Zac Efron went so hard to mold his physique for The Iron Claw that he made Jeremy Allen White wonder whether if he should even bother, since Zac swiftly became the jacked king of the set. However, White wasn’t exactly hurting in the thirst department due to both The Bear and those Calvin Klein photos. […]
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The real enemy the film targets—more so than any of the war’s factions or their real-world inspirations—is polarization. Here again, Garland has laid out his message explicitly. “Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state,” he said at SXSW. “You try one, and if that doesn’t work out, you vote it […]
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Starting with the very first Civil War trailer, Jesse Plemons delivered one of the most chilling lines that set the tone of the film. “What kind of American are you?” Plemons’ soldier character asks Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura’s journalists as they seemingly hit some sort of checkpoint on their travels. The tense […]
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A24‘s big money gamble is paying off. Civil War, the latest film from Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, has a reported $50 million budget. That makes it A24’s most expensive movie ever, besting Beau Is Afraid‘s $35 million budget. The Ari Aster film didn’t do great at the box office (even though it’s […]
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Sometimes the best part about a buzzy and mysterious new movie is not knowing what you’re getting yourself into. Could there be a freak decapitation within the first act of the movie? Maybe! You never know. With Alex Garland’s Civil War, the intensive military imagery might be alarming, but there is more to the story […]
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