‘Fireball’ Film Review: Werner Herzog Looks to the Sky and Brings the Wonder

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Recently launched LA-based genre film fund ACJ Films and Sobini Films are set to finance and produce sci-fi thriller Burst from writer Bobby Smith Jr. (Jason’s Lyric).The project will mark the first investment for the $3M development fund which we announced earlier this summer.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film FestivalNikolaj proposes that they test out a theory from Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, which suggests that man’s blood-alcohol level is actually 0.5% too low, and that a small but steady intake of alcohol during work hours would help people reach peak performance.

Watch Video: David Oyelowo Chose 'The Water Man' as His Directorial Debut Because of His Love for 'The Goonies'Armed with a map and some intel from mortician Jim (Alfred Molina, having a very good time here), Gunner hires Jo (Amiah Miller, “War for the Planet of the Apes”) to be his guide into the woods.

For a movie about a lepidopterist, The Dark Divide is awfully entertaining. (There will now be a brief pause while you look up the word "lepidopterist.") Now that you know the term refers to people who study butterflies and moths, we can continue this review of this film based on nature writer Robert Pyle's book Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide.

An arresting feature debut about a man returning home to a community that has been transformed, Merawi Gerima's Residue is honest enough about its protagonist's emotions and motivations that it's likely to cause discomfort in viewers wherever they fall on the socioeconomic spectrum.

Until his death in 1989 at the age of 74, not even his wife or adoptive children knew that jazz pianist Billy Tipton had been anything other than a cisgender man. According to No Ordinary Man — a new documentary about Tipton’s legacy as a transmasculine icon — the musician became fodder for daytime talk shows and supermarket tabloids shortly after his death, with Oprah Winfrey and her also-rans prying into the marriage between Tipton and his common-law widow Kitty Kelly.

Imagine the Pizzagate guy was the main character in a movie. Then imagine that guy was played by Aaron Eckhart, with Tommy Lee Jones playing his conspiracy theorizing, podcasting accomplice.

Two sisters from a Northern Irish town close to the border with Eire, played by Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, feel the long shadow of both the Troubles and their own troubled past when they're reunited after a long estrangement in British-Irish co-production Wildfire.

There's a heady, hypnotic interlude midway through Steve McQueen's dreamy celebration of Black community and culture, Lovers Rock, when Janet Kay's 1979 hit "Silly Games" plays out on the turntable and is taken up by the people crammed into the suburban London living room where a house party is being held. For a full five minutes they continue singing a cappella — the women in particular — their voices matched by the ecstasy of their swaying bodies.

Also Read: Sofia Coppola, Pedro Almodovar and Orson Welles Doc Added to New York Film Festival LineupWhile there’s always a sense that Walsh is enough of an innate politician to always be aware of Wiseman’s camera without ever acknowledging it – even in more intimate settings, he always talks like someone making sure he can’t be misquoted – he brings a real personal touch to the job, whether he’s relating to those veterans and their need for counseling and outreach by sharing stories of his own

Todd McCarthy Watching Lovers Rock is akin to going to see Romeo and Juliet and only staying through the first act, to departing a basketball game after the first quarter, to sipping the soup and skipping the rest of the meal. A mere wisp of a thing, Steve McQueen’s 68-minute feature, the only fictional section of a five-film anthology called Small Axe about London’s West Indian community between the late 1960s and 1980, steeps you in the atmosphere and music of the latter date.

Todd McCarthy By my reckoning, Werner Herzog became the first feature director to have shot films on all seven continents when he made it to Antarctica in 2009 for Encounters at the End of the World.

Also Read: 'Fireball' Film Review: Werner Herzog Looks to the Sky and Brings the WonderHerzog and Oppenheimer travel to meteorite craters all over the world, from the Caribbean to India to Antarctica, and in each place they wanted to research more than just the terrain.“I wanted to go to an impact crater where we wouldn’t just go to a hole in the ground. We would connect what we were seeing with deep oral traditions about the site, about a star that fell to Earth.

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWerner Herzog and his son, Rudolph Herzog, will partner with Gunpowder & Sky on “Last Exit: Space,” a new documentary examining mankind’s push to colonize space.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe 25th edition of the Busan International Film Festival will shrink by a third and be presented in a hybrid in-person and offline format, due to the challenges posed by the coronavirus.Running with newly announced dates of Oct.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaThey become fast friends, and then lovers.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVKarim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, directors of “The Vow,” HBO’s limited series about NXIVM, never want to hear the organization referred to as only “a sex cult” again.Although NXIVM made major news headlines three years ago, first with a New York Times story about DOS, a group-within-the-group that was collecting embarrassing material on its members (called “collateral”), as well as branding them and in some cases allegedly manipulating them into sexual

As if we don't have enough to worry about, Werner Herzog invites us, in his new documentary, to contemplate the inevitability of planetary devastation by asteroid. Fireball is a wide-ranging survey of the scientific evidence as well as the theories and conjecture concerning rocks of all sizes that fall from space, with emphasis too on the mythology, art and rituals that they've inspired among us earthlings.