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France 24
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- France 24
'Bring Them Down': Director Christopher Andrews on toxic masculinity and male rage
12:23 Issued on: Modified: Revenge, repression and raw emotion: British director Christopher Andrews' debut feature "Bring Them Down" is a searing exploration of toxic masculinity. Set in rural Ireland, the film follows two feuding farming families, exposing how cycles of violence and emotional suppression shape generations of men. With powerhouse performances from Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, it's a brutal yet deeply human story. The director sits down with Eve Jackson to discuss male rage, vulnerability and how fatherhood changed his view on breaking destructive patterns. Don't miss this thought-provoking conversation.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New movies streaming this weekend: Robert Pattinson's ‘Mickey 17' heads to digital, 'A Complete Unknown' is now on Hulu
There are so many new movies available to stream this weekend, we're adding an extra, sixth recommendation for your viewing pleasure! Mickey 17, just three weeks after debuting in theaters, arrives on digital and on-demand, and a smattering of some of 2024's best films are now streaming on services you're likely already paying for. Missed Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown? It's now on Fire Inside, a terrific underdog boxing movie that transcends its genre, is on MGM+, which offers a free one-week trial. Bring Them Down, a movie you may not have heard of with a cast you definitely have, is on Mubi. Queer, the A24 film that earned Daniel Craig lots of praise, is now on Max, and The Line, a movie about frat life starring some of Hollywood's hottest young stars, makes its way to Hulu. Here's what to know about the movies newly available to stream as of this week and where you can find them. Click on the links below to jump straight to a specific movie: Mickey 17 is South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to his Best Picture-winning Parasite, and it's a classic case of a director cashing in his 'blank check' from Hollywood after a big win at the Oscars. The budget for Parasite was about $11 million, and the budget for Mickey 17 was $118 million. Bong spent a ton of Warner Bros. money to make something that wasn't exactly the most commercially viable product — sure, it's based on a book, but not a widely known bestseller. Based on the 2022 novel Mickey7, Mickey 17 is a science-fiction film set in the year 2054, following a man who joins a space colony as an "Expendable," a disposable worker who gets cloned every time he dies for research purposes. The film is at its best when it leans into the humor regarding these deaths, highlighting Robert Pattinson's Mickey character's buffoonery and the various ways scientists experiment on his character, and at its worst when Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette are chewing scenery as the villains. The movie pivots in the third act to something completely different, aligning itself more with Bong's environmental-message-heavy effort Okja than the rip-roaring excitement of something like Snowpiercer, which balanced its class-conscious satire with thrills in a more compelling fashion. Mickey 17 is unwieldy, but the setup is fun enough, as is watching Pattinson play against himself when Mickey 18 rears his head. Mickey 17is now available to rent or purchase on Prime Video and other video-on-demand platforms. Rent or buy The Fire Inside is a compelling, satisfying coming-of-age drama in the form of an underdog sports movie, anchored by the two terrific lead performances by Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry. What could very easily be a clichéd affair winds up resonating by delving deeper into the characters and their circumstances. The film tells the story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields (Destiny), a boxer from Flint, Mich., who became the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport. But even at the pinnacle of success, Shields has to reckon with the fact that not all dreams are created equal, and the real fight has only just begun. It ultimately reveals itself to be much more than your average underdog boxing movie, although it's initially satisfying in that mode too. There's a subversion of the formula that ultimately takes the movie to another level, deconstructing the narratives we're familiar with from these types of stories and showing the harsh realities that can happen after someone achieves their dreams. The Fire Inside is now streaming on MGM+. Stream on MGM+ A Complete Unknown starts strong, charting the rise of Bob Dylan from the very moment he stepped foot in New York City, hitchhiking there to see the terminally ill Woody Guthrie and play him a song that he wrote in his honor. It's a remarkable and emotional sequence that sets the stage for a biopic that soars any time the songs are the focus. Thankfully, that's pretty often. Timothée Chalamet is as good as you've heard, if not better, and Monica Barbaro stuns as Joan Baez, proving why she earned a surprise Oscar nomination. Despite all the 'he's an enigma!' posturing, it's still hitting the marks you'd expect a biopic to hit, although it's more concerned with Dylan's effect on others around him than his own journey. While presenting the award for Best Original Song at the Oscars in March, Mick Jagger joked that the producers really wanted Bob Dylan to do it, but he didn't accept the invitation. The audience laughed at the anecdote, and fans of the enigmatic Dylan will know it to be true. A Complete Unknown is now streaming on Hulu. Stream on Hulu Bring Them Down may just be the most gripping movie ever made about farming The stakes may seem low from an outside perspective, but it's clear that there are years of rivalry