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Metro
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
'Spine-chilling' horror remake with near-perfect RT rating now streaming
A horror film lauded as 'outstanding' is streaming right now on Amazon Prime Video. The Invisible Man, directed by Leigh Whannell, revitalised interest in Universal's proposed Dark Universe, which was set to bring the classic Universal Monsters back to the big screen. Following the box office flop that was The Mummy, Whannell's 2020 adaptation of The Invisible Man was widely praised by critics thanks to how it tackled themes of domestic abuse. It stars Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia Kass, a woman trapped in a violent and controlling relationship with wealthy optics engineer and businessman Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). After finally leaving, it is reported that Adrian has died by suicide. But Elisabeth is still subjected to his terror after it is revealed that he developed technology to become invisible and torment his ex. It grossed a whopping $145million (£107.7m) worldwide against a $7m (£5.2m) budget and received numerous accolades, including a Critics' Choice nomination. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The Invisible Man boasts a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics' consensus reading: 'Smart, well-acted, and above all scary, The Invisible Man proves that sometimes, the classic source material for a fresh reboot can be hiding in plain sight.' In their review, The Times said: 'It uses its serious theme to give extra force to a tale that already has plenty of flair as a pure and simple spine-chiller.' The Ringer wrote: 'A thriller whose mandate is to startle its audience with surface-level shocks while simultaneously subverting expectations in a deeper way, dropping us out of our comfort zone toward some sunken place.' The Jewish Chronicle added: 'Elisabeth Moss delivers an outstanding performance as a woman teetering on the edge of reality in this thoroughly engaging reboot.' 'Whannell expertly plays with our fears: the sudden metallic screech of a dog dish accidentally kicked in the quiet; the house's labyrinthine hallways; the breathing darkness of an empty road,' Seattle Times praised. In 2019, it was confirmed that a spin-off titled The Invisible Woman was in development with Elizabeth Banks set to star. However, she revealed that the film was on hold while Universal focused on a sequel to The Invisible Man. More Trending 'For one thing, what happened was they made an Invisible Man movie, and they're making another one,' she told 'So I think Universal wants to see that through. I'm really interested in the idea that we have, and it is still there, but it's not something I'm actively working on in this moment in time.' Last year, Moss confirmed that developments on the sequel were ongoing, and it was then announced that her production company, Love and Squalor Pictures, was working with Blumhouse Productions on the film. The Invisible Man is streaming now on Prime Video . Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Huge Leonardo DiCaprio blockbuster now streaming on iPlayer MORE: Bring Her Back boasts one of the most horrifically disturbing scenes I've ever seen MORE: James Gunn admits Henry Cavill's Superman firing was 'terrible'
Elle
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
'Absolute Travesty': Fans Shocked By Huge Awards Snub For 'The Handmaid's Tale' And Elisabeth Moss
After an absolutely action-packed finale that had viewers on the edge of their seats and critics lapping up each plot-turn, many would've thought The Handmaid's Tale was a sure thing in yesterday's Emmy announcements. However fans (and critics, many of whom had predicted a slew of nominations for the show and its star Elisabeth Moss) of The Handmaid's Tale were shocked yesterday when the huge awards show - arguably the biggest television awards in the world - snubbed the show. The Handmaid's Tale received only one nomination for Cherry Jones, who played Holly, June's mother. She was nominated in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Many expected the show to sweep the nominations board as it was the last series and the final chance to celebrate a show that's been loved by so many fans. But a nomination for Elisabeth Moss' portrayal of June, which saw her experience every emotion under the sun and lead a revolution in the show's sixth series, seemed a dead cert. Her failure to receive an acting nomination was marked as one of the biggest snubs by most industry publications, many of which had themselves put her at the top of the list for mentions. Some have speculated about the political nature of the show and whether that made nominating it particularly tricky. Of course it could just be that, in a particularly strong year for television, the show was crowded out. Severance and Adolescence in particular led the lists of show received 27 nominations and The Studio beat Ted Lasso's previous record for nominations for a new show with 23 mentions. Other shows that got nominations include Andor, The Diplomat, The Last Of Us, Slow Horses, The White Lotus and Paradise. So, while it is a crowded year, fans will also wonder why the quality of The Handmaid's Tale didn't make that cut. The show has had nominations before - 77 in total - and, in 2017, Elisabeth Moss won the award for Lead Actress In A Drama Series. That year the show also won Outstanding Drama Series. Regardless, fans of the show were outraged on social media. On X, one fan wrote: 'The Handmaid's Tale got no Emmy nominations? Absolute travesty.' Another cited the performances of Yvonne Strahovski, saying: 'The fact that the handmaid's tale ended and this queen never got to hold an emmy for her portrayal of Serena Joy should be considered a crime.' ELLE Collective is a new community of fashion, beauty and culture lovers. For access to exclusive content, events, inspiring advice from our Editors and industry experts, as well the opportunity to meet designers, thought-leaders and stylists, become a member today HERE.
