[The following story contains spoilers for No One Will Save You.]
During an uneventful weekend at the domestic box office, Brian Duffield’s alien invasion thriller No One Will Save You became the talk of social media. The Hulu release, which features virtually no dialogue, is another critical win for Duffield following his critically acclaimed directorial debut, Spontaneous, and it’s even received Guillermo Del Toro and Stephen King‘s stamps of approval.
The Kaitlyn Dever-led sci-fi film begins with the high concept of an alien home invasion, but eventually widens its scope into something more affecting on a character level. Dever’s Brynn Adams accidentally killed her 12-year-old best friend a decade earlier, and her small-town community of Mill River has turned her into persona non grata ever since, resulting in a life of alienation inside her late mother’s home.
To pass the time, Brynn makes dresses, builds idyllic dioramas of Mill River,...
During an uneventful weekend at the domestic box office, Brian Duffield’s alien invasion thriller No One Will Save You became the talk of social media. The Hulu release, which features virtually no dialogue, is another critical win for Duffield following his critically acclaimed directorial debut, Spontaneous, and it’s even received Guillermo Del Toro and Stephen King‘s stamps of approval.
The Kaitlyn Dever-led sci-fi film begins with the high concept of an alien home invasion, but eventually widens its scope into something more affecting on a character level. Dever’s Brynn Adams accidentally killed her 12-year-old best friend a decade earlier, and her small-town community of Mill River has turned her into persona non grata ever since, resulting in a life of alienation inside her late mother’s home.
To pass the time, Brynn makes dresses, builds idyllic dioramas of Mill River,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock is set to release her first memoir.
The singer, who performed with the girl group from 2011 to 2022, shared a video to Instagram on Monday (17 April) announcing her autobiography, Believe.
In the clip, Pinnock can be seen sipping a cup of tea and reading from the book, before explaining that the memoir is “so special to me”.
“I hope you guys love is as much as I do,” she said, sharing that Believe will be released on 26 October.
Pinnock captioned the video: “Ever since we won The X Factor back in 2011, I feel like I’ve been in a whirlwind. I’ve had some life-changing moments that up until now, I’ve never really had the chance to process.
“Maya Angelou once said, ‘You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.’ So with this in mind and before...
The singer, who performed with the girl group from 2011 to 2022, shared a video to Instagram on Monday (17 April) announcing her autobiography, Believe.
In the clip, Pinnock can be seen sipping a cup of tea and reading from the book, before explaining that the memoir is “so special to me”.
“I hope you guys love is as much as I do,” she said, sharing that Believe will be released on 26 October.
Pinnock captioned the video: “Ever since we won The X Factor back in 2011, I feel like I’ve been in a whirlwind. I’ve had some life-changing moments that up until now, I’ve never really had the chance to process.
“Maya Angelou once said, ‘You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.’ So with this in mind and before...
- 4/17/2023
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - Music
Anne Perry, the prolific crime novelist, died at a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, her literary agent Meg Davis confirmed to the New York Times. Perry was 84.
Perry, who was born as Juliet Marion Hulme, served five years in prison after being convicted of murdering her best friend Pauline Parker’s mother Honorah Rieper alongside Parker when they were just teenagers in 1954. Perry was just 15 years old and Parker was 16 at the time.
In 1994, Perry’s past came to light when director Peter Jackson based his film “Heavenly Creatures” on Perry’s story. Perry was played by Kate Winslet, who was making her onscreen acting debut in the film. Melanie Lynskey starred as Parker. “Heavenly Creatures” would end up being nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Kate Winslet, left, and Melanie Lynskey in “Heavenly Creatures.” (Miramax)
Perry’s first novel “The Cater Street Hangman,” was published in 1979. The crime novel is...
Perry, who was born as Juliet Marion Hulme, served five years in prison after being convicted of murdering her best friend Pauline Parker’s mother Honorah Rieper alongside Parker when they were just teenagers in 1954. Perry was just 15 years old and Parker was 16 at the time.
In 1994, Perry’s past came to light when director Peter Jackson based his film “Heavenly Creatures” on Perry’s story. Perry was played by Kate Winslet, who was making her onscreen acting debut in the film. Melanie Lynskey starred as Parker. “Heavenly Creatures” would end up being nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Kate Winslet, left, and Melanie Lynskey in “Heavenly Creatures.” (Miramax)
Perry’s first novel “The Cater Street Hangman,” was published in 1979. The crime novel is...
- 4/14/2023
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Anne Perry, whose crime writing was shadowed by her role in a murder that was spotlighted in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film, Heavenly Creatures, has died at 84.
Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital, her agent Meg Davis confirmed. She had been in steady decline since suffering a heart attack in December, Davis said.
The author served five years in prison starting when she was 15 for bludgeoning Honoah Mary Parker, her best friend’s mother. She was then known as Juliet Hulme, later adopting a pen name in her writing career. The crime happened n Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954, and involved the two friends plotting the murder. The details were later discovered in journals the police found.
Perry’s first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, arrived in 1979. It was the start of a career that saw her churn out mor ethan 100 mysteries and thrillers, selling more than 26 million copies worldwide. She...
Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital, her agent Meg Davis confirmed. She had been in steady decline since suffering a heart attack in December, Davis said.
The author served five years in prison starting when she was 15 for bludgeoning Honoah Mary Parker, her best friend’s mother. She was then known as Juliet Hulme, later adopting a pen name in her writing career. The crime happened n Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954, and involved the two friends plotting the murder. The details were later discovered in journals the police found.
Perry’s first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, arrived in 1979. It was the start of a career that saw her churn out mor ethan 100 mysteries and thrillers, selling more than 26 million copies worldwide. She...
- 4/13/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The story of Pauline and Juliet as told in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures is one of whimsy and fantasy, of schoolgirl infatuation, and of complicated family relationships that ultimately takes a dark, violent and almost sudden turn toward the macabre. While it feels like an abrupt and out-of-character development, Jackson manages to both prepare you for it and leave you nevertheless surprised, drawing us in from the opening scene and creating something infinitely compelling out of what amounts, in the first 90 minutes of a 99 minute film, to little more than a intense friendship between two girls.
The story behind Heavenly Creatures is all the more fascinating because it's based closely on true events.
The story concerns a New Zealand schoolgirl, Pauline (Melanie Lynskey). Pauline is quiet, timid, and a little overweight. Her life is changed dramatically when Juliet and her wealthy parents move to town. Juliet and Pauline strike an immediate and intense friendship,...
The story behind Heavenly Creatures is all the more fascinating because it's based closely on true events.
The story concerns a New Zealand schoolgirl, Pauline (Melanie Lynskey). Pauline is quiet, timid, and a little overweight. Her life is changed dramatically when Juliet and her wealthy parents move to town. Juliet and Pauline strike an immediate and intense friendship,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Review by Dane Marti
Whether a person calls the much-maligned genre mystery, crime, suspense thrillers, pulp fiction, who-done-its or Noir, I’ve always been a fan of the genre in all of its manifestations. It’s all some people ever read! As for moi, perhaps it just shows that I have some twisted subconscious thoughts – or perhaps it just shows that I am like millions of other people who like the mystery and crime that keeps the reader turning the pages in frenzied anticipation.
I have no way of actually knowing, but I wonder how many writers of this particular genre have either been a part of an actual crime or committed one? Well, I know that Hitchcock, although a film director (and an excellent conceptualist of storyboarded scenes and the grammar of film) is a not a writer, but let’s face it, he had a twisted, but basically fun and active imagination.
Whether a person calls the much-maligned genre mystery, crime, suspense thrillers, pulp fiction, who-done-its or Noir, I’ve always been a fan of the genre in all of its manifestations. It’s all some people ever read! As for moi, perhaps it just shows that I have some twisted subconscious thoughts – or perhaps it just shows that I am like millions of other people who like the mystery and crime that keeps the reader turning the pages in frenzied anticipation.
I have no way of actually knowing, but I wonder how many writers of this particular genre have either been a part of an actual crime or committed one? Well, I know that Hitchcock, although a film director (and an excellent conceptualist of storyboarded scenes and the grammar of film) is a not a writer, but let’s face it, he had a twisted, but basically fun and active imagination.
- 11/16/2010
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This year's Hot Docs [1] festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and and only now have we finally managed to purge our thoughts on the many documentaries that we've seen this year. Jay put up a much more comprehensive post over on The Documentary Blog [2], but I have taken a selection of these reviews and reposted them here for your convenience. If you like what you see, be sure to head over there and read the rest. Also, don't forget to check out previous reviews of the following films: Teenage Paparazzo [3] The People vs. George Lucas [4] Gasland [5] Arsy-Versy [6] Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage [7] American: The Bill Hicks Story [8] The Invention of Dr Nakamats [9] 12th & Delaware [10] The Oath [11] Secrets of the Tribe [12] Capsule reviews for more films including Steven Soderbergh's And Everything is Going Fine, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's Kings of Pastry, and the David Lynch transcendental meditation...
- 5/21/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Death and the afterlife are explored in the new film .The Lovely Bones.. Based on the powerful Alice Sebold novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year old girl who is raped and murdered by her neighbor, and must protect her family from the afterlife.
Susie finds herself in the .in-between,. a Heaven-like place where she observes her family as they grieve for her. She also watches her killer, George Harvey (the magnificent Stanley Tucci), as he prepares to murder again.
I did not reveal the film.s secret by exposing Tucci.s murderous character. It.s all laid out on the movie.s trailer, and like the book, the film did not employ the serial killer character as a surprise element. Instead, the killer.s identity is used to heighten the suspense-thriller angle of the film.
There.s an...
Susie finds herself in the .in-between,. a Heaven-like place where she observes her family as they grieve for her. She also watches her killer, George Harvey (the magnificent Stanley Tucci), as he prepares to murder again.
I did not reveal the film.s secret by exposing Tucci.s murderous character. It.s all laid out on the movie.s trailer, and like the book, the film did not employ the serial killer character as a surprise element. Instead, the killer.s identity is used to heighten the suspense-thriller angle of the film.
There.s an...
- 12/9/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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