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6 months, 1 week ago

In ‘Hit Man,’ Adria Arjona found the role of a lifetime

LA Times

Adria Arjona went skydiving to get over the heartbreak of missing out on a coveted role. “It’s a little extreme, but it worked,” Arjona, 32, says on the phone days before the crime-fueled romantic comedy “Hit Man” debuted Friday on Netflix. The chemistry is palpable between Madison and Gary in “Hit Man.” “It’s a funny little debate that happens online,” …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Hit Man’ review: A sexy, funny delight

Live Mint

"You only get one first impression," Glen Powell says in Richard Linklater's Hit Man. There's a passage in Everybody Wants Some where Powell's character and the new pitcher sample all the societies on campus—one night they're slamming against punk rockers, the next they're milling with theatre kids. Hit Man isn't a noir and Please U restaurant is far less romantic …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hit Man review: Glen Powell delivers a star-making performance in Richard Linklater's wicked crime caper

Hindustan Times

If Anyone But You gave any indication about what a guy named Glen Powell can do, then let Hit Man be that ultimate answer to settle that once and for all. Glen Powell and Adria Arjona in a still from Hit Man. Powell, who also shares screenwriting credits with Linklater, seems to have a ball in these early scenes where …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hit Man does the impossible: Makes navel-gazing philosophical conversations wildly entertaining

ABC

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? In Hit Man, Powell plays college psychology professor Gary Johnson who moonlights for the New Orleans Police Department as tech support. Hit Man is for the yappers Anyone tricked by the film's action title and synopsis will be sorely disappointed, because Hit Man has Linklater doing what he does best: directing long …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: Charming and disarming, ‘Hit Man’ overcomes its own identity crisis

LA Times

The nature of identity — essential questions of “Who am I?” and “Why am I the way I am?” — is the heady stuff of philosophy seminars and late-night self-realizations. In Richard Linklater’s new film, “Hit Man,” it is also the basis for a breezy comedy-romance crime story. Powell co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater, based on a Texas Monthly article …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Ten years on, Richard Linklater reflects on his revolutionary masterpiece Boyhood: 'I thought: Am I making a mistake?'

BBC

Ten years on, Richard Linklater reflects on his revolutionary masterpiece Boyhood: 'I thought: Am I making a mistake?' Alamy The iconic poster shot of lead Ellar Coltrane, playing Mason, who the film follows from the ages of six to 18 Linklater's finest treatment of this subject is Boyhood, a revolutionary masterpiece that was released 10 years ago, in July 2014. …

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7 months ago

Hit Man: Glen Powell and Adria Arjona’s Netflix movie is a blast.

Slate

Like Richard Linklater’s breakthrough film, Slacker, his 22nd feature Hit Man kicks off with a bit of philosophy. In Hit Man, it’s Glen Powell, Linklater’s onscreen alter ego and offscreen fellow Austinite, who starts the movie on a moment of musing. Hit Man is loosely based on a 2001 Texas Monthly story by writer Skip Hollandsworth, who also wrote the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Nicole Kidman tears up as husband Keith Urban and Meryl Streep lead emotional speeches in her honour as the actress is presented with AFI Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles

Daily Mail

Nicole Kidman became tearful as she was honored by her peers on Saturday night at the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award gala in Los Angeles. Barry Jenkins served his signature style in a grey suit with a matching necktie and a blazer buttoned at the top, unbuttoned at the bottom Efron was dapper in a classic black suit as …

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9 months, 1 week ago

How the ‘Manhunt’ cast prepared to depict Lincoln’s assassination and the Civil War

LA Times

Brandon Flynn, left, Damian O’Hare and Tobias Menzies in “Manhunt,” an Apple TV+ series based on James L. Swanson’s 2006 bestselling book. “I grew up thinking that stuff happens in other countries,” says Beletsky, who has previously written for “Friday Night Lights,” “Parenthood” and “Fargo.” “I wondered why this part of the story has been in the shadows and thought …

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54 years, 11 months ago

God Save Texas: HBO documentary excavates Texas’ dark past—and the hopes for its future.

Slate

They say that you can never go home again, but in truth, it seems harder to ever fully leave. Hometown Prison is part of an omnibus documentary project called God Save Texas, inspired by Lawrence Wright’s book of the same name, which brings three native Texans back to the cities in which they were raised. The three films cover dark …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater and Jesse Eisenberg part of Sundance’s Beyond Film program

The Hindu

The documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the popular song We Are The World, is part of the Beyond Film program at the 40th Sundance Film Festival. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, the roster of Beyond Film speakers has well-known names associated with the films in the festival such as Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Eisenberg, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’, with Glen Powell, sells to Netflix for USD 20M

The Hindu

The Toronto International Film Festival may be over but it’s biggest sale has just gone through. Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, starring Glen Powell, for USD 20 million. Hit Man, which Linklater and Powell co-wrote, stars the Top Gun: Maverick actor as a New Orleans psychology professor who also works undercover posing as a hit man for the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Richard Linklater’s movie ‘Hit Man,’ with Glen Powell, sells to Netflix for $20M

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Toronto International Film Festival may be over but it’s biggest sale has just gone through. Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” starring Glen Powell, for $20 million. “Hit Man,” which Linklater and Powell co-wrote, stars the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor as a New Orleans psychology professor who also works undercover posing as a hit man …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Richard Linklater's movie 'Hit Man,' with Glen Powell, sells to Netflix for $20M

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater's “Hit Man,” starring Glen …

