When I was five, my grandmother, mother, and I went to see Gillian Armstrong’s film adaptation of Little Women. Everyone cried. It was great. And soon, generations of families will be able to sob together in theaters once more, thanks to an impending new adaptation of Little Women, helmed by none other than Greta…
For everybody out there who still can’t hear the sound of waves crashing on film without thinking about that one scene from Rebecca and a college professor painstakingly explaining that THE WAVES ARE SEX, or something, here is the trailer for On Chesil Beach.
In “Welcome to Hell,” Saturday Night Live’s female cast members invite the men to come on in to join the world of sexual assault, a pink marshmallow where all women presumably live. Where come nightfall everybody travels in packs and carries mace, and it’s all very, very tiring.
Most teenage characters are unbelievably precocious. Teens of the big (The Fault In Our Stars, Edge of Seventeen) and small screen (Riverdale, Awkward) today, in comedies especially made for and marketed to actual teenagers, are indebted to the Juno MacGuffs, Seth Cohens and Rory Gilmores of recent pop culture past.…
Saoirse Ronan plays Lady Bird in the upcoming coming-of-age film of the same name; it’s her given name, because she gave it to herself.
On last year’s cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue—that annual Annie Leibovitz photo in which the country’s hottest actors use each other as sexy, well-dressed furniture—20 percent of those photographed were people of color, 100 percent were under 50, 60 percent were men, and 33 percent of the men were Miles Teller…
Lost River, Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, stars Saoirse Ronan as a lead character by the name of Rat, a sorrowful young girl who sings herself to sleep every night. For the film soundtrack, which was scored by Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy, Drive soundtrack), Ronan sang a sad, sweet little lonely lullaby that's part…
We live in an age of cultural morbidity, which is exactly why we're getting yet another post-apocalyptic fantasy/nightmare movie — to let us all indulge our cynicism towards the human race. How I Live Now, based on Meg Rosoff's 2004 YA novel about a Manhattanite teenager who goes to live on a remote English farm…
Violet and Daisy stars Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan as two big-city gals just trying to make some extra money. By waiting tables, you ask? No, of course not — what a banal question. They kill people for money, people like James Gandolfini, a mysterious mark who might also be a therapist. He at least asks…
Even though I've read stuff about the movie The Host — based on a novel by Twilight's Stephenie Meyer — I have no idea WTF it's about. Aliens, body image, love? (Also, I've already seen an awesome movie called The Host, it was a Korean monster movie.) All I know is there were some cute dresses on display at a…
The final Twilight film is about to hit theaters, but we're not done with Stephenie Meyer projects yet: The film adaptation of the writer's sci-fi-romance novel, The Host, will be released in March 2013.
Comic writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa — who has written for Big Love, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and worked on the graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand — is penning the script for a remake of 1976 horror film Carrie. For those unfamiliar with the story, the trailer above gives most of it away:…
On Friday, the film tied with Arthur for second place behind Hop, and ended up grossing a respectable $12 million this weekend. Did anyone see it? And do you agree that the director got it right?
Joe Wright's new film Hanna revolves around a 16-year-old girl, raised in the woods and trained to be an assassin. Much like Hit Girl in Kick Ass and Babydoll in Sucker Punch, Hanna is a fearless killing machine in the form of a young woman with a gun. However: Not all female action heroes are created equally. There's…
Hanna's about an ass-kicking teen assassin. This NYC screening was all about ass-kicking teen fashion.
A 14-year-old trained assassin played by Saoirse Ronan? Yes, please, movie people!
Not one but two new "Snow White" movies are in the works, with all kinds of weird casting being batted around. Who would you choose?
The British Academy Film Awards, perhaps better known as the BAFTAs, or "the British Oscars," are taking place in London this evening, and the stars are out in full force, wearing their glamorous awards-season best:
In The New York Times Magazine this weekend and online now: While Gabby Sidibe was shot in a Palm Beach-like interior, Saoirse Ronan, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, and Emily Blunt look stuck in a Lars Von Trier movie. [NYT]
