Tag: miawasikowska
CLUB ZERO Review: Eating Healthy Gets Dangerous
Mia Wasikowska stars in Jessica Hausner's buzz-worthy new film.
Cannes 2023 Review: CLUB ZERO, Dieting Satire Hits Close to Home
Mia Wasikowska stars as a sinister nutrition coach in Jessica Hausner's new film.
Blu-ray Review: BERGMAN ISLAND, Mia Hansen-Løve Muses on Muses
Criterion returns to the Ingmar Bergman well, albeit indirectly.
New York 2021 Review: BERGMAN ISLAND, A Meta-Contemplation on an Artist's Creative Process
Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska and Vicky Krieps star in a new film by Mia Hansen-Løve.
Review: THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME, Post-war Pulp Haunts Compelling Rural Noir
Antonio Campos excels at making damaged or heinous characters front and centre, getting under the skin of a socio-psychopath (Afterschool, 2008 or Simon Killer, 2012) or delving into mental health issues and depression (Christine, 2016), Campos finds entertaining ways to...
Antonio Campos Tackles Rural Crime Noir With THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME
One of my favorite filmmakers Antonio Campos (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Christine) returns to features after four years and a stint on television (The Sinner) to deliver this freaky Ohio post-war crime drama The Devil All the Time. Featuring an...
Exclusive JUDY & PUNCH Clip: Puppet Show Hits Hard
A show that dates back to the 16th century is turned on its head in Mirrah Foulkes' Judy & Punch, starring Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman as the legendary titular characters. We have an exclusive clip -- NSFW, possibly, due...
Sundance 2019 Interview: Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Director Mirrah Foulkes Talk JUDY & PUNCH
As anyone who's spent far too much time perusing the Internet for ancient photos of terrifying clowns genuinely intended to entertain children, as I have, can tell you, history had some confused notions of how best to delight youngsters. Take,...
Watch: Nicolas Pesce Talks PIERCING, Adapting Murakami Ryu, Miike Takashi Influence, More
In Piercing, Nicolas Pesce’s film adaptation of Murakami Ryu’s 1994 novel of the same name, Christopher Abbott plays Reed, a well-mannered family man who nonetheless is ready to kill his own child. However, when his wife interrupts him and his...
Fantastic Fest 2018 Interview: Nicolas Pesce on His Film Adaptation of Murakami Ryu's PIERCING
For his second feature length film, after The Eyes of My Mother, young American director Nicolas Pesce decided to adapt Murakami Ryu’s 1994 novel Piercing. The movie stars Christopher Abbott and definitely has one of the most striking opening sequences...
Review: DAMSEL, Laughs Aplenty in Zellner Brothers' Western
Western tropes get punched straight in their often male-driven faces by a heroine in the Zellner Brothers' newest film.
Sundance 2018 Review: DAMSEL, A Quick-Witted Feminist Western
Western tropes get punched straight in their often male-driven faces by a heroine in the Zellner Brothers' Damsel, where the protagonist is only in distress when dealing with the pathetically entitled males that cross her path. The fantasy of macho bravado...
Review: ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Curiouser And Curiouser
Six years ago, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland caught the early wave of the modern 3D era and became a big financial success, fairly demanding that a sequel would be forthcoming. Now the generally darker sequel has arrived, based on...
HumanSide Podcast: Director Robert Eggers Talks THE WITCH
Welcome to HumanSide. This time around I'll be letting you in on some amazing Chicago-based movie happenings, including the Music Box Theatre 70 MM Film Festival, the Roger Ebert Film Festival and a pair of great screenings from the Chicago...
Have Your Say: Gorgeous, Gorgeouser, Gorgeousest...
(Gorgeous: ˈɡɔːdʒəs/ adjective, meaning: beautiful; very attractive.) Guillermo Del Toro's gothic romance fairy-tale Crimson Peak is currently flailing at box-offices worldwide, despite many people liking it a great deal. In his review, Jason Gorber calls it "...a grand vision...", and...
Review: CRIMSON PEAK, A Gothic Romance For The Ages
Delving into a Guillermo del Toro movie is like visiting a great museum. Superficially there's all this pretty stuff going on, with images that often startle as much as they entertain. Dig a bit deeper and there's meaning to...
Review: MAPS TO THE STARS, Cold, Dreary, And Dull
This doesn't bode well. For the second film in a row, David Cronenberg has made a stinker. Yes, there were some bits in Cosmopolis that didn't suck, but it was hardly vintage DC. As I mentioned in my review for...
CRIMSON PEAK: Guillermo Del Torro`s Gothic Horror Gets Haunting Teaser Trailer
Here is that Guillermo Del Toro that we all fell in love with. The director is back to horror and suspense in a big way in the teaser trailer for his upcoming gothic horror film Crimson Peak. The sets are...
MAPS TO THE STARS: Deliciously Dark US Trailer and Poster Revealed
We're all ScreenAnarchying over here at the sight of the new US poster and trailer for Maps to the Stars, the latest tale of humanity gone awry from David Cronenberg, and it looks fantastic. Here's the official press release:Julianne Moore won...
Best Of 2014: Ben Umstead's Reflections And Favorites
As much as I can see 2014 packed to the gills with films people fell head over heels for, many of those mainstream and even ScreenAnarchy favorites will be vacant from this list, simply because I thought this was a...
