Maxwell Jenkins, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Katie Douglas have jumped on board This Too Shall Pass, a coming-of-age drama from writer-director and indie horror veteran Rob Grant.
The ensemble cast for the pic to start shooting next month in Calgary includes Ben Cockell, Jaylin Webb, Aidan Laprete, Nikki Roumel and Chris Sandiford.
Set in 1987 in Syracuse, New York, This Too Shall Pass follows Simon, a 16 year-old suffocated by his strict Mormon upbringing and rebelling as he leaves town with friends for a weekend in Canada, only to see events further make Simon question his religious and personal beliefs.
“This cast is dynamite, the team behind the scenes are amazing, and I can’t wait to bring the world a different slant on the coming-of-age genre!” Grant said in a statement.
This Too Shall Pass, which has financing from Telefilm Canada, marks the fifth feature film collaboration between Grant — who started...
The ensemble cast for the pic to start shooting next month in Calgary includes Ben Cockell, Jaylin Webb, Aidan Laprete, Nikki Roumel and Chris Sandiford.
Set in 1987 in Syracuse, New York, This Too Shall Pass follows Simon, a 16 year-old suffocated by his strict Mormon upbringing and rebelling as he leaves town with friends for a weekend in Canada, only to see events further make Simon question his religious and personal beliefs.
“This cast is dynamite, the team behind the scenes are amazing, and I can’t wait to bring the world a different slant on the coming-of-age genre!” Grant said in a statement.
This Too Shall Pass, which has financing from Telefilm Canada, marks the fifth feature film collaboration between Grant — who started...
- 5/20/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s a very light weekend for new awards-contending movies on streaming. In fact, it’s been a pretty light week for new movies on streaming in general. Netflix doesn’t have any major movie releases today, and the other streaming services seem to be following suit. If you really want to stream an awards contender this weekend, “Elvis” is still on HBO Max. As people have astutely noted on Twitter, the cut at the end of the movie from Austin Butler as Elvis Presley singing “Unchained Melody” while sitting at a piano strewn with Coke cups to the real Elvis is heartbreaking and energizing and capital-c Cinema of the highest order. The movies below don’t have a moment like that, but they’re all right.
The contender to watch this weekend: “Sharper”
This slick A24-produced psychological heist thriller has some highly decorated names in the cast. Oscar winner Julianne Moore stars,...
The contender to watch this weekend: “Sharper”
This slick A24-produced psychological heist thriller has some highly decorated names in the cast. Oscar winner Julianne Moore stars,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
Based on the director’s childhood, James Gray’s Armageddon Time tells the story of 12-year-old Paul (newcomer Banks Repeta), and how his Jewish family reacts to his friendship with a Black student, Johnny (Jaylin Webb), in early ’80s New York. Both boys share a love of space flight, and their pre-teen dreams take their imaginations light years away from their mundane lives. But the backdrop is a moment of tension, as Ronald Reagan, seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president, stirs up civil unrest in the country. Paul’s father, Irving, played by Succession’s Jeremy Strong, despises Reagan’s dog-whistle provocations and screams at his image when he appears on television. But, he wonders, being from a vulnerable minority himself, is it wise for him to allow his son’s friendship to continue?
Gray was looking for an actor who could imprint his father with an almost Willy Loman-like stamp,...
Gray was looking for an actor who could imprint his father with an almost Willy Loman-like stamp,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer-director James Gray re- created elements of his childhood for Focus Features’ Armageddon Time, set in 1980 Queens. Banks Repeta plays Paul Graff, the onscreen avatar for Gray: an aspiring artist whose rambunctious behavior infuriates his parents (played by Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway) but delights his aging grandfather (Anthony Hopkins). The latter supports young Paul in his creative pursuits and, when Paul admits that his classmates use bad words to describe his Black friend Johnny (Jaylin Webb), orders his grandson to “be a mensch” and stick up for those who are not in a position to defend themselves.
Gray naturally turned to his own family history when crafting this personal tale, poring through photo albums that he says offered “a moment frozen in irretrievable time — both sad and beautiful at the same time.” Armageddon Time is imbued with melancholy and nostalgia, with the wide-eyed Paul experiencing firsthand the privilege he...
Gray naturally turned to his own family history when crafting this personal tale, poring through photo albums that he says offered “a moment frozen in irretrievable time — both sad and beautiful at the same time.” Armageddon Time is imbued with melancholy and nostalgia, with the wide-eyed Paul experiencing firsthand the privilege he...
- 1/12/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
Writer-director James Gray went back to the personal for Armageddon Time, the autobiographical story that pulls from Gray’s own upbringing in a multi-generational Jewish-American family in the Flushing, Queens neighborhood of New York City.
The Focus Features film confronts issues of race and class against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s impending election as president in 1980. It had its world premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival and hit theaters in late October.
Succession star and Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (a fellow New Yorker) stars in Armageddon Time as Irving Graff, essentially Gray’s real-life father. The plot centers on the Graffs taking their son Paul (Banks Repeta) from public school to a private one supported by Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father...
Writer-director James Gray went back to the personal for Armageddon Time, the autobiographical story that pulls from Gray’s own upbringing in a multi-generational Jewish-American family in the Flushing, Queens neighborhood of New York City.
The Focus Features film confronts issues of race and class against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s impending election as president in 1980. It had its world premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival and hit theaters in late October.
Succession star and Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (a fellow New Yorker) stars in Armageddon Time as Irving Graff, essentially Gray’s real-life father. The plot centers on the Graffs taking their son Paul (Banks Repeta) from public school to a private one supported by Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father...
- 1/6/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins | Written and Directed by James Gray
A deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship, and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
James Gray‘s Armageddon Time is without a doubt not only one of the most unique films of last year but also one of the most unique coming-of-age films I’ve ever seen. This is a searing and oftentimes emotionally heart-wrenching drama that never pulls any punches. It’s so raw and unfiltered and it’s what makes it so special. Gray could’ve easily put together a film that utilized the tried-and-true formula of other coming-of-age films that have been successful, but instead, he wanted to toy with a few things and pull some tricks that you won’t see coming. This completely feels like an Oscar-worthy drama.
The writing and...
A deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship, and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
James Gray‘s Armageddon Time is without a doubt not only one of the most unique films of last year but also one of the most unique coming-of-age films I’ve ever seen. This is a searing and oftentimes emotionally heart-wrenching drama that never pulls any punches. It’s so raw and unfiltered and it’s what makes it so special. Gray could’ve easily put together a film that utilized the tried-and-true formula of other coming-of-age films that have been successful, but instead, he wanted to toy with a few things and pull some tricks that you won’t see coming. This completely feels like an Oscar-worthy drama.
The writing and...
- 1/5/2023
- by Caillou Pettis
- Nerdly
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Anne Hathaway knew James Gray’s script for his semi-autobiographical film Armageddon Time, in which she plays a version of the director’s own mother, was special. But it was five specific words that really sold her on wanting to take on the role.
