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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Judas and the Black Messiah, Falling, Sundance 2021, Best Polyglot Actors

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Kaluuya is fantastic as Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party in the new film "Judas and the Black Messaiah." This week on Cinephile, Adnan reviews the film along with Viggo Mortensen's directorial debut "Falling" and Ethan Hawke's new book "A Bright Ray of Darkness." He also recaps the best movies from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and takes a virtual tour of Joe Pesci's New Jersey home! And in honor of Viggo Mortensen, the guys give their picks for the 'Mount Rushmore of Polyglot Actors!' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

William O'Neill wrote his own tragedy and Stanfield breads life into it here. A confused,

0:28.3

twisting spirit forever tracked in a hell of its own making. That's definitely a

0:32.4

caretaker of Time magazine talking about Judas and the Black Messiah are feature

0:36.6

review this time here on CineFile. In addition to that, I received a screener

0:40.6

for and watched by the way, Judas and the Black Messiah is available on HBO Max.

0:44.0

Falling, I got the screener sent to me, new film from Vigo Mortensen, not only does

0:48.9

he star in it, he directs it, directural debut, he wrote it, he partly produced it,

0:54.4

and he did the score for it. I don't know how many movies I've ever seen a guy

0:57.7

has done those five things. I've heard of, like Spike Lee, obviously actor, producer,

1:02.5

writer, director, but doing the score as well. It's unbelievable. His new film is

1:06.2

called Falling. It's about a man dealing with his father who is suffering from

1:10.4

dementia. Laura Lennie also came over all the antennae in plays the father. In

1:15.0

addition to that, I just locked myself in the bathroom and read Ethan Hawks'

1:19.8

new book. One of my favorites, me and Claire Atkins. Love him. A bright ray of

1:23.2

darkness. Two hundred and thirty seven pages. His first book in twenty years since Ash

1:27.6

Wednesday. I read all two hundred and thirty seven pages in four days. It's

1:30.8

brilliant. Really funny. Really smart. Also, we've got some social media news. We have a

1:35.1

lot of social media news. Gina Carano fired. That story's crazy. Stanley Kubrick,

1:41.6

film being rediscovered and Sam Rockwell is going to be in it. Bong Junho,

1:45.2

Parasite Follips, John Apatow's new project. Joe Pesci's mentioned. And this is a

1:50.4

real doozy from Joe. A Mount Rushmore, a polyglot slash multilingual actors. This

1:55.7

is an honor of Vigo Mortensen, who incredibly speaks English, Danish, Spanish,

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