There’s a lot going on in Pose, the new FX drama that explores the origins of New York’s ball culture, but little of it feels superfluous. The opening sequence alone is packed with introductions, finery fit for queens, a heist, choreography—and every entertaining bit of it is significant. Not a single stitch is…
Kate Mara and her husband Jamie Bell are not-so-secretly obsessed with The Real Housewives series. Mara recently met Dorinda Medley from the New York branch of the franchise, and, in the video above, tells us what that experience was like.
In their new film, My Days Of Mercy, Kate Mara and Ellen Page play lovers on the opposite ends of the political spectrum: Page is Lucy, a woman who is vehemently opposed to the death penalty, while Mara’s Mercy is in support of it. In the video above, we sat down with Mara, Page, and Amy Seimetz, who plays Lucy’s…
It’s undeniably heart-melting to see an animal demonstrate a pure and abiding devotion to its human companion. That is the operating premise of just about every animal-related drama that doesn’t end in a tragic mauling. The key to turning that premise into a workable film are the specifics of the human. Otherwise, why…
The low-wattage, high-concept psychological drama Man Down is too misbegotten to be rescued by Shia LaBeouf’s Method lead performance; in fact, the most interesting thing about it is his masochistic commitment to the film. Directed and co-written by the once promising Dito Montiel (Fighting), the movie sloppily…
Last we saw Shia LaBeouf, he was rocking a rattail as a wild child in American Honey. In the trailer for Man Down, he’s in military fatigues grappling with the horrors of war. This look at the film doesn’t do a great job laying out the plot—apparently there are multiple timelines and a dystopian element—but it does…
Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) is in corporate risk assessment, which does not fully explain why she’s driving out to the middle of nowhere to evaluate a top-secret science project. But she should realize when she passes through a forest that closely resembles the one where many of 20th Century Fox’s genre movies take place…
Get ready to breathe a sigh of relief, fellow humans, because at least one of our human jobs is in no danger of being rendered obsolete by machines just yet. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about one of the important jobs like teacher, senator, or Burger King cashier, we’re talking about the person who edits movie…
Once merely a script on the 2014 Black List, the sci-fi thriller Morgan now has a full-length trailer. Written by Seth W. Owen and helmed by first-time director Luke Scott (Ridley Scott’s son), Morgan tells the story of its titular artificial being, a synthetically made humanoid who evolves at a rapid rate. Morgan…
Two years ago, writer-director Seth W. Owen’s Morgan was included on the 2014 Black List, an annual tabulation of the film industry’s most popular unproduced screenplays. And the fact that sci-fi cautionary tale has now been produced—at least enough to facilitate this creepy teaser trailer—shows how valuable inclusion…
There’s no doubt that the inspirational thriller Captive is based on a true story, because, as they say, you can’t make this stuff up. As Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) recounts the lows of her crystal-meth addiction at Narcotics Anonymous (it cost her custody of her young daughter), Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo), on trial…
Perhaps it’s a little too easy to dump on Fantastic Four. The film has become the go-to punching bag for people wanting to disparage superhero movies for being too leaden and joyless, and for no good reason other than the movie happens to be 100 percent leaden and joyless. Even people who haven’t seen Josh Trank’s…
The latest trailer for The Martian shows the indomitable spirit of (one) man—that’s Mark Watney (Matt Damon), Earth’s most charismatic botanist. As you may already know, Watney is stranded on Mars after a space storm forces his space crew to get the hell off the planet. He’s presumed dead, but he’s not quite there…
Fresh off her work keeping Fox’s Fantastic Four copyright intact for another few years, Kate Mara has apparently set her sights on becoming the world’s most beloved actress, signing on to star in a movie about a Purple Heart-adorned Iraq War veteran who fought against an unfeeling bureaucracy to save the life of her…
Why is it so hard to make a good Fantastic Four movie? Marvel’s first superteam, that yammering surrogate family of Silver Age aberrations, has now appeared in as many features as it has members, and each film is embarrassing in its own special way. The latest reboot, starring several overqualified actors, isn’t as…
Based on what we’ve seen so far, Ridley Scott’s The Martian looks like it’s going to be a reasonably serious sci-fi film. Matt Damon is starring as an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when the other members of his space-crew are forced to leave the planet during a space-storm. He then has to use his classic Matt…
It’s a big day for True Detective casting news. Having previously locked down Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn as its stars, rumor has it that Taylor Kitsch and Rachel McAdams are also being eyed for leading roles. So while showrunner Nic Pizzolatto at one point suggested the next season of his hit show might follow a…
The Martian continues to rack up potential female cast members, which seems strange for a story about one man stranded on Mars. Okay, there’s much more to it than that, but Matt Damon was cast as the male lead months ago, and apparently there are more than a few female characters. Jessica Chastain and Kristen Wiig are…