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Hello, Dark Winds season 3, and Hello David Bowie! Episode 1, "Ye’iitsoh," on AMC starts similar to last season in a flash forward where we see Joe Leaphorn in another life-and-death predicament. Joe is lying on the ground in a countdown as Space Odyssey plays in the background. He wakes up in a gasp with an arrow in his neck.

It’s unclear if this arrow is laced with something, or punctured Leaphorn in a weak spot. After he pulls the arrow out he calls back at the station to Natalie, but the reception is going in and out. “It’s not enough, send everyone. Now.” Joe exclaims over the radio. Spoilers Ahead.

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Leaphorn crawls with little use of control in the dark desert. Whistling surrounds him as he tries to inch away to safety or freedom. Joe thinks it’s his monster after him because...

Here’s The New Crime Drama That Can Rival Breaking Bad (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Breaking Bad has long reigned as the gold standard of darkly comedic crime dramas for years, but there’s a “hidden gem” that some fans believe gives Vince Gilligan’s masterpiece a run for its money. After over a decade, the Australian series Mr Inbetween has quietly earned critical and audience acclaim. It is praised for its sharp writing, tight direction, and standout performances.

Mr Inbetween: A Perfect Blend Of Crime, Humor & Heart

Described as a gripping mix of action, tension, heart, and humor, Mr Inbetween has drawn inevitable comparisons to Breaking Bad. For those who loved the American classic, this lesser-known Aussie counterpart is a must-watch, with all three seasons available for streaming on Disney Plus.

The show, which premiered in 2018, follows Ray Shoesmith, a hitman entrenched in Sydney’s criminal underworld. But his...

From ‘Severance’ to ‘The Morning Show,’ Apple TV+ is all about big stars and bold storytelling.

The first time I realized Apple TV+ wasn’t messing around was when “The Morning Show” dropped. A series built around Jennifer Aniston - one of the most famous TV actors of all time - and Reese Witherspoon, a full-on movie star? Not bad! That’s what put Apple TV+ on the map, and since then, it’s been rolling out one high-profile drama after another. From mind-bending sci-fi like “Severance” and “Silo” to convincing auteur director Alfonso Cuarón to do his first ever TV show as writer and director for the platform in “Disclaimer,” Apple TV+ has carved out a niche as the streamer for prestige, high-concept storytelling with A-list talent. If you want TV shows that feel like event television, Apple TV+ is the place.

Check out the best prestige, high-concept dramas...

Exclusive: Lucy Punch (Amandaland) has been cast as a series regular in AMC and AMC+’s untitled Jonathan Glatzer Silicon Valley drama headlined by Billy Magnussen. Also added as a series regular is Everett Blunck.

The series, produced by AMC Studios, is set within the delusion bubble of Silicon Valley. The story follows an ethically compromised tech CEO (Magnussen) who is outrunning reputational damage as he tries to rescue his company from the brink of failure by any means necessary. Dragged into his chaos are his family, his kid’s elite prep school, an assortment of Sv power players and his psychiatrist (Sarah Goldberg).

Punch will play tech CEO’s wife who is having a retaliatory affair after her own husband’s infidelity. Blunck will play a high school student who moves to Silicon Valley to stay with his mom and stepdad.

In addition to Magnussen and Goldberg, they join fellow series regulars Meaghan Rath,...

There have already been a few cinematic looks at the famed 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue that saved 12 young Thai soccer players and their coach. First, “Free Solo” Oscar winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin helmed National Geographic documentary “The Rescue.” Then, Ron Howard directed the 2022 biographical drama “Thirteen Lives,” starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton.

Now, another documentary about what happened to one of the heroes after the media storm of 2018 enters the fray.

“Deeper,” which will premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival in the Documentary Spotlight section, centers on anesthetist Dr. Richard Harris, whose technique was key to extracting the stranded teen soccer players one by one. (Harris was portrayed by Joel Edgerton in “Thirteen Lives.”)

Jennifer Peedom writes and directs the documentary, with Alex Barry co-directing. “Deeper” is produced by Blayke Hoffman. Subject Harris executive produces the film and is credited as the underwater...

