In addition to being a really great actor, Wagner Moura is also a filmmaker in his own right. Not only has he directed episodes of “Narcos,” but he also helmed the 2019 film, “Marighella.” And for his second feature, “Last Night at the Lobster,” it appears he’s landed an impressive cast.

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According to Deadline, Wagner Moura is set to star in and direct “Last Night at the Lobster.” Joining Moura in the cast are none other than Sofia Carson, Brian Tyree Henry, and Elisabeth Moss.

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Max Minghella’s “Shell” follows in the grand tradition of lurid comedies, like Robert Zemeckis’ “Death Becomes Her,” which satirizes societal pressures on women to look youthful and vital into the later stages of life. “Shell” is purposefully designed to be campy, silly, fun—mainstream entertainment with topical bite. And Minghella largely succeeds in his admittedly modest ambitions. It’s too bad he’s had his lunch eaten by Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” a film with an identical premise and analogous execution but a much higher profile.

Continue reading ‘Shell’ Review: Elizabeth Moss & Kate Hudson Skewer Hollywood Ageism With Playful Slasher Comedy [TIFF] at The Playlist.

When one thinks of auteur-driven Peak TV in the streaming age, the first shows that generally come to mind are “House Of Cards” (2013) with David Fincher at the helm (at least for the first few eps), “True Detective” (2014) by director Cary Fukunaga, and Steven Soderbergh’s “The Knick” (2014). Crucial to the mix, but sometimes missing in that conversation, is Jane Campion’s “Top Of The Lake” starring Elisabeth Moss, which debuted in 2013, right at the beginning of this new second golden age of TV.

Continue reading Elisabeth Moss Says “‘Top Of The Lake’ Has More To Say” & Wants To Reunite With Jane Campion For Season 3 at The Playlist.

Moviegoers may not remember, but back in February 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic took over the globe, Leigh Whannell‘s “The Invisible Man” raked at the box office. The horror remake was a mega-hit for Blumhouse and Universal, making over 20x its budget at the box office before movie theaters shuttered their doors for months just a few weeks later. So that begs the question: why haven’t Whannell and star Elisabeth Moss made a sequel?

Continue reading ‘Invisible Man’: Elisabeth Moss Teases Sequel To Leigh Whannell’s 2020 Smash Hit: “We Are Closer Than We’ve Ever Been To Cracking It” at The Playlist.

There’s an intriguing show somewhere buried within the mysterious shrouds of “The Veil,” the new FX international spy drama from creator/writer Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”), that’s just a little too slippery for its own good. Truthfully, it’s there front and center from the start, a series about shapeshifting spies that lose their sense of identity and self because of all the surreptitious double lives they are leading, a strong concept.

Continue reading ‘The Veil’ Review: Obsessive Elisabeth Moss Spy Drama Gets Buried Under Melodrama at The Playlist.

Two heavyweights of prestige TV, Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and Kerry Washington (“Scandal”) are teaming up for a new high-profile streaming series titled “Imperfect Women.” Apple TV+ announced yesterday that the limited series is based on the gripping novel by Araminta Hall, which is sure to leave audiences eagerly anticipating its release.

Annie Weisman will adapt “Imperfect Women” as both writer and executive producer for television.

Continue reading ‘Imperfect Women’: Elisabeth Moss & Kerry Washington To Star In Apple TV+ Series at The Playlist.

How far will one woman go to stop a disaster?” The Veil” contrasts two distinct characters. One is set on a deadly path that could lead to a global crisis, while the other seeks to stop her plans by any means necessary. Elisabeth Moss stars in the FX Productions drama and is also an executive producer under her Love & Squalor Pictures banner. Yumna Marwan, Dali Benssalah, and Josh Charles round out the cast.

Continue reading ‘The Veil’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss’ New FX Thriller Series From Steven Knight Debuts April 30 at The Playlist.

Let’s get to the new and then get to the semi-old, something we missed back in the day. Indiewire recently invited over 35 filmmakers to participate in a list of their favorite films of 2023. One of the filmmakers is the always-controversial Paul Schrader, who has named “Master Gardener” his own movie, one of his fave films of 2023.

Schader’s list in order goes like this:

• Master Gardener
• Oppenheimer
• Barbie
• American Fiction
• Maestro
• Fallen Leaves
• Leave the World Behind
• Last Summer

READ MORE: Paul Schrader Reveals Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’ Will Recreate & Reimagine ’70s Films Like ‘Rolling Thunder’

Gotta love that he put it above Christopher Nolan and Greta Gerwig’s highest-grossing films of 2023 movies.

