Tag: Mother!
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Why ‘Mother, Couch’ Director Niclas Larsson Rewatched ‘Freaky Friday’ and ‘13 Going on 30’ Before Filming His TIFF Debut Feature
Furniture stores are strange places. The liminal feeling they give off is something like a life-size dollhouse or home you once lived in but can’t remember when. If you’ve ever been into an Ikea, chances are you thought about what it’d be like to spend the night in one of the staged rooms that has…
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‘Mother, Couch’ Review – Ewan McGregor’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.To get it out of the way, there is an inescapable element of writer-director Niclas Larsson’s debut feature Mother, Couch that feels increasingly similar to Beau is…
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First ‘Mother, Couch’ Image: Ewan McGregor and Rhys Ifans Are Baffled
Ewan McGregor returns to the big screen in the upcoming film Mother, Couch, the feature-length directorial debut of Niclas Larsson, also starring Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn and Taylor Russell. Russell recently garnered much praise for her performance in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, as well as in Trey Edward Shults’ 2019 feature Waves. The upcoming…
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Charades, UTA Board ‘Mother, Couch,’ With Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor (Exclusive)
Charades and UTA Independent Film Group have boarded “Mother, Couch,” the high-profile feature debut of Niclas Larsson, which has just dropped its first-look image, shared in exclusivity with Variety.An all-star cast is led by Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans, Lara Flynn Boyle and F. Murray Abraham and now Lake Bell.Charades will handle…
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Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor Title ‘Mother, Couch!’ to Bow at San Sebastian’s New Directors Sidebar
Starring “Bones and All’s” Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor and Ellen Burstyn, “Mother, Couch!” the feature debut of Sweden’s Niclas Larsson, features in a currently 11-title lineup of San Sebastian’s 2023 New Directors section, the most important sidebar at the highest-profile movie event in the Spanish-speaking world.Notable in Trey Edward Shults’ raved-reviewed debut “Waves,” Russell stars…
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The Whale: Cast, Plot, Release Date, and Everything We Know So Far
Darren Aronofsky is a fantastic director without question, but that doesn’t necessarily mean his repertoire of films are the most approachable movies in cinemas today. Having made films like Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), and Noah (2014), Aronofsky is often the subject of rave…
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‘The Whale’ Review: Brendan Fraser Is Towering in a Lesser Darren Aronofsky
There are two things to be a little worried about and one thing to be extremely excited about when coming into “The Whale.”The first element of concern is director Darren Aronofsky, who admittedly has made exceptional films like “Requiem for a Dream” and “Pi” and gotten career-defining performances out of his leads in “Black Swan”…
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No Hard Feelings: Release Date, Cast, And More
(Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)Jennifer Lawrence has given some excellent performances over the years, whether she’s saving the world in “The Hunger Games,” blowing up a microwave in “American Hustle,” or…
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‘Mother/Android’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Tries to Create Life During the Apocalypse in Bland Sci-Fi Thriller
, Mattson Tomlin’s “Mother/Android” is the sort of mediocre streaming fare that might appease genre fans for 100 minutes or so, but will almost certainly leave them pining for the days when original sci-fi movies demanded (or at least encouraged) a modicum of originality. Perhaps the best thing that can be said about this ultra-depressing…