“When I heard ‘James Gray, age-appropriate part,’ I was like, ‘Say yes, we’ll figure out the details later,’ ” Hathaway tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And then I read it and I found it a piece of searing honesty. It’s a film about moral regret and the parallels that he draws between 1980 and 2022. All of it just really spoke to me: the intelligence, the humor, the warmth, the sadness, the violence, all of it. I just thought, ‘This is really, really rare.’ And I met with him, and after a few meetings, and a little bit of time, he...
Anne Hathaway knew James Gray’s script for his semi-autobiographical film Armageddon Time, in which she plays a version of the director’s own mother, was special. But it was five specific words that really sold her on wanting to take on the role.
“When I heard ‘James Gray, age-appropriate part,’ I was like, ‘Say yes, we’ll figure out the details later,’ ” Hathaway tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And then I read it and I found it a piece of searing honesty. It’s a film about moral regret and the parallels that he draws between 1980 and 2022. All of it just really spoke to me: the intelligence, the humor, the warmth, the sadness, the violence, all of it. I just thought, ‘This is really, really rare.’ And I met with him, and after a few meetings, and a little bit of time, he...
- 12/22/2022
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In our Q&a series Last Call, we get down to the bottom of every last thing with some of our favorite celebs - from the last time they were starstruck to the last song they listened to. This week, Jaylin Webb takes our call.
Jaylin Webb joined an all-star cast for this fall's "Armageddon Time." His costars in the '80s-set drama include Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, "Succession"'s Jeremy Strong, and the legendary Anthony Hopkins. Hathaway, Webb tells Popsugar, was "extremely sweet," and he loved watching Strong work in their scene together. "I saw that he was very focused and into his craft, and that really did motivate me to do the same," the 16-year-old says. However, his first time meeting Hopkins was a different story.
"With Anthony, on the other hand, I got too scared to talk to him because I heard a lot of stuff about...
Jaylin Webb joined an all-star cast for this fall's "Armageddon Time." His costars in the '80s-set drama include Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, "Succession"'s Jeremy Strong, and the legendary Anthony Hopkins. Hathaway, Webb tells Popsugar, was "extremely sweet," and he loved watching Strong work in their scene together. "I saw that he was very focused and into his craft, and that really did motivate me to do the same," the 16-year-old says. However, his first time meeting Hopkins was a different story.
"With Anthony, on the other hand, I got too scared to talk to him because I heard a lot of stuff about...
- 12/12/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
Every director brings a piece of themselves to their work, but this Oscar season has seen films becoming ever more personal. And it’s up to the cinematographer to work with their director to bring those stories to life.
James Gray explores his relationship with his grandfather and a pivotal childhood friendship in Armageddon Time; a young, gay Black man looks for his mother’s approval by joining the Marines in The Inspection, using actual quotes from Elegance Bratton’s mother; and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans shows the early life of a young filmmaker and his family’s influence on his art.
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James Gray explores his relationship with his grandfather and a pivotal childhood friendship in Armageddon Time; a young, gay Black man looks for his mother’s approval by joining the Marines in The Inspection, using actual quotes from Elegance Bratton’s mother; and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans shows the early life of a young filmmaker and his family’s influence on his art.
Related Story Golden Globes Film Analysis: Cruise Is Snubbed, Fraser Isn't & A Mixed Bag For Diversity Related Story Steven Spielberg Tells Martin Scorsese Why A Very Private Director Made 'The Fabelmans' & How Laura Dern Convinced David Lynch To Play John Ford Related Story 'Bardo' Brothers: Alejandro González...
- 12/12/2022
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
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In educated, middle-class Jewish homes, it’s not uncommon for the kids to boast artistic passions and ambitions. To judge by Focus Features’ Armageddon Time and Universal’s The Fabelmans, two semi-autobiographical dramas from directors James Gray and Steven Spielberg, respectively, art is a thematic centerpiece, opening up a Pandora’s box of conflicting values.
An array of pragmatic and moral dilemmas, stemming in part from the protagonists’ identity as Jews, is at the core of each film. Our protagonists and their family members are conversant in the outlier’s life, having experienced antisemitism. Many of their self-assessments, goals and responses to others emerge from those defining events. Most relevant, both films are coming-of-age narratives filtered through the distorting lens of memory, colored in varying degrees of nostalgia, embellishment and the need for reconciliation with past events and significant others whose spectral presence haunts their respective filmmakers.
In educated, middle-class Jewish homes, it’s not uncommon for the kids to boast artistic passions and ambitions. To judge by Focus Features’ Armageddon Time and Universal’s The Fabelmans, two semi-autobiographical dramas from directors James Gray and Steven Spielberg, respectively, art is a thematic centerpiece, opening up a Pandora’s box of conflicting values.
An array of pragmatic and moral dilemmas, stemming in part from the protagonists’ identity as Jews, is at the core of each film. Our protagonists and their family members are conversant in the outlier’s life, having experienced antisemitism. Many of their self-assessments, goals and responses to others emerge from those defining events. Most relevant, both films are coming-of-age narratives filtered through the distorting lens of memory, colored in varying degrees of nostalgia, embellishment and the need for reconciliation with past events and significant others whose spectral presence haunts their respective filmmakers.
- 12/9/2022
- by Simi Horwitz
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” is a personal look at his upbringing in Flushing, N.Y., around 1980. Awards voters might assume it’s an affectionate remembrance about growing up. They would be wrong.
“I never saw this as a coming-of-age story,” he tells Variety. “I saw it as a moment in time of people trapped within a system.” Aside from the personal story, the movie is a subtle study of how American economy and politics changed. And Gray offers some insights rarely portrayed in films.
If this sounds like heavy going, filmmaker Gray — no relation, Btw — made sure it’s entertaining: “It’s not medicine. It’s not lecturing you. I wanted the film to be tender and funny.”
The Oscar contender centers on Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), his friendship with Black classmate Johnny (Jaylin Webb), and his relationship with his parents and grandfather (Anthony Hopkins).
It was always intended...
“I never saw this as a coming-of-age story,” he tells Variety. “I saw it as a moment in time of people trapped within a system.” Aside from the personal story, the movie is a subtle study of how American economy and politics changed. And Gray offers some insights rarely portrayed in films.
If this sounds like heavy going, filmmaker Gray — no relation, Btw — made sure it’s entertaining: “It’s not medicine. It’s not lecturing you. I wanted the film to be tender and funny.”
The Oscar contender centers on Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), his friendship with Black classmate Johnny (Jaylin Webb), and his relationship with his parents and grandfather (Anthony Hopkins).
It was always intended...
- 12/9/2022
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
The Fabelmans.Filmmakers dip into memoir so often it seems inevitable. Apart from the hallowed pillars—The 400 Blows (1959), Amarcord (1973), Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), Crooklyn (1994)—there has been a surfeit of, specifically, boyhood homecomings in the past decade alone: The Tree of Life (2011), 20th Century Women (2016), Roma (2018), Pain & Glory (2019), Minari (2020), Belfast (2021); all, invariably, ghost stories. Directors plunder the past and will their (re)visions into the material world where these spirits, animated by the pursuit of catharsis and peace (matters for the living), may behave authentically or not. The audience can never know. More reliably, these excursions yield a cinephile's bounty; if childhood is the canvas upon which adult preoccupations are birthed, here lies a natural map to a director's filmography: a compass to the primal event. Steven Spielberg has never exactly recoiled from history across his sprawling oeuvre, but his latest feature, The Fabelmans (2022), marks a decidedly personal departure. Here,...
