3 posts tagged ‘tony mcnamara’
The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) is not what one might call a conventional filmmaker, crafting his films with deadpan line delivery that enhances the surreal quality of their premises to lay bare fundamental truths of the human experience. His previous collaboration with… Read more...
Poor Things Puts a Shocking and Fantastic Spin on a Classic Tale
At its core, Poor Things is the relatively simple story of a woman growing up and finding herself. However, in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), it tells that tale in the most fantastical, imaginative, disturbing, and hilarious way possible. Words that, in fact, also describe the… Read more...
Elle Fanning gives The Great a final “Huzzah!”
Canceled in the middle of SAG-AFTRA’s now-successful multi-month work stoppage, Hulu’s historical satire The Great went down without a word from its cast. Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult were unable to discuss AMPTP projects while the strike continued, meaning that they couldn’t speak to the sudden demise of their… Read more...