It’s uncommon but not unheard of for a director to premiere two feature films in the space of a calendar year, but in the United States, Guy Ritchie‘s going to do the likes of Hong Sang-soo one better by releasing new films in consecutive months. Operation Fortune (which was supposed to be out in 2022, […]
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The filmmaker behind the remarkable Saint Omer explains how her own experience informed the creation of her intimate legal drama. The Saint Omer press tour has been intense for Alice Diop. “My first interview was a Black journalist who asked me just one question, then she started crying, and we fell apart together.” The writer/director […]
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First it was Regé-Jean Page, now it’s his co-star: Actress Phoebe Dynevor is the second Bridgerton lead to announce she will not appear in a subsequent season of the hit Netflix drama. In an interview with Screen Rant during January’s Sundance Film Festival, at which the actress’s film Fair Play premiered, a journalist asked if […]
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Spoilers ahead. One of the freakiest sequences in the premiere episode of HBO’s The Last of Us takes place not when the hordes of mindless infected attack, but when an epidemiologist is asked for his thoughts on pandemics. During a flashback to 1968 in the episode’s opening scene, this epidemiologist—a man named Dr. Neuman—appears calm […]
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Fifty films down, fifty films to go, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what we’re hoping to see at the cinema next year. Have we missed something you’re counting down the days until? Let us know by tweeting us @LWLies. 51. Cocaine Bear (Elizabeth Banks, Universal) He’s a bear. He’s taken a shitload of […]
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Welcome to the new year! As always, it’s time to look forward to the films we’re hoping to see hit the cinema and festival circuit this year, from blockbusters to indies, and 2023 is shaping up to provide something to satisfy just about every viewer. Let us know what you’re excited to see by tweeting […]
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On her sophomore album Hold the Girl, Rina Sawayama, the breakout British artist known for the mashup style of her 2020 debut—Y2K pop meets nu-metal meets ‘90s R&B—doubles down on her sonic signature. This time, she hones in on the sounds of early 2000s adult contemporary radio, updating them with stadium-sized drum fills and stomping […]
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It’s been 25 years since the release of Titanic, James Cameron’s record-breaking epic that chronicles a doomed romance aboard the disaster-bound ship, and audiences still have a lot of opinions about it. ‘Jack could have fit on that door’, ‘Cal is a ridiculous villain’ – you know the drill. The most common complaint, though, is […]
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Yellowstone has always been a series interested in, if not outright obsessed with, legacy. That of the Yellowstone Ranch, upon which the fictional Dutton family has lived since the late 1800s, is foremost in the mind of patriarch John Dutton III, played by Kevin Costner with the gruff bluster of a cowboy past his prime. […]
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At face value, the world of Pandora should be too big to fail. Director James Cameron has crafted a true blockbuster setting, the result of astounding visual effects that render 10-foot cerulean aliens as humanistic as our wrinkles and pores in the mirror. The newest entry in this cinematic universe, Avatar: The Way of Water, […]
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