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The setup The Weinstein Company Paradis stars as expectant mother Sarah Scarangella — the widowed survivor of a car wreck four months prior. It’s Christmas Eve, Sarah’s inconsolably depressed, and she’s supposed to deliver her overdue baby the following day. She’s alone — both physically and with her thoughts — on a holiday that’s typically celebrated alongside joyful family members. Well, alone until there’s a knock on the front door from a woman known only as La Femme (Dalle) who asks to come inside....

One Of The Scariest Scenes In V/H/S/2 Is The End Of Safe Haven Magnolia Pictures By Chris Evangelista AND Matt Donato/Nov. 11, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato. In this edition, Chris invites you to watch a fun, harmless documentary where absolutely nothing goes wrong.) I’m hit or miss on the “V/H/S” franchise....

POTD: Vanity Fair’s 2015 Hollywood Issue Cover Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock We’re at the height of Oscar season madness right now, and so right on cue Vanity Fair has come out with their annual Hollywood issue. Each year they collect the industry’s best, brightest, and prettiest, shove them into designer tuxes and thousand-dollar dresses, and crowd them all in for a fancy class photo. This year, the group includes four current Academy Award nominees, two Jupiter Ascending actors, two future superheroes, one Star Wars star, and one former People’s Sexiest Man Alive....

Saint Omer Review: Alice Diop’s Fiction Debut Aims An Empathetic Lens On A Discomforting Courtroom Subject [NYFF] FLC Press By Caroline Cao/Oct. 3, 2022 1:00 pm EST Marginalized journalists can bring a perspective that would otherwise be missed by journalists who don’t have that lived experience. This kind of subjectivity can allow them insights of a topic, though white-male-mandated “objectivity” can snuff them out of important conversations. Much discussed — or ignored — are the societal impositions of racial identity when court cases play out in the public eye....

Sisu Review: Jalmari Helander Reminds Us Of The Joys Of Seeing Nazis Get Blown Up [TIFF] Stage 6 Films By Erin Brady/Sept. 10, 2022 1:16 pm EST It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Jalmari Helander movie, with his most recent film “Big Game” premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival back in 2014. Considering how both “Rare Exports” and “Big Game” are considered cult favorites among genre fans, this absence might feel a bit strange....

The Daily Stream: The Manchurian Candidate Shows How Brainwashing Can Destabilize A Democracy M.C. Productions By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 26, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “The Manchurian Candidate” Where You Can Stream It: The Roku Channel The Pitch: “Raymond Shaw is the bravest, kindest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life....

‘A year ago, there was this thing on TikTok…’ Universal Pictures Of all the things to talk about with a new movie, chances are the sound design won’t end up near the top of the list for most people … but Jordan Peele isn’t most people. Not only does “Nope” thrill, scare, and disturb in equal measure, but it also derived tension out of its sound design — whether it be the bits of metal and other objects falling from the sky or the UFO itself....

The X-Files Revival Was Gillian Anderson’s Way Of Showing Her Gratitude For Dana Scully By Witney Seibold/Dec. 13, 2022 4:47 pm EST 2002 was a fine time to retire “The X-Files,” as the world had changed too much to fit its ’90s ethos, and the story arcs were getting kind of silly anyway. Fans bid the show farewell, with only a brief follow-up in 2008 in the form of “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” a feature film that kept the story small and the relationships intimate....

Untold: Everything We Know So Far About The Holocaust Survival Drama Starring Alex Wolff A24 By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 26, 2022 10:14 am EST Actor Alex Wolff, who was last seen in Michael Sarnoski’s critically acclaimed film “Pig,” has found his next project. The actor will star in Oscar-winning filmmaker Aaron Schneider’s “Untold” (via Deadline), a Holocaust survival drama based on the autobiography “I Escaped From Auschwitz” penned by Holocaust survivor Rudolf Vrba....

Permission to be honest Netflix As it turns out, Wednesday and Jenna Ortega have a lot in common. Neither young woman is nearly as chipper as society might expect them to be, and as Ortega told TUDUM, her sarcastic, “very dry” sense of humor had been earning her comparisons to Wednesday Addams long before she was cast in the role. Unfortunately though, when you’re living in the real world, it’s tough to possess Wednesday’s unwavering self-confidence — especially when all eyes seem to be on you....