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This March, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated streaming release of Wicked to Amanda Seyfried‘s crime drama series Long Bright River. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have an 84% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in March 2025 with an 84% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Hurt Locker (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Credit – Summit Entertainment

The Hurt Locker is a war action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by Mark Boal. The 2008 film is set during the Iraq War, and it follows a bomb disposal team training under Sergeant William James, whose intense training methods and ideologies force the team to revolt against him.

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Altered Carbon is a cyberpunk sci-fi thriller series created by Laeta Kalogridis. Based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the Netflix series follows Takeshi Kovacs, one of the last surviving members of the Interstellar Warriors who wakes up 300 years into the future in a new body. He soon discovers that he was woken up to solve the murder of a wealthy man. Altered Carbon stars Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Anthony Mackie, Martha Higareda, Chris Conner, Dichen Lachman, and Atoh Essandoh. So, if you loved the inventive concept, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Altered Carbon, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Westworld is a sci-fi Western thriller drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Based on the 1973 film of the same name by Michael Crichton,...

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The Gorge is a sci-fi horror action film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay by Zach Dean. The Apple TV+ film follows Levi Kane and Drasa, two elite snipers who are assigned to protect the guard towers on opposite sides of a massive gorge. They soon develop feelings for each other, but their love story is threatened by what’s inside the gorge. The Gorge stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, and Sope Dirisu. So, if you loved the fun action sequences, wild creature designs, and entertaining characters, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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The Maze Runner is a dystopian sci-fi action film directed by Wes Ball from a screenplay co-written by Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, and T.S. Nowlin. Based...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “East of Wall,” a critically acclaimed look at a marginalized, neglected corner of the American West that marks the feature debut of writer and director Kate Beecroft. The film was inspired by real people, with Beecroft convincing Tabatha and Porshia Zimiga, ranchers from the Badlands, to play versions of themselves. “East of Wall” won the Audience Award at Sundance in the Next category.

Variety‘s Peter Debruge praised the film as an “artful debut” and compared it to Chloé Zhao’s “The Rider,” which Sony Pictures Classics also distributed. Other critics agreed with The Austin Chronicle writing, “As a first-time feature filmmaker, Beecroft’s storytelling technique could stand greater development, but her sense of place and mood is spot-on. Her film will definitely make you want to scrape the mud off your boots before you leave the theatre.”

Tabatha Zimiga stars as a horse trainer who,...

Oscar-nominated Sing Sing filmmaking duo Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley have been a partnership for as long as they’ve been making features. Back in 2016, their first film Transpecos, about border agents in the desert, cemented their like-minded connection, as they found they each approached narrative storytelling with the journalistic outlook of a documentarian.

Kwedar and Bentley regularly trade roles with each other, too. For Transpecos, Kwedar directed, then on their second feature, Jockey, Bentley took the helm. Kwedar directed Sing Sing, and now, for their next project, the Joel Edgerton-starrer Train Dreams, which recently debuted at Sundance, Bentley directs—such is the equal balance of their working relationship. And that true egalitarianism extends across their whole filmmaking process, through all the cast and crew, as they have equal-pay-and equity-for-all on their films Jockey and Sing Sing, now they plan to support other artists to make films this way...

Dark Matter Season 2 kicked off production with a new set photo, showing work on the series has yet again begun. 

The Apple TV+ sci-fi series based on Balke Crouch's novel of the same name aired its first season in May 2024, earning critical praise for its mind-bending multiversal plot and edge-of-the-seat stakes. 

Despite the first season adapting all of Crouch's Dark Matter, Season 2 was greenlit, picking up this brainy science fiction story starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. 

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Independent films – especially ones made and acquired for movie theaters – need all the wins they can get these days, and “slow and steady” is the mantra emerging after a sleepy Sundance Film Festival.

While opening weekend of the January event is typically filled with buzzy stars and late-night bidding wars, this year was marked by unusual silence and reflection as the 41-year-old festival prepares to leave its longtime home in Park City, Utah. But the deals have been coming, the price tags make sense for respective buyers and there’s hope brimming up inside art house circles.

