Kate Beckinsale’s take on Lady Susan Vernon in Whit Stillman’s 2016 Jane Austen adaptation, Love & Friendship, is the king of the zing. She’s a roast-master general. She’s a shady lady who can read you the (manor) house down (lace-up) boots. And so, too, is the movie’s promotional Twitter account, which you’ll be delighted to learn still exists. This particular account stirred back to life on July 17 to retweet Twitter user @mcsullivan, who wrote, “The reboot of Persuasion that we deserved,” attached to the news of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez Affleck’s marriage.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke in Thoroughbreds. This weekend, Thoroughbreds opens in theaters, and if you walk out of that movie about two teen girls plotting the murder of a despotic stepdad and find your hunger for teen vengeance unabated, we have oh so many movies for you. And we’re not talking about measured, John Tucker Must Die–style revenge. We’re talking about hexes, blood debts, elaborate psychological traps, and people paying the iron price for their trespasses.
Pharrell. Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope drops in a couple of weeks, and with it will come its notable Pharrell Williams–curated soundtrack. For the record, Pharrell dished out four original, new songs and rounded out the other 11 tracks with mostly ‘90s hip-hop classics from the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, and Naughty by Nature, among others. The full listing is below (via Pitchfork) — note: Pharrell’s songs are credited to Awreeoh because the Dope protagonist’s band performs the songs in the movie.
Sunday nights return to being just Sunday nights once more. Breaking Bad’s series finale aired tonight, and a surprising number of loose ends were satisfyingly tied up. Everyone got what was coming to them — even Walter White. Now, some farewell, spoiler-filled GIFs.
Hello there, Walt.
Elliot and Gretchen Schwartz get a surprise visit from Walt. He makes sure they get his money to Walt Jr./Flynn by scaring the hell out of them with fake sniper lasers.
It’s rough out there for teachers these days: To judge from last fall’s Warrior and the upcoming Here Comes the Boom, the only way for an earnest teacher to earn an extra buck these days is to moonlight as an MMA fighter on the side. (Dead Poets Society would be very different in the year 2012.) Boom stars Kevin James, so it’s a little more studio-comedy than the sadly underseen Warrior, but it’s still got James taking his lumps as a shirtless brawler, as well as Salma Hayek as a potential love interest who delivers lines like, “Inspiring your students, I see.
Supercalifragilisticexpiunrecognizable. Those lips! That nose! That half of an ear! Who else could it be? Disney, via Entertainment Weekly, has released a first look at Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the 1964 musical which stars … hmmmm, let’s just check our notes to be sure … Emily Blunt as the titular magical nanny. The cast also includes the supremely British Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw as the now-grown-up Banks children, Jane and Michael, alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda as a lamplighter, Angela Lansbury as a balloon vendor, Meryl Streep as Mary’s cousin, plus Colin Firth, Julie Walters, and more.
Or dystopian past, in this case. Black Mirror is going back to the future. The first images from Netflix’s upcoming season of Black Mirror have made their way online (first leaked, then posted by creator Charlie Brooker himself), and they serve up tech dystopia two ways. In one set, from the episode “San Junipero,” we see a glammed-up Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights) with Mackenzie Davis (The Martian). At the TCAs, Netflix described this episode as ‘80s-centric, and revealed that it would be directed by Owen Harris.
He didn’t think about baseball. In case anyone with a 13-year-old’s sense of humor trapped in an over-17-year-old body was worried that the upcoming comedy She’s Out of My League starring Jay Baruchel isn’t going to continue the R-rated comedy tradition of having at least one imaginatively gross scene, worry no more. Dreamworks released a moderately revolting scene from the film today, and it’s rated red band for unexpected bodily fluids, ruined pants, parental embarrassment, and thirsty dog.
For nearly equal spans of time, there have been parties rooting for the existence of aliens and for a real-life love story between X-Files co-stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Now, for whatever reason (perhaps because Anderson acted understandably cagey with a British Sunday Times reporter when grilled about her love life), the good site CelebDirtyLaundry.com has opted to “report”/”invent” a rumor about the Mulder and Scully romancing in 2012.
She posted it to Twitter herself. Like we said: weird.
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