The second film in the five-part Fantastic Beasts series is currently in production, and the early glimpses confirm that the wardrobe will remain as exquisitely lush and detailed as in the first. Oh, and Jude Law has joined the cast as a young Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, who will one day grow a very long…
The first thing we see and can never unsee in The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is a gaping chest cavity: flesh and bone parted to expose the organ inside, pumping frantically away in extreme close-up. To open with open-heart surgery sends an awfully clear message: Abandon all hope/concern that Yorgos Lanthimos, the now…
With 2015’s The Lobster, Greek weirdo auteur Yorgos Lanthimos achieved a surprising level of mainstream success in the States, given his film was about a dystopian alternate reality where people are turned into animals if they fail to find a mate in 45 days. But whereas that film was a darkly comic drama, bordering on…
Earlier this year, we reported that both Michael Keaton and Colin Farrell were circling big roles in Tim Burton’s live-action remake of Dumbo, and Disney finally took some time off from Star Wars and Marvel announcements over the weekend to confirm the Dumbo movie’s cast. According to Collider, Keaton and Farrell will…
Beneath the incessant chirp of crickets, explosions rumble like distant thunder. Somewhere nearby, cannons are firing away. For the girls and the women of Sofia Coppola’s elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, this daily broadcast from the front lines—muffled by the foliage, accompanying the…
The cast for Steve McQueen’s upcoming Widows is already an exciting mix of established stars like Viola Davis and acclaimed up-and-comers like Tony-winner Cynthia Erivo. And now it seems it may be adding yet another intriguing player to its already stacked cast, which includes Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, and…
We will have our Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunion, it seems, but it won’t be in a Beetlejuice sequel (or another Batman movie, which is too bad). According to Variety, Keaton’s in talks to star in Burton’s latest, the partially live-action Dumbo movie. If all goes well, the Birdman star will play the man who buys…
Variety reports that Colin Farrell is the latest big-name star to enter talks to take the lead in Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo remake for Disney. Farrell would play the father of the kids who befriend the flying elephant, a part previously offered to Will Smith, Chris Pine, and Casey Affleck, all of whom passed it…
According to Variety, Colin Farrell will be reuniting with Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos for a new Amazon miniseries about Oliver North and the Iran-Contra scandal. Naturally, handsome Irishman Colin Farrell will play not-so-disgraced military man Oliver North, and though we don’t know much about the specifics of…
Colin Farrell and Denzel Washington might be teaming up for a new legal thriller. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Farrell and Washington are both in talks to star in Inner City, a new film from Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy. The film would hinge on the contrast between Washington, playing a socially awkward…
The institution of Miss Golden Globe—in which the usually female spawn of a celebrity serves as both eye candy and air traffic controller for the titular awards ceremony—is a peculiar one that can feel like a relic of bygone days. But, according to an extensive story about the history of the gig in The Hollywood Reporter
Patchy but occasionally charming, the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them delivers most of what has come to be expected from J.K. Rowling’s book series and its successful film adaptations: a hidden world of wizards, prejudices, and bureaucracies, threatened by fascist dark forces from within;…
Anthony Hopkins, of course, knows a thing or two about brilliant serial killers, having played the role of Hannibal Lecter multiple times. Now he’s back on that beat with Solace. Hopkins stars as John Clancy, a psychic hunting a murderer (Colin Farrell, looking serene) who shares those gifts. The set-up seems a bit…
The latest—and most extensive so far—look at the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them dives into Newt Scamander’s (Eddie Redmayne) briefcase, a world filled with creatures majestic, fearsome, and cute. That little green twig dude is especially sweet-looking. Well, if we want to get technical,…
Let’s be real, this probably hasn’t happened since 1995, but it’s time to get really excited about something Alicia Silverstone is doing. You see, the Silverstonaissance (Silverstone Age?) is nigh. According to Deadline, the erstwhile Cher Horowitz has been cast in the next film from The Lobster director Yorgos…
It looks like Colin Farrell is keeping his “weird romance” streak going. Variety is reporting that the The Lobster star is closing in on a new role in Sofia Coppola’s remake of deeply skewed love/lust story The Beguiled, playing the role originated by Clint Eastwood in the 1971 original.
Sixteen years in, our new millennium looks like a banner age for big-screen comedy, as eclectic as any that came before it. This is when Will Ferrell transformed the multiplex into a deliriously Dadaist screaming match; when Edgar Wright and David Wain perfected the art of the spoof, even as the Epic Movie crowd…
Yorgos Lanthimos’ bizarre explorations of the human condition have steadily increased in star power over the years, moving from the relative unknowns who played the deranged family in Dogtooth, up to his recent The Lobster, which featured a star-studded cast that included Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw, and Léa Seydoux.…
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster and Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise are both dystopian black comedies. Both are set mostly in one building, both feature gruesome violence, both have a lonely bachelor for a protagonist, and both were made in the UK— but other than that, they’ve got basically nothing in common. On this week’s…
In the latest edition of his Indiewire column James + Semaj—which has Franco discussing films with his “reverse self” Semaj—Franco and his imaginary friend discuss The Lobster, the new dystopian sci-fi film starring Colin Farrell.
