It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since the release of David Michôd’s most recent film, “The King.” He was on such a roll, releasing films at a steady clip until then. But it appears the filmmaker is coming back with an all-star cast for his next film. 

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According to Black Bear, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O’Brian, Ethan Embry, Jess Gabor, and Chad L.

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Following acclaimed dramas like “New Order,” “Chronic” and “Sundown,” Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco has been gaining more and more international praise. While he’s worked with globally recognized names like Tim Roth (“Chronic,” “Sundown”), Hollywood has finally come knocking in a big way with his latest film, “Memory” which stars Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, who won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

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It’s hard to encapsulate the cinema of a particular filmmaker in just one word, but if one were to try their hand at it with Mexican maverick Michel Franco, a word that’d come to mind is violence. The filmmaker’s work is built upon the looming expectation of violent transgression, society standing flimsy atop the fragile idea of cordiality. Such benevolence, sustained by the centuries-old notion of polite society, is easier to break within the intimate confines of the family home, a sentiment Franco explores to the very limits of shock and emotional obliteration within his body of work. 

Continue reading ‘Memory’ Review: Jessica Chastain & Peter Saarsgard Star In Michel Franco’s Stunted Observation On Trauma [Venice] at The Playlist.

It has been nearly a decade since Reese Witherspoon received an Oscar nomination for playing Cheryl Strayed in “Wild.” The adaptation of Strayed’s unforgettable memoir marked Witherspoon’s first major foray into producing, a role that has since turned book club into a TV empire (including “Big Little Lies,” “The Morning Show,” and “Daisy Jones & The Six”).

Continue reading ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Review: Kathryn Hahn Is Captivating In A Terrific Adaptation   at The Playlist.

The new women-centric Apple TV+ anthology series “Roar” is extremely literal. Across its eight episodes, a trophy wife lives on a shelf, an ignored woman disappears, and a frustrated wife returns her husband to a big box store. Its short fables are so on the nose that, were the words of this review somehow incorporated into one of the episode’s scripts, viewers would likely see a woman with the show’s title balanced just above her nostrils.

Continue reading ‘Roar’ Review: Apple TV+’s Dark Feminist Fables Anthology Series Offers Very Strange & Mixed Results at The Playlist.

Since “GLOW” was unceremoniously canceled after Netflix gave the green light to begin work on a final season, it appears the creators of that show are ready to take their talents to Apple TV+ for anew anthology series, “Roar.” And they’re bringing a pretty amazing cast of actresses with them.

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According to THR, Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie have been cast in the upcoming Apple TV+ anthology series, “Roar.” The show comes from “GLOW” creators, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.

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In the hyper-connected modern world of everyone extremely online, the one that got away is an obsolete concept. He/she/they is perhaps only just one text message away and perhaps just one step away from daring you to jump off the cliff of normalcy into blissful self-destruction. So the longing romantic fantasy of what if?, underscored by the underpinnings of life’s routines and inherent romantic dissatisfactions, is explored with scintillating, flirty, flinty pleasure in HBO’s romantic comedy cum thriller mini-series, “Run.” From creator Vicky Jones, a frequent collaborator of “Fleabag” creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, also an executive producer and guest star in the series, and starring Merritt Wever (“Unbelievable,” “Godless”) and Domhnall Gleeson (“Ex Machina,” “Rise Of Skywalker”), ”Run” has all the trappings of a terrifically entertaining series about secret romantic pacts, unfulfilled desire, star crossed destinies, and perhaps the manic thrill of blowing up your life all in the name of a sensual romp between two people with electric chemistry.

Continue reading ‘Run’: Merritt Wever Is The MVP In HBO’s Frisky Tryst Series From Vicky Jones & Phoebe Waller-Bridge [Review] at The Playlist.

Maybe it’s just in movies and TV shows or it’s actually something that real people do, but you’re probably aware of the idea of marriage/love pacts between friends. Y’know, something along the lines of, “If we’re not married by 35, we’ll marry each other.” In the new series, “Run,” that idea of a relationship pact is taken to the next level.

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As seen in the first full trailer for “Run,” the HBO series follows the story of a woman that finds herself at a crossroads in her life, where she’s unhappy with the direction she’s going in but unable to do anything about it.

