“Behind the image of the nondescript young mother, I can’t help but remember a woman secretly tormented by the need to write,” Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux reflects in “The Super 8 Years” (“Les années Super-8”). How much viewers know about what’s behind an image is decided by the person holding the camera – in the case of “The Super 8 Years” that cameraperson was often Ernaux’s ex-husband, Philippe Ernaux. An image can withhold more than it reveals, wordlessly triggering the curiosity and even bewilderment of its viewer, and we see Ernaux playing with this narrative control in her autobiographical film, weaving a personal and family retrospective that is made

“Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls,” says Helen Mirren in a new teaser for “Barbie.” In voiceover narration, the Oscar winner introduces us to a game-changing, culture-shifting doll: Barbie. Greta Gerwig’s live-action take on the Mattel toy stars Margot Robbie.

Gerwig received a Best Director Oscar nomination for “Lady Bird,” her solo directorial debut. She also landed nods for writing the coming-of-age story and for writing “Little Women.” She can currently be seen in theaters in “White Noise,” a dark satire based on Don DeLillo’s book of the same name.

A two-time Oscar nominee, Robbie scored nods for “Bombshell” and

Daisy Edgar-Jones will “Feel the Earth Move” with her lead role as the Carole King in Sony’s “Beautiful.” Variety reports that the musical biopic of the legendary singer-songwriter will be directed by Oscar-nominated “The Kids Are All Right” writer-director Lisa Cholodenko. 

“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger,” King said. “She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance.”

Cholodenko and co-writer Stuart Blumberg are currently working on the “Beautiful” script, which will be adapted from the Grammy-winning Broadway stage show. “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” ran for five years and earned a Tony for Jessie Mueller’s

“Nanny” director Nikyatu Jusu is moving from the horrors of the mind to the horrors of the flesh with her upcoming “Night of the Living Dead” sequel. MGM Studios is currently in final negotiations for the worldwide rights to the latest addition of the zombie film franchise. Deadline broke the news.

The original “Night of the Living Dead” is credited with popularizing the zombie horror subgenre. The 1968 indie film that has launched a franchise of six films thus far. The Jusu-helmed sequel will be the seventh installment. 

“The Walking Dead” writer LaToya Morgan penned the script for the film, which will be released theatrically. Its plot details are still

A trailer has arrived for Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt’s fourth collaboration, “Showing Up.” Set in Portland, the drama tells the story of Lizzie (Williams), a ceramicist struggling to make a name for herself in the art world.

With an important show just a week away, Lizzie finds herself feuding with two fellow artists. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do without hot water,” she tells her landlady, Jo (Hong Chau, “The Whale”), who is also a student at the school Lizzie is studying at. Jo refuses to get the problem fixed because she has two shows of her own coming up. “You’re not the only one with a

Women will dominate the tribute awards at the upcoming Nantucket Film Festival. A press release announced that Nicole Holofcener, Lynn Novick, and Jenny Han will each be honored at the 2023 festival, taking place June 21-26. 

Oscar-nominated writer-director Holofcener will take home the Screenwriters Tribute Award and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Novick will be sharing the Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award with long-time collaborator Ken Burns. The New Voices in Television award will be presented to Han, the creator of Prime Video series “The Summer I Turned Pretty” and the author of the book the romance is based on. 

“Nicole has helped define the dramedy genre, and staked out women’s

Hot on the heels of signing on to “Election” sequel “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” Reese Witherspoon is grasping at the Spirit Stick. Variety reports that the Oscar and Emmy winner is set to star in and exec produce “All Stars,” a cheerleading comedy series that has landed a two-season order from Prime Video following a bidding war. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” co-creator and “The Devil Wears Prada” scribe Aline Brosh McKenna created the series and will exec produce and serve as showrunner. She’ll also direct the pilot and half of the episodes.

“All-Stars” sees Witherspoon playing a former cheerleader from Daytona Beach who lands a gig teaching cheerleading at a school in coastal

Destry Allyn Spielberg is making her feature directorial debut. Deadline reports that she will helm action pic “Four Assassins (And A Funeral)” for Erica Lee and Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures.

With production slated for the first half of 2023, “Four Assassins” centers on “the adoptative daughter of a legendary assassin,” per The Tracking Board.

Spielberg expressed her enthusiasm for the project, saying that she is “thrilled and honored to have the privilege of working with Thunder Road to tell this story of family, deceit, and murder!”

The director previously helmed the short film “Let Me Go (The Right Way).” The psychological thriller premiered at Tribeca Film Festival this year

“I’m scared nothing will change, and then I won’t even have hope — I’ll just have me,”  Máiréad Tyers (“Belfast”) confesses in a new trailer for “Extraordinary.” Living a normie life surrounded by the likes of Marvel heroes, Jen (Tyers) wonders when it will be her turn to shine, and begins to fear that this moment will never come. She’s living in a world where everyone develops a superpower on their 18th birthday, but her 18th birthday has come and gone, and she remains powerless. The 25-year-old is stuck in a dead-end job and feels unable to find her place in the world without a power.

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