Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales–the writer-director’s 2006 follow-up to cult hit Donnie Darko–is a messy ode to L.A. It’s also one of the best satirical stories that’s ever been set in the City of ...

Rarely has a picture been so self-consciously designed to be a culturally meaningful touchstone, and fallen so woefully short, as "Southland Tales." This wannabe visionary epic may find cult believers ...

Roger Ebert wrote at the time that Southland Tales was met with plenty of boos at its Cannes debut As the Cannes Film Festival carries on in France, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is reflecting on one of ...

The Cannes boo is the annual terrorist attack of film festivals. The act of prestigious defiance happens in a far away place, where 99% of filmgoers will never tread, but reverberates like a tidal ...

“It’s extremely challenging to get a film that is that big and sprawling and bursting at the seams as Southland Tales is into theaters,” reflected the notorious opus’ writer and director, Richard ...

Back in 2006, following the release of the mind-bending “Donnie Darko,” filmmaker Richard Kelly was invited to show his follow-up, “Southland Tales,” as a work in progress at the Cannes Film Festival.

Matthew is a features writer for Collider currently based in Manchester. In his spare time he likes to read, write, obsess over Batman and complain about his Wordle score. Richard Kelly has not had ...

It also may be a gauge for whether a Southland follow-up is realistic. Kelly is keen to return to the world of Southland Tales, and while the movie was a critical and commercial disappointment in 2006 ...

2025 has proven there is still an audience interested in seeing “classic” films on the big screen, as viewers flocked to the theatrical re-releases of titles such as Pride & Prejudice, Jaws, Toy Story ...