Ahead of its arrival on Netflix next month, the streamer has released the first trailer for director Sebastián Lelio’s (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman) historical thriller The Wonder. An adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s acclaimed novel of the same name, the film stars Florence Pugh as a young nurse who is brought to a tiny village in […]
First look at Florence Pugh’s Netflix period thriller The Wonder
Netflix has released a poster and images for The Wonder, director Sebastián Lelio’s (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell) upcoming adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s acclaimed historical thriller novel which sees Florence Pugh (Don’t Worry Darling) leading a cast that also includes Kila Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, and Elaine Cassidy. The Irish Midlands, 1862 – a […]
First look at Florence Pugh in Netflix’s psychological drama The Wonder
Florence Pugh clearly learned nothing from her Midsommar jaunt, because she has once again found herself slap-bang in the heart of another small community with strange goings on for Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder, and Netflix has just released this first still as filming gets underway in Ireland. An adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel, The Wonder is set […]
Florence Pugh to star in Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder
With Black Widow finally released from its pandemic holding cell this July, and production wrapped on Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, Florence Pugh already has some impressive projects in the can. Well she isn’t hanging about when it comes to adding more to her IMDb page, because Deadline are reporting that she has signed on […]
Scarlett Johansson to play the Bride of Frankenstein in Bride
Scarlett Johnansson (Black Widow) is set to star in Bride, a riff on Bride of Frankenstein from A24 for Apple. Bride will be directed by Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman) from a script by Lelio and Wolfman duo Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. The synopsis for the film reads: A woman created to be an […]
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, […]
Movie Review – Gloria Bell (2019)
Gloria Bell, 2019. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera and Alanna Ubach. SYNOPSIS: A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs. English-language remakes of hit foreign films rarely go over well, and usually for good reason, but it’s a different case altogether when the original filmmaker […]
Movie Review – Gloria Bell (2018)
Gloria Bell, 2018. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera, Caren Pistorius, Holland Taylor, Brad Garrett and Sean Astin. SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged divorcée begins to reclaim her lust for life when she starts a new relationship. The drive to remake foreign language films in English is often a sad one – […]
Exclusive Interview – Writer-director Sebastian Lelio on Gloria Bell
For Sebastian Lelio, making Gloria Bell is like visiting a much-loved friend. The film, which is released in cinemas and online this Thursday, June 6th, is the second time he’s told the story of the divorced woman in her 50s trying to find her place in the world. First time round, the film was Gloria. […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Gloria Bell
Gloria Bell, 2019. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera and Alanna Ubach. SYNOPSIS: A 58-year-old woman in her prime seeks out love in the nightlife of L.A. Sebastián Lelio’s sagacious outlook on the odyssey’s of everyday females, from the spirited to the despaired, is prevalent in much of his work. A […]