Emma Kiely

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

Being a mother can be a fucking nightmare, and no two artists know that better than Lynne Ramsay and Jennifer Lawrence. The former directed one of the most effective forms of contraception, We Need to Talk About Kevin, where a mother is tormented by her psychopathic son, but is somehow the only one left standing in his wake.

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

I’ll be very honest, when I initially heard that the handsome, successful, and presumably middle-class English actor, Harris Dickinson, was writing and directing a film with a homeless protagonist, I rolled my eyes. After the billionaire heiress’ film about poverty, and Emerald Fennell's trivialization of class in Saltburn, I thought we were done with privileged people cosplaying the lower class.

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

There is a moment halfway through Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, wherein the protagonist, Lidia (Imogen Poots), is joking around with her writing mentor, Ken Kesey (an inspired bit of casting to have Jim Belushi play the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author).

3 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely

Ari Aster is a director who, with every one of his films, brings you into close proximity with a world and characters that you can’t help but be repulsed by. A family that is destroyed by grief and supernatural evils in Hereditary; a young woman whose boyfriend and life are so awful that a murderous cult is a cathartic escape with Midsommar; a 50-year-old mama’s boