Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind the controversial American Psycho on the 25th anniversary of its release… American Psycho was many things. In one sense it was mired in controversy from the get-go due to the problematic nature of its source material and in another the movie marked the critical and transformative turning point […]
Movie Review – Daliland (2023)
Daliland, 2023. Directed by Mary Harron. Starring Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Christopher Briney, Rupert Graves, Andreja Pejić, Suki Waterhouse, Ezra Miller, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel, Alexander Beyer, Avital Lvova, Joella Hinson-King, Merce Ribot, Jack Shalloo, Gavin Spokes, Matthew James Ovens, and Mark McKenna. SYNOPSIS: In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the […]
Ben Kingsley is Salvador Dali in trailer for Mary Harron’s Daliland
Magnolia Pictures has released a trailer for director Mary Harron’s (American Psycho) biographical drama Daliland. The film stars Ben Kingsley as the renowned eccentric artist Salvador Dali, and tells the later years of the icon’s life and his marriage to his wife Gala (Barbara Sukowa) through the eyes of his young assistant James (Christopher Briney). […]
Ben Kingsley is Salvador Dali in first image from Mary Harron’s Dali Land
Having wrapped its production in the UK, Deadline has unveiled the first image of Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dali in Dali Land, the upcoming film from American Psycho director Mary Harron, which sees the legendary artist flanked by Andreja Pejić (The Girl In The Spider’s Web) as his muse Amanda Lear and Barbara Sukowa […]
Exclusive Interview – Director Mary Harron on Quibi’s The Expecting
Currently in pre-production on the Ezra Miller Tim Roth double header Dali Land, Mary Harron is a writer-director with bite. Her insight and sardonic take on American Psycho which turns twenty this year, is hailed in the industry as a landmark movie. Since I Shot Andy Warhol this directorial force of nature has carved her […]
Movie Review – Charlie Says (2019)
Charlie Says, 2019. Directed by Mary Harron. Starring Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Marianne Rendón, Merritt Wever, Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Chace Crawford, Annabeth Gish, Kayli Carter, Cameron Gellman, Matt Riedy, and Grace Van Dien SYNOPSIS: Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, […]
DVD Review – Charlie Says (2018)
Charlie Says, 2018. Directed by Mary Harron. Starring Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Merritt Wever, Hannah Murray, Annabeth Gish, Grace Van Dien, Sosie Bacon, Chace Crawford, and Marianne Rendon. SYNOPSIS: Three ‘Manson Girls’ tell their story to a grad student, coming to realise that what they did in Charlie’s name was wrong. It’s odd that in […]
The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #9 – Film critic Bianca Garner discusses American Psycho
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite movie. This week, critic Bianca Garner chats about American Psycho… This week, film critic Bianca Garner is the guest and she has decided to discuss the slimy corporate satire American Psycho, in which Christian Bale plays […]
Matt Smith is Charles Manson in first trailer for Charlie Says
IFC Films has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming biographical crime drama Charlie Says. Directed by Mary Harron, the film is based on the books The Family: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion by Ed Sanders and The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten by Karlene Faith and tells the story […]
Mary Harron to direct Manson film The Family
Los Angeles-based producers Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin Shulman of Roxwell Films have reassembled the American Psycho filmmaking team for Ed Sanders’s best-selling Charles Manson 1971 novel, The Family, and to add an extra twist, the team has incorporated The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult, a firsthand account from […]