The first and biggest splash was the $17 million check Neon wrote for “Together,” a wild body horror romp about a codependent couple played by real life spouses Alison Brie and Dave Franco. This was powered by stellar audience reception on the ground, and the box office and awards reception currently surrounding “The Substance” didn’t hurt,...

In this week’s episode of “Screen Talk,” we take a look at the slow Sundance market as well as the new shape of the Oscar race post-Karla Sofía Gascón’s implosion.

There were a few competitive buys at the tail end of this year’s Sundance: Neon bought horror flick “Together,” Netflix acquired period Denis Johnson adaptation “Train Dreams,” Janus and Sideshow bought art film “Peter Hujar’s Day,” and A24 bought breakout Eva Victor’s “Sorry Baby.”

But so far, no one has picked up Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” which awkwardly tries to meld a Kander & Ebb Broadway musical with a prison romance. If a distributor positioned it well, there might be some action for star Jennifer Lopez as a legacy prize, as well as breakout Tonatiuh.

Netflix is making an Oscar play with Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams,” starring Joel Edgerton. And “Sorry...

Riding momentum from its five Academy Award nominations for “The Substance,” boutique movie distributor Mubi has picked up another buzzy indie film for the U.S. market.

“Lurker,” a tense feature about an ambitious hipster and the rising pop star he exploits for fame and community, has been snapped up by Mubi following this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Screening in the fest’s premiere section, Mubi took “Lurker,” written and directed by Alex Russell, in a competitive situation for a mid-seven-figure price tag.

Exact numbers weren’t disclosed but one person with knowledge of the deal told Variety that the sale represents a significant domestic theatrical release commitment from Mubi. The indie distributor previously released “The Substance” and “Decision to Leave.”

Rising star Théodore Pellerin plays Matty, a lowly clerk at a high-end sneaker and apparel store in Los Angeles. When his favorite singer (Archie Madekwe of “Saltburn”) saunters in,...

“The Perfect Neighbor,” a documentary that examines Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws and gun regulations, is in final negotiations to sell to Netflix after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. The price tag is roughly $5 million, although the deal hasn’t been signed.

Netflix declined to comment.

The film, which debuted to critical praise, uses police bodycam footage to tell the story of how a neighborhood dispute slowly escalated into a shocking act of violence. It follows a tragedy that captivated national attention, one in which a woman named Ajike “Aj” Shantrell Owens was shot and killed by her neighbor, Susan Lorincz, after Lorincz kept complaining about children playing near her apartment.

So far, it’s been a glacial market, with only a handful of films landing distribution out of Sundance. Netflix has been the most prolific buyer, also nabbing rights to “Train Dreams,” an acclaimed drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.

Nicolas Cage played Ghost Rider in two disappointing Sony Pictures movies. When the sequel bombed, the rights to the character reverted to Marvel Studios and that's where he's remained ever since. 

As we write this, rumours are swirling about the Spirit of Vengeance appearing in Avengers: Doomsday and/or Spider-Man 4. There's also been chatter of a solo movie or TV series, suggesting there are finally firm plans for the anti-hero after Robbie Reyes' brief stint in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

In this feature, we've selected six actors we think would be a good pick to bring Johnny Blaze to life on screen in the MCU. Hopefully, you'll find these names a refreshing change of pace from the usual suspects who crop up online. 

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6. Paul Mescal

After impressing as Gladiator II's lead last year, a superhero movie...

Sundance is a place for discovery, where new stars are minted because of the fresh, invigorating images they bring to the screen. It was where Steven Soderbergh helped kick off the indie film revolution in 1989 with “sex, lies, and videotape” and Quentin Tarantino launched “Reservoir Dogs” in 1992. They showed that, at Sundance, if you have something to say, you can have a seat at the table.

This year, that daring new voice belongs to Eva Victor, whose comedic character study “Sorry, Baby,” about a young professor reeling from a trauma, sold to A24 for $8 million. “Sorry, Baby” also has the distinction of placing first in many of the categories in IndieWire’s 2025 Sundance Critics Survey, including Best Performance (for Victor herself), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best First Film, and Best Film itself.

Though “Sorry, Baby” was the undeniable favorite across the board at Sundance 2025, our critics survey shared the love...

Lionsgate has release the first trailer for “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” Trey Edward Shults’ upcoming feature starring The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. The film is set to release on May 16.

“Hurry Up Tomorrow” is a suspense thriller that features music from The Weeknd, whose new album of the same name releases on Jan. 24. The album is the conclusion to the musical trilogy of The Weeknd’s “After Hours” and “Dawn FM.”

Shults serves as co-writer for the script alongside The Weeknd and his producing partner Reza Fahim. The plot is based on an original idea from the musician. The Weeknd, Fahim, Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss serve as producers while Ortega and Shults are executive producers.

Shults’ most recent feature was the 2019 film “Waves,” a family drama starring Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Taylor Russell, Sterling K. Brown, Lucas Hedges, Alexa Demie and Renée Elise Goldsberry. He’s also directed the...

This year’s edition of the Sundance Film Festival felt a touch bittersweet to me. You see, Sundance is on the verge of relocating, with it increasingly unlikely that it will continue in Park City past the 2026 festival edition. Having been going to Sundance since 2010 (where does the time go), I must admit I felt a little sad sitting in some of the classic Sundance spots this year, like the Holiday Village Cinemas (where all the press screenings are) and the classic Eccles theatre, as after next year that might be the end of their run as premium Sundance spots. I’ve seen so many classics in these theatres, and it will be a shame to bid adieu to Park City.

Oh well, at least we have the 2026 edition to look forward to. As it is, the 2025 edition turned out to be the best edition of the festival since it was rocked by the pandemic.

As Sundance 2025 gave us the weekend to continue watching films online after announcing its prizewinners, I took the opportunity to cram in some last-minute movies to my festival deep dive. Though many of the films covered in my dispatches from this year were middle-of-the-road, there was always the chance that...

A24 has acquired the rights to “Sorry, Baby,” a darkly comedic drama written, directed by and starring Eva Victor that premiered at Sundance this past week. The deal is reported to be for $8 million.

The short logline for the film about a college professor trying to move forward with her life after being sexually assaulted reads: “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.” Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges also star in the film, with Barry Jenkins as producer.

“Sorry, Baby” is the third film from Sundance to get an acquisition in what has been a very sluggish market at Park City. The other deals that have been made so far have been for the body horror film “Together,” which was acquired by Neon for $10 million, and the drama “Train Dreams” starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, which was acquired by Netflix.

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A24 is closing on acquiring worldwide rights to “Sorry, Baby,” one of the buzzier movies to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The movie sparked a days-long bidding war with Neon and Mubi among the independent studios in the mix. Sources say the price tag is near the $8 million mark.

As the logline for “Sorry, Baby” teases: “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.” Comedian Eva Victor wrote, directed and stars in the film, about a college professor who is recovering from sexual assault. Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges co-star in “Sorry, Baby,” which was produced by “Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins. The movie premiered on Monday night at the Eccles Theatre, where the audience in Park City embraced the poignant drama with a standing ovation.

In Variety’s review, chief film critic Peter Debruge described the movie as a “disarmingly funny,...

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Plot: A contented logger (Joel Edgerton), plying his trade in the early days of the twentieth century, finds his life marked by tragedy as he witnesses the birth of a changing world.

Review: Despite going into the Sundance Film Festival with only a modest amount of buzz, Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams wound up earning one of the splashiest deals of the festival. Netflix shelled out a massive $16 million for the rights to this elegant slice of early twentieth-century Americana, which could be an awards contender if given the proper build-up. It features one of star Joel Edgerton’s best performances and marks the arrival of director Clint Bentley as a significant talent.

Bentley’s previous film, Jockey, was an art-house success, and he recently earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay to Sing Sing. Train Dreams feels like the movie that will put him...

In Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams,” viewers explore the raw landscapes of early 20th century Pacific Northwest, where chainsaws cut through ancient forests. The film follows Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger molded by a stark environment of harsh beauty. Adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella, the narrative reveals life’s complex emotional terrain during an era when logging defined national growth.

