• May 30, 2023

Joey Batey Details Jaskier’s ‘Hot Girl Summer’ in The Witcher Season 3

The highly anticipated third season of Netflix’s The Witcher is almost here, and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and actor Joey Batey detailed what to expect from Jaskier in the new season. In an interview with Netflix ahead of the Season 3 premiere, Schmidt Hissrich said that Jaskier would be “flourishing” this season, and that the character falls…

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The Starling Girl movie review (2023)

That sugarcoat smile is just a thin cover for the near-constant shaming and judgment suffocating Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) as a 17-year-old girl growing up in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky. Laurel Parmet’s brilliant coming-of-age drama “The Starling Girl” captures the vulnerable teen at the moment she’s finding herself, finding love (or is that…

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Point of No Return: Laurel Parmet, Eliza Scanlen, and Lewis Pullman on The Starling Girl | Interviews

Jem is thrown into further turbulence by her intense connection with youth pastor Owen (Lewis Pullman). As their bond deepens and soon turns transgressive, Jem struggles with conflicting loyalties to the church, her community, and her autonomy. Writer/director Parmet, whose empathetic lens previously distinguished shorts “Spring” and “Kira Burning,” steers her feature debut through a…

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Ghost World: A Quirky Girl and Her Unexpected Friend | Far Flungers

The main performers of the film are pitch-perfect in their respective roles. As the center of the film, Thora Birch effortlessly embodies the angst and loneliness churning behind her character’s defiantly sardonic attitude, and her co-star Scarlett Johansson dutifully stands by Birch. While the late Brad Renfro is solid as a lad a bit too…

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The Artifice Girl movie review (2023)

This calls to mind “Blade Runner,” and its source material, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? If a memory is implanted into an android’s brain, a “personal” memory of a childhood that never happened, then isn’t that memory a real thing to the android? The android can’t tell the difference. It feels real.…

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Everything But the Girl, Dreamer Isioma, Esther Rose, and More – rezal404

The latest from Portrayal of Guilt is divided into two parts: the first, five originals performed, with customary heaviness, by their typical band setup; the second, those same songs reimagined for orchestra. The Texan group waded into sludgier songwriting, evicted on side B with tortured strings, warmongering brass, and choral vocals. A folk-horror short film…

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The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster Trailer for Horror Movie

The official The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster trailer is out, previewing one brilliant teenager looking for the cure to death. The upcoming film stars Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith, and Keith Holliday. It’s written and directed by Bomani J. Story, and recently had its world premiere at…

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I Felt Seen By ‘Funny Girl’ And Wouldn’t Have Wanted It Any Other Way — OnStage Blog

by Jenna Clark, Guest Editorial Follow on Instagram @jennaelizclark I was lucky enough to have had the opportunity to see ‘Funny Girl’ at the August Wilson Theater in New York City when Beanie Feldstein took the stage back in July. I am glad I had the opportunity to see her perform. I was ecstatic when…

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