- 12/7/2022
- MUBI
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In Focus Features’ 1980-set Armageddon Time, Banks Repeta plays Paul Graff, a Jewish kid living in Queens with his close-knit family. An aspiring artist, Paul is at an age where the expectations placed upon him by his parents (played by Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong) are becoming more serious and intense. But while young Paul couldn’t care less about what the future holds for him as a grown-up (especially when he’s only starting sixth grade), he slowly discovers that the world around him is not created equal for everybody — a hard lesson he learns after becoming friends with Johnny (Jaylin Webb), a Black classmate.
Based on writer-director James Gray’s childhood memories, Armageddon Time is a portrait of two boys who realize that their differences put them on competing life tracks — unfairly so. Repeta, 14, and Webb, 16, sat down with THR to...
In Focus Features’ 1980-set Armageddon Time, Banks Repeta plays Paul Graff, a Jewish kid living in Queens with his close-knit family. An aspiring artist, Paul is at an age where the expectations placed upon him by his parents (played by Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong) are becoming more serious and intense. But while young Paul couldn’t care less about what the future holds for him as a grown-up (especially when he’s only starting sixth grade), he slowly discovers that the world around him is not created equal for everybody — a hard lesson he learns after becoming friends with Johnny (Jaylin Webb), a Black classmate.
Based on writer-director James Gray’s childhood memories, Armageddon Time is a portrait of two boys who realize that their differences put them on competing life tracks — unfairly so. Repeta, 14, and Webb, 16, sat down with THR to...
- 12/7/2022
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Formative Friendships in Armageddon Time
The 1980 backdrop of James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama feels familiar: A celebrity turned politician challenges the establishment, racial tensions simmer and socioeconomic disparities loom large. And one comforting time-honored aspect endures: Queens sixth-graders Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) and Johnny Davis (Jaylin Webb) dress alike. “Because they’re best friends,” says costume designer Madeline Weeks, who kept the cast in late-’70s wardrobe, conveying the era’s pre-fast-fashion consumer mindset.
Paul, from a middle-class, two-parent Jewish family, and Johnny, a Black boy confronting the daily trauma of racism at school (and in the world at large), bond over their creative aspirations. Paul fantasizes of being a “famous artist,” while Johnny yearns to join NASA and see a Sugarhill Gang concert. “Johnny and Paul love style,” says Weeks. Like the period’s New York City youth, Paul, in burnt orange and green,...
Formative Friendships in Armageddon Time
The 1980 backdrop of James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama feels familiar: A celebrity turned politician challenges the establishment, racial tensions simmer and socioeconomic disparities loom large. And one comforting time-honored aspect endures: Queens sixth-graders Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) and Johnny Davis (Jaylin Webb) dress alike. “Because they’re best friends,” says costume designer Madeline Weeks, who kept the cast in late-’70s wardrobe, conveying the era’s pre-fast-fashion consumer mindset.
Paul, from a middle-class, two-parent Jewish family, and Johnny, a Black boy confronting the daily trauma of racism at school (and in the world at large), bond over their creative aspirations. Paul fantasizes of being a “famous artist,” while Johnny yearns to join NASA and see a Sugarhill Gang concert. “Johnny and Paul love style,” says Weeks. Like the period’s New York City youth, Paul, in burnt orange and green,...
- 12/4/2022
- by Fawnia Soo Hoo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Armageddon Time review: Trump and Reagan provide a backdrop to a flawed yet interesting family drama
Dir: James Gray. Starring: Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Sell. 15, 115 minutes.
I’m convinced James Gray makes films not out of desire, but out of compulsion. Behind the thorny intimacy of Two Lovers (2008) or the cobwebbed dreams of dead explorers in The Lost City of Z (2016) lies a desperate search for answers to ugly questions. In Ad Astra (2019), Brad Pitt’s astronaut travels to the furthest reaches of the solar system in order to find his father, only to be told to go home and leave papa be. How does someone even start to process a rejection that profound?
Gray’s latest, Armageddon Time, is a flawed work. But it sees the filmmaker at his most vulnerable, as he twists the camera back on himself and asks: of all the paths that brought me here, how many were carved out by my own privilege?...
I’m convinced James Gray makes films not out of desire, but out of compulsion. Behind the thorny intimacy of Two Lovers (2008) or the cobwebbed dreams of dead explorers in The Lost City of Z (2016) lies a desperate search for answers to ugly questions. In Ad Astra (2019), Brad Pitt’s astronaut travels to the furthest reaches of the solar system in order to find his father, only to be told to go home and leave papa be. How does someone even start to process a rejection that profound?
Gray’s latest, Armageddon Time, is a flawed work. But it sees the filmmaker at his most vulnerable, as he twists the camera back on himself and asks: of all the paths that brought me here, how many were carved out by my own privilege?...
- 11/20/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
“I don’t necessarily associate the 80s with a period piece because it just doesn’t feel that long ago to me,” admits production designer Happy Massee as he reflects on his work on “Armageddon Time.” The new James Gray film takes place in Queens, New York, in 1980, and centers on the friendship between two middle-school students across social divisions of race and class. The set decorator lived in New York in the 80s, so bringing that period to life did not take an inordinate amount of research. He shares, “The research were my personal experiences. I sort of re-lived something that I lived when I was in my early 20s.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Armageddon Time” is Massee’s third collaboration with Gray on a feature, having previously worked with the director on “Two Lovers” and “The Immigrant.” He recounts meeting the writer-director for the first time,...
“Armageddon Time” is Massee’s third collaboration with Gray on a feature, having previously worked with the director on “Two Lovers” and “The Immigrant.” He recounts meeting the writer-director for the first time,...
- 11/18/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time’, Greg Mottola’s ‘Confess, Fletch’ also start.
Disney comedy-horror The Menu and Mubi awards favourite Aftersun are among the new titles at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend.
Opening in 610 sites for Disney, Mark Mylod’s The Menu sees a young couple travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant, where the chef has prepared a lavish menu and some shocking surprises.
The film debuted as a special presentation at Toronto Film Festival in September, going on to play festivals worldwide including Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Busan and Tokyo.
British director Mylod...
Disney comedy-horror The Menu and Mubi awards favourite Aftersun are among the new titles at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend.
Opening in 610 sites for Disney, Mark Mylod’s The Menu sees a young couple travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant, where the chef has prepared a lavish menu and some shocking surprises.
The film debuted as a special presentation at Toronto Film Festival in September, going on to play festivals worldwide including Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Busan and Tokyo.
British director Mylod...
- 11/18/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Director James Gray based his new movie "Armageddon Time" on a true story about his youth growing up in Queens in 1980 in a Jewish family. In the new film, Paul (Banks Repeta) is a teenage boy who dreams of being an artist in a family that mostly doesn't understand him. When he gets in trouble at public school alongside his friend Johnny (Jaylin Webb), who's black, his parents (played by Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway) transfer him to an elite private school. As Paul's school tries to indoctrinate him into an upper class, capitalist mindset, his grandfather (Anthony Hopkins) tries to remind him to be a good person. All of this takes place with Ronald Reagan's election looming in the backdrop. The movie's title even comes from a Reagan quote: "We might be the generation that sees Armageddon" the then-presidential candidate said during a 1979 interview. Armageddon in the New...