Grainier, orphaned early, navigates labor’s brutal challenges while searching for moments of human connection. His relationship with Gladys (Felicity Jones) briefly illuminates the logging world with tender warmth. Tragedy strikes swiftly, with loss and grief mirroring nature’s unpredictable force. A disturbing scene depicting a Chinese laborer violently ejected from a bridge exposes the period’s deeply entrenched racial violence.

The film explores human resilience against a backdrop of societal transformation. Robert’s path reflects a deeper story of personal struggle and cultural reckoning, where each fallen...

Hot off their Academy Award nomination for Adapted Screenplay for Sing Sing, writing duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar are already premiering their next film, Train Dreams, this time with Bentley in the director’s chair. Although this literary film has some astounding visuals and impressive performances, it lacks the emotional resonance that one expects from the duo.

Train Dreams Review

Train Dreams is adapted from the novella of the same name by Denis Johnson, following a logger who works for the railroad as he drifts through life, experiencing love, loss, and progress. Although the novella was published in the early 2000s, it has the feel of the “Great American Novel” — a character-driven approach to life in the rustic America of the 20th century. And while Bentley and Kwedar may seem to be the perfect pair to approach such material on paper, it doesn’t quite translate as well as one would hope.

Many Oscar contenders have been dive-bombed over the years, but Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón did herself in: first for complaining about rival Fernanda Torres, then for resurfaced tweets on her now-deleted X account (@karsiagascon). In past posts that went viral this week, she dissed Muslims, George Floyd, and Oscars diversity, among other things. We debate: If Gascón is out of the running, does she bring down her movie as well, which leads the field with 13 nominations?

Ryan Lattanzio is back from Sundance, which Friday announced its awards; he and Anne are both bingeing on the Sundance portal. While some films came in with distribution, the market seems slow. One Midnight entry spawned a bidding war won by Neon for over $16 million, Michael Shanks’ horror flick “Together,” starring husband-and-wife team Alison Brie and Dave Franco, which Ryan enjoyed and believes will hit big at the box office. Neon has...

Awards for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival were handed out on Friday morning, with the Dylan O’Brien-fronted dark comedy “Twinless” taking home the audience award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category. The film, which received a warm response upon its debut at the beginning of the festival, hails from writer/director/co-star James Sweeney and follows two strangers who meet in a twin bereavement support group. O’Brien also won a special jury award for acting for his work in the film.

Writer/director Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category, scoring top honors for a film that started life as a documentary. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent. Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker co-star.

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“There were once passages to the old world,” rues the plaintive narration by Will Patton over an early scene in “Train Dreams.” The early twentieth-century milieu of Clint Bentley’s film is now the old world to its viewers, but there’s no need to lament as the unseen storyteller does. The screen here is a portal that presents an opportunity to return to a bygone era in America—and feel it viscerally and visually.

Continue reading ‘Train Dreams’ Review: A Career-Best Performance From Joel Edgerton Makes A Poetic Slice Of Americana Soar [Sundance] at The Playlist.

This year's awards season is wrapping up, which means it's time to look forward to the films we'll be discussing this time next year. Some of those hopefuls just premiered in Park City during the Sundance festival, which generally provides one of our first glimpses at next year's landscape. If...

Park City – On Sunday, a group of smart, experienced and passionate film lovers gathered at the Sundance Film Festival to confront an issue that has become overwhelmingly obvious: Independent film does not currently have a viable business model.

The producers, financiers, current and former studio chiefs who came together for an off-the-record conversation about solutions to the current crisis agreed on the stakes at hand. There are filmmakers who passionately want to make films. There are sources of financing to get them made (notably wealthy folks). But there is no longer a robust distribution system either of studios or streamers and their downstream partners like home entertainment that are hungry for the kind of offbeat, seat-of-the-pants, high-stakes storytelling that drives the creative energy of the entire entertainment business.

Let’s underscore that last point: The withering of independent film has a knock-on effect — and not a good one — on the entire entertainment ecosystem.

My final dispatch for Sundance 2025 is bolstered by finally having access to a large swath of films from the festival that were only made available for folks covering it remotely on Wednesday. Among those films were most of the U.S. Dramatic Competition lineup. Of that selection, the lovely anthology...

