You’d think we would be Emma-ed out by now. Not so. The new adaptation, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, and directed by Autumn de Wilde, is here, and it’s wonderful!
In some cases literally, as when a satirical twist on a romantic proposal in
Emma called for a nosebleed. I was in the moment enough that my nose really started bleeding, the actress tells EW.
The minor malady lends the insouciant Jane Austen heroine the same complexity she has on the page. People connect with the character because of how layered she is, Taylor-Joy says. People are afraid of messy women. I wanted to make sure Emma was messy.
That messiness captured the hearts of minds of audiences who fell for this new take on Emma s story as assuredly as Mr. Knightley (Johnny Flynn). Taylor-Joy, who s in the awards conversation for her work in both
Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 by /Film Staff
Every year, the /Film team gathers to do what all websites must: make a big list about the previous year in cinema. And while 2020 offered its fair share of numbing, painful roadblocks, the movies were as good as ever, even as we watched them at home instead of at a movie theater. So compiling a list of the
50 Greatest Movie Moments of 2020 was hard not because there weren’t any great moments, but because there were so many.
Here are our favorite moments – shots, scenes, lines of dialogue, gags, asides, action scenes, you name it – from the movies of 2020.
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Let It Snow.
At a glance,
Let It Snow (2019) looks like one of those thousands of annoying, syrupy Christmas romance movies, but it’s actually surprisingly heartfelt and sweet. It tells several intertwining stories of troubled, yet hopeful teens as they try to figure out life. Julie (Isabela Moner) has been accepted at Columbia University but is reluctant to leave her sick mother. She meets pop star Stuart Bale (Shameik Moore) and makes a connection with him while eating at a run-down restaurant called “Waffle Town” (the “W” has fallen off the sign; say it out loud). Waffle Town employee Dorrie (Liv Hewson) is having girl trouble, as well as best-friend trouble. Tobin (Mitchell Hope) is secretly in love with his best friend “Duke” (Kiernan Shipka). And aspiring DJ Keon (Jacob Batalon) hopes to throw a huge party in Waffle Town as a snowstorm approaches. Joan Cusack co-stars as a strange woman who drives around wearing tin foil, and who helps out brokenhearted Addie (