- 11/9/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
“I remember 1980 as a time when New York could be a scary place,” recollects composer Christopher Spelman. The musician wrote the score of James Gray’s new film “Armageddon Time,” which takes place in Queens, NY, in 1980 and chronicles the friendship between two sixth-graders during a transitional moment in United States history. He remembers the city at that time as a “really amazing, fascinating place where I was super happy to be, but a place where you could run into chaos pretty much anywhere.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Spelman has frequently collaborated with Gray, having previously scored “The Immigrant” and “The Lost City of Z” and consulted on other films by the director. The musician shares that he loves the “open conversation” that they share, noting how the filmmaker never “hesitates to tell me what he really thinks.” He also describes the writer-director as “extremely funny… the funniest...
Spelman has frequently collaborated with Gray, having previously scored “The Immigrant” and “The Lost City of Z” and consulted on other films by the director. The musician shares that he loves the “open conversation” that they share, noting how the filmmaker never “hesitates to tell me what he really thinks.” He also describes the writer-director as “extremely funny… the funniest...
- 11/8/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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It’s time again for that perennial question: Will the Oscar for best picture go to a crowd-pleasing film or a smaller, critical favorite? This season, the major studios boast bona fide blockbuster contenders, including the year’s top grosser, Top Gun: Maverick, from Paramount, plus Warner Bros.’ Elvis and Universal’s Nope. Disney looks to rule the multiplexes with November’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and December’s Avatar: The Way of Water, and Universal has a leading contender in The Fabelmans, which earned the people’s choice award at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival (and is director Steven Spielberg’s first feature to premiere in competition at a festival). The streamers once again will battle for one of the 10 best picture nominees (with Apple hoping to repeat Coda‘s history-making win with Emancipation), while the makers of artier fare like Armageddon Time,...
It’s time again for that perennial question: Will the Oscar for best picture go to a crowd-pleasing film or a smaller, critical favorite? This season, the major studios boast bona fide blockbuster contenders, including the year’s top grosser, Top Gun: Maverick, from Paramount, plus Warner Bros.’ Elvis and Universal’s Nope. Disney looks to rule the multiplexes with November’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and December’s Avatar: The Way of Water, and Universal has a leading contender in The Fabelmans, which earned the people’s choice award at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival (and is director Steven Spielberg’s first feature to premiere in competition at a festival). The streamers once again will battle for one of the 10 best picture nominees (with Apple hoping to repeat Coda‘s history-making win with Emancipation), while the makers of artier fare like Armageddon Time,...
- 11/8/2022
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
James Gray's "Armageddon Time" is the closest thing to stepping inside a director's memory. It's so authentic that the creative team used Gray's father's photo collection to build a near-identical replica of his family home on set — matching the wallpaper, paneling, and posters on his bedroom wall. If Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), standing in for a young Gray, was not made out to be a pretty terrible person, it might be easy to call the whole exercise self-indulgent, or at least an expensive form of therapy. But we also shouldn't single out Gray, as he's not the first director in recent years to bring their childhoods to life on the big screen.
The semi-autobiographical film as a genre is far from new, with Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" (2000) and George Lucas' "American Graffiti" (1973) being classic examples. The pace at which these types of films are releasing, however, does seem...
The semi-autobiographical film as a genre is far from new, with Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" (2000) and George Lucas' "American Graffiti" (1973) being classic examples. The pace at which these types of films are releasing, however, does seem...
- 11/7/2022
- by Walter Roberts
- Slash Film
As mentioned in the November preview, this weekend normally would be the beginning of the profitable holiday movie season, although it began softer than usual, as moviegoers prepare for next week’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
That allowed Dwayne Johnson’s superhero foray “Black Adam” to successfully win a third weekend at the box office, taking first place with 18.5 million, holding well with a mere 33 drop from last weekend. So far, the Warner Bros. comic book movie has grossed 137.4 million domestically, although it’s likely to be hit the hardest by Marvel’s upcoming sequel. Overseas, the movie made another 25.4 million, allowing it to cross the 300 million mark worldwide with 320 million, so far.
Anime streamer Crunchyroll released “One Piece Film: Red” into 2,367 theaters as the weekend’s only new wide release. The latest in a series of features based on a popular Japanese anime series, the movie grossed an estimated 4.8 million on Friday,...
That allowed Dwayne Johnson’s superhero foray “Black Adam” to successfully win a third weekend at the box office, taking first place with 18.5 million, holding well with a mere 33 drop from last weekend. So far, the Warner Bros. comic book movie has grossed 137.4 million domestically, although it’s likely to be hit the hardest by Marvel’s upcoming sequel. Overseas, the movie made another 25.4 million, allowing it to cross the 300 million mark worldwide with 320 million, so far.
Anime streamer Crunchyroll released “One Piece Film: Red” into 2,367 theaters as the weekend’s only new wide release. The latest in a series of features based on a popular Japanese anime series, the movie grossed an estimated 4.8 million on Friday,...
- 11/6/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Armageddon Time Review — Armageddon Time (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by James Gray and starring Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Andrew Polk, Tovah Feldshuh, Marcia Haufrecht, Teddy Coluca, Richard Bekins, Dane West, Landon James Forlenza, John Diehl, Jessica Chastain, Domenick Lombardozzi, Lizbeth Mackay and Jacob [...]
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- 11/6/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on Wbgr-fm on November 3rd, 2022, reviewing “Armageddon Time,” a memoir from writer and director James Gray, in theaters beginning November 5th.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) is a teenage boy in 1980 whose middle class Jewish family is struggling with recession and angst, with his mother Esther (Anne Hathaway) and father Irving (Jeremy Strong) trying to keep body and soul together, with help from Aaron (Anthony Hopkins), Paul’s grandfather and family patriarch. He befriends a poverty-stricken African American named Johnny (Jaylin Webb), who is a co-conspirator in some bad boy antics. When Paul’s parents sends him to private school because of his behavior, its benefactor is none other than Fred Trump, father of Donald. As the 1980 election year rolls on, the election of Ronald Reagan becomes one more background warning for Paul and his family.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) is a teenage boy in 1980 whose middle class Jewish family is struggling with recession and angst, with his mother Esther (Anne Hathaway) and father Irving (Jeremy Strong) trying to keep body and soul together, with help from Aaron (Anthony Hopkins), Paul’s grandfather and family patriarch. He befriends a poverty-stricken African American named Johnny (Jaylin Webb), who is a co-conspirator in some bad boy antics. When Paul’s parents sends him to private school because of his behavior, its benefactor is none other than Fred Trump, father of Donald. As the 1980 election year rolls on, the election of Ronald Reagan becomes one more background warning for Paul and his family.
- 11/5/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Armageddon Time’s title is a reference to the song by Willie Williams, covered by The Clash (spelled “Armagideon Time”), whose lyrics contain the line “a lot of people won’t get no justice tonight.” The title also calls to mind a world on the brink of war or a period of finality.
