Marcello Fonte won the best-actor award in Cannes for his performance in “Dogman,” Matteo Garrone’s film about a mild-mannered dog groomer (and part-time drug dealer) who finally gets tired of being ...

The director said he didn't worry about whether his off-screen headlines would impact the film's success. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent “You don’t think like this,” he told THR when asked if ...

There’s a common screenwriter trick called “saving the cat” — a well-trodden shortcut to build instant sympathy for your protagonist by having them show kindness to an animal. Pay attention and you’ll ...

Scene from Dogman, a Magnolia Pictures release (photo courtesy Magnolia Pictures) Imagine an Italy of dilapidated beach fronts, trash on the street, tetanus-rusted seesaws creaking in the wind.

What starts off as a charming trailer about a dog groomer in a small Italian town soon turns into a nightmarish story of an innocent man at the mercy of a local thug. Dogman, from Gomorrah's Matteo ...

Whether it’s just a bad day or the world is coming apart, sometimes only the company of a dog will do. But what happens when a child is caged with a pack of hungry dogs? Left to rot by his own father ...

Too bombastic for the French establishment and too idiosyncratic to ever go full Hollywood, Luc Besson once charted an impressive middle ground on the international scene. At his 1990s peak, the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...