety) that he 'tried' to watch Marvel movies, but concluded, 'That's not cinema.' 'Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks,' Scorsese told Empire. 'It isn't the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.' Scorsese recently appeared in a cameo role as himself in Apple TV+'s movie business satire The Studio. Among the director's upcoming films is an untitled Hawaii-set crime thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Blunt and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. In addition, Martin Scorese is set to be the subject of an upcoming Apple TV+ docuseries Mr. Scorese, which is being directed by Rebecca Miller.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joe Don Baker Dies: ‘Walking Tall' Star Who Appeared In Three James Bond Films Was 89
Joe Don Baker, the actor who as the real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall carried a big stick to mete out his own Tennessee brand of justice, died May 7, his family has announced. He was 89. A cause of death was not disclosed. More from Deadline 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Samuel French Dies: 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' & 'Fear The Walking Dead' Actor Was 45 Mark Gaines Dies: Longtime Universal Distribution Exec Was 77 Born February 12, 1936, in Groesbeck, Texas, Baker played football for North Texas State College and, upon graduating in 1959, served a two-year stint in the Army before moving to New York City to study acting at the Actor's Studio. He would remain a lifelong member of the famed organization. After some time performing on the New York stage – he appeared on Broadway in 1963's Marathon '33 and, a year later, in Blues for Mister Charlie. He then moved to Los Angeles and launched a TV and film career that included guest appearances on such series as Honey West, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Mission: Impossible, Lancer and The Streets of San Francisco, among many others. Early film roles included small parts in Cool Hand Luke and The Valachi Papers. His signature role came in 1973, when he took up a four-foot-long hickory club as the weapon of choice for Walking Tall's justice-seeking Sheriff Buford Pusser. Critics may have scoffed, but the movie, directed by Phil Karlson, was a hit with audiences caught up in the 1970s vigilante-film craze that included Death Wish, Dirty Harry and even Taxi Driver. Georgia-based rock band Drive-By Truckers dedicated a three-song run on its 2004 album The Dirty South to Pusser and Walking Tall, telling the tell from the other side of the law on 'The Boys From Alabama,' 'Cottonseed' and 'The Buford Stick.' Saying Goodbye: A Video Tribute To The Hollywood & Media Figures We've Lost In 2025 Standing at 6'2″ and with the broad frame of the linebacker he was in college, Baker had a prolific screen career playing tough guys on both sides of the law throughout the 1970s and '80s in such movies as Charley Varrick (1973), Mitchell (1975) and Speedtrap (1977). Comedy roles increasingly made their way to Baker in the 1980s and 1990s, including another police chief role in the 1985 Chevy Chase comedy Fletch and, in 1996, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! Other memorable roles included a baseball player known as The Whammer opposite Robert Redford in The Natural (1984) and, in 1991, a corrupt investigator in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear. He toplined the NBC crime drama Eischied, playing the NYPD's tough chief of detectives who had a soft side for his pet cat. The series debuted in September 1979 but lasted just one season. Baker also appeared in three James Bond films of the 1980s and '90s. He played a bad guy in The Living Daylights (1987) opposite Timothy Dalton as Bond, and a 007 ally CIA agent in the Pierce Brosnan-led GoldenEye (1995) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). After appearing in nearly 60 movies throughout his career, Baker retired in 2012. His marriage in 1969 to Maria Dolores Rivero-Torres ended with divorce in 1980. Baker is survived by extended family in Groesbeck, Texas. A funeral service to honor his life will be held Tuesday in Mission Hills, California. Erik Pedersen contributed to this report. Best of Deadline 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far
