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‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ Trailer: Emma Thompson Leads A Sex-Positive Sundance Romance

May 16, 2022 10:54 am

Sex-positive vibes for each and every age, even the 50+-year-old crowd? Yes, please. Following its terrific reception at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Searchlight Pictures is releasing “Good Lu...

‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ Review: Emma Thompson Is Terrific In Sophie Hyde’s Perceptive Look At Female Pleasure [Sundance]

Tomris Laffly

January 22, 2022 8:45 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

The complexities of female sexuality are still frustratingly misrepresented in mainstream cinema. In one corner, we have the eruptive rise of a certain type of one-dimensional badass feminism, featuring often ...

After ‘Cruella,’ Emma Stone Thinks ‘The Little Mermaid’s’ Ursula Is The Next Disney Villain Worthy Of An Origin Story

Charles Barfield

June 1, 2021 11:07 am

News

Though “Cruella” is the latest Disney film to test the hybrid Disney+/theatrical release model, the live-action film starring Emma Stone debuted with a solid $26.5 million after the long Memorial Day Weekend i...

Netflix’s ‘Matilda’ Musical Casts Andrea Riseborough & Stephen Graham As Matilda’s Parents

Rafael Motamayor

April 2, 2021 3:40 pm

News

When Andrea Riseborough joins the cast of your film, you know people will have to pay attention, which is exactly why I'm now a lot more interested in Netflix's adaptation of "Matilda," which has cast Riseboro...

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Lily James & Emma Thompson To Star In ‘Elizabeth’ Director’s First Feature In More Than A Decade

Charles Barfield

November 2, 2020 10:05 am

News

Director Shekhar Kapur has been relatively quiet, in terms of feature films, for more than a decade now. The director of the Oscar-nominated features “Elizabeth” and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” has yet to make...

‘Dolittle’: It’s Time For A Mercy Killing To Put Down This Ailing Franchise [Review]

Asher Luberto

January 15, 2020 9:21 pm

News, Reviews

History is doomed to repeat itself and “Dolittle,” the latest Hollywood remake, based on 20th Century Fox's "Doctor Dolittle," hasn’t learned from its mistakes. Richard Fleischer's 1967 musical iteration faile...

Emilia Clarke Finds It “Bloody Annoying” That Everyone Wants To Spoil ‘Last Christmas’ & Says It’s “Misdirected Energy”

Charles Barfield

November 8, 2019 1:09 pm

News

With Halloween just a little more than a week behind us, it’s clearly time to move into the Christmas season, right? Well, in Hollywood, that seems to be the case, as this weekend marks the debut of the season’...

‘Last Christmas’ Is A Bad Holiday Rom-Com That Squanders Its Dazzling Stars [Review]

Kimber Myers

November 6, 2019 9:50 am

News, Reviews

Readymade to play on an endless loop on Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas for the next decade — or at least as long as actual TV channels continue to exist — “Last Christmas” is as flimsy and disposable as holida...

Ellen Burstyn & Emma Thompson Sign On For Livia De Paolis’ Female-Led Peter Pan Tale, ‘The Lost Girls’

Charles Barfield

September 12, 2019 1:02 pm

News

Just when you think the Peter Pan fairy tale had been examined from all angles (including the Nirvana/grunge angle *shudder*), Hollywood goes and gives you a version of the story that you have yet to see, with ...

2020 Best Supporting Actress Contenders & Predictions

Gregory Ellwood

July 3, 2019 4:10 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Like most of this season so far, the Supporting Actress race is full of longshots and "Well, if this happens..." contenders. Maybe Laura Dern and Jennifer Lopez have the most momentum going for them for their ...

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