“Never forget, no matter bronchitis or headache, you are the Empress,” Vicky Krieps is told in “Corsage,” Marie Kreutzer’s fictionalized account of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The film accompanies the celebrated historical figure during the year she holidays across Europe, sticking a middle figure – figuratively and literally – to an institution that has dehumanized her since her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at 16. Krieps is a mischievous, recalcitrant Elisabeth who is anything but an emperor’s docile wife. In “Corsage,” we witness her undergo a mid-life coming-of-age, unapologetically discovering who she is outside her designated roles as Empress, wife, mother, and spectacle. 

We meet Elisabeth in

Olivia Colman hits the road in “Joyride,” Emer Reynolds’ drama about a strangers who connect under unusual circumstances. Joy (Colman) is a middle-aged solicitor with a goal: to bring her infant daughter, Robin, to a friend who is taking custody of the baby. Her road trip takes an unexpected turn when the taxi she and the baby are riding in gets stolen by a 12-year-old grieving the loss of his mother. Not realizing that there are passengers aboard, Mully (Charlie Reid) hijacks the vehicle hoping to get some distance from his thieving father. He takes a pile of charity cash raised in his mother’s honor with him. 

“Joyride” follows the

Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have landed world rights to seven Yvonne Rainer films, newly restored in 4K by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. A press release announced that the collection will screen during a theatrical retrospective at the Metrograph February 17. The “Privilege” director will also make an in-person appearance on opening night.

The feature restorations from Rainer’s experimental film oeuvre span three decades. Titles from the 1970s include her 1972 debut feature “Lives of Performers,” a portrait of a man who can’t choose between two women, which features original choreography by the director, her 1974 “Film About a Woman

“Life is like a really great novel. You never know what the next chapter will bring,” we’re told in a new teaser for “Book Club: The Next Chapter.” The sequel to 2018’s “Book Club” reunites Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen. The book club members and lifelong friends decide to celebrate Vivian’s (Fonda) surprise engagement by taking an epic trip. “The book says we can’t reject our destiny. And I think we should all go to Italy,” Carol (Steenburgen) announces. “We might never have a chance to do something like this again.”

As Vivian says, “Life is unpredictable — and it’s the surprises that make it worth

“A Black Lady Sketch Show’s” creator Robin Thede and director Bridget Stokes are teaming up again, this time in the realm of horror-comedy. Deadline reports that Stokes is set to helm Amazon Studios’ “Killing It,” a zombie pic with a script with Thede. 

“Killing It” tells the story of four best friends who “attempt to redeem their college reputations by traveling to the SpelHouse homecoming. Their quest for vindication becomes a fight for survival when a zombie apocalypse begins to terrorize the country,” the source teases.

Thede is among the project’s producers. 

Thede made history as the first and only Black woman to create an Emmy-nominated sketch series with HBO’s

“Sort Of” is coming back to HBO Max. Deadline reports that the streamer has renewed Bilal Baig’s comedy for its third season. 

Created by Baig and Fab Filippo, “Sort Of” follows Sabi Mehboob (Baig), a 25-year-old trying to reconcile their gender identity with their cultural background as a Pakistani-Canadian. The series sees them taking on several identities: a bartender at a LGBT bookstore/bar, the baby of their family, and a nanny, subverting conventional gender roles and labels in the process.

“Baig and Filippo, alongside our partners at CBC and Sienna Films, continue to deliver a heartfelt, empathetic and engaging story and we’re thrilled we get to continue following Sabi, their

Midway through this year, the reproductive rights of folks with uteruses living in the U.S. suffered a cataclysmic regression when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Now, with at least 33 million Americans without access to safe abortion care, how has this seismic change in our reality been reflected in entertainment? This is the central question of the latest study from Abortions Onscreen, a research initiative from the University of California San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH). 

The fifth annual report “Abortions Onscreen in 2022” documents several key discoveries, including a continued trend of increased abortion portrayals on TV, with 60 abortion plotlines or

Cannibalism and cults, here we come. More than three months ahead of its Season 2 premiere, “Yellowjackets” has been renewed for a third season. Set in 1996 and the present day, the Showtime thriller centers on a group of high school girls who find themselves stranded on a remote island after a plane taking them to a soccer tournament crashes and as grown women reflecting on the experience.

“Yellowjackets” is created by “Narcos” alumni Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. Its first season netted seven Emmy nominations, including two writing noms for Lyle and Nickerson, a directing nod for Karyn Kusama, and acting nominations for Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci. “Yellowjackets’”