All these meanings tie into the themes of James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama. It’s a movie about a young man discovering that factors beyond his control have afforded him a safety and privilege unavailable to others. It’s about a nation wracked with Cold War anxiety approaching the back half of the Reagan era. And it’s about reckoning with the realization that the institutions and worldviews that shaped you might also be better left behind.
Armageddon Time tackles some of these themes with more finesse than others, but when it works, Gray’s latest is a thoughtful,...
All these meanings tie into the themes of James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama. It’s a movie about a young man discovering that factors beyond his control have afforded him a safety and privilege unavailable to others. It’s about a nation wracked with Cold War anxiety approaching the back half of the Reagan era. And it’s about reckoning with the realization that the institutions and worldviews that shaped you might also be better left behind.
Armageddon Time tackles some of these themes with more finesse than others, but when it works, Gray’s latest is a thoughtful,...
- 11/5/2022
- by Chris Williams
- CinemaNerdz
"Growing up in New York is a strange and wonderful thing. It's a gift." Focus Features has debuted a new 7-minute long featurette for Armageddon Time as part of their "Reel Destinations" series visiting filming locations around the world. James Gray's latest film, Armageddon Time, is already playing in select theaters now, with expansions nationwide throughout November. The film is a sort of semi-autobiographical look at Gray's time growing up in NYC in the 80s. This video follows film writer Alicia Malone around NYC as she visits a number of filming locations - including Central Park and Flushing Meadows (where they launch the rocket), Queens and Manhattan, as well as various streets and houses. It stars Banks Repeta as Paul, plus Jaylin Webb, Ryan Sell, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, & Jeremy Strong. If you live in NYC or have been there many times before, you probably know most of these places anyway.
- 11/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This review originally ran May 19, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kenneth Branagh’s childhood was transformed by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Mike Mills had very eccentric parents and Cameron Crowe was a teenage rock critic — and we know these things because all three directors have made films that drew upon their own childhoods. And now it’s James Gray’s turn to offer his own look back with “Armageddon Time,” which premiered to a rousing ovation in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
And what does the film tell us about the young Gray? For starters, he was a dreamer, he was a brat, he didn’t understand the privileges he was born into and he went on his own path. In other words, he was the kind of person who just might grow up to make...
Kenneth Branagh’s childhood was transformed by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Mike Mills had very eccentric parents and Cameron Crowe was a teenage rock critic — and we know these things because all three directors have made films that drew upon their own childhoods. And now it’s James Gray’s turn to offer his own look back with “Armageddon Time,” which premiered to a rousing ovation in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
And what does the film tell us about the young Gray? For starters, he was a dreamer, he was a brat, he didn’t understand the privileges he was born into and he went on his own path. In other words, he was the kind of person who just might grow up to make...
- 11/4/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Now playing in theaters nationwide, Armageddon Time is a kindhearted and intensely personal drama, inspired by writer and director James Gray's own life. Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong star as the parents of young Paul (Banks Repeta), who is growing up with all the trials and tribulations of young adulthood in a family with high expectations. Fearing that Paul's new friendship with Johnny (Jaylin Webb) will only lead to more trouble, they enroll Paul in private school, which brings new...
- 11/4/2022
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Plot: In the early 80s in New York City, a white Jewish student, Paul (Banks Repeta), befriends a black student, Jimmy (Jaylin Webb). When the two are caught smoking marijuana, Paul’s parents (Jeremy Strong & Anne Hathaway) send him to an elite private school, driving a wedge between him and his friend that he’s too naive to recognize.
Review: James Gray has said that Armageddon Time is essentially a biographical drama, with the main character, Banks Repeta’s Paul Graff, a stand-in for him at the same age (12-13). Like Gray, Paul is an aspiring artist, with his love of painting encouraged by his doting grandfather (Anthony Hopkins). At the same time, his upwardly mobile parents wish he’d focus on something more potentially lucrative. It has a whole lot in common with Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, another autobiographical tale, but while that one is warm and affectionate,...
Review: James Gray has said that Armageddon Time is essentially a biographical drama, with the main character, Banks Repeta’s Paul Graff, a stand-in for him at the same age (12-13). Like Gray, Paul is an aspiring artist, with his love of painting encouraged by his doting grandfather (Anthony Hopkins). At the same time, his upwardly mobile parents wish he’d focus on something more potentially lucrative. It has a whole lot in common with Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, another autobiographical tale, but while that one is warm and affectionate,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
by Nathaniel R
Jaylin Webb and Banks Repata in Armageddon Time
Though Hollywood blockbuster lovers are waiting until a week from today for their holiday movie season to kick off with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever the rest of us have plenty to enjoy in theaters right now since "Prestige Movie Season" began a few weeks back. If you haven't caught up with The Banshees of Inisherin, TÁR, Till, Triangle of Sadness, and The Woman King yet, this is the weekend to do it since everything (well, maybe not Banshees) will lose screens to the Wakandans on November 11th. Tick tock tick tock. Get to the movies!
There's other even newer stuff this weekend, too...
Jaylin Webb and Banks Repata in Armageddon Time
Though Hollywood blockbuster lovers are waiting until a week from today for their holiday movie season to kick off with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever the rest of us have plenty to enjoy in theaters right now since "Prestige Movie Season" began a few weeks back. If you haven't caught up with The Banshees of Inisherin, TÁR, Till, Triangle of Sadness, and The Woman King yet, this is the weekend to do it since everything (well, maybe not Banshees) will lose screens to the Wakandans on November 11th. Tick tock tick tock. Get to the movies!
There's other even newer stuff this weekend, too...
- 11/4/2022
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Armageddon Time” and its ending.]
Like many viewers of “Armageddon Time,” star Jeremy Strong is still wrestling with his thoughts on its conclusion. Although the incredibly personal film from writer-director James Gray, about a young Jewish kid named Paul Graff living in Queens during the 1980 rise of Ronald Reagan, offers its protagonist the option to do the right thing and stand against the anti-Black racism he’s become more and more privy too, the character (played by Banks Repeta) never takes an explicit public stance.
“Complicity is the engine that keeps racism going and keeps inequity and injustice going,” said Strong in conversation with IndieWire during the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. “Complicity, I would say, more than active harm.” The actor’s comment is both part of a conversation about the third act of “Armageddon Time,” where Paul convinces his Black classmate Johnny (Jaylin Webb) to unsuccessfully pawn a stolen computer,...
Like many viewers of “Armageddon Time,” star Jeremy Strong is still wrestling with his thoughts on its conclusion. Although the incredibly personal film from writer-director James Gray, about a young Jewish kid named Paul Graff living in Queens during the 1980 rise of Ronald Reagan, offers its protagonist the option to do the right thing and stand against the anti-Black racism he’s become more and more privy too, the character (played by Banks Repeta) never takes an explicit public stance.