and tension built up here that renders seemingly mundane activities riveting, intense and, ultimately, violent. An Irish shepherding family is thrust into battle on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family and rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ireland. It's a character-focused film that gets at the inherently male urge to not communicate your feelings, among other big ideas. It's incredibly well acted, populated with faces you'll recognize like Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott and Colm Meaney, and it culminates in a shocking, if inevitable, fashion. If a good adult drama is what you seek, Bring Them Down will scratch the itch. Bring Them Down is now streaming on Mubi. Stream on Mubi Queer is the second 2024 film, after Challengers, to be directed by Luca Guadagnino, written by Justin Kuritzkes and scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and that is an incredible feat in itself. It's based on a novella by William S. Burroughs, and much like David Cronenberg's 1991 Naked Lunch, another famous Burroughs adaptation, it blends in details from the author's real life in addition to his prose. In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late 40s (Daniel Craig) leads a solitary life amid a small American expat community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection. It's a movie about longing and desire, a topic oft depicted in film, but the way Guadagnino shoots certain sequences is so visually striking and powerful that it makes yearning and loneliness feel like fresh, exciting ideas. The way a ghostly apparition of Craig acts out what he's too cowardly to do is a breathtaking image — and one of several in the film. It's also a movie about addiction and an unflinching one at that. Queer may get a little too out-there in its third act, but it features a career-best performance from Craig and some of the most beautiful images of the year. It's easy to forgive. Queer is now streaming on Max. Stream on Max The Line is a provocative movie about fraternity culture starring some of Hollywood's hottest young stars. The movie sat on a shelf so long before its eventual release late last year that most of its cast members have since broken out to become huge stars. It stars Alex Wolff, Lewis Pullman, Austin Abrams, Halle Bailey, and Angus Cloud alongside veterans Scoot McNairy and John Malkovich. Tom (Wolff), a passionate brother of his fraternity, is charmed by the promises of high social status and alumni connections that open doors. But as Annabelle (Bailey), a classmate outside his social circle, enters his life, his devotion begins to falter. Once the scheduled hazing of new fraternity members comes to a disturbing head, Tom faces the decision of a lifetime. It's a movie that is very much exploring what drives frat life rather than endorsing it. It's about the institutions that lead to such a culture, how it preys upon the fragile male ego and where the true motivation lies. It may not say anything new about the potential toxicity surrounding Greek life, but it's full of strong performances and gets its point across in compelling ways. The Line is now streaming on Hulu. Stream on Hulu Bonus pick: Mufasa: The Lion King, a movie we highlighted when it hit on-demand last month, is now streaming on Disney+
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Bring Them Down': Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott lead dark, tense and brutal drama
Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott star in Chris Andrews' dark drama Bring Them Down (now in theatres). Set in rural Ireland, the film follows two battling farming families, with tensions escalating to the point of brutal violence. "There's this idea of collective responsibility, of people shepherding the same land, and they look out for one another, but then, they've been doing this for hundreds of years, same families, and they end up with these tiny little beefs that then can escalate and then become generational disputes," Andrews told Yahoo Canada. "So it felt like a really ripe space to find drama and conflict. ... Once you started the war, what does it take to finish the war." The film begins with Michael (Abbott) in a car with his mother, Peggy (Susan Lynch), and his girlfriend, Caroline (Nora-Jane Noone). Michael's mother tells him that she's leaving his father and his reaction was to start speeding, ultimately ending in an accident that killed his mother and injured his girlfriend, leaving Caroline with a scar down her face. Years later, Michael is living with his demanding and ailing father, while Caroline married Gary (Paul Ready), and they have a son Jack (Keoghan). Michael has taken over his family's sheep herding business, having to negotiate land with Gary as the neighbouring farmer. But when Jack reignites old tensions between the families, the violence between them escalates to a terrifying level. Andrews' film feels particularly dark, with the filmmaker putting the audience in a position to sit in the devastation and brutality of the story. "If there's something brutal, I like that to feel brutalized. If it's upsetting, I like it to feel upsetting," the filmmaker said. "You want to take those to an extreme. I feel that's what cinema can do. ... When you come out you feel like, 'That was great and I feel terrible.'" For Keoghan, the actor was attracted to playing a character that had this intense fragility. "It was a breath of fresh air to play a character with innocence and with bravado, and wit, all of these layers that he's confused by," Keoghan said. "And he's figuring himself out, and he's trying to represent his family's name and impress his father." "As an actor, ... I'm always looking for range. I'm always looking to prove people, mainly myself, but to show that I can go from one side to the other." But a core element of Bring Them Down is the relationship