‘Firebrand’ KVIFF 2023 review: Alicia Vikander and Jude Law in heated royal drama
Catharine Parr attempts to survive King Henry VIII in this intensely-acted, impeccably-designed period piece that opened this year’s festival in Karlovy Vary.
Catharine Parr attempts to survive King Henry VIII in this intensely-acted, impeccably-designed period piece that opened this year’s festival in Karlovy Vary.
The Oscar-winning Swedish actress will be awarded with the KVIFF President’s Award at the festival’s opening night ceremony.
Ewan McGregor will be presented with the Festival President’s Award and present You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, in which he stars alongside his daughter.
This serious-minded take on the video game franchise replaces Angelina Jolie with Alicia Vikander and action movie cheese with grave sincerity
Like a stately period piece as directed by Michael Bay, this long-delayed historical drama is off-the-wall crazy
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass bring some kinetic slam-bang energy back to the Bourne franchise
This Oscar-nominated story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe is generally handled with care
In Burnt, Bradley Cooper stars as a once-renowned chef who won two Michelin Stars at a Paris restaurant and lost control of his life through drugs and booze
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a reboot (?) of the once-popular 1960s TV show that few will remember in 2015, headlined but two rising stars
Ex Machina is a brilliantly conceived, thought-provoking piece of science fiction that puts its big budget contemporaries to shame
Seventh Son stars Jeff Bridges as a grizzled 1890s prospector hunting witches in a medieval fantasyland
In Anna Karenina, director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard put a bold, dazzlingly original take on a classic piece of literature