“Complicity is the engine that keeps racism going and keeps inequity and injustice going,” said Strong in conversation with IndieWire during the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. “Complicity, I would say, more than active harm.” The actor’s comment is both part of a conversation about the third act of “Armageddon Time,” where Paul convinces his Black classmate Johnny (Jaylin Webb) to unsuccessfully pawn a stolen computer,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
(L to R) Michael Banks Repeta as “Paul Graff” and Anthony Hopkins as “Grandpa Aaron Rabinowitz” in director James Gray’s Armageddon Time, a Focus Features release. Courtesy of Anne Joyce / Focus Features
Well, it’s been over two years now. I’m talking about the near-global pandemic “time-out”. So, do you recall what you did to pass the hours? Was “recall” part of it, as in revisiting old memories and childhood experiences? It appears that many “creatives”, including lots of filmmakers, took a “sentimental journey”. Of course, that’s not rare as many movie makers have opened up about their past, from Fellini to Scorsese. And now, with a few years put into making them, the nostalgic film “floodgates” are opening up. In the next few weeks, we’ll delve into the recollections of Sam Mendes and Steven Spielberg. This weekend another artist gives us his “take” on the “coming of age” saga.
Well, it’s been over two years now. I’m talking about the near-global pandemic “time-out”. So, do you recall what you did to pass the hours? Was “recall” part of it, as in revisiting old memories and childhood experiences? It appears that many “creatives”, including lots of filmmakers, took a “sentimental journey”. Of course, that’s not rare as many movie makers have opened up about their past, from Fellini to Scorsese. And now, with a few years put into making them, the nostalgic film “floodgates” are opening up. In the next few weeks, we’ll delve into the recollections of Sam Mendes and Steven Spielberg. This weekend another artist gives us his “take” on the “coming of age” saga.
- 11/3/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Filmmaker James Gray has arguably been trying to avoid himself and his past these last few years, perhaps in order to create something new. A filmmaker who has spent much of his time exploring America and his roots in New York, with humanistic, moral, and family stories about class within the genre of crime, in the last few years of his filmmaking career, Gray has seemingly gone as far away from New York as possible, into the jungles of the amazon for “The Lost City Of Z” (2014) and into the far reaches of outer space for “Ad Astra” (2019). And while those films have expanded the palette of his preoccupation, “Ada Astra” in particular tackling ideas of American exceptionalism and its myths, perhaps both films—still centered on class, family, fatherhood and more— demonstrated, as far as he travels, the filmmaker cannot escape himself or his human obsessions and concerns.
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- 11/2/2022
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
November officially brings us into the holiday movie season, although it’s starting a bit slower than usual, being that there’s only one new wide release this weekend. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.
Instead of a studio movie with a big name star, Crunchyroll comes along with its latest anime film from Japan, “One Piece Film: Red,” a movie that has already grossed 144 million worldwide before getting its North American theatrical release, both in subtitled and dubbed into English versions.
Anime films have already been one of my weak spots in terms of the box office, only because I’m just not someone who watches all the modern manga series that are out there on the streamers (including Crunchyroll). Otherwise, I might have been familiar with “Red,” which is the 15th feature film in the series based on the “One Piece” comics by Eiichiro Oda,...
Instead of a studio movie with a big name star, Crunchyroll comes along with its latest anime film from Japan, “One Piece Film: Red,” a movie that has already grossed 144 million worldwide before getting its North American theatrical release, both in subtitled and dubbed into English versions.
Anime films have already been one of my weak spots in terms of the box office, only because I’m just not someone who watches all the modern manga series that are out there on the streamers (including Crunchyroll). Otherwise, I might have been familiar with “Red,” which is the 15th feature film in the series based on the “One Piece” comics by Eiichiro Oda,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
For actor Andrew Polk, finding inspiration for his role as middle-school teacher Mr. Turkeltaub in James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” came fairly easily. Set in 1980 in Queens, New York, the film tackles the integration of public schools through the friendship of sixth-graders Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) and Johnny Davis (Jaylin Webb). Raised in Berkeley, California, the actor remembers the “first stab at integration” in his own community, an experience he sees as a “mirror” to the events of the movie. As a parent, he also felt he could tap into the “frustration” of a teacher having to handle 42 students by himself. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
By happenstance, Polk had the opportunity to learn about the real Mr. Turkeltaub through his “dear friend” and fellow performer Amy Ryan, who attended Ps 173 in Queens and actually had the teacher in fifth grade. “She sent me a picture of her in...
By happenstance, Polk had the opportunity to learn about the real Mr. Turkeltaub through his “dear friend” and fellow performer Amy Ryan, who attended Ps 173 in Queens and actually had the teacher in fifth grade. “She sent me a picture of her in...
- 11/1/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
“Paul’s an artist and a dreamer… he doesn’t let anybody try and stop him,” describes actor Banks Repeta about his starring role as middle-schooler Paul Graff in James Gray’s “Armageddon Time.” The film takes place in Queens, New York, in 1980 and chronicles the shifting class dynamics of American society. It is loosely based on screenwriter and director Gray himself and his own adolescence, an aspect of the role that the actor says made the project feel “a little more special.” While some might be daunted by stepping into those shoes, the performer admits, “In the end, it’s all art.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Far too young to experience the 1980s firsthand, Repeta says “walking on set” really transported him to this earlier moment in time. He credits the exemplary work of production designer Happy Massee, who “really gave a feel for me to know...
Far too young to experience the 1980s firsthand, Repeta says “walking on set” really transported him to this earlier moment in time. He credits the exemplary work of production designer Happy Massee, who “really gave a feel for me to know...
- 10/31/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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Armageddon Time director and writer James Gray says that he doesn’t agree with critics of his decision to cast actors who aren’t Jewish, like Anthony Hopkins, as Jewish characters in his semi-biographical film.
In an interview with The New York Times, Gray talks about the depictions of the Trump family, who he went to school with and where his latest movie fits into his cinematic catalog. But he also responds directly to critics of his decision to cast actors in the film regardless of their personal religious or cultural identities. That criticism has largely arisen around Oscar-winner Hopkins, who plays the grandfather of the film’s central character, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine who escaped the Holocaust.
It’s a criticism the director, who is of Russian Jewish descent, disagrees with regarding his film — a semi-autobiographical in its telling of race,...
Armageddon Time director and writer James Gray says that he doesn’t agree with critics of his decision to cast actors who aren’t Jewish, like Anthony Hopkins, as Jewish characters in his semi-biographical film.
In an interview with The New York Times, Gray talks about the depictions of the Trump family, who he went to school with and where his latest movie fits into his cinematic catalog. But he also responds directly to critics of his decision to cast actors in the film regardless of their personal religious or cultural identities. That criticism has largely arisen around Oscar-winner Hopkins, who plays the grandfather of the film’s central character, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine who escaped the Holocaust.
It’s a criticism the director, who is of Russian Jewish descent, disagrees with regarding his film — a semi-autobiographical in its telling of race,...
- 10/30/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As much as it might be nice for a non-superhero movie to do well at the current box office, that wasn’t to be this weekend, as Dwayne Johnson’s “Black Adam” held off all comers, retaining the top spot at the box office with 27.7 million, down 59 from its opening weekend. Warner Bros’ second live action DC movie since March’s “The Batman” has made 111.1 million in North America alone. Overseas, Johnson’s comic book movie added another 39 million to bring its global total to 250 million in less than two weeks.