between Michael and his father, particularly with Michael keeping the secret of the exact circumstances that led to the car crash that killed his mother. "As a man, that father-son dynamic is always going to be an important story point in anyone's life," Abbott said. "And for these characters specifically, they live together and he's a caretaker, but yet there's this secret that's being held in the movie, but has been held for years between them." "How do you talk to someone you're related to, a loved one, when you're carrying that sort of weight? And the truth is, you don't talk much, or you only talk about the simple things. ... And the beauty of what's not being said is really, I find, quite moving in this movie." Abbott stressed that an actor can't "play trauma," because a traumatic event in someone's life isn't what they're talking about each and every day years later, but for Abbott it's about "instinct" in each scene. "My favourite actors to work with [are] the ones that are present and in the moment," he said. "I don't like to get too caught up in backstory. I just know it and then trust it, and then go from there." Andrews shared that, after losing his father, he was interested in the idea of the impact someone can have when they're not there. "I lost my father when I was quite young and the idea of his presence still being there over me as I grew up, ... I found it kind of amazing," Andrews said. "That somebody who wasn't there ... had this huge influence on who I was and how people saw me." Throughout the film, Andrews plays with a lot of allegorical elements, best exemplified with Michael constantly travelling up and down a mountain, including transporting lost and hurt sheep. Andrews explained that he was working with twisting the parable of the good shepherd, including using perpetual motion in the film to add a propulsive feeling. As Abbott highlighted, there's this repetition that's handled with a beautiful subtly. "I think [Chris Andrews deserves] a lot of credit, because there's so many allegorical things that happen in the movie that I feel like, in other movies I might have seen, really sort of beat you over the head with it," Abbott said, "And it's so subtle, those themes and things that are happening, ... those structures in the which the movie is edited and handled." But one of the most interesting evaluations in Bring Them Down is how Andrews developed the small number of women in the story, and how the toxicity of these men impact their lives. "Growing up, it was being in environments and in communities where men don't speak, they do lots of things side-by-side, and nobody really discusses what they're feeling," Andrews said. "And the women that I grew up around, ... they sort of sit face-to-face much more, and they're able to move around different topics and ... get things out into the open, and have a better sense of themselves and mindfulness." "But on top of that, they were always much more constricted by the environment. It was much more difficult for them to get jobs and ... to educate themselves. ... Peggy is making that decision at quite an older space in her life that she's going to move and take herself out of that community, which is a really big decision and not an easy thing to do. ... And then Caroline has found herself sort of trapped in this space, but the opportunities for her to move are greater." Andrews added that he was interested in exploring the "friction" in Caroline's story, where she could go out and lead a different life, but has made the decision to be a mother and wife at the farm, and is navigating the realities of that world. "She's got to this point in her life where she isn't included. She's excluded," Andrews said. "So she has no identity. She's not allowed to be on the inside, and just how debilitating and cruel that is." "She's also seeing that she's been infected by this sort of male toxicity and this inability to communicate. ... She finds that she's adopting the same kind actions that they have, ... of rage and violence, which, when you have no agency, is quite a default setting to go to, to try and make yourself feel like you have some power and some control over the situation you were in. But it doesn't, it just exacerbates the problem that you have."
The Guardian
09-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Bring Them Down review – Barry Keoghan stars in a bruising Irish tale of rural blood feuds
The grudges and guilt in this corner of rural Ireland are deeply rooted. The men who have farmed this land for generations protect their grievances as fiercely as they do their traditions, in this muscular English- and Irish-language tale of blood feuds and revenge. Michael (American actor Christopher Abbott, who learned to speak Irish for the film), lives in an uneasy amnesty alongside his sour-spirited bully of a father (Colm Meaney) and the nagging reminders of his own youthful mistakes. Sheep farmers, they share the highland grazing area with a neighbouring farm run by hot-headed Gary (Motherland's Paul Ready, unrecognisable and frankly rather terrifying), his reckless son Jack (Barry Keoghan) and Gary's wife, Caroline (Nora-Jane Noone), who happens to be Michael's former lover. It's a tricky coexistence at the best of times, but financial pressures, a pair of stolen rams and a disagreement over a gate ignite the long-simmering tensions. Bring Them Down is an impressive first feature from Christopher Andrews, who won the 2024 Bifa for best debut director – a bruising tale of vengeance accompanied by a savage, percussive score by Hannah Peel that sounds as though it was played on scrap metal and abandoned farm machinery. In UK and Irish cinemas
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Becoming Led Zeppelin's Long Journey To The Big Screen
