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Anne Hathaway & Jessica Chastain try to out mother each other in Mothers’ Instinct trailer

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Are you ready to see a mother off? Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain will star in the upcoming film Mothers’ Instinct. The first trailer just dropped, and it looks to be a deliciously dark time.Benoît Delhomme will helm the film based on the highly regarded Olivier Masset-Depasse French film of the same name. Back in […]

Movie Review – Eileen (2023)

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Eileen, 2023.Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, Sam Nivola, Jefferson White, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Tonye Patano.SYNOPSIS:A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.There are several ongoing plot threads in William Oldroyd’s Eileen (his long-awaited follow-up to […]

Anne Hathaway recalls her time almost being cast in Spider-Man 4

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If you recall the rocky road of Sony’s Spider-Man 4, the canceled Sam Raimi production, the casting was a bit wild. One of those castings was Anne Hathaway, who has all but confirmed she was tapped to play Felicia Hardy, a.k.a. Black Cat in Raimi’s abandoned fourth film.During her recent interview with the Happy Sad […]

Movie Review – She Came to Me (2023)

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She Came to Me, 2023.Written and Directed by Rebecca Miller. Starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Anne Hathaway, Brian d’Arcy James, Joanna Kulig, Chris Gethard, Harlow Jane, Jen Ponton, Aalok Mehta, Samuel H. Levine, Evan Ellison, Judy Gold, Sandos Diaz, Joseph Oltman, George Sheanshang, Francesca Faridany, Tamya Taylor, Bryan Terrell Clark, Dale Soules, Isabel Leonard, and […]

Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway strike up a dangerous friendship in Eileen trailer

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We called it a “superb the-less-you-know-the-better jolt of high-end trashy drama” in our ★★★★ review (which you can read here), and now you can get your first look at Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway in William Oldroyd’s Eileen.Oldroyd’s first film since 2016’s Lady Macbeth is an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning book, which tells the […]

2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Eileen

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Eileen, 2023.Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Owen Teague, and Marin Ireland.SYNOPSIS:A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s feature debut Lady Macbeth should know to expect more from his follow-up than the mere period romantic drama […]

2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Eileen

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Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sam Nivola, Tonye Patano and Owen TeagueSYNOPSIS:A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.Thomasin McKenzie’s Eileen is habitually on the cusp of something. Things that threaten to shake her from […]

Peter Dinklage is torn between Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei in She Came to Me trailer

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Vertical Entertainment has released the trailer for their forthcoming romantic-comedy She Came to Me, which stars Peter Dinklage as a composer torn between his marriage and his muse.Directed by Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose), She Came to Me centres on an opera composer (Dinklage) who is married to a therapist (Anne Hathaway), […]

Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel to headline David Lowery’s pop-music movie Mother Mary

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How’s this for a set of headline acts? A24 and David Lowery are getting the band back together for an epic pop melodrama starring Michaela Coel and Anne Hathaway. Deadline reports that The Green Knight collaborators are teaming up for Mother Mary, which has also been written by Lowery, and is described as an epic pop […]