Netflix has dropped the new trailer for Inventing Anna, a limited series about the “Soho Grifter” Anna Delvey who was convicted of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks, and friends out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The series, created and co-written by Shonda Rhimes, stars Ozark’s Julia Garner as Delvey, who …
Read More »An Island Community Welcomes a Priest — and Some Horror — in 'Midnight Mass' Teaser
Things get weird when a quiet island community welcomes a priest in the teaser for Mike Flanagan‘s Midnight Mass, out next month on Netflix. The unsettling clip features Zach Gilford’s character returning to Crockett Island — lying awake in bed, staring at gloomy skies, and an extremely creepy figure through …
Read More »'Army of the Dead': As Satisfying as Fighting a Plague of Zombies Can Be These Days
“I always used the zombie as a character for satire or a political criticism,” said zombie maestro George Romero — a man asked to opine on zombie franchises more times than should have been legally allowable — in 2013. “And I find that missing in what’s happening now.” Now being …
Read More »'The Breakdown' With 'Fate: The Winx Saga' Star Abigail Cowen
Abigail Cowen has always been drawn to magic, which explains her previous role as Dorcas on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Now she stars in Fate: The Winx Saga, based on the Nickelodeon animated series and developed by Brian Young. “I loved the balance of real-life scenarios and situations and …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'The Handmaid's Tale,' 'Tina,' 'The Underground Railroad' and More
Tina Filled with never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, and audiotapes, the new HBO documentary tells the story of the legendary Tina Turner. In the film’s first trailer, the singer tells the story of her mother. “I thought she was so pretty March,” she says. Turner recalls how she used to …
Read More »Rosamund Pike's Smile Says It All in 'I Care a Lot'
There’s a genre of smile, that wide, gleaming, shit-stirring grin that says: I hate you. And also: I’m going to kill you. Can we call it the Pike? After Rosamund, of course, who serves it better than most anyone working in movies at the moment, and who has the added …
Read More »New Netflix Series Investigates Nefarious Los Angeles Hotel
Netflix has revealed the new series Crime Scene, which tackles the mythology of locations in contemporary crime. The first season focuses on the nefarious Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Directed by Joe Berlinger, the trailer contains footage of “Hotel Death,” explaining the murders and suicides that have occurred within …
Read More »Anya Taylor-Joy Is an Orphan Chess Prodigy in 'The Queen's Gambit' Trailer
Anya Taylor-Joy is an orphan chess prodigy in The Queen’s Gambit, out October 23rd on Netflix. Based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, the trailer features Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, who grows up in a Kentucky orphanage in the late Fifties. She soon discovers a talent for chess, in …
Read More »Poetic Drama 'Residue' Makes Gentrification Personal
At the center of Residue, writer-director Merawi Gerima’s debut feature, there’s a crisis born out of a familiar ritual: coming home. Jay (Obinna Nwachukwu) is a D.C. native who’s just returned home from college in Los Angeles. The experience is immediately rendered strange, right in front of his own doorstep. …
Read More »Lily James Gets Tangled in Her Husband's Past in 'Rebecca' Trailer
Lily James grapples with her husband’s haunted past in Rebecca,out October 21st on Netflix. Based on the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, the trailer features a young woman (James) getting swept up in a Monte Carlo romance with the suave widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Soon after, Winter …
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