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Having debuted here at the London Film Festival two years back, Richard Linklater’s darkly comedic character study finally receives a theatrical release. This gap may have been, in part, down to the distributor, as the film isn’t the easiest to market. It’s a quiet, muted affair with a style of humour worlds away from the [...]
Any new film from William Friedkin is worth your time, and with Killer Joe he has delivered a delicious slice of Southern Fried thriller featuring a standout performance from Matthew McConaughey, ably supported by Emile Hirsch and Juno Temple. Tracy Letts adapted her own novel for the screenplay and Friedkin returns to the shadows of [...]
With the Edinburgh International Film Festival over for another year, it’s time to look back over the ten day event through rose coloured spectacles and assess whether or not the world’s longest continuously running film festival has managed to, under the leadership of a new Artistic Director and a brand new roster of some 121 feature films, make a [...]
The search for anonymous goons with guns starts here. Matthew McConaughey has made an eye-catching statement of intent with his slimy turn in Killer Joe, suggesting he’s more than just a square jaw and a chiselled torso. Until next week, of course, when Magic Mike reaches these shores and his chiselled torso once again takes [...]
Teaming up with writer Tracy Letts of Bug again, The Exorcist and The French Connection director William Friedkin decides to go down the depressingly claustrophobic route of his 2006 film, trapping us with his characters in a seemingly hopeless spiral of existence in Killer Joe. However, there is some depraved glee that this filmmaker takes [...]
Prometheus’ reign at the top of the Box Office chart finally came to an end this week as it drops down to fourth place with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter landing the top spot. The Five Year Engagement also did pretty well going in at three, just behind MIB3 in second place. Stephen Frears’ latest offering [...]
To mark today’s release of Killer Joe, Entertainment One have given us two signed posters by the movie’s legendary director William Friedkin (who directed a little movie called The Exorcist!). Killer Joe has a great cast which includes Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church with fabulous script from Tracy Letts. [...]
Last week, I got to chat with one of the most legendary directors in Hollywood. The man in question is William Friedkin. While he may not be as well known as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron or Robert Zemeckis, if I told you that he’s directed The French Connection and a little horror movie called The [...]
Matthew McConaughey stars as the eponymous Killer Joe in William Friedkin’s crime-thriller, heralded by critics as an unmissable dark and twisted film this year, which sounds perfect to me. It recently landed the notorious NC-17 rating across the Atlantic – a rating potentially damaging to its US box office performance. The film debuted in Venice [...]
Ahead of the festival’s June 20th launch, Chief Executive Ken Hay and Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara today announced the 2012 EIFF’s full selection of shorts, feature films and documentaries from Screen 1 of Edinburgh’s Filmhouse. Eager to comment on the state of contemporary cinema, while both acknowledging its colourful past and attempting to forecast its [...]
Matthew McConaughey’s resurgence in the past few years has been impressive to watch, diversifying his career with the likes of The Lincoln Lawyer last year, and heading in new directions once more this year with Killer Joe, Magic Mike, The Paperboy, and Mud. E1 have sent over the first trailer for the next of those, [...]
Killer Joe will open the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival, artistic director Chris Fujiwara has announced. The noir thriller, directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist), centers on a young man whose life spirals out of control when he hires an unexpectedly charming hit man to kill his own mother for her life insurance policy. In [...]
Matthew McConaughey did a bit of a one-eighty in his career this year, subverting people’s expectations of him with his leading role in the film adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, which was very well received. One of his next films, Killer Joe, could well be more of the same, and this first [...]
Here’s a bunch of new images from yet another film set to play at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s called Killer Joe, is directed by William Friedkin and stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Juno Temple and Gina Gershon. Emile Hirsch plays a desperate Texas debtor who plots to kill his mother, with help [...]
Matthew McConaughey seems to have allowed himself to settle into a rut lately. By-the-numbers rom-coms such as Failure to Launch, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days and The Wedding Planner have all served to blight the memory of some genuinely varied and successful character work in Frailty, Amistad, A Time [...]