Variety has apologized for its review of Carey Mulligan’s new movie.
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Various artists, “Promising Young Woman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Capitol Records)The “Promising Young Woman” soundtrack will not play with your emotions. Instead, it will straight up kick you in the gut with a dark playlist to let you know this is not a comfortable ride.
Variety has apologized for its review of Carey Mulligan’s new movie.
Carey Mulligan’s latest film, the provocatively dark and twisted comedic thriller, “Promising Young Woman” — about a young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, who seeks out vengeance against those who cross her path — has certainly sparked conversation on social media and within the film community.
Emerald Fennell—best known as Camilla Parker Bowles on seasons three and four of , as well as the showrunner on season two of —makes her directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, out December 25. She also wrote the comedy-thriller, which stars Carey Mulligan as a former medical student who takes revenge on the people involved in the rape of her best friend.
Variety’s review of her new movie saying it focuses on her looks and compares them to Margot Robbie.Also Read: Carey Mulligan Calls Out Variety Review That Said She 'Wasn't Hot Enough' for Role“I read the Variety review, because I’m a weak person,” Mulligan told the New York Times in an interview out Wednesday. “And I took issue with it.”“Promising Young Woman” centers on her character Cassie’s mission to catch men in the act of attempting to sleep with her when she’s seemingly very drunk.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHair, make-up and costumes are all are powerful tools in storytelling and each add to the authenticity of the narrative. For “Shirley,” costume designer Amela Baksic immersed herself in researching archival photos of horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson.
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Emerald Fennell wanted to write about female rage. Before #MeToo became ubiquitous, she had been thinking about complacency and the teen movies of her youth where consent was often little more than a throwaway joke.
Also Read: 'Sylvie's Love' Review: Tessa Thompson Pursues Love and Career in Swoon-Worthy Period RomanceCassie’s avoidance routine is interrupted by the arrival of an old classmate, Ryan (Bo Burnham), who professes a longtime crush on her and asks her out. Inadvertently, his presence also brings up painful memories for Cassie, which are slowly revealed to be a traumatic event that led to the end of her dreams of becoming a doctor.
Emerald Fennell could picture her lying in a bed as a man began to strip off her clothes. "" she would slur, then again as he moved to remove her underwear.
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve), the Focus Features dramatic thriller Promising Young Woman has been a buzzy awards season title before its Christmas Day theatrical release. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Carey Mulligan Best Actress for her turn as the methodical Cassie who is out for revenge while Fennell received honors for Best Screenplay. The writer-director was also awarded the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award from the Chicago Film Critics.
Clayton Davis The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has completed its annual review of film submissions for the Golden Globe awards, and Variety has learned exclusively that many films and performances have been switched from the studios’ intended submissions.“Promising Young Woman” from Focus Features was switched from comedy to the drama categories.
mum has blasted blundering doctors who she says sent her a letter telling her she had a deadly cancer gene and would need a hysterectomy. Caitlin Robertson, 22, told how she received a letter on October 15 informing her she had tested positive for the BRCA gene and would need to have her womb removed to avoid getting cancer - just four months after her baby son Hunter was delivered prematurely during an emergency caesarean section.
Is it a #MeToo-era revenge thriller? A 21st-century “Fatal Attraction”? A candy-colored feminist polemic, to strains of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? A black comedy? A comic tragedy?None of the above — and all of the above. Which is to say: a film as bracingly original as Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman" defies labels.Here’s a couple good adjectives, though: Startling — the only way to describe Fennell’s vision and execution in this, her directorial debut.
I think we can all agree that Carey Mulligan should have more than one Oscar nomination to her name. Yes, her nod for a decade ago for “An Education” was well deserved, but in the years following she’s been overlooked far too often for incredible performances in “Shame,” “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “Wildlife,” among others.
flipped onto its side on a rural Scots road. Emergency services were called to the scene on Torbain Road, between Kirkcaldy and Lochgelly in Fife, at around 1.40pm on Sunday.
Running time: 114 min. Rated R (violence, language, drug use).If ever there was a movie worth venturing back to the theater for, it’s this blistering horror-comedy.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorWhen Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan set out to make “Promising Young Woman,” they knew it would spark conversation. But they didn’t think it would lead to an actual fight in the audience during a screening.“It was just a really completely mixed audience, all sorts of ages and genders,” Fennell says of the early test screening.
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Paisley after a 'worrying' incident involving her daughter and two strangers. Natasha McCotter was walking with her toddler, Rowan, in Glenburn, when she noticed a couple watching them at 1.30pm on Monday.