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HBO’s ‘’Run’’ is another in a long line of woman-who-needs-saving-from-dreadful-life stories. For this series, however, a text-based twist gives her the push to somehow move. Of course, it just happens to be a guy from her past behind the message.

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“Run” comes from co-creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Waller-Bridge is everywhere right now, much to do with the success of her series “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve.” The multi-hyphenate has been on the usual Hollywood rocket ride that pushes talent to meteoric rises.

Continue reading ‘Run’ Trailer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Latest Series Hits HBO This April at The Playlist.

Since its earliest venture into true crime, Netflix has hooked viewers on the world’s most perplexing cases. The details of these—from the mysterious fire poker of “The Staircase” fame to the shocking abuse of police power in “Making a Murderer” —have made amateur sleuths of us all. The streaming platform hasn’t quite spanned the entire gamut of crimes as yet, but the latest addition to its whodunit shelf is a step in the right direction.

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“Somebody crowd me with love. Somebody force me to care,” Adam Driver sings, practically sneers, at a pivotal moment in filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s blistering new divorce drama, “Marriage Story,” his voice hemorrhaging, quivering with unbearable emotion, rising with searing anger but also pure, distilled desperation. “Somebody let me come through, I’ll always be there, As frightened as you, To help us survive!” he roars in his literal cry for help, belting out Stephen Sondheim’s “Being Alive,” from the 1970 musical play “Company,” like he’s gasping for air, looking to claw at the nearest life preserver and hold on for dear life.

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Did you know that about 50% of American marriages end in divorce? Well, ‘Marriage Story’ will showcase the struggle of going through one across the country. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach (“Margot At The Wedding,” “Frances Ha,” “The Meyerowitz Stories“), the film sees couple Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman,” “The Report”) and Scarlett Johansson (“The Avengers”) going through a tough coast-to-coast divorce.

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Another day, another trailer for an upcoming Netflix series that you probably didn’t know existed but suddenly you have to see immediately. Today, that series is “Unbelievable.”

As seen in the trailer for “Unbelievable,” the crime thriller follows the story of two female cops on the case of a serial rapist that leaves no evidence. The problem that these investigators find is that because there is no evidence, the women that are coming forward aren’t being believed by local law enforcement.

Continue reading ‘Unbelievable’ Trailer: Toni Collette & Merritt Wever Are On The Hunt For A Serial Rapist In New Netflix Drama Series at The Playlist.

Director Mary Harron is best known for bringing one of fiction’s most notorious killers to the screen with Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho,” and now she’s focusing on one of the real world’s most infamous villains. But while Charlie Manson is the figure ostensibly at the heart of “Charlie Says,” Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner center their story more on a trio of women who devoted themselves to the charismatic cult leader, sharing their experience with Manson as well as in prison for the crimes they committed at his command.

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There’s a lot of buzz surrounding Toni Collette right now. The actress stars in the new film, “Hereditary,” which is drawing immense praise and early awards talk, and rightfully so. Collette owns every frame that she appears in. And with everyone on the Toni Collette bandwagon right now, we’re all really excited for what’s next.

According to Variety, one of her upcoming projects sees the actress team up with the director of “The Kids Are All Right” for a series titled “Unbelievable.” The story follows two detectives, played by Collette and Merritt Wever (“Godless”), as they investigate a case where a young teen girl is accused about lying about being raped.

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You don’t need great performances for a great movie, we suppose — Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s mesmerizing 2016 documentary/art piece “Homo Sapiens,” for instance, doesn’t feature a single human being on screen and is still excellent. But on the whole, the two things go hand in hand: it’s impossible to imagine “Lawrence Of Arabia” without Peter O’Toole, “Star Wars” without Harrison Ford, “Cabaret” without Liza Minnelli, or “Tokyo Story” without Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama, to name but a few.

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After “The Punisher,” and “Stranger Things” “Alias Grace,” and “Mindhunter,” Netflix is on a serious roll of quality programming and therefore the Bingeworthy™ Breakdown is back and busier than ever.

This week, we’re looking at Scott Frank’s western “Godless.” Scott Frank is known for writing “Minority Report,” “Logan,” ‘Get Shorty” and for directing “The Lookout” and “A Walk Among The Tombstones.” The self-contained, seven episode mini-series stars Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell (“Starred Up”), Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”) and Scoot McNairy (“Halt And Catch Fire”).

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