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The best thing Emerald Fennell does with her sharp satiric follow-up to A Promising Young Woman is giving the always-sublime weirdo Barry Keoghan a whole goddamned movie to finally let his freak flag fly. She brings a distinctly female gaze to a twisty class comedy about an Oxford scholarship nerd falling in (and in love with) with the college’s landed party people elite through the transformative power of doing a fortuitous favor for a fellow student.
The names Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau are nowhere to be found in the press materials for Todd Haynes’s new film May December, but anyone alive in 1997 will instantly recognize their story as the launching point for Samy Burch’s screenplay and Julianne Moore’s uncanny performance.
In this newest installment of the Trolls franchise we find Poppy, queen of a large gathering of adorable trolls, and Branch, her eternally sour but also sweet boyfriend prepping to celebrate a wedding between their unlikely friends King Gristle and his sweetheart Bridget, both being the once-hated Bergens. Celebrations are halted when Branch’s older brother John Dory crashes the party to ask for his help to save Floyd, their sibling whose been kidnapped by a nefarious pop duo. John Dory believes the only way to save Floyd is to bring all the brothers back together to reform BroZone, their long-since dissolved boy band.
David Fincher’s latest film is about an incredibly meticulous craftsman doing dirty work for hire for incredibly wealthy clients in exactly the way he knows how to do them best.
New theorem: if a Marvel movie it has a Spider-Man or a super pet, it’s going to be good. The Marvels has orange tabby cat Goose; thus the Marvels is pretty good. Q.E.D.
Using Priscilla Presley’s autobiography Elvis and Me (co-written with Sandra Harmon) as structure, Sofia Coppola presents her life as a series of baubles strung across a gossamer thread that spans the vast lonely gulf between a soda counter on an Army base in Germany in 1959 and a Las Vegas hotel in 1973.
In his review of Killers of the Flower Moon, Chris called Martin Scorsese’s three and a half hour historical film a masterpiece and one of the best movies of 2023. Josh saw it over the weekend and immediately wanted to talk about it, so we fired up a SunBreak Roundtable to hash out some thoughts and feelings about this epic movie. Spoilers, such as they are for a century’s old well-reported true story, follow.
The Osage Nation, after being expelled and moved across the country a few times already, without choice, became the richest people per capita in the world when oil was found on their land. And it leads to one of the oldest and most American of stories: the white man’s coveting of anything of value that belongs to people they see as lesser.
Dr. Cheon (Gang Dong-won) has a long history with the supernatural, magic and shamanism, but as of now he’s a huxter that uses his studies in psychology, keen eye and sparkling whit to help those tormented by supposed ghosts. With the help of his “assistant” and technical whiz In-bae (Lee Dong-hwi) creating quite a show so every customer is thoroughly convinced of their abilities. Along comes Yoo-gyong (Esom) with a bit more than just a hunch of a haunting as her sister is in mortal danger. The situation quickly devolves into an all-out battle not only for both Yoo-gyong and her sister’s lives, but for revenge of Cheon’s family lost years ago in a clash with the same supernatural powers.
Dispatches from Sundance: a mixed bag of a modern erotic psychodrama, a revisitation of recent political events, and a herculean performance from one of our great actors.