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You’ll recall in 2014, there was the ridiculously entertaining documentary “Next Goal Wins.” Directed by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison, the doc follows Thomas Rongen, a Dutch soccer coach hired to lead the national team for American Samoa. This famously pitiful outfit spent nearly two decades at the bottom of FIFA’s international rankings. So that true story has been brought to life by Taika Waitii (“Thor: Ragnarok”) in a very similar but more humorously imagined comedy called, you guessed it, “Next Goal Wins.”

READ MORE: ‘Next Goal Wins’ Review: Taika Waititi Scores With An Underdog Soccer Comedy [TIFF]

Starring Michael Fassbender as the constantly-peeved but ultimately caring Dutch coach, “Next Goal Wins” tells the same story of triumph over adversity in a feel-good underdog narrative.

Continue reading ‘Next Goal Wins’ Trailer: Taika Waititi’s Soccer Comedy With Michael Fassbender Is A Feel-Good Underdog Story at The Playlist.

TIFF 2023 gets underway tomorrow, and that means plenty of world premieres over its ten-day schedule. And there several movies debuting in Toronto to get excited about, like Brian Helgeland‘s “Finestkind,” the GameStop short comedy “Dumb Money,” and the star-studded New England noir “Reptile,” which makes the feature debut for Grant Singer.

READ MORE: TIFF 2023: Taika Waititi’s ‘Next Goal Wins’ Starring Michael Fassbender Will Premiere In Toronto

And there’s also Taika Waititi‘s “Next Goal Wins,” which has its world premiere at TIFF this weekend.

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As the lead-up to the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, so too does the film market at the festival. And Black Bear International will have a very enticing project for sale on the Croisette: “Shell,” a thriller starring Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, and Kaia Gerber.

READ MORE: Cannes 2023: Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Hypnotic’ Joins New Films From Catherine Corsini & More In Lineup

“Teen Spirit‘ director and actor Max Minghella will direct the film, a thriller set in the near future as humanity’s cultural obsession with youth and beauty reaches disturbing new extremes.

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After two “Thor” movies and taking on Nazi Germany in 2019’s “Jojo Rabbit,” what’s a film project Taika Watiti could do to spice things up? How about a sports movie about undergods that the director deems as “basically the “Cool Runnings” of soccer”? Enter “Next Goal Wins,” Waititi’s new film out next April, about the true story of an American Samoan soccer team who went from one of the worst teams in the world to an elite squad.

Continue reading ‘Next Goal Wins’ First Look: Taika Waititi’s Next Film Tells The Underdog Story Of One Of The World’s Worst Soccer Teams at The Playlist.

A lot has changed since the award-winning adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s seminal dystopian novel premiered on Hulu in 2017. Handmaid red and white (designed by Ane Crabtree in Season 1) has become a go-to ensemble for those protesting restrictions on reproductive rights across the globe. There might be a different administration in the White House, but the landscape remains fraught, and “The Handmaid’s Tale” is the standard pop culture reference when discussing such oppressive laws.

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Though it is set in a dystopic future, there are many who would say that “The Handmaid’s Tale” has become more and more realistic with each passing day. Women’s rights, especially when it comes to reproductive rights, are seemingly under attack, and the oppression seen in the show seems to be a possible glimpse into our own future. So, maybe as we enter Season 5 of the Emmy-winning series, “The Handmaid’s Tale” will become more popular than ever before, as people discover that this alternate history, dystopia isn’t all that far-fetched.

Continue reading ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 5 Trailer: Hulu’s Award-Winning Drama Returns Next Month at The Playlist.

Maybe this is a bit of a hot take, but has FX officially replaced HBO as the premier destination for “prestige” TV, yet? Shows like “Fargo,” “Atlanta,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” and “Mayans M.C.” have been on for years and really showcased the quality that FX strives for. Then you have newer entries like “Reservation Dogs,” “The Bear,” “The Old Man,” and “Dave,” showcasing that FX really is just a non-stop factory of great TV.

Continue reading ‘The Veil’: Elisabeth Moss To Star In New FX Series From ‘Peaky Blinders’ Creator Steven Knight at The Playlist.

