Midway through Frances O’Connor’s “Emily,” the title character finds a note. It’s been left for her, discreetly, with the time and place to meet the man she loves. O’Connor holds on a close-up of Emily as she registers her considerable excitement at the invitation, then...
Toronto film festival: Sex Education’s Emma Mackey makes for a perfect Emily Brontë in actor turned writer-director Frances O’Connor’s deft drama Actor turned writer-director Frances O’Connor’s sensuous and loosely biographical drama about the Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë captures the Victorian era with a modern sensibility. Not...
Florian Zeller's sophomore follow-up is an Oscar contender for Sony Pictures Classics If you thought Florian Zeller’s debut film “The Father” was a downer, get ready to fill your handkerchiefs with tears and nose fluids as the credits roll on his sophomore effort, “The Son.” It...
Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern devastated the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of Florian Zeller’s “The Son,” which earned a 10-minute standing ovation. Jackman appeared visibly moved during the film’s reception, as did the audience. Jackman hugged his young co-star Zen McGrath amid...
Florian Zeller and the cast of his “The Son,” including Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern and Zen McGrath, addressed the issue of mental health, the film’s central subject, ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film, Zeller’s follow up to his...
The Son star Hugh Jackman told the Venice press corps today that his role in the film has had an impact on how he behaves with his own kids. “For many, many years as a parent the job was to appear strong and dependable and...
"I couldn’t have done any other film but this one," says the director, whose debut, 'The Father,' was a critical and commercial hit and won two Oscars. Few enjoy the sort of directorial debut Florian Zeller experienced with The Father. The 2020 drama — based on...
Variety can reveal a first look at Maggie Smith and Laura Linney in the new drama “The Miracle Club,” which has wrapped production in Ireland and is now in post. The Dublin-shot film, which also stars Kathy Bates, centers on four Dublin women who come together...
The weekly Top 10 rankings for movies on Netflix weren’t very surprising. In first place yet again was the star-powered vampire flick Day Shift, followed by the teen drama Look Both Way starring Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart, followed by the third installment in a romantic series...
The lineup includes Daniel Goldhaber’s eco-thriller 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' and Cedric Ido’s 'The Gravity.' The Emily Brontë movie Emily, with Sex Education breakout Emma Mackey playing the author in the movie from writer-director Frances O’Connor and U.S. distributor Bleecker Street, will open the...
It's the most wonderful time of the year! I'm talking, of course, about festival season. As the year winds down, several major film festivals unleash great movies (and, let's be honest, not-so-great movies), some of which will go on to awards season glory, some of...