Filmmaker Ridley Scott is known for his opulent commercial films that usually tackle larger-than-life subjects. While most of Scott’s films have been critical or commercial hits, some of them have been absolute duds, including the 2014 biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, based on the story of Prophet Moses from the Bible. However, the film was criticized for its casting choices.

Christian Bale was cast as Moses in Exodus: Gods and Kings (Credit: 20th Century Fox).

After the film’s all-white cast was announced, Scott faced heavy backlash and accusations of white-washing. Scott defended his decision to cast Caucasian actors in the movie over staying true to the ethnic roots of the biblical figures. However, Scott’s explanation was bewildering and rather bizarre. Here is how Ridley Scott defended Exodus: Gods and Kings’ casting choices.

Ridley Scott defended the whitewashing of Exodus: Gods and Kings

Directed by Ridley Scott, Exodus: Gods and Kings...

In the second known deal of a slow Sundance on the acquisitions front, Netflix has picked up the drama Train Dreams starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.

Clint Bentley directed the Premieres entry and co-wrote with Greg Kwedar, the director of Sing Sing, which Bentley co-wrote and produced.

Based on the novella by Denis Johnson, Edgerton plays a grieving day labourer in the American West at the turn of the 20th century who struggles to adjust to a new environment.

Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, and Michael Heimler produced.

Black Bear fully financed Train Dreams and produced with Kamala Films.

There is a moment in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, where a tree gracefully falls to the earth, surrounded by lush green. Particles explode from the impact, the sunlight illuminating these small, insignificant specs. As the frame holds for an extra few seconds, these particles gleam as beautiful as anything else in the image. It’s a powerful exclamation that underlines the larger theme of the film: there are wonders both big and small. Tragedy, too, and who will remember any of it? And, perhaps more importantly, does it matter if anybody does?

Written by Bentley and Greg Kwedar, based on the novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams tells the story of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger living and working in the Pacific Northwest during the early part of the twentieth century. He is husband to Gladys (Felicity Jones) and father to their little baby Katie. They live...

“Train Dreams,” a drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, has been acquired by Netflix out of Sundance. Our own review called it a “patient, profound and painful experience” and compared it to the work of Terrence Malick.

The movie, about a logger who is working on the railroad, was co-written and directed by Clint Bentley. Greg Kwedar co-wrote the screenplay with Bentley and the two co-wrote the Oscar-nominated “Sing Sing.” Kerry Condon, William H. Macy and Clifton Collins Jr. also star.

Black Bear and Kamala Films produced the film with Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler. Edgerton and Kwedar are executive producers with Scott Hinckley and John Friedberg.

The “Train Dreams” deal is one of a precious few that have been made at Sundance 2025, continuing a recent trend of distributors holding back on major bidding wars at the Utah festival amid a time of cost-cutting in the film industry.

Netflix is buying the Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones drama Train Dreams out of the Sundance Film Festival. Sources tell us that the deal is in the high-teen millions. The pic made its debut in the Premieres section of the fest.

Train Dreams is based on the 2011 Denis Johnson novella and directed by Oscar nominee Clint Bentley, who co-adapted the script with Greg Kwedar. It follows Robert Grainer, an average man living in extraordinary times who works as a day laborer in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century. Battered by the death of his family, he struggles to adjust to this new environment.

Deadline first told you about the first deal out of Sundance: Neon’s $15 million global pickup of Michael Shanks’ horror movie Together starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman. Both deals were brokered by WME Independent.

Black Bear and Kamala Films produced Train Dreams with Marissa McMahon,...

“Train Dreams,” a lyrical drama about a logger whose work developing America’s railroad keeps him laboring in isolation, has sold to Netflix. The film earned rave reviews after debuting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, with Variety’s Peter Debruge calling it a “modest monument” and praising it for “creating a record that history somehow missed.”

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones star in “Train Dreams,” which is adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella. Clint Bentley, who oversaw the 2021 Sundance drama “Jockey,” directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar. The two recently collaborated on the Oscar-nominated script for “Sing Sing.” Kerry Condon, William H. Macy and Clifton Collins Jr., who starred in “Jockey,” round out the cast of “Train Dreams.”