Led Zeppelin on Imax, Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino and Armand starring Renate Reinsve, both Cannes premieres, and Barry Koeghan in Irish drama Bring Them Down headline an interesting specialty weekend. Sony Pictures Classics debuts Bernard MacMahon's hybrid docu concert film exclusively in Imax at 369 locations this week, opening wide next week on over 1,000 screens. Powered by never-before-seen footage, performances and music, the film is billed as an experiential cinematic odyssey exploring Led Zeppelin's creative, musical, and personal origin story. It's told in Led Zeppelin's own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group. More from Deadline Felicity Jones Talks 'The Brutalist' AI Controversy, Finally Finding "Distinctive" Work With Brady Corbet & Plans For Her F1 Series 'The Brutalist' Wins Film Of The Year At London Film Critics' Circle 'A Complete Unknown' & 'The Brutalist' Hold In Top 10; Documentary 'No Other Land' Sees Solid NYC Debut - Specialty Box Office An early version premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in 2021 as a work in progress to a 10-minute standing ovation. It subsequently incorporated a brand-new sound mix, newly unearthed material from the archives of all four band members (including home movies and family photos), and exclusive interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones, as well as never-before-heard interviews with the late John Bonham. SPC acquired the rights last spring. Co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard were interested in the film for years were in conversation with McMahon even before it played the Lido. 'We felt it was very commercial, that it could become a major film,' says Barker. 'He's a talented filmmaker and it just got better and better.' 'There's something about Led Zeppelin that's up there with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and people are more curious about them,' said co-president Tom Bernard. 'This movie reveals these guys in a way they have never been seen. And they endorsed the movie, which has never happened, and the fan base knows that.' Written by MacMahon and Allison McGourt. Moderate release: Mubi's , the debut feature from writer-director Chris Andrews starring Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Christopher Abbott (Possessor) opens at 450+ theaters. The drama about two warring families set against the harsh landscape of rural west Ireland premiered at TIFF with stops at genre festivals Fantastic Fest (where it won Best Picture) and Beyond Fest. When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael (Abbott) and Jack (Keoghan) suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take an increasingly violent turn leaving both families permanently altered. With Colm Meaney, Paul Ready and Nora-Jane Noone. Limited: A24 opens Paolo Sorrentino's on four screens in New York (Lincoln Square and Angelika) and LA (AMC Grove, Century City), a decades-spanning romance starring Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman. Parthenope (Dalla Porta), born in Bay of Naples in 1950 searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. Premiered at Cannes, see Deadline review. Noting A24's by Brady Corbet has passed the $20- million mark and remains wide at 1,100 locations (down from 1,612). IFC Films' Renata Reinsve-starring , which also premiered at Cannes, Deadline review here, is opening in NY and LA (IFC Center and Laemmle Royal) and expand nationwide on 2/14 and throughout February. Directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel. Reinsve (The Worst Person In The World, A Different Man) is an actress abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours and presented with scathing allegations that trigger a tangled web of accusations between parents and faculty. IFC Films and Josh Sapan's company Sapan Studio acquired it following its Cannes premiere, where it made as the first Norwegian recipient of the Camera d'Or . It also won the sound award Prix de la Meilleure Création Sonere for sound designer Mats Lid Støten and composer Ella van der Woud. Halfdan is currently nominated for a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film – the ceremony is this weekend. Andrew Johnson's from Quiver Distribution and Briarcliff opens in 8 theaters in markets including New York, LA, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Phoenix. fFilmmaker Q&As in NYC at Regal Union Square Friday night, and at the Laemmle Monica in Los Angeles Saturday. Starring Andrew Ortenberg — who also wrote the screenplay and produces — June Schreiner, Thalia Besson, Lauren Cohan, and Dermot Mulroney. Directed by Andrew Johnson, When I'm Ready revolves around a young couple, Rose and Michael, on a road trip across the country during the last days before an extinction event, as asteroids threaten to wipe out all life on earth. While journeying to see the girl's grandmother one last time, they fight to find meaning and adventure in the world's final week. It was filmed in Los Angeles at several dozen locations in less than month on a shoestring budget. 'My elevator pitch for it was, you've seen a million young love stories, and you've seen a million end of the world movies, but you've never really seen a combination of the two,' said Ortenberg. 'I'm a huge fan of the end of the world genre. I love apocalyptic films, but in my view [they are almost] always very backwards facing … [this] is a forward facing end of the world movie that's about how these young kids are about to be robbed of their whole futures. How they cope and respond.' Notable re-release: Neon is re-releasing Bong Joon ho's 2019 Oscar and box office-winning e on 193 Imax screens. The Korean dark comedy about greed and class discrimination in a symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan grossed $53 million domestic ($260 million worldwide). The social satire became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. 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