A24 has revealed the first trailer for the studio’s first-ever musical, titled Dicks: The Musical, starring Megan Thee Stallion (in her first big screen role), Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally and Bowen Yang. The musical was written by the film’s stars Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who play the titular “dicks,” …
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There have been quite a few horror movies of late that center around influencers and YouTubers, and, with some exceptions, they mostly suck. Maybe it’s because the protagonist is always yelling in that trademark “YouTube” voice. Maybe it’s that the found footage oeuvre could use a serious overhaul. Or maybe …
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It doesn’t take long for the new Netflix/A24 documentary The Deepest Breath to let you know an ill wind is blowing. “I accepted that she was doing a dangerous thing,” intones the father of Alessia Zecchini, one of the world’s elite freedivers. “Extreme sports have extreme consequences,” says the father …
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G reta Lee is squinting in the sunlight, staring intently at a street corner in the East Village. There’s a look of intense concentration on her face. “Wait, is that…” “Yeah, that’s the corner,” director Celine Song says. “I thought it was!” Lee replies, lighting up. “We’d just finished doing …
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Talking Heads’ classic 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense — Number Four on Rolling Stone’s List of the Best Music Documentaries — will return to theaters later this year with a new 4K restoration courtesy of A24. To celebrate the film’s big-screen revival, David Byrne participated in a clever promo …
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An artist’s work is never done. In the first official trailer for Kelly Reichardt’s forthcoming A24 film Showing Up, a group of Portland, Oregon-based sculptors and painters grapple with that very notion as they find themselves turning real-life events into inspiration for their work. The preview centers in on Lizzy, …
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Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter is, among other things, a spiritual sequel to her exquisite recent films The Souvenir (2019) and The Souvenir Part II (2021). Those movies studied a fledgling filmmaker named Julie Hart, who, bearing some autobiographical resemblance to Hogg herself, wound her way through memories of dating …
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From TikTok to the big screen! Benny Drama — born Benito Skinner — is set to get his big break thanks to Overcompensating, a scripted Amazon comedy about a gay football player coming to terms with his sexuality. And Charli XCX is in charge of the film’s music, so it …
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What’s scarier than a spooky Halloween? In 2022, it might be the pressure that comes with picking the perfect costume. In recent, more internet-focused, years, Halloween and its ingrained dress code have become an annual chance to prove that you’re culturally savvy, or at least have an hour to stand …
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Following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Apple TV+ has shared the official trailer for Causeway, the upcoming A24 drama that stars Jennifer Lawrence as a soldier struggling to readjust to civilian life in New Orleans after sustaining a traumatic brain injury during combat. Lawrence and Brian Tyree …
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