107 posts tagged ‘films’
Don't expect to see Jacob Elordi in a superhero movie any time soon
AV Club,
Like Jeremy Allen White and Paul Mescal before him, Jacob Elordi’s star is on the rise such that he not only has to answer the obligatory superhero question in interviews now, but he’s also confident enough in his place in the industry to risk poking the Marvel bear. Read more...
Timothée Chalamet celebrates the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike in SNL monologue
Timothée Chalamet returned to Saturday Night Live last night for the show’s first episode since the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, meaning hosts no longer have to dance around who they are and why they’re there so they don’t look like scabs, and Chalamet celebrated the opportunity to get back to normal in a heavily… Read more...
Long before The Curse, Albert Brooks skewered “reality TV” with Real Life
Following last year’s reality TV home deconstruction project, The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder returns to screens this week with The Curse. True to form, the series sees Fielder, who also directs and co-writes, and Emma Stone starring as aspiring HGTV gentrifiers Asher and Whitney Siegel. Co-written by Benny Safdie, who… Read more...
The best thriller movies to watch on Netflix right now
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the kinds of best-of lists that tend to get filled up with, say, historical dramas, crowd-pleasing comedies, and awards fare. Read more...
A Philosopher-Filmmaker’s Polyphonic Perspective on Trans Experience
The New Yorker,
In Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Virginia Woolf’s protagonist is played by more than twenty trans and nonbinary actors.
Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon?
The tech giant is a monopoly that harms consumers and merchants, according to a federal lawsuit. Plus, the director Emerald Fennell discusses her latest film, “Saltburn.”
The Curse premiere: A satire that's as biting as it is absurd
It was about time HGTV got the dark biting satire the network seems so perfectly tailored for. Those ready-made gentrifying and style-flattening house flipping shows were clearly overdue for a smart send-up. And with Showtime’s The Curse, we may have finally gotten one that’s as biting as it is absurd. For what else… Read more...
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?