The Lost Daughter, 2021. Written and Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Mescal, Dagmara Domińczyk, Alba Rohrwacher, Jack Farthing, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Panos Koronis, Abe Cohen, and Nikos Poursanidis. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of […]
Time to get All Shook Up as Baz Luhrmann shares first look at his untitled Elvis movie
Starring Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as Elvis, Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) as Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker, Olivia DeJonge (The Visit) as Elvis’ wife Priscilla, Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) as B.B. King, and Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge) as Vernon Presley, Elvis’s father, Baz Luhrmann has shared the first […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter, 2021. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, Peter Sarsgaard, Dagmara Domińczyk and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: A translator on an idyllic holiday becomes obsessed with a young mother, inspiring her to think back to her own parenting methods. I often wonder how I would’ve reacted if […]
First trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed The Lost Daughter starring Olivia Colman
Netflix has released a poster and trailer for The Lost Daughter. The drama marks the feature directorial debut for Maggie Gyllenhaal and stars Olivia Colman as a woman who finds her vacation take a dark turn when she begins to confront the memories and troubles of her past; take a look here… Alone on a […]
Trailer for Netflix’s Homemade, a lockdown anthology featuring films from Kristen Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paolo Sorrentino, Ana Lily Amirpour and more
Netflix has released a trailer for Homemade, a collection of short films by created by filmmakers Ladj Ly, Paolo Sorrentino, Rachel Morrison, Pablo Larraín, Rungano Nyoni, Natalia Beristáin, Sebastian Schipper, Naomi Kawase, David Mackenzie, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nadine Labaki & Khaled Mouzanar, Antonio Campos, Johnny Ma, Kristen Stewart, Gurinder Chadha, Sebastián Lelio, and Ana Lily Amirpour, […]
Donnie Darko with critic Ren Zelen | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #75
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Ren Zelen digs deep into the inner workings of the mind-bending Donnie Darko… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Ren Zelen stops by to […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal joins Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic
Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann has made another addition to his upcoming musical biopic based on Elvis Presley. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) is the latest to join the film and will star as Elvis’ mother, Gladys Presley. Gyllenhaal joins a cast that includes Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal “really likes” Robert Pattinson for The Batman role
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played Rachel Dawes opposite Christian Bale in The Dark Knight, has shared her thoughts on the casting of Robert Pattinson as Batman. In an interview with Variety at the New York Film Festival premiere of The Irishman, Gyllenhaal stated that she believes Pattinson is a good choice for the role and praised his acting […]
HBO releases new trailer for The Deuce’s final season
With the third and final season of The Deuce set to premiere next month, HBO has released the first trailer for James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal-headlined porn industry drama which sees the series jump to 1984; watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3dRarfihaw The Deuce follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry […]
Movie Review – The Kindergarten Teacher (2019)
The Kindergarten Teacher, 2019. Directed by Sara Colangelo. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Parker Sevak, Michael Chernus, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, Daisy Tahan, Ato Blankson-Wood. SYNOPSIS: Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is an unhappy kindergarten teacher in New York, who suddenly becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy. The Kindergarten Teacher is one of […]