Holler Review Jessica Barden Gets Gritty In Slice Of Life Drama

Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Riegel (and inspired by her own coming-of-age in the Ohio Rust Belt and her earlier short film of the same name), “Holler” sets the “End of the F**king World” star as something of a Riegel surrogate: high school senior Ruth, sassy and brassy, smart and driven, and trapped by the circumstances of her life and family. The film calls to mind other movies about young strivers stuck in economically challenged American towns, from “Winter’s Bone” to “Hillbilly Elegy” (the film is set in Jackson, Ohio, technically part of the Appalachian section of the state)....

December 14, 2022 · 4 min · 799 words · Lisa Prichard

House Of Gucci Trailer Lady Gaga And Adam Driver

Written by Roberto Bentivegna and based on the Sarah Gay Gorden book “The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed,” Scott’s upcoming film casts Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, who was convicted of orchestrating the assassination of her ex-husband and former head of the Gucci fashion house, Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver). Reggiani served 16 years in prison for the crime. The ensemble cast also includes Al Pacino as Aldo Gucci, Jared Leto as Paolo Gucci, Jeremy Irons as Rodolfo Gucci, and Camille Cottin as Paola Franchi, plus Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, and Reeve Carney....

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 401 words · Edward Perez

House Of The Dragon Episode 8 Descends Into Full Tilt Petty Drama

With episodes that have so far included a fatal beating at a wedding and a child knife fight, Episode 8, “The Lord of the Tides,” provides some good-old fashioned pettiness — perhaps something to look on fondly in the weeks and years to come. After the unexpected decapitation of Vaemond Velaryon (Wil Johnson), King Viserys (Paddy Considine) insists on hosting a family dinner for his ill-behaved lineage. The king can no longer pretend that everyone in the room likes each other, but he hopes that this one meal (his last) can do what no other did and unite them — that if nothing else, the sight of their patriarch clearly on his last legs will inspire some loyalty, humility, and love....

December 14, 2022 · 5 min · 946 words · Erica Braun

Industry Trailer Hbo Finance Drama Sets November Release Date

The upcoming series stars Myha’la Herrold (“The Tattooed Heart”), Marisa Abela (“Cobra”), Harry Lawtey (“City of Tiny Lights”), David Jonsson (“Deep State”) and Nabhaan Rizwan (“Mogul Mowgli”) as “The Graduates” and Conor MacNeill (“Artemis Fowl”), Freya Mavor (“Skins”), Will Tudor (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”) and Ken Leung (HBO’s “High Maintenance”) as “Management.” Per HBO: “Industry” will offer an insider’s view of the blackbox of high finance through the eyes of an outsider, Harper Stern (Herrold), a talented young woman from upstate New York....

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 387 words · Glinda Coleman

Invasion Teaser Apple Tv Sci Fi Series Sets October Premiere

“Invasion” is part of Apple’s efforts to bulk up its sci-fi offerings for the company’s streaming service. Apple TV+ is home to “See,” a Jason Momoa and Alfre Woodard-led series that will be returning for a second season in the future, as well as “Amazing Stories,” an anthology series that was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and premiered in March 2020. “Invasion” is the latest in a string of high-profile television shows for Kinberg....

December 14, 2022 · 1 min · 210 words · Michael Kittelberger

Inventing Anna Review Shonda Rhimes Netflix Series On Anna Delvey

At its best, “Inventing Anna” pushes this question forward by re-contextualizing it. Anna Delvey (real surname: Sorokin) may or may not be rich. Anna Delvey (played by “Ozark” Emmy winner Julia Garner) may or may not be a German heiress with a $65 million trust fund. Determining her value is often tied to determining her legitimacy, which is just one of the twisted false equivalencies Shonda Rhimes aims to untangle....

December 14, 2022 · 6 min · 1143 words · Leroy Elmore

La Fortuna Review Stanley Tucci Stars In Amc Plus Treasure Show

Add on the fact that Frank’s boat is in search of a vast, lost treasure on a sunken Spanish frigate not seen for two centuries and “La Fortuna” gets off to a rip-roaring start. Atlantis, Frank’s company designed to find underseas goodies and keep them in private control, holds a press conference on dry land to announce their success. That, in turn, kicks off a continent-spanning struggle to understand who the ship that gives this AMC+ series its name really belongs to....

December 14, 2022 · 5 min · 924 words · Curt Liedke

Letterkenny Season 9 Review Hulu S Small Town Import Wanders Afield

And yet, thanks to the release of Season 9 of Hulu’s “Letterkenny,” I’m suffering from far less homesickness than one would expect under the circumstances. For the uninitiated, the sitcom began its life as a YouTube series titled “Letterkenny Problems” before getting optioned into a TV show that premiered on Crave — a Canadian OTT streaming service — in 2016. But it wasn’t until the show’s arrival on Hulu in 2018 that “Letterkenny” arrived on America’s radar, yet another comedy series goofing on life in small town Canada....

December 14, 2022 · 5 min · 961 words · Glen Murphy

Luca Official Trailer Pixar S Coming Of Age Monster Movie

And while that might sound like fertile ground for a Pixar feature, “Luca” comes with a twist: both of the boys are sea monsters who become human on land, where they share scooter rides, swimming, pasta, and gelato, while hiding their secret. As Casarosa recently told IndieWire, the film was inspired by his own coming of age and best pal. “‘Luca’ was about my best friend, Alberto,” he explained in February....

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 317 words · Ruth Mansi

Mank Trailer David Fincher S Netflix Oscar Contender

“Mank” is a long-in-the-works passion project for Fincher as his father, Jack, wrote the screenplay before passing away in April 2003. The story centers on Herman J. Mankiewicz, the Oscar-winning co-writer of “Citizen Kane,” as he overcomes personal and professional battles to finish the script for Orson Welles’ iconic drama. “The Souvenir” breakout Tom Burke stars as Welles, The cast also includes Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies, Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst, Tom Pelphrey as Joseph L....