Irish Times
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Alex Ross Perry on his Pavement documentary: ‘The concept was an absurd notion that this band would ever go gold or platinum'
More than 16 years into his film-making career, Alex Ross Perry can shake the most algorithm-trodden viewers out of their complacency. His unapologetically caustic, literary milieu, populated by spiky, self-absorbed humans, remains defiantly indie, made on modest budgets, with zero concessions towards 'relatable' entertainment norms. In Listen Up Philip , from 2014, Jason Schwartzman plays a misanthropic novelist who alienates everyone around him. In Her Smell, playing Becky Something, Elisabeth Moss delivers a ferocious performance as a volatile, drug-addled punk rocker. In the earlier Queen of Earth , Moss excelled as a grieving woman descending into paranoia. The film-maker's devoted following intersects with that of Paul Schrader, John Cassavetes and the American authors Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth. Pavements, Perry's new hybrid documentary portrait of Pavement, indie rock's least-bothered legacy act, is a thrillingly maximalist curveball from an auteur with such a disciplined, character-driven oeuvre. It's a world away from those films that Perry's cinematographer, Sean Price Williams, has described as 'people talking in rooms'. READ MORE 'You hope that everything you create will be a new process, no matter what,' says Perry. 'You're looking for that every time in some way or another. But, by definition, there are 40 primary characters in Pavements whom you're keeping track of. That is extremely rare and complicated – except for movies like Nashville [directed by Robert Altman, from 1975]. 'The movie is actually really several smaller movies. The challenge was making little tiny movies that fit into a bigger movie. I wanted to make something complicated and unprecedented.' Nearly 35 years after a band of self-styled slackers from Stockton, California, emerged with a batch of lo-fi, inscrutable songs, Pavement remain an outlier in American indie rock. They were never meant for the mainstream. Formed in 1989 by Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs), Pavement began as a studio experiment of distorted guitars and nebulous mumbling. They sold self-distributed cassettes and secured some basement shows. They scored an unexpected success with their much-loved album Slanted and Enchanted from 1992, but their jagged sound and nonsensical lyrics would never truly go mainstream. 'I always was hoping that it was music for the future. I mean, I think everyone who's not that successful in their time tries to think that,' says Malkmus early in Perry's film, a documentary that occasionally gives you the sense that you're watching the biggest act on the planet. A lot is going on. An anchoring timeline chronicles the band's 2022 reunion tour – their first since 2010 – featuring rehearsals and performances from dates across North America and Europe. Off-Broadway, hopefuls audition for Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical. A pop-up Pavement museum, ostentatiously titled Pavements 1933–2022, features authentic artefacts and apparent fakes. There's more chicanery in Range Life: A Pavement Story, fragments of a grandiloquent Hollywood biopic filmed within the film, starring Joe Keery as Malkmus, with Schwartzman as Chris Lombardi, founder of Matador Records, the band's long-time label. There is even a completely made-up awards-season denouement, featuring Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. It's an epic sprawl that came together surprisingly quickly following an approach by Matador. Lombardi pitched the idea, with Malkmus giving a clear directive: they didn't want a typical documentary or a scripted screenplay. The frontman's only note was a request for something 'confusing and weird'. 'Within six weeks of being contacted to come up with some sort of radical or unusual idea that could be a suitably unique Pavement movie, all of those strands were there,' says Perry. 'When I look at my early documents, the only thing in my notes that is not in the movie is a fictionalised art-house film – I had the idea that, in addition to a very cliched, silly, bad Hollywood movie, there would be an art film like Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins. All of the ideas were there from the outset. My first thought was the movie ought to be a mosaic.' In 1999, after a decade that had seen them have moderate hits with Cut Your Hair, Gold Soundz and Range Life, Pavement broke up with the same shrugs they brought to their live performances. They had sung and played off-key during shambolic television appearances. Their inclusion on the bill of the Lollapalooza festival in 1995 – an odd fit alongside Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Sinéad O'Connor, Beck and Coolio – almost started a riot. Do Pavement fit Perry's description of his most acerbic creations as 'people who can't get out of their own way'? 'When I first heard Pavement as a young person, I had no understanding of the complexity of what an artist's goals are,' the film-maker says. 