Why T’Challa Wasn’t Recast In Black Panther 2 Marvel Studios By Ben F. Silverio/Sept. 26, 2022 7:26 pm EST Shortly after the unexpected passing of Chadwick Boseman in August 2020 due to a four-year battle with colon cancer, Kevin Feige revealed that they would not recast T’Challa for the upcoming Phase Four finale “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” At the time, the Marvel Studios President said that the decision not to recast was made “to honor the legacy that Chad helped us build through his portrayal of the king of Wakanda....

Will The Star Trek: Lower Decks Crew Command Their Own Ship One Day? Paramount By Witney Seibold/Sept. 2, 2022 3:08 pm EST A recent article on /Film argued that the characters on “Star Trek: Lower Decks” are seeing an accelerated growth arc, perhaps by mere dint of the show’s 30-minute format. “Lower Decks” is downright jaunty, forcing a great deal of madcap incident into its brief runtime and comparatively reduced season lengths (each of the show’s seasons run only 10 episodes, compared to 1990s “Trek” shows that ran 26)....

Becoming A Producer Brought Big Changes To The Way John Wayne Approached His Films Republic Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 12, 2022 7:59 pm EST There is no more precarious moment in a movie star’s career than the day they wake up, flush with box office success, and declare, “What I’d really like to do is direct!” Slightly less dangerous is a star’s inclination to produce –- i.e., to diversify their career by generating material that reflects their taste or broadens their brand....

Disney’s Strange World Goes Far Beyond What You See In The Trailers, According To The Directors [Exclusive] Mehrdad Isvandi By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 21, 2022 12:50 pm EST While Disney Animation has pulled back the curtain on what their upcoming feature “Strange World” is all about, there’s still quite a bit about the movie that we have yet to see. We know the movie centers around three generations of the Clade family, who find themselves thrown into a world where everything is alien and nothing is quite what it seems....

Emily In Paris Season 3 Teaser & Release Date: Zut Alors! Emily Has Bangs Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 24, 2022 2:30 pm EST Sacre bleu! Three seasons into “Emily in Paris,” Emily is still in Paris and is handling her drama about as gracefully as ever. A new teaser for the whimsical rom-com’s third season dropped at Netflix’s Tudum Festival today and while it doesn’t give us much if any insight into all of the actual cliffhangers audiences are invested in heading into season three, it does, at least, give us something: Emily (Lily Collins) has bangs now!...

Every Sherlock Episode Ranked Worst To Best BBC By Larry Fried/Nov. 13, 2022 3:15 pm EST The game is on! Before Doctor Strange, Bilbo Baggins, or the Hot Priest, there was Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, and Jim Moriarty. It’s hard to overstate the success and impact of BBC’s “Sherlock” beyond merely turning its three leading men into bonafide stars. It set the precedent for modern detective stories and infused new life into the BBC’s success across the pond....

Glass Onion Producer Ram Bergman On The Challenges Of Pulling Off The New Murder Mystery [Exclusive Interview] Netflix By Vanessa Armstrong/Nov. 22, 2022 2:00 pm EST Rian Johnson’s next “Knives Out” mystery, “Glass Onion,” is in theaters for just one week starting on November 23, and the 139-minute movie, as /Film’s review of the film points out, is a bigger, funnier, and twistier whodunnit than Johnson’s last foray into the genre....

House Of The Dragon Somehow Found A Way To Make Larys Strong An Even Bigger Creep HBO By Michael Boyle/Oct. 17, 2022 2:38 pm EST In “Game of Thrones,” the role of the creepy, scheming mastermind was played by Littlefinger (Aidan Gillan). Before the writing went off the rails in later seasons, Littlefinger constantly seemed to know more than almost everyone in the room, and was able to play those him around with ease....

Less is more Marvel Studios Wanting to tip his hat to classic Universal black-and-white monster horror movies like “The Wolf Man,” Giacchino chose to utilize practical effects as much as possible on “Werewolf by Night.” That extended to Jack’s transformation, most of which takes unfolds off-screen in a 25-second push-in on Elsa Bloodstone (Laura Donnelly), a fellow monster hunter who is trapped in a large cage with Jack as he changes....

James Mangold’s Cop Land Wouldn’t Have Been Made Without A Little Help From Sundance Miramax By Ernesto Valenzuela/Dec. 18, 2022 1:00 pm EST One of the more well-known and fascinating obstacles that come with filmmaking is studio interference. There have been plenty of interesting stories from acclaimed directors behind blockbusters and lesser-known projects that have had to fight for the integrity of their vision. Sometimes it can be a losing battle, but there have been some pretty crazy stories in recent memory that showed the potential of staying true to the story you want to tell....