“Train Dreams” was fully financed by Black Bear, the production company which also funded “Sing Sing,” so this project extends their relationship with the filmmakers. Black...

Yes he’s about to be Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, but a YouTube series featuring the Hollywood star being grumpy in Scotland is the best thing he’s done for years

In the next few weeks, Harrison Ford will officially join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in Captain America: Brave New World as both the president of the United States and Red Hulk. However, the film is shaping up to be a critical and commercial flop – maybe even the biggest Marvel flop yet – and so it makes sense that Ford would want to quickly move on to his next project.

And now we know what that project is. This week a number of videos appeared on the YouTube channel of the Scottish whisky brand Glenmorangie, taking the form of a semi-fictional six-part series about the adventures of Harrison Ford in Scotland. Joel Edgerton directed the adverts.

“Sing Sing” co-writers Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley almost ignored the 2025 Oscar nominations — and it’s a good thing they didn’t.

The duo, along with John “Divine G” Whitfield and Clarence Maclin, are nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. The feature also received nods in the Best Original Song and Best Actor categories, with Colman Domingo landing his second consecutive Oscar nomination.

Kwedar and Bentley dropped by the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, to discuss their latest feature, “Train Dreams.” But first, IndieWire film editor Ryan Lattanzio wanted to know how it felt to be newly minted Oscar nominees.

“I didn’t want to watch it,” Bentley said of the nominations, which were announced in a livestream by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott. “I was packing to come here [to Sundance], actually, and I was in the closet packing a suitcase, and then my wife turned it on the TV and she’s like,...

Dark Matter was a new sci-fi series that debuted on Apple TV+ in the summer last year. And shortly after its season 1 finale came out, the show got renewed for a second season. Though it ends up being quite a complicated story towards the end, I guess it resonated with many viewers. Since then, there haven't been many updates about the work being done on Dark Matter season 2. Well, now we have one.

Per Screen Rant, lead actor Joel Edgerton shared that filming for Dark Matter season 2 will "start shooting really soon." The series got renewed back in August 2024. So I'm assuming soon means within the next couple of months. When the news outlet spoke to the actor, he was at the Sundance Film Festival promoting his upcoming movie, Train Dreams. That's probably why production on the Apple TV+ series hasn't started yet. That could put the second season at a potential late 2025 release,...

Silo is a dystopian sci-fi series created by Graham Yost (Justified) based on a series of novels by Hugh Howey. The season 2 finale aired on January 17 and fans are eager to find something to fill the void until the third season airs on AppleTV+.

The series is set in a dystopian future and follows a community that resides in an underground silo. The group is ruled by a set of regulations implemented years ago that were believed to be established for their own protection, but everyone has been living like this for so long that the original reasons have been lost. Silo has a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been praised for its worldbuilding, thrilling story, and Rebecca Ferguson's incredible performance as engineer-turned-sheriff Juliette Nichols.

Below is a list of similarly themed shows that Silo fans can enjoy until the next season comes along.

Cooper Carter, Lee Pace...

From surrealist depictions of motherhood to multi-disciplinary music bio-docs, mothers and daughters playing fictionalized versions of themselves to homegrown TV projects, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has featured an electrifying selection, once again proving its importance as one of independent cinema’s greatest forums.

Many of entertainment’s biggest names from around the world made the annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, perhaps for one of the last times they’ll be able to. Celebrating independent film’s biggest week of the year, the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, was there to capture all of the excitement. The teams behind many of the festival’s buzziest projects visited the studio for exclusive interviews conducted by IndieWire editors, and stayed for the fun times shared with peers.

There was Rachel Sennott reuniting with best friend Molly Gordon, and Logan Lerman getting to meet Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch chatting it up with Stephan James,...

The passage of time is somehow both fluid and jagged in Clint Bentley’s soulful film of the Denis Johnson novella, Train Dreams. It flows or ambles or bumps along, passing over moments of joy, shock, discovery, lonesomeness or devastating sadness, but just as often over seemingly mundane experiences that only later reveal their significance when we look back. The cumulative weight of all those moments that make up an ordinary life is the subject of this elegiac macro-miniaturist portrait of an itinerant worker in the early 1900s Pacific Northwest, played by Joel Edgerton in what might be the best work of his career.

Novelistic yet never page-bound, the story is shaped by superb acting and finely etched characters that seem to have been lifted from a long-ago time, with faces right out of a Walker Evans catalogue; by gifted cinematographer Adolpho Veloso’s painterly eye for compositions and calm,...

With a handsome actor like Joel Edgerton, audiences typically find themselves looking at his face, or those ice-blue movie-star eyes. But in “Train Dreams,” I found myself looking at his hands, great big mitts, with thick fingers and knuckles like gnarled roots that don’t get that way on their own. Over the years, I’ve seen more movies than I can count in which pampered actors who’ve never lifted an ax or changed a tire in their lives try to convince us they’ve spent decades in the coal mines. Edgerton feels like the real deal.

In “Train Dreams,” the Australian actor channels the spirit of the men who tamed the American Cascades, chopping down trees and laying track. Somewhere between an elegy and an anthem, this gorgeous, almost-century-spanning film was directed by Clint Bentley, one half of the creative team responsible for “Sing Sing” and “Jockey”. The inspiration hails from a slender,...

A black and cursed cloud, a vector of misfortune, follows Idaho day laborer Robert Grainier in director Clint Bentley’s elegantly crafted and ruminating Denis Johnson adaptation, “Train Dreams.” Beginning with a Pov shot of a cut tree dropping dead to the ground, the camera fixed to where the fir was felled, this 20th-century portrait of the Pacific Northwest weaves much pain and suffering in the life of Grainier, played with a hardened soul by a bearded Joel Edgerton.

Robert goes from day laborer to Spokane railroad logger, perennially tested by a nature that seems to have more control over human destiny than people themselves do. Co-written by Bentley with Greg Kwedar (the primary creative team behind “Sing Sing”), “Train Dreams” thrives on its philosophical inquiries into the earthly randomness of events that make up a life. The effect — amplified by skillful craftsmanship and a fondness for detail in even...

The state of Washington has always been one of the most beautiful, if tragically underutilized, places in the world to shoot a film, but rarely has it looked quite as movingly magnificent as it does in “Train Dreams.” A Western epic of breathtaking visual splendor and formidable lyrical cinematic poetry, it’s a work containing all the wondrous, devastating layers of an entire life, which it explores with a gentle grace without hiding from the agony that comes with it.

It’s not just the best thing director Clint Bentley, who previously directed 2021’s engaging “Jockey,” has done thus far, but it also sees star Joel Edgerton operating on a whole other level as he gives one of his most understated yet spectacular performances in a career never lacking for them.

“Train Dreams” is a patient, profound, and painful experience, bringing all the visual power of a Terrence Malick film...

Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, production or post do you think you’ll view as the most significant and why? I think it would have to be the first scene we shot. We were filming in a beautiful cabin we had built on location in eastern Washington, and Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones were just starting to bring their characters to life. What was scripted as a simple dialogue-free moment naturally grew into a […]

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Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, production or post do you think you’ll view as the most significant and why? I think it would have to be the first scene we shot. We were filming in a beautiful cabin we had built on location in eastern Washington, and Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones were just starting to bring their characters to life. What was scripted as a simple dialogue-free moment naturally grew into a […]

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Train Dreams is the story of a day laborer played by Joel Edgerton as finds love and plays a part in the transformation of the American West. The film, an adaptation of Dennis Johnson’s novella of the same name, is a selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres section. Adolpho Veloso, who also worked with Bentley on 2021’s Jockey, served as the film’s Dp. Below, he discusses the logistical challenges of two fire sequences and his fidelity to naturalism. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of […]

The post “We Often Had to Reimagine Entire Setups”: Dp Adolpho Veloso on Train Dreams first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Train Dreams is the story of a day laborer played by Joel Edgerton as finds love and plays a part in the transformation of the American West. The film, an adaptation of Dennis Johnson’s novella of the same name, is a selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres section. Adolpho Veloso, who also worked with Bentley on 2021’s Jockey, served as the film’s Dp. Below, he discusses the logistical challenges of two fire sequences and his fidelity to naturalism. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of […]

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