Elisabeth Moss is killing it right now, and as we detailed in our interview with the actress last week about her new Apple TV+ series “Shining Girls,” she is becoming a major triple threat, evolving from an actor who is instrumental in calling the shot, producing and directing nearly everything she appears in. Just like Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” of which Moss is the lead and now a producer and one of the directors, on “Shining Girls”—an ambitious series about an assault victim, a time-traveling serial killer, and a journalistic procedural to catch the killer—she took on a similar role on a (read our review here).

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Elisabeth Moss might be the “queen of trauma” (my words), expertly navigating harrowing emotional stories in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Invisible Woman,” and in her new Apple TV+ series, “Shining Girls,” but she’s also, more importantly, become a triple threat. Having produced, directed, and starred in “The Handmaid’s Tale”—directing several episodes last season and directing the first two episodes and finale for season five—Moss has taken on a holistic view of the show, and she’s applied the same approach to “Shining Girls.”

Adapted and executive produced by Silka Luisa, who also serves as showrunner, “Shining Girls” is based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel of the same name and follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions are put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault that nearly kills her.

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This week Apple TV+ released an inside-look trailer/featurette for their upcoming series “Shining Girls,” which began streaming on Friday, April 29. Based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Beukes, it follows Kirby Mazrachi (Elizabeth Moss), a newspaper archivist and wannabe journalist recovering from a traumatic assault. When Kirby reads about a recent murder that resembles her own attack, she suspects that a serial killer is on the loose.

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Serial killers are a popular source of inspiration whether true-crime adaptations, network procedurals (including a touted “Criminal Minds” revival), or fictional stories. Audiences have been lapping up gruesome material long before television entered the fray and subverting or introducing a different perspective in this genre is a tall task.  

Apple TV+’s new limited series “Shining Girls” valiantly takes on this challenge with a story that offers a reality-shifting approach to trauma in the aftermath of a horrifying attack.

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When Jane Campion returned with 2021’s Oscar-nominated “The Power Of The Dog,” there was much talk about the New Zealand filmmaker’s return and her 12-year absence from feature filmmaking. However, often missing in that narrative was the fact that Campion never went anywhere. All she did was pivot to television and two seasons of “Top Of The Lake” (2013 and then 2017), so acclaimed and anticipated at the time, it was invited to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and is largely regarded as some of the best TV of the decade.

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Coming off a win for Best Picture (“CODA”) and featuring a slew of critically-acclaimed series this year, Apple TV+ is really having a moment right now. April will likely give them two more critically-acclaimed series, “Slow Horses” with Gary Oldman and an intriguing metaphysical thriller called “Shining Girls” starring and executive produced by Emmy Award-winning actress Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”).

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When Elisabeth Moss stars in a TV show, people take notice. Thanks to her roles on “Mad Men,” “Top Of The Lake,” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Moss’ name nowadays virtually guarantees a must-watch series. Now, while Hulu subscribers wait for Season 5 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” there’s a new show starring Moss to keep fans of hers busy.

READ MORE: The 70 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2022

“Shining Girls,” based on Lauren Beuke’s bestselling novel of the same name, hits AppleTV+ this spring.

Continue reading ‘Shining Girls’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Searches For Her Attacker In New AppleTV+ Thriller This April at The Playlist.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Our last streaming and buying guide of the year offers up plenty of fun for those of you lucky enough to have some time off— a handful of ace new releases, an eclectic assortment of catalog titles, and a must-have box set for martial arts aficionados.

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Last year, it seemed like Elisabeth Moss was signing up for a ton of new projects, including a couple of new TV series and some films. One of those projects is the upcoming Hulu series, “Candy,” from the creators of “The Act.” And apparently, the streamer is ready to move ahead with a season of the series, but unfortunately, it seems that Moss is just too darn busy to stay attached, being replaced by Jessica Biel.

Continue reading ‘Candy’: Jessica Biel Replaces Elisabeth Moss In Hulu’s Upcoming True Crime Series at The Playlist.

Even for a show as harrowing as Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the fourth season of the series, based on Margaret Atwood‘s famous dystopian novel and cautionary tale, is surprisingly bleak. Granted, a show dealing with an apocalyptically totalitarian society, known as Gilead, that subjects women, known as “Handmaids,” to child-bearing slavery and servitude, isn’t much of a joyride. However, in the series’ fourth season, the protagonist and central handmaiden, June Osborne’s (Elisabeth Moss) personal demons, threaten to undermine and engulf her in a way that’s unsettling.

Continue reading ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Bleak & Harrowing, But Still Undercut By Its White Feminist Perspective [Review] at The Playlist.