Caitlin Stasey in Parker Finn’s Smile. Photo: Paramount Make sure the liquor cabinet at home is well stocked, because you might just want a stiff drink after seeing Smile. The feature debut of writer-director Parker Finn, expanded from his SXSW award-nominated short Laura Hasn’t Slept, is designed to work your last nerves… in a good …
Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Serebii.net Honestly, you need to grow up. It’s a worm! The latest Pokémon to be revealed for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a wiggly worm called Wiglett, and clearly related to that base set favorite, Diglett. Wiglett, it seems, is a result of divergent evolution, an aquatic cousin of the …
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Covered… by COPYRIGHT LAW!!Image: DC Comics/Marshall Rogers A new Joker film had its first—and probably last—showing earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. The People’s Joker, described as “a queer coming-of-age story complete with a copyright-defying array of villains and heroes,” was screened once and only once. Future screenings of the film have …
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Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell star in Bones and All.Image: MGM Bones and All is a movie that defies easy categorization. It’s the latest film from Luca Guadagninothe director of Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria, who to date has quite the pristine reputation. It stars Timothée Chalamet, one of the biggest young stars …
Bethlehem Million and Gideon Adlon in Sick.Image: Miramax With properties like ScreamDawson’s Creek, and The Vampire Diaries, writer Kevin Williamson has always been able to tap into a collective understanding. But a passion for movies or teen angst has nothing on the fear of covid-19, and that’s what Williamson deals with Sicka new film from …
Joyce Carol Oates; Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe BlondePhoto: Thos Robinson; Netflix/YouTube (Getty Images) In another press cycle, Blonde would be the most controversial film of the year. It took decades for Andrew Dominik to get his brutally graphic fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe’s life off the ground, and several years after that to …
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Dominic West in The Crown season fivePhoto: Keith Berstein Hear ye, hear ye: Buckingham Palace has a few things to say about that prestige Netflix show centered around their dear old royal family. According to two The Telegraphthe Palace has reportedly “moved to protect” the newly crowned King Charles and his shiny reputation from the …
Elizabeth Banks Photo: Leon Bennett (Getty Images) There are many pitfalls on the road to a good remake; Elizabeth Banks, who directed 2019’s ill-fated Charlie’s Angels reboot, may know this better than anyone. But ahead of her return to the director’s chair for the upcoming abortion drama Call Jane, a specific set of complaints about …
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Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik Image: The AV Club, Photo: Frazer Harrison/Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images HBO’s House Of The Dragon may only be half a season into its expansive register of Targaryen rule in Westeros, but one of its showrunners have already seen sail for a different country. Miguel Sapochnik, a Game Of Thrones veteran ice …
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Don’t Worry DarlingPhoto: Warner Bros. After an unclear amount of on-set drama (somewhere between none swear “all”) and about 15,000 daily news stories across the entertainment news industry (it’s not just us)Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling finally opened in US theaters this weekend. And best of all, the drama (or convincing illusion of drama) was …
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