‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Get Lost in A24’s Creepy but Underbaked Liminal Horror

‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Get Lost in A24’s Creepy but Underbaked Liminal Horror

Appropriately for a surreal realm comprised of inexplicable angles that stretch across impossible dimensions and seem, as one explorer puts it, cobbled together by “construction workers on acid,” the Backrooms, as a premise, have no precise parameters. You might think of it less as a story than a shared alternate reality, originating as a creepypasta…

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Mark Duplass Defends ‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Amid Speculation About 20-Year-Old Filmmaker’s Role

Mark Duplass Defends ‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Amid Speculation About 20-Year-Old Filmmaker’s Role

Mark Duplass is defending Backrooms director Kane Parsons in light of social media speculation about the 20-year-old filmmaker and YouTuber’s role on the forthcoming horror movie. Hitting theaters Friday from A24, Backrooms stars Duplass alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell in the film about a therapist tracking down a missing patient…

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How Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Concert Film Inspired Anne Hathaway’s Performance in ‘Mother Mary’

How Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Concert Film Inspired Anne Hathaway’s Performance in ‘Mother Mary’

Taylor Swift’s reputation is getting yet another boost, this time from Mother Mary director David Lowery. The auteur had high praise for Swift, specifically singling out her Reputation stadium tour and accompanying concert film as the inspiration behind the concert sequences he filmed for his upcoming A24 film, which stars Anne Hathaway as a larger-than-life…

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Parkland Survivor Jackie Corin on ‘The Drama’ and Her Concerns About Casting Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

Parkland Survivor Jackie Corin on ‘The Drama’ and Her Concerns About Casting Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

A24‘s dark comedy feature The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, has already become the focus of debate, despite the studio’s efforts to conceal the film’s true subject matter from its marketing. As revealed in media reports about the project that hits theaters Friday, writer-director Kristoffer Borgli‘s movie (spoilers ahead) centers on Emma (Zendaya) and…

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Celine Song Takes Her ‘Materialists’ Victory Lap: “I’m Able to Be Fearless Because I’m Not Full of Sh**”

Celine Song Takes Her ‘Materialists’ Victory Lap: “I’m Able to Be Fearless Because I’m Not Full of Sh**”

Celine Song was waiting for it. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was in London, a few months after her sophomore feature Materialists had bowed to critical and commercial success in the U.S. — and spurred dozens of thinkpieces about its depictions of modern dating, capitalism, and gender roles (okay, and leg-lengthening surgery). She’d noticed a pattern in…

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