Tag: Emma Stone
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Eddington: A Fever Dream in a Dusty Hat
Ari Aster’s Eddington begins as a mirage pulled from quarantine-era America, where every town feels frayed at the edges and grief floats just above the soil. Joaquin Phoenix, as Sheriff Joe Cross, is a cracked monument holding a badge that no longer commands reverence. His campaign for mayor is not a journey but a wound…
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Kinds of Kindness: More 50 Shades of Unkindness
MOVIE INFO: KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who…
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Poor Things: Welcome to the Monster Mish-Mash
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she…
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“The Favourite”: A Historical Story About Three Women, Monarchial Treachery and Seventeen Rabbits
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is a specialist on absurd forms of cruelty. In The Favourite Lanthimos gives up the absurd for the cruelly humanly comic and comes up with his most nasty and pleasing torment piece yet. This story of two courtesans (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) vying for the love, affection and the power…