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Of all the blood-curdling images conjured up by Hereditary, the most traumatically terrifying new horror movie in ages, one sticks out as particularly definitive: Toni Collette, face twisted into a grotesque grimace of fear, staring off screen at a ghastly something we’ll soon have the bad luck of laying eyes on too.…
The A.V. Club’s own A.A. Dowd said that the upcoming horror movie Hereditary steps past being “scary” and becomes something closer to “emotional terrorism,” but the next episode of production company A24's podcast—featuring Hereditary star Toni Collette—seems like anything but. As teased in a clip released by A24…
I don’t scare easily. As much as I love horror movies, and have since I was young, they don’t usually shake me in any real, lasting way: “It’s only a movie” is always there for me like a security blanket, smothering any genuine panic. So it’s a special kind of awful, a rare treat of sorts, when something comes along…
As announced in a press release, Toni Collette is set to star in a new drama produced by Netflix and the BBC called Wanderlust. Described as a “searingly insightful and funny exploration of the relationships of a multi-generational family” that “asks whether lifelong monogamy is possible or even desirable,” the show…
Although the film, of course, lands on the conclusion that there’s more to moms—and to inter-mom friendships—than talking about potty training and turning in early, Fun Mom Dinner, the latest in a series of female-oriented R-rated ensemble comedies, doesn’t sell that idea very well. Posters for the film promise a…
We’ve seen Bad Moms before, but if those bad moms are bit too bad for you, then perhaps a Fun Mom Dinner will be more to your tastes. Unlike that other movie, this one is about a nice, quiet evening where nothing goes wrong and everybody gets along—at least for the first chunk of this trailer. Eventually, Adam Levine…
According to TV Line, ABC has just ordered a pair of pilots that should scratch a very specific itch for people who wish TV had more shows about government-backed engineers solving mysteries and completing secret missions. The first show is an “action-dramedy” called Unit Zero, and it comes from Trophy Wife writer…
When it debuted 10 years ago today, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Little Miss Sunshine was quickly embraced by critics and audiences as an offbeat, quirky comedy about a dysfunctional family. It was then just as quickly dismissed as a terminally twee collection of indie movie clichés and somewhat forgotten. But…
Daniel Radcliffe stars in Imperium as Nate Foster, the type of idealistic federal agent who’s willing to shave his head, tattoo a bunch of racist garbage onto his body, and spend all his time with lowlife dirtbags in the service of his job. The young FBI analyst finds himself recruited by a senior agent (Toni…
Not content to let Bad Moms have all of the fun, Molly Shannon, Toni Collette, Bridget Everett, and Katie Aselton have signed on to star in Fun Mom Dinner, a comedy film from first-time director Alethea Jones. That’s from Variety, which says the film will be about a group of moms with nothing in common except for…
Movies that explore the relationship between a mother and her adult son are rare, which is one reason why last year’s James White, about a screwed-up young man struggling to care for his terminally ill mom, was so unusually affecting. Hailing from Ireland, Glassland represents another, far less successful effort in a…
At this point, we should assume that any movie Vin Diesel wants to make will eventually zoom and/or noseslide its way into theaters, fueled in equal parts by Monster Energy drinks and the actor’s sheer enthusiasm for his own projects. Fast 8, the latest entry in the Fast And Furious series, is humming along nicely…
Neither particularly frightening nor especially funny, the Yuletide horror-comedy Krampus scrapes by on the novelty of its setup, in which an antagonistic Christmas movie of the Family Stone variety is hijacked by beasties straight out of a Full Moon entertainment. That might sound like foolproof fun, but the film has…
Late in the weepie cancer story Miss You Already, oil-rig worker Jago (Paddy Considine) comforts his pregnant wife Jess (Drew Barrymore) after a big, painful blowout with her best friend Milly (Toni Collette). “No more drama, all right?” he pleads. “I promise,” she answers, because people in movies are absolutely…
Hope you like feeling sad, because this looks like a real wrist-slitter of a movie. Miss You Already, starring Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette, tells the story of two best friends, one of whom gets diagnosed with cancer at the same time the other finds out she’s pregnant. And as this trailer emphasizes, there’s lots…
Having bummed everyone out by starring in Blended with Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore has decided she may as well bum everyone out on purpose by starring in a movie about a woman who gets breast cancer. Joining her in this outing is Toni Collette, as Variety reports the two actresses are starring in Miss You Already, a…
What possibly could have possessed a comedian as sharp as Simon Pegg to squander his gifts on a movie as soggy as Hector And The Search For Happiness? Here’s one theory: Having just embodied the epitome of stubborn arrested development in last summer’s The World’s End, Pegg wanted to go as far as possible in the…
Nick Hornby’s fourth novel, A Long Way Down (2005), boasts a singular premise: Four disparate people all decide to commit suicide by throwing themselves from the top of the same London skyscraper at the same time on the same night (New Year’s Eve). When they encounter each other atop the building, they collectively…
For a long time, it’s not remotely clear what the title of Lucky Them refers to, or how it might resonate with anything that’s happening onscreen. The movie is well into its second half when those words are finally spoken aloud by protagonist Ellie Klug (Toni Collette), who’s looking at a galago, or bushbaby—a small…