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1 year, 3 months ago

The clean energy super highway has hit a roadblock. Here's why

ABC

When a power giant offered Katherine Myers a $500 gift card, she had no idea she was about to give away unrestricted access to her property for the next four years. AusNet plans to build a high-voltage transmission line, 80 metres high, through the Myers' property, as part of the proposed 190-kilometre Western Renewables Link — one of a slew …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man,’ with a movie-star turn by Glen Powell, is a Toronto festival hit

Associated Press

TORONTO — There’s been no shortage of hit-man movies at film festivals this fall. You could line them up on a rooftop somewhere, each with their sniper rifles aimed out at audiences: David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Michael Keaton’s “Knox Goes Away,” Harmony Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft.” But the one that has most resonated — killed, you might say — has been …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Richard Linklater's 'Hit Man,' with a movie-star turn by Glen Powell, is a Toronto festival hit

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

Hit Man is full of 'humanity and charm'

BBC

Hit Man review: Linklater's latest is full of 'humanity and charm' Brian Roedel Richard Linklater's New Orleans crime yarn starring Glen Powell is "delightful" and "genuinely fun", writes Nicholas Barber from the Venice Film Festival. An opening caption promises a "somewhat true story" inspired by a university lecturer named Gary Johnson, who is played by Linklater's co-writer, Glen Powell. The …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Keeping It Reel in 2023: 99 Films To Add to Your Watchlist for This Year

News 18

Good cinema is always around the corner. The Russian director’s next film is set in America and will be his first English language feature. Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding The English film director follows her acclaimed psychological horror debut Saint Maud with a romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart alongside Jena Malone, Dave Franco, and Ed Harris. Duke Johnson’s The Actor …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Richard Linklater, Glen Powell collaborating for action comedy 'Hitman'

The Hindu

Filmmaker Richard Linklater and actor Glen Powell are teaming up once again for a feature film. Linklater will direct and co-write the film, which is based on a Texas Monthly magazine article by journalist Skip Hollandsworth, reported Variety. The project is based on a 2001 article in Texas Monthly that narrated the fascinating story of hit man Gary Johnson, a …

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2 years, 8 months ago

What makes Richard Linklater a perfect chronicler of time and space: Studying his mastery over coming-of-age genre

Firstpost

When you watch Richard Linklater’s latest Apollo 10 1/2, you are reminded of what made you admire the man behind Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Boyhood, the Before trilogy, and School of Rock: the ability to show personal transition through the prism of time, At one point in adult Stan’s narration about the time and setting of his childhood in ’60s …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Q&A: Richard Linklater on time, nostalgia & ‘Apollo 10 1/2'

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Bike rides, kickball, Jiffy Pop, Jell-O and other well-remembered details crowd Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” an affectionate ode to his own childhood growing up outside Houston in the late 1960s. “It’s never too late to look back on another era and go, Wow, how did we get from there to here?” Linklater …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Review: Linklater charmingly chronicles life in 1969 Houston

Associated Press

The geniuses at NASA accidentally build the lunar module a little too small for an adult in “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.” In Richard Linklater’s first foray into animation since “A Scanner Darkly,” a few fast-talking NASA men recruit an average local elementary school student, Stan, to test it out for them on a top secret mission to the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Hamish Linklater explains 'Midnight Mass' on Netflix ending

LA Times

Warning: This story contains spoilers about the final scenes of “Midnight Mass.” On his first day shooting “Midnight Mass,” Hamish Linklater split his pants. You can make all your best plans but it’s one foot in front of the other with a lot of wind blowing where you probably wish it wasn’t.” In the series, which adds to Flanagan’s growing …

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In ‘Hit Man,’ Adria Arjona found the role of a lifetime

‘Hit Man’ review: A sexy, funny delight

Hit Man review: Glen Powell delivers a star-making performance in Richard Linklater's wicked crime caper

Hit Man does the impossible: Makes navel-gazing philosophical conversations wildly entertaining

Review: Charming and disarming, ‘Hit Man’ overcomes its own identity crisis

Ten years on, Richard Linklater reflects on his revolutionary masterpiece Boyhood: 'I thought: Am I making a mistake?'

Hit Man: Glen Powell and Adria Arjona’s Netflix movie is a blast.

Nicole Kidman tears up as husband Keith Urban and Meryl Streep lead emotional speeches in her honour as the actress is presented with AFI Life Achievement Award in Los Angeles

How the ‘Manhunt’ cast prepared to depict Lincoln’s assassination and the Civil War

God Save Texas: HBO documentary excavates Texas’ dark past—and the hopes for its future.

Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater and Jesse Eisenberg part of Sundance’s Beyond Film program

Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’, with Glen Powell, sells to Netflix for USD 20M

Richard Linklater’s movie ‘Hit Man,’ with Glen Powell, sells to Netflix for $20M

Richard Linklater's movie 'Hit Man,' with Glen Powell, sells to Netflix for $20M

The clean energy super highway has hit a roadblock. Here's why

Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man,’ with a movie-star turn by Glen Powell, is a Toronto festival hit

Richard Linklater's 'Hit Man,' with a movie-star turn by Glen Powell, is a Toronto festival hit

Hit Man is full of 'humanity and charm'

Keeping It Reel in 2023: 99 Films To Add to Your Watchlist for This Year

Richard Linklater, Glen Powell collaborating for action comedy 'Hitman'

What makes Richard Linklater a perfect chronicler of time and space: Studying his mastery over coming-of-age genre

Q&A: Richard Linklater on time, nostalgia & ‘Apollo 10 1/2'

Review: Linklater charmingly chronicles life in 1969 Houston

Hamish Linklater explains 'Midnight Mass' on Netflix ending