![]() ![]() A corset comedy made with a springy screwball sensibility and the darkly venal undertow of Dangerous Liaisons, it is, for my money, the best Jane Austen film made to date. Released six years ago now, it has since acquired the older-feeling patina of easy rewatchability insufficiently seen and celebrated at the time, it deserves to become a comfort-watching standard. In lieu of such hypotheticals, Love & Friendship will do very nicely indeed. ![]() To watch him work through her is to make you wonder how prime Preston Sturges or Billy Wilder might have tackled the author. Known for his ultra-arch, hyper-literate satires of preppy, privileged pockets of east coast society – from his Oscar-nominated debut Metropolitan to his peculiar spin on the campus comedy, Damsels in Distress – Stillman has something of Austen’s gift for smuggling razor-edged observations in silky formalities. When it was announced that Whit Stillman was adapting Austen’s relatively obscure, posthumous published novella Lady Susan, the marriage seemed almost too perfectly arranged, even if Stillman is as Waspishly American as Austen was Waspishly English. Love & Friendship, then, is a delicious rarity: an Austen interpretation taken on by an established, distinctive comic film-maker, bent to his cockeyed sensibility even as it honours the zesty, cutting hilarity of the original text. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Losing the boy she loved once before had nearly destroyed her, but the sparking tension that grows between them becomes impossible for Ivy to deny. But letting him in is as dangerous as hunting the cold-blooded killers stalking the streets. With forest-green eyes and a smile that’s surely left a stream of broken hearts in its wake, he has an uncanny, almost unnatural ability to make her yearn for everything he has to offer. He’s six feet and three inches of temptation and swoon-inducing charm. Ren Owens is the last person Ivy expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she’d sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film was officially announced in 2014, with Johnson attached to star as either Shazam or Black Adam. The film went into pre-production in 2009, with Peter Segal as director, John August as writer and Dwayne Johnson being considered to star as the villain Black Adam, but the project fell through Johnson acts as an executive producer on Shazam! William Goldman, Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen, Bill Birch, and Geoff Johns, among others, were all attached to the project as writers at various points. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong) and the Seven Deadly Sins.ĭevelopment of a live-action Shazam! film began at New Line in the early 2000s, but was delayed for several years. Billy and his foster brother Freddy Freeman (Grazer) must discover Billy's new powers in order to stop the evil Dr. The film follows teenager Billy Batson (Angel) as he is chosen by the ancient wizard Shazam (Hounsou) to be his new champion by saying the name "Shazam", allowing him to transform into an adult superhero (Levi) with various superpowers. Sandberg from a screenplay by Henry Gayden who co-wrote the story with Darren Lemke, and stars Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Djimon Hounsou. Pictures, it is the seventh installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, the Safran Company, and Seven Bucks Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. Shazam! is a 2019 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. ![]() |