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 355 words · William Cano

Martin Margiela In His Own Words Review Reiner Holzemer S New Doc

Margiela technically left the fashion house he founded in 2009, but his vision has been carried on by his successors in occasional runway appearances and around the world in the brick-and-mortars housing the ready-to-wear Margiela line. The documentary shows how Margiela, Belgian-born but Paris-based, drew inspiration from surrealism as well as historical fashion to conjure a jolting clash of past and future. One of his first motifs was the jabot, essentially a decorative bib dating back to 17th-century royalty....

December 14, 2022 · 3 min · 579 words · Julia Sewell

Materna Review Dated Themes Mar Spellbinding Performances

Gutnik utilizes the technique of telling four separate stories, each spotlighting one woman on the train that day. We’ve seen this method of storytelling done so often in other independent features and when done poorly it feels like what it is: a gimmick. Here, there’s never a feeling of unity between the women at any point — outside of them being women with motherhood issues — so they play like four disparate stories with a highly tangential reason for being told as one....

December 14, 2022 · 5 min · 924 words · Edward Bent

No Time To Die Star Lashana Lynch On Building Her Female 007

“The last meeting that I had with [producer] Barbara Broccoli, [director] Cary Fukunaga, and Daniel Craig was one of many questions,” Lynch said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Because, [in] the last two meetings, I had read sides from other Bond films, and I didn’t know what the hell was going on. I didn’t know who she was going to be, what her name was, what she was representing, I didn’t know anything....

December 14, 2022 · 6 min · 1119 words · Deborah Salas

Obi Wan Kenobi Star Moses Ingram Was Warned About Star Wars Racism

After John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran received racist fan harassment following their respective roles in the recent Skywalker trilogy, the production company behind the franchise is bracing for backlash over POC stars. Moses Ingram, who plays a villainous Inquisitor in upcoming Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi” hunting the Jedi trainer (Ewan McGregor), revealed that Lucasfilm was proactive in media training ahead of the series premiering May 27. “It was something that Lucasfilm actually got in front of, and said, ‘This is a thing that, unfortunately, likely will happen....

December 14, 2022 · 3 min · 487 words · Javier Hobbins

Our Ties Review Roschdy Zem And Maiwenn S Brain Damage Comedy

He’s just that kind of guy – until he’s not. This boisterous Franco-Moroccan clan is thrown for a loop when family rock Moussa suffers a traumatic brain injury, turning him into a wholly different man. Where once he was accommodating, this altered father and brother now suffers no fools. The infirm Moussa now speaks without a filter, calling out the brood that built their own adult lives on his indulgence....

December 14, 2022 · 4 min · 788 words · Gerald Diamond

Pam Tommy Lily James Performance Should Make Society Rethink

From the minute the first photos dropped of Lily James and Sebastian Stan as the titular couple, social media lit up with shocked reactions about James’ full transformation into the “Baywatch” star. As James, who is primarily known for sweet roles in “Cinderella” and “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again,” told IndieWire, she was “gobsmacked” she would ever have popped into the brains of the creative team for a project like this — though she is drawing raves for her heartfelt, sobering performance....

December 14, 2022 · 6 min · 1220 words · Erika Stephens

Puss In Boots The Last Wish Review Shrek Spinoff Is A Winner

Puss in Boots (Banderas) has spent a lifetime performing daring deeds and laughing in the face of death. Eight lifetimes, in fact: after a particularly heroic battle, Puss finds out that he’s used up almost all of his nine lives, and only has one left. He’s not truly concerned, though, until he comes nose-to-nose with the Big Bad Wolf (Wagner Moura), a cloaked bounty hunter wielding two scythe blades who has never allowed a wanted criminal to escape....

December 14, 2022 · 3 min · 530 words · Pedro Ulcena

Rising Phoenix Review Netflix S Paralympics Documentary Is Gripping

Narrated by Paralympics advocate Prince Harry, “Rising Phoenix” will probably introduce you to some of the Paralympics’ most famous figures, and the disabilities that have become a tremendous asset in their respective fields, from skiing while blind and fencing in a wheelchair. You may recognize Tatyana McFadden, a Russian-American Paralympic celebrity who, in spite of her spina bifida perennially crushes it in the field of T54, where athletes with spinal cord injuries compete using a wheelchair in track events....

December 14, 2022 · 4 min · 741 words · Gabrielle Tuttle

Showing Up Trailer Kelly Reichardt Directs Portland Comedy

“Showing Up” marks the fourth collaboration between Reichardt and Williams. They first worked together on “Wendy and Lucy,” the 2008 film about a homeless woman’s quest for a lost dog, which helped establish Reichardt as a major independent filmmaker. They collaborated again on Meek’s Cutoff, a 2010 period piece about the harsh conditions that Oregon settlers faced in the mid-1800s. Most recently, Williams starred alongside Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern in “Certain Women,” Reichardt’s innovative adaptation of three Maile Meloy short stories that followed three women in a small Montana town whose lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways....

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 306 words · Wendy Evans

Small Axe Trailer Steve Mcqueen Teases Anthology Film

The television debut of McQueen, “Small Axe” comprises tales inspired by real-life events about ordinary people showing courage, belief, and resilience to overcome injustice and achieve something transformative in their West Indian community. Among the ensemble throughout “Small Axe,” which will begin rolling out on BBC One and Prime Video on November 20, are Letitia Wright, John Boyega, Malachi Kirby, Shaun Parkes, Rochenda Sandall, Alex Jennings, Jack Lowden, and Micheal Ward....

December 14, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · Michael Hanna