Jake Gyllenhaal’s last great film is Nightcrawler. (Spare us with your “what about Man Bites Dog” contradictions; Dan Gilroy’s 2014 film on the extremities of ruin media is great in its own right.) Meanwhile, last year’s Southpaw is weighed down by a completely hosed narrative, and Everest relegates ol’ Jake in the permafrozen background. Not
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‘Demolition’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal must break things apart
Where to even begin? Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the emotional drama Demolition, a film directed by Jean-Marc Valée (Wild). Entirely based on the prior sentence, the trailer for the film (which Fox Searchlight has freshly released) looks spot-on. “Quirky letter taking sudden dark turns? Seems characteristic enough. Much so—and this
A sentimental force of adventure looms in ‘Everest’
“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality,” the exact words from John Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” one of the personal accounts where Universal Pictures’ Everest develops its larger-than-life undertaking. Set in more than twenty nine thousand feet above sea level
Must-Reads of the Week: July 26 – August 1
Now that August has just arrived, it’s time to reveal the essential reads for this week! … The Guardian’s Pamela Hutchinson stand on why a Nosferatu remake is unnecessary: Nosferatu’s influence over cinema is so significant that something as reductive as a remake seems utterly unnecessary. The 1922 film was
Nightcrawler
It is interesting that when Rick (Riz Ahmed) nervily assesses his employer—“your problem is you don’t understand people,” he notes—Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the employer in question, would only feign him a bug-eyed sympathetic look while coating a condescending grin. Rick has not a lick of sense how Bloom, at