'You don't think about that stuff when you're 13. You're just hearing a good song and catching a concert. That level of insight is invisible to a lot of the public, and often only visible in hindsight. 'But it certainly became their story in the 20 years after they broke up. After the reunion it became the story of unfulfilled ambition and missed opportunities and untapped potential. 'During my research for the film, which was all done in 2020, deep into the pandemic, when nobody in the band had seen each other since the 2010 reunion tour, the narratives I was given by everyone involved with the band spoke to that disappointment.' Then came a plot twist. Harness Your Hopes, an obscure track recorded in 1996, unexpectedly became one of the band's most popular songs. Despite never being released as a single or receiving significant radio play at the time, the track gained traction on Spotify in the 2010s – it now has more than 210 million streams – before igniting a dance craze on TikTok. 'At some point, making the movie, I looked at their Spotify page expecting to see Range Life or Cut Your Hair as their number-one songs. And suddenly I'm asking, 'Why does this song have tens of millions more views than everything else?' 'This song hasn't even been on my radar for narrative purposes. And then I googled it and discovered this crazy thing happened. By the time the band were rehearsing for the 2022 tour, this song had blown up and they were playing it as part of every show. I shot the video for it before we shot the movie.' It is a delightful second act, not just for Pavement but for Pavements. Perry's grandiose, counterfactual account of the band now feels strangely prophetic. 'We made this movie over a five-year span,' he says. 'The concept was an absurd notion that this band would ever go gold or platinum. We weren't thinking, Oh, that'll be funny, because sooner or later they'll have gold records. It was, like, This is the most ridiculous thing imaginable, because they haven't been a band for 25 years. And now the movie is out and the success that had eluded them for forever has happened.' Pavements is in cinemas from Friday, July 11th
Elle
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
9 Shows 'The Handmaid's Tale' Fans Will Love As We Near The Finale
The Handmaid's Tale's incredible eighth episode may have been a reminder of just how powerful this show can be, but it also left us desperate for the last two episodes and to find out answers to the many unanswered questions we have about how the finale will play out. Watching the sixth series of the show week by week has been bittersweet; while in some ways it's heightened the enjoyment, in others it's been painful to wait a week to find out the fates of our favourite characters. So, while we wait for episode nine this weekend — and the final tenth episode the weekend after that — you may be looking for something to fill the Handmaid's Tale-shaped hole. Luckily, there's a lot of TV out there — and while it may feel like sometimes 'there's nothing on', we assure you there definitely is — and there's definitely something you've missed. It's just sometimes hard to find it among the mass of streaming services. If you're a The Handmaid's Tale fan, we've compiled a list of the nine shows we think you'll love. Our method for compiling the list? A lot of TV-watching over many years (hard work, we know.) We've featured dystopian shows with ones with a strong feminist slant and some purely because they star Elisabeth Moss — because who can get enough of June? If you need your 'Elisabeth Moss being put through her horrific paces by awful characters' quota filled after the end of The Handmaid's Tale, then Shining Girls is here for you. Moss plays Kirby Mazrachi, who is assaulted and, in investigating what happens to her, finds links to a series of brutal murders. But those murders are inexplicably across decades. Why? All will soon become clear.. Shining Girls is available to view on Apple TV+ Looking for more dystopian views? Try Silo. Best on the best-selling book series, the series takes place in a future where the air is so toxic that human are trapped in a siloed community, hundreds of stories below the ground. But are the rules really there to protect them — or to keep them contained? Watch Silo on Apple TV+ Sci-fi-meets-Western, Westworld was on of the biggest prestige shows around when it aired originally. In the future, people can visit a theme park called Westworld and interact with extremely realistic robots as if back in the days of the Wild West. But when the robots begin to malfunction — and develop a consciousness — things start to go seriously wrong... You can stream Westworld on NOW TV Now into its seventh series, you can't think 'dystopian future' without thinking about Black Mirror. Margaret Atwood famously said that she based The Handmaid's Tale not on some awful fictional world, but rather on real things that had happened in the world to women. In the same way, Brooker's show has started to increasingly chase its tail, often creating shows that seem eerily prescient by the time they come out. You can stream all of Black Mirror on Netflix Originally showing on the BBC in 2019, Years And Years found a new