With director Joe Mantello’s fantastic adaptation of The Boys in the Band now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Matt Bomer about being part of the production. If you’re not aware, back in 2018, Mantello and his all-openly gay cast including Zachary Quinto, Jim Parsons, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tuck Watkins, Brian Hutchison, and Robin De Jesús, put on a revival of Mart Crowley’s iconic 1968 work, where it played to sold out audiences and went on to win the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. After the …
Roger Deakins? Incredible. Wally Pfister? No question. But when we detail the cinematographers who have defined, redefined, and straight up transformed the invention of our favorite pieces of contemporary cinema, there's one man who's name we must all know. Bill Pope is one of the GOATs working today, period. For over 30 years, the Kentucky-born DP has made fruitful partnerships with some of your favorite directors — Sam Raimi, Edgar Wright, The Wachowskis — while crystallizing, heightening, and pushing not only their trademark styles, but what we expect from movies moving forward. Pope's works are technical powerhouses, achieving …
The Matrix is, by my estimation, one of our most perfect movies ever made, a startling blast of imagination and filmmaking ingenuity that stands the test of time and thensome. Its two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions... have a less sterling reputation. To this day, I will defend a lot about Reloaded, including some exquisite action sequences and fun world-building (Revolutions I simply just do not know what to say). But that might be more than Bill Bope, the trilogy's revolutionary cinematographer, is willing to do. Pope appeared on Roger Deakins' podcast recently, and had …
What would have happened if inclusion and representation were taken more seriously in the Golden Age of Hollywood? While we will never actually know, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan attempt to answer the question in their Netflix limited series, Hollywood, which is like a What If…? comic book about Hollywood in the 1940s. The series takes real people like Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, and Vivien Leigh and combines them with fictionalized aspiring actors and filmmakers who are willing to do whatever it takes to make Hollywood look at every person as equal, no matter their race or sexual orientation. …
Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to the Vatican for another fantastic, fantastical examination of the human side of those in service of the church.
Descending from the heavens in 2016, The Young Pope was one of the most singularly strange things to hit TV over the last decade. When marketing for Paolo Sorrentino's Vatican-set drama first plastered the sinfully attractive Jude Law front-and-center, the internet drove straight down the "hot Pope who fucks" route. But in Law's Pope Pius XIII, Sorrentino delivered the unexpected, a Pope that aggressively did not fuck, but instead plunged the Catholic Church into an age of extreme devotion, idolatry, and conservatism. It was also, as glimpsed through Sorrentino's auteristic lense, very weird. Pius …
The Two Popes is one of the most intriguing films that Netflix has ever put out. We take a look at the best moments from it.
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I don't think I'll ever be able to properly articulate the pervasive, illicit thrills I got watching the official trailer for The New Pope, HBO's upcoming papacy drama that's an extension of previous papacy drama The Young Pope. Like The Young Pope, The New Pope features returning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino and star Jude Law. But this time, they've got a John Malkovich to contend with. And honey: Malkovich has been let off the leash. His John Paul III, the titular new pope, is full of quiet charisma, shocking one-liners (after a reverent photoshoot …
Netflix has released a new The Two Popes trailer. The upcoming dramedy looks at the unlikely friendship between Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins) and Cardinal Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce), who would go on to become Pope Francis. The movie examines how these two men rose through the ranks of the papacy and their relationship to faith, God, and sin. I saw the movie at TIFF and was taken by how funny and charming it was while still examining some weighty topics. I wrote: What makes those conflicts so interesting is that they depend on the divine. Everyone wrestles with his or her …
There's approximately zero things wrong with HBO's latest teaser trailer for The New Pope starring John Malkovich and Jude Law. A follow-up season to The Young Pope from the mind of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, The New Pope promises just as lots of intrigue, iffy definitions of and adherence to the word of God, and so much flashiness from the Vatican's number one resident, the Pope. [caption id="attachment_845561" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via HBO[/caption] This time around, the Pope will be played by Malkovich — and he's something of a wild card. In …
A new teaser trailer for HBO and Sky’s The New Pope delivers more information about John Malkovich’s pontiff, from the lips of the man himself.
I’m fascinated by stories of faith. Belief is central to identity, and we live our lives based on our systems of beliefs. Faith, particularly organized religion, demands a faith that requires adherence to certain rules, requirements, etc. When you get into the Catholic Church, you’re dealing with not only 1.2 billion followers, but also two millennia of doctrine, dogma, history, and conflict that continues to this day. It is an awesome and terrifying responsibility to be the leader of that faith, to stand as “Jesus’ representative here on Earth,” and know that you are only human with …
As buzz grows louder for his new Netflix series The Politician following last week's trailer, Ryan Murphy has started casting his next show for the streamer, and multiple sources have told Collider that Broadway sensation Jeremy Pope has landed the lead role. Murphy took to Instagram back in February to announce that his next series, Hollywood, would "begin principal photography this summer," calling it "a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown." Pope is expected to play a gay, aspiring writer in 1940s Hollywood, and he'll likely be joined by a slew of Murphy regulars, including Darren …
Netflix has released the trailer for The Two Popes. The film is based on the true events that lead to the retirement of Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins) and the ascension of Cardinal Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) to the papacy. Watching this trailer, I’m curious what direction Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour) are taking with the material. There seems to be a concerted effort to display the humanity of these two towering figures and show them as people with self-doubt and modest interests. Sure, they may be the spiritual leaders of 1.2 billion …
Netflix releases The Two Popes trailer for the film about Pope Benedict and Cardinal Bergoglio. Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce headline the cast.
HBO has finally released the first teaser trailer for The New Pope, the "Is it a spinoff? Is it season 2? Is it its own thing?" answer to 2016's The Young Pope directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Jude Law as bad boy Pope Lenny Belardo. I hope y'all like to sweat because the teaser trailer for The New Pope is so steamy and sinfully good you'll need to wipe that brow by the time it's finished. All of the focus in the short teaser (it comes in just shy of two minutes) is on Lenny (…
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