“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and starred in a drama about a clown in a concentration camp leading children into the gas chambers, people say: ‘What? …
Filmmaker Halina Reijn’s sex-positive erotic thriller Babygirl, starring Nichole Kidman in a characteristically bold performance, may have just changed the, errr… mood… at the Venice Film Festival. Babygirl‘s first press screenings in Italy received rapturous applause Friday morning, and the movie’s many sexual moments and thematically subtle message could be overheard sparking animated discussions among …
Halina Reijn wants to bridge Hollywood’s “orgasm gap.” “It’s huge! Huge!” the Dutch actress-turned-director exclaims, gesticulating wildly over our Zoom call to discuss her new film, Babygirl. “In Hollywood movies, we still see women having orgasms that are physically just not possible, at least for 99 percent of women!” The orgasms in Babygirl, which premieres …
HAL, that sentient computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, has a lot to answer for, not least the flood of lesser demon-computer movies that have followed in the decades since. Afraid, about a family whose experimental home assistant is like an Alexa device’s evil twin, is the latest to use artificial intelligence as the villain, …
Blake Lively‘s brother-in-law Bart Johnson is coming to her defense amid a wave of controversy she’s faced surrounding her film It Ends With Us. The High School Musical actor, who’s married to Blake’s older sister Robyn Lively, responded to a comment on his recent Instagram post, where he shared a birthday tribute to Blake. “Shame she’s so set …
A documentary short film focused on Vice President Kamala Harris is set to hit theaters weeks ahead of this year’s presidential election. Filmmakers Samir Zakir and Gerard Pizarro co-directed Kamala, which aims to share untold stories behind Harris’ journey by using anecdotes, animation and interviews with prominent entertainers, family members, close friends and key politicians. …
Winona Ryder became so famous at the start of her career that it began costing her jobs she really wanted because “there was baggage” that came with her being in a project. The Oscar-nominated actress spoke with Esquire UK ahead of the release of her upcoming film, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, during which she opened up about …
It took Tim Burton 36 years to take on the second installment of his Beetlejuice franchise, and the director thinks it could take another few decades for a third. The cast and crew of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice descended on London’s Leicester Square Thursday night, fresh off the plane from the 81st Venice Film Festival, to usher …
[This story contains major spoilers for Strange Darling.] There was a period of time when Strange Darling filmmaker JT Mollner didn’t want to give a detailed interview like this one. He intended for his thoughts on his six-chaptered, nonlinear thriller to correspond with a tight-lipped marketing campaign that sets a deviant predator in motion as …
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (BPM) stars as a troubled jockey whose identity shifts radically after a serious accident on the track in Kill the Jockey (El Jockey), a Venice Film Festival entry by Argentinian director Luis Ortega (El Angel, Dromómanos). Visually lush and full of playful mystery, this equestrian-themed psychological thriller-comedy-whatsit strikes plenty of poses that …