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Holding strong in second place was the Julia Roberts–George Clooney comedy, “Ticket to Paradise,” which brought in an estimated 10 million (down 39) in its second weekend for a domestic total of 33.7 million.
Lionsgate’s exorcism thriller, “Prey for the Devil,” was the single new wide release,...
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Holding strong in second place was the Julia Roberts–George Clooney comedy, “Ticket to Paradise,” which brought in an estimated 10 million (down 39) in its second weekend for a domestic total of 33.7 million.
Lionsgate’s exorcism thriller, “Prey for the Devil,” was the single new wide release,...
- 10/30/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
It’s a busy weekend for the indie box office, but not a particularly profitable one, as UA/Orion’s “Till” and Focus Features’ “Tár” have posted tepid numbers in wide release.
“Till” is sixth on the box office charts after expanding to 2,058 theaters, grossing just 2.8 million for a per-theater average of 1,366 and a running total of 3.6 million.
The good news for Chinonye Chukwu’s true-story drama about the murder of Emmett Till is that critical and audience praise has been overwhelming, with a 98 Rotten Tomatoes score and an A+ on CinemaScore. Danielle Deadwyler has received Oscar buzz for her lead performance as Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and United Artists is still holding on to hope that the strong word of mouth will attract more audiences despite the film’s challenging themes and imagery.
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“Till” is sixth on the box office charts after expanding to 2,058 theaters, grossing just 2.8 million for a per-theater average of 1,366 and a running total of 3.6 million.
The good news for Chinonye Chukwu’s true-story drama about the murder of Emmett Till is that critical and audience praise has been overwhelming, with a 98 Rotten Tomatoes score and an A+ on CinemaScore. Danielle Deadwyler has received Oscar buzz for her lead performance as Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and United Artists is still holding on to hope that the strong word of mouth will attract more audiences despite the film’s challenging themes and imagery.
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- 10/30/2022
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
After its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Focus Features’ “Armageddon Time” hit theaters nationwide on October 28. The coming-of-age drama has launched itself into the awards discussion with a star-studded cast and a freshness rating of 89 on Rotten Tomatoes. After being transferred to a private school, a young Jewish boy named Paul (played by breakout star Banks Repeta) deals with prejudice and the challenges of growing up in 1980 New York.
The cast includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, and cameo from Jessica Chastain as Maryanne Trump. The film was written and directed by James Gray, inspired by his upbringing in Queens. So what do the critics have to say?
Joshua Rothkopf of Entertainment Weekly writes, “Gray is after something rarer — a tone that, apart from his recent trips to the Amazon jungle (2016’s ‘The Lost City of Z’) and deep...
The cast includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, and cameo from Jessica Chastain as Maryanne Trump. The film was written and directed by James Gray, inspired by his upbringing in Queens. So what do the critics have to say?
Joshua Rothkopf of Entertainment Weekly writes, “Gray is after something rarer — a tone that, apart from his recent trips to the Amazon jungle (2016’s ‘The Lost City of Z’) and deep...
- 10/28/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
Three films opening this weekend highlight women’s rights, class and racism — nothing ripped from today’s headlines exactly, but features with a distinctive moment and point of view that appear particularly relevant today. Call Jane, Holy Spider and Armageddon Time join Tár, Till, The Banshees of Inisherin and others already in theaters as it gets crowded out there in specialty.
The widest release, Roadside Attractions’ Call Jane opens on 1,070 screens. It stars Elizabeth Banks as Joy, a traditional suburban housewife who falls in with a group of activists after a medical board denies her a “therapeutic termination” despite a life-threatening medical condition. The real underground Jane collective led in the film by Virginia (Sigourney Weaver) arranged illegal abortions in 1960s and ’70s Chicago. The film by Phyllis Nagy premiered at Sundance. Deadline’s review said “ it strikes an upbeat, non-judgmental note while exploring the gender and body politics of the time.
The widest release, Roadside Attractions’ Call Jane opens on 1,070 screens. It stars Elizabeth Banks as Joy, a traditional suburban housewife who falls in with a group of activists after a medical board denies her a “therapeutic termination” despite a life-threatening medical condition. The real underground Jane collective led in the film by Virginia (Sigourney Weaver) arranged illegal abortions in 1960s and ’70s Chicago. The film by Phyllis Nagy premiered at Sundance. Deadline’s review said “ it strikes an upbeat, non-judgmental note while exploring the gender and body politics of the time.
- 10/28/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
James Gray’s Armageddon Time is a movie about a Queens, New York, childhood, inspired by the filmmaker’s own. It’s the 1980s, and Paul (Banks Repeta) is a redheaded middle schooler with an artistic streak, born to a hard-working Jewish family, raised and provided for by his lovably flawed parents (played by Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong) and a grandfather, a survivor of the Holocaust, whomm he adores (Anthony Hopkins). He’s a good kid who means well. He listens to the stories of his grandfather with sincere curiosity.
- 10/28/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Just as his latest film “Armageddon Time” is hitting theaters, James Gray has already set up his next project. The “Ad Astra” and “Lost City of Z” director will helm a film about John F. Kennedy for MadRiver Pictures.
As originally reported by Deadline, the film will be a biopic depicting how JFK became the 35th president of the United States, after growing up desperate to prove himself in his politically powerful family —his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was a successful businessman and a leading member of the Democratic Party. The film will particularly focus on Kennedy’s time in World War II, where he served as a commander of a patrol boat that was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. In the explosion, Kennedy took charge and helped the crew seek safety, and ultimately located rescue after a brutal two weeks. His actions won him a Navy and Marine Corps Medal,...
As originally reported by Deadline, the film will be a biopic depicting how JFK became the 35th president of the United States, after growing up desperate to prove himself in his politically powerful family —his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was a successful businessman and a leading member of the Democratic Party. The film will particularly focus on Kennedy’s time in World War II, where he served as a commander of a patrol boat that was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. In the explosion, Kennedy took charge and helped the crew seek safety, and ultimately located rescue after a brutal two weeks. His actions won him a Navy and Marine Corps Medal,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
"Armageddon Time" is the latest dramatic entry from writer/director James Gray. A film based on Gray's own childhood, "Armageddon Time" follows Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), a Jewish boy whose artistic aspirations conflict with his family's well-meaning emphasis on aiming him at a "respectable" occupation. Paul becomes friends with a less economically privileged but hopeful boy named Johnny (Jaylin Webb), before the pair are separated when Paul is sent to his brother's conservative private school on the eve of Reagan's America.
It's a film that tackles issues around racism and the American Dream through a variety of lenses, with excellent performances from Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins as well as its young stars. (Read our review here.) In a new interview, I spoke with James Gray, Banks Repeta, and Jaylin Webb about the film's origins, the challenges of using your own life history as cinematic fuel, working with Anthony Hopkins,...
It's a film that tackles issues around racism and the American Dream through a variety of lenses, with excellent performances from Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins as well as its young stars. (Read our review here.) In a new interview, I spoke with James Gray, Banks Repeta, and Jaylin Webb about the film's origins, the challenges of using your own life history as cinematic fuel, working with Anthony Hopkins,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Jeff Ewing
- Slash Film
The official poster for the upcoming film from writer/director James Gray, Armageddon Time, has been released. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, and Jaylin Webb.
