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CinemaBlend This past Christmas, Carey Mulligan continued to shine in Promising Young Woman, a twist-heavy revenge thriller that served as a feature screenwriting and directorial debut of Killing Eve's Emerald Fennell. With an all-star cast that includes Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Jennifer Coolidge, Clancy Brown, Max Greenfield, Laverne Cox, Alfred Molina, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon, the movie was among the splashiest titles at 2020's Sundance Film Festival, and it has only continued to inspire chatter with its VOD debut. Now that more people have a chance to watch this buzzy title, yo...

Though The Personal History of David Copperfield hit screens in the summer, casting for the project began back in 2016, when the landscape "was quite different to how it is now," says casting director Sarah Crowe, citing a recent growth in diversity and representation reflected in projects like Netflix's Bridgerton. As a result, Dev Patel's leading-man status in a Charles Dickens period piece may have been unexpected, but director Armando Iannucci began the project with the actor in mind given his "amazing likability, warmth and vulnerability," Crowe says. Iannucci also mandated color-blind...

The ending of 'Promising Young Woman' is a destabilizing shock to audiences. Writer-director Emerald Fennell and stars Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham share their thoughts on why the movie had to end the way it does.

Merie Weismiller Wallace/Focus Features WARNING: This story contains major spoilers for the ending of Promising Young Woman. The rape-revenge thriller has a long and somewhat seedy Hollywood history. “Traditionally associated with grindhouse misogyny and BBFC-vexing video nasties, it’s a format that by its very nature hinges on sexual violence,” The Guardian wrote in a succinct summary two years ago, noting that the trope was undergoing a renaissance in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman is perhaps the boldest and most realistic example yet of...

Monday, December 28, 2020 | Opinion By MARY KAY McBRAYER   We horror lovers have been tired of the rape-revenge fantasy trope for a long time, and most rape-revenge fantasy horror films fail because they try to fight violence with violence, which is not really the appropriate reaction. In many cases, that’s not how sexual assault manifests – or at least, that’s not the most horrific part of it. Because the effects of rape are in large part psychological, it makes sense that the punishment should be in kind. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020, dir. Emerald Fennell) is a rape-revenge story tha...