Kieran Culkin

Interview: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe on A Real Pain; “It’s always hard and awkward to try and commemorate something with reverence in a modern world that doesn’t care about your own personal grief.”

Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain tells of mismatched cousins David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother.  The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history, setting the scene for a…

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Film Review: A Real Pain; Jesse Eisenberg’s sophomore feature as a filmmaker is a real triumph

Though there’s the sense that, initially, the characterisation of Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) in A Real Pain is to purely lean into the personality-driven descriptiveness of such a title, writer/director Jesse Eisenberg has other plans in helping us as an audience empathise with his plight.  Benji hones the type of energy that can be described…

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2024 Sundance Film Festival announces 91 projects for its 40th edition

Today the non-profit Sundance Institute announced the 82 films, eight episodic titles, and a New Frontier interactive experience selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25–28, 2024. This…

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