From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray, Armageddon Time is a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. The film features an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.
About The Film
Genre: Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Tovah Feldshuh, Ryan Sell, and Anthony Hopkins Director: James Gray Written by: James Gray Producers: Anthony Katagas, Marc Butan, Rodrigo Teixeira, James Gray
Armageddon Time is in select theaters on Friday, October 28th
and nationwide on Friday, November 4th!
For More Information, Please Visit:
Official Site / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / #ArmageddonTime
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From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray, Armageddon Time is a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. The film features an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.
About The Film
Genre: Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Tovah Feldshuh, Ryan Sell, and Anthony Hopkins Director: James Gray Written by: James Gray Producers: Anthony Katagas, Marc Butan, Rodrigo Teixeira, James Gray
Armageddon Time is in select theaters on Friday, October 28th
and nationwide on Friday, November 4th!
For More Information, Please Visit:
Official Site / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / #ArmageddonTime
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- 10/28/2022
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
After the box office lifted up past 100 million last weekend for the first time since July, propelled by the latest superhero saga Black Adam, it is set to fall back down below the nine-digit line once again this weekend with no major titles opening to keep it afloat. It should still be a “good” weekend relative to the dry spell from mid-August through mid-October which saw seven straight weekends below 65 million, but the numbers may stoop that low again next weekend. Thankfully,Black Panther: Wakanda Forever comes the weekend after and will boast some of the biggest, if not the biggest, opening numbers of the year, but the rocky up-and-down box office of the post-Covid era continues to persist.
The weekend’s biggest release is Lionsgate’s Prey for the Devil, the latest in a busy season of horror films leading up to Halloween which falls on Monday. The film...
The weekend’s biggest release is Lionsgate’s Prey for the Devil, the latest in a busy season of horror films leading up to Halloween which falls on Monday. The film...
- 10/27/2022
- by Sam Mendelsohn <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
It seems like the box office is slowly rebounding after a couple slower months, but this weekend, “Black Adam” won’t have much in terms of competition for the top spot, so it will score an easy second weekend at #1 probably with around 28 to 30 million or a little more. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any new movies in wide release. In fact, there’s just one, and that’s Lionsgate’s much-delayed and name-changed horror flick “Prey for the Devil,” an exorcism horror drama directed by Daniel Stamm (“The Last Exorcism”). It stars Jacqueline Byers (“Salvation”) as Sister Ann, a rare female exorcist, who has to deal with a few cases of demonic possession. It also stars Virginia Madsen and Colin Salmon, both of whom have quite a bit of genre experience.
Stamm already knows how well exorcism movies do with moviegoers,...
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any new movies in wide release. In fact, there’s just one, and that’s Lionsgate’s much-delayed and name-changed horror flick “Prey for the Devil,” an exorcism horror drama directed by Daniel Stamm (“The Last Exorcism”). It stars Jacqueline Byers (“Salvation”) as Sister Ann, a rare female exorcist, who has to deal with a few cases of demonic possession. It also stars Virginia Madsen and Colin Salmon, both of whom have quite a bit of genre experience.
Stamm already knows how well exorcism movies do with moviegoers,...
- 10/26/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Walking into the latest from James Gray, I wasn’t fully aware of what I was in for. Having not heard much about the film in advance, I knew of the impressive cast which he collected. Yet even with such talents as Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins, Banks Repeta and Jaylin Webb steal it. Armageddon Time is wonderful little film. It’s a deeply personal story for Mr. Gray, and the work presented is rich with character and heart. It’s always a joy to find a film that offers a deeper look into the filmmaker’s history, and this is certainly one that I’d like to return to.
Recently, I sat down with James Gray, Banks Repeta, and Jaylin Webb. For Mr. Gray, he opened up about telling such a personal story about his own life. It was clear the amount of care that went into making this happen for him.
Recently, I sat down with James Gray, Banks Repeta, and Jaylin Webb. For Mr. Gray, he opened up about telling such a personal story about his own life. It was clear the amount of care that went into making this happen for him.
- 10/26/2022
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
Armageddon Time director on James Gray on what he said to cinematographer Darius Khondji about Susan Sontag’s collection of essays On Photography: “I said to him, and I quoted from it many times, it’s so brilliant …” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
James Gray’s Armageddon Time, starring Anthony Hopkins, Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Jaylin Webb was the Main Slate special 60th anniversary screening event at the New York Film Festival. Gray gives thanks to Cate Blanchett (who stars in Todd Field’s Main Slate highlight TÁR with Nina Hoss and Sophie Kauer) and Robert De Niro and a very special thanks to his longtime editor John Axelrad in the end credits.
Dennis Lim with James Gray and Armageddon Time stars Anne Hathaway, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb and Jeremy Strong Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Armageddon Time, James Gray revisits ghosts of his childhood in 1980 Queens, NY. Central is...
James Gray’s Armageddon Time, starring Anthony Hopkins, Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Jaylin Webb was the Main Slate special 60th anniversary screening event at the New York Film Festival. Gray gives thanks to Cate Blanchett (who stars in Todd Field’s Main Slate highlight TÁR with Nina Hoss and Sophie Kauer) and Robert De Niro and a very special thanks to his longtime editor John Axelrad in the end credits.
Dennis Lim with James Gray and Armageddon Time stars Anne Hathaway, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb and Jeremy Strong Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Armageddon Time, James Gray revisits ghosts of his childhood in 1980 Queens, NY. Central is...
- 10/23/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Black Adam, Halloween Ends, The Watcher and the New York Film Festival.
New York Film Festival
The annual film fest continued its second week at Lincoln Center with screenings for Women Talking, Armageddon Time, She Said and The Inspection.
Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Michelle McLeod, Sheila McCarthy, Sarah Polley, Rooney Mara, Kate Hallett and Liv McNeil attend the red carpet event for ‘Women Talking’ on Oct. 10 in New York City. Producer Marc Butan, Focus Features vice chairman Jason Cassidy, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway, director James Gray, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Focus Features president of production and acquisitions Kiska Higgs, Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and producer Rodrigo Teixeira at the ‘Armageddon Time’ screening on Oct. 12. Jodi Kantor, Zoe Kazan, Megan Twohey and Carey Mulligan attend the red...
New York Film Festival
The annual film fest continued its second week at Lincoln Center with screenings for Women Talking, Armageddon Time, She Said and The Inspection.
Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Michelle McLeod, Sheila McCarthy, Sarah Polley, Rooney Mara, Kate Hallett and Liv McNeil attend the red carpet event for ‘Women Talking’ on Oct. 10 in New York City. Producer Marc Butan, Focus Features vice chairman Jason Cassidy, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway, director James Gray, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Focus Features president of production and acquisitions Kiska Higgs, Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and producer Rodrigo Teixeira at the ‘Armageddon Time’ screening on Oct. 12. Jodi Kantor, Zoe Kazan, Megan Twohey and Carey Mulligan attend the red...
- 10/14/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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