Tag: Heavenly Creatures
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The Real-Life Murder That Has Spawned Several Movie and TV Iterations
We love a bit of true crime, don’t we? The horror genre especially feels like it is built on a foundation of horrible history. Serial killers like Ivan Milat & Bradley John Murdoch form the baseline of Wolf Creek‘s Mick Taylor, Ed Gein’s nightmarish crimes inspired villains from Leatherface to Norman Bates, and any killer…
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Melanie Lynskey Opens Up on How Brittany Murphy Felt ‘She Had to Change to Be Successful’
Melanie Lynskey is looking back on Hollywood’s typecasting of women based on their bodies, and the “Heavenly Creatures” alum couldn’t help but point out one cautionary “heartbreaking” tale: Brittany Murphy.Lynskey, nominated for an Emmy thanks to her stunning performance in “Yellowjackets,” has been open about the criticisms of her physique onscreen. While Lynskey has slammed…
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Melanie Lynskey Jokes ‘It’s Nice to Feel Relevant’ Following Emmy Nom for ‘Yellowjackets’
Nearly three decades after her breakout role in the film “Heavenly Creatures,” and a whole breadth of TV jobs from “Two and a Half Men” to “Mrs. America,” Melanie Lynskey has finally nabbed her first Emmy nomination. And all it took was a traumatic plane crash, an unplanned pregnancy, over a year in the wilderness,…
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Melanie Lynskey Isn’t a Fan of Watching Herself Onscreen in ‘Yellowjackets’: ‘It’s Torture’
Even after 30 years in Hollywood, Melanie Lynskey isn’t a fan of watching herself onscreen.The “Yellowjackets” star joked that she “would forget every audition if I could” and said seeing herself acting is torture.”“I watch it one time so I know how to talk about it when I have to talk about it,” Lynskey told…
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Kate Winslet Talks Importance of Film Festivals at TIFF: “That’s How We Began”
With A-list stars not walking up red carpets at the Toronto International Film Festival into physical screenings amid the pandemic, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins and other winners of TIFF Tribute Awards gathered virtually to talk about the importance of festivals for the entertainment industry.Winslet, who has brought her latest film, Ammonite, to Toronto’s hybrid 2020…
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Film Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’
Remember the name Cory Finley. The astonishingly gifted writer-director of “Thoroughbreds” is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke (“Vanity Fair”) and Anya Taylor-Joy (“Split”), the two note-perfect lead actresses who star in Finley’s icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper-class riff on “Heavenly Creatures,” “Fun,” and the entire wicked subgenre in…