audience when it was recently released onto Netflix, and again, earns itself the well-worn tag of much dystopian drama now - 'eerily prescient'. The show follows a family from 2019, 15 years into the future, as things go from bad to worse for humanity and the cast. Emma Thompson breaks from her usual roles to play a celebrity who finds a pathway into politics with right-wing views — and is excellently terrifying. Proper 'laugh if it wasn't so scary' stuff. And as fans of Russell T. Davies, the writer, will know — expect heartbreak. Years And Years is available to watch on Netflix True Detective-esque in its pairing of crime with the more magical-realism, Top Of The Lake stars Elisabeth Moss in this New Zealand-based drama as a detective investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl from a small town. You can watch Top Of The Lake on U for free A post-apocalyptic big budget adaptation of the Fallout franchise, the series takes place in an LA wasteland of mutants and bandits — and stars White Lotus favourite Walton Goggins. Watch Fallout on Amazon Prime Video Based on Naomi Alderman's best-selling novel, The Power finds teenage girls and then women developing a special super power that allows them to electrocute people at will. A flip on The Handmaid's Tale, it questions what happens when women have physical dominance and power. Predictable spoiler: it's not the paradise you might've hoped for. You can watch The Power on Amazon Prime Video If you say 'Stephen Graham' and 'Netflix' in close proximity, chances are you're thinking Adolescence. Well, think again and picture something that probably couldn't be further from the gritty realism of that show. That's Bodies — a sci-fi mystery thriller that links a murder to time travel in a unique and mind-bending way. Bodies is available to stream on Netflix
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Imperfect Women's Elisabeth Moss Calls Her Upcoming Apple TV+ Series ‘A Fantastic Palate-Cleanser After Handmaid's' — Everything We Know So Far
Apple TV+'s Imperfect Women doesn't have a release date yet, but that didn't stop us from asking star and executive producer Elisabeth Moss for an update on the new series during a recent interview. 'It's going great,' Moss said of production on the forthcoming limited series based on Araminta Hall's 2020 novel. 'It's pretty early, but it's a project that's been near and dear to my heart for five years now.' She recalled optioning the book years ago through her production company, Love & Squalor. 'Through various boring industry maneuvers, two strikes and a pandemic — and my own schedule, this day job of Handmaid's that I had — it's taken a second to get here,' the Emmy winner added. 'But I'm very glad that it's arrived in this package that it's arrived in, because this cast is insane. It's crazy.' More from TVLine The Handmaid's Tale's Elisabeth Moss Takes Us Inside Directing the Series Finale: Ending Show Without That Big Character Return 'Didn't Feel Right' Did Taylor Swift Have a Secret Handmaid's Tale Cameo?! Elisabeth Moss Gives Us the Scoop (Exclusive) The Handmaid's Tale's Elisabeth Moss, Max Minghella Unpack the 'Divisive' June/Nick Ending to Episode 6 Moss, of course, referred to her work on Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, where she was star, executive producer and director. The dystopian drama ran six seasons and recently aired its series finale, which she helmed. And the Imperfect Women co-stars that have her so excited include Scandal's Kerry Washington, who also serves as an EP; House of Cards' Kate Mara; Billions' Corey Stoll and For All Mankind's Joel Kinnaman. 'I just feel like it came together the way that it was supposed to,' Moss said. 'And it's a fantastic palate-cleanser after Handmaid's. It's super different. It's fun, it's sexy. It's obviously a drama, but it's got this thriller element to it.' She added: 'It came around at the right time.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kerry Washington (@kerrywashington) Scroll down to find out everything we know so far about . We'll make sure to update this post as soon as there's new intel, so come back often! In addition to Moss, Washington, Mara, Stoll and Kinnaman, Imperfect Women's cast includes Rome Flynn (Godfather of Harlem), Sherri Saum (The Fosters), Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty), Wilson Bethel (All Rise), Keith Carradine (Madam Secretary) and Jackson Kelly (The Pitt). The series is based on Araminta Hall's 2020 novel, published by Picador. According to the show's official logline, 'After a murder shatters the lives of three friends, their decades-long bond is tested when an investigation reveals shocking truths.' Imperfect Women does not yet have a release date. We'll be sure to update this post with that information as soon as it does. Imperfect Women will stream exclusively on Apple TV+. Apple TV+ has not yet released a trailer for Imperfect Women, but we'll add the video to this post as soon as one is released. Best of TVLine 20+ Age-Defying Parent-Child Castings From Blue Bloods, ER, Ginny & Georgia, Golden Girls, Supernatural and More Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More
