Movie Reviews and Previews Three Muses Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu was a bit of a box office surprise last Christmas. This is a film in the horror/thriller genre, not usually what holiday audiences are looking for. But it exceeded expectations and then went on to receive four Oscar nominations. Robert has his own fanbase – those By Lainey • Nov 26, 2025 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A creeping sense of dread in Nosferatu Over the last decade, Robert Eggers has established himself as one of the most meticulous auteurs working today, with his exactingly realized worlds occupied by characters undergoing total meltdowns. Nosferatu is his latest cinematic diorama of dread, a retelling of FW Murnau’s classic silent film of the same name, By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gothic girlies for Nosferatu A while back I said I was not sold on Lily-Rose Depp as an actor, let alone a leading lady, but then I saw Nosferatu. I will have a full review of that film next week so for now let me say—okay, I’m starting to see it. While By Sarah • Dec 05, 2024 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Gilmore Girls The first looks we’ve gotten at Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s legacy sequel of the 1980s horror-comedy classic Beetlejuice, really didn’t give away much about the new movie except nostalgia vibes and that Lydia Deetz has a daughter. The new trailer, though, coming just about six weeks before By Sarah • Jul 19, 2024 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Eggers takes on vampires Robert Eggers is back, and frankly, I don’t think we deserve him, given how badly we let him down in re: The Northman, a totally f-cking rad movie that basically no one saw. And yet! Robert Eggers is humble, he is magnanimous, he is a GIVER who will GIVE By Sarah • Jun 25, 2024 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yorgos & Emma, again Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone only just wrapped up their Oscar run for Poor Things, but they’re back already with Kinds of Kindness, their fourth collaboration, and the first one with a contemporary setting. This is not, however, Lanthimos’s first contemporary-set film, some of his most f-cked up By Sarah • Mar 28, 2024 11:42 am
TV Updates Pedro Pascal round 2 (with friends) On the heels of the Golden Globes, where he lost the supporting actor award—I just cannot do this extremely long category name anymore—to Robert Downey, Jr., Willem Dafoe got a consolation prize, and some might say a more valuable honor, in the form of a star on the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2024 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Poor Things and Ramy Youssef’s big year Poor Things opened to the third-best specialty box office of the year, but it’s real test comes one week from today, when it expands into wide release just in time for the holidays. It then opens in Europe in January, and to that end, there was a gala screening By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone in Poor Things Poor Things asks two questions: 1) What must women overcome to self-actualize, and 2) what if Emma Stone was gross? Adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things is about Bella Baxter, a baby-brained sexy lady growing into herself and past all By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 01:46 pm
BFFs Emma Stone ft. Taylor Swift Poor Things opens tomorrow. Right now, it’s one of the top contenders for Best Picture, and Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo are in the thick of their campaigns for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. The premiere was last night in New York, and it drew some big By Sarah • Dec 07, 2023 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a colorful, cinematic weirdo One month after we saw the teaser for Poor Things, the film reuniting director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, we now have a full trailer showing off Stone in full cinematic weirdo mode, Willem Dafoe as some kind of Dr. Frankenstein/Dr. Moreau hybrid, and Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a Poor Thing Yorgos Lanthimos is back, baby! He’s reteaming with Emma Stone for Poor Things, a Frankensteinian tale adapted from Scottish writer Alasdair Gray’s award-winning novel of the same name. Stone plays Bella, a woman brought back to life by a mad scientist, played, naturally, by Willem Dafoe. The film By Sarah • May 11, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard’s victory lap The Northman, the Icelandic saga-inspired Viking epic starring Alexander Skarsgard, opens this week, and the premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Skarsgard was on hand along with his castmates Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, and writer/director Robert Eggers. Keith Urban joined Kidman on the black carpet, and By Sarah • Apr 19, 2022 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a monstrous man in Nightmare Alley Yesterday we saw the first look for Guillermo Del Toro’s new film, Nightmare Alley, and now we have a teaser by which to get a taste of Del Toro’s latest dark fantasia. It looks creepy all right! Old timey carnivals are always creepy, that’s a given. The By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson: Farts and Loneliness in The Lighthouse I saw The Lighthouse at TIFF, and five weeks later, I am still not sure I actually like this film. I admire it, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, but did I enjoy it? Does enjoyment even matter when a film is so specifically evocative and provoking? “Like” By Sarah • Oct 18, 2019 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz is a crusty lighthouse keeper One of the outliers in this year’s Oscar race is The Lighthouse, the sophomore feature film from Robert Eggers. His previous film, The Witch, is a near-masterpiece, but Eggers, like Ari Aster, makes films in the horror tradition, so the Academy blows them off. This year, Eggers’ destined-to-be-ignored film By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 04:04 pm
