Ella McCay is hitting theaters this holiday season, and it marks director James L. Brooks' first feature film in 15 years. Known for romantic dramedies with biting wit, Brooks' latest project fails to live up to his great works such as Broadcast News and As Good as It Gets. The new film takes place
The exciting thing about awards season is its unpredictability. There are early favorites, last-minute contenders that step into the ring, and sometimes there are movies that cement their spot and remain there until the season is over. There are also circumstances where movies appear to be awards
Luca Guadagnino’s body of work looks like a roller coaster when you chart the genres involved. Everything from horror (Suspiria) to biopics (Queer) has seen the Italian filmmaker operating on a broad spectrum of tone - always leaving his mark in one way or another. After the Hunt is no exception,
Ella McCay has a trailer and a brand-new poster ahead of the movie’s release. James L. Brooks is directing again, after a 15-year absence. Emma Mackey stars opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in Ella McCay. Mackey's young lawyer is learning to navigate the world around her. Curtis is a supportive aunt who
Celebrity, stan culture, and pop culture media collide in A24’s Opus. The film follows the sudden resurgence of a legendary pop star, Moretti, who mysteriously went off the grid thirty years ago. Now, Moretti’s back - and he’s dropping a new album. But when Ariel, a young writer waiting on her
Celebrity obsessions, pop culture icons, and cult dynamics collide in the upcoming A24 thriller Opus. The film sees a young writer, Ariel (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri), drawn into the fray of Moretti (John Malkovich), an iconic musician who vanished decades ago and suddenly resurfaces. But Ariel soon
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely