"I had no idea we were even eligible for an Emmy, quite honestly," said Steele to IndieWire over Zoom. "Depending on the mood I'm in, it was either a cherry on the top or a sad surprise," she joked, thinking back on the prospect of a second year of awards campaigning.
Ari Aster's film Eddington depicts a clash between Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal's characters over navigating their small town through the Covid crisis, reflecting contemporary political dynamics.
Captain America, often seen as a patriotic figure, has also challenged corrupt government agencies, illustrating that superheroes cannot easily be classified on a political spectrum.
The Hills Are Alive: A Year At Kylemore Abbey follows the daily lives of Benedictine nuns facing unique challenges including managing a 1,000-acre estate visited by 500,000 people yearly.
Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man (Buttle). If the inciting events of our great science fiction films have been hostile aliens, seductive robots, and reckless technologies, Terry Gilliam begins his with a humble typo.
In David Cronenberg's new film, widower Karsh Relikh invites Myrna to a restaurant that doubles as a showroom for his graveyard business, showcasing burial shrouds equipped with livestreaming cameras.
The buried Roger Corman production was the stuff of pop culture lore for decades before anyone saw it. Tim Story's two titles from the 2000s were critical disappointments and poor representations of some of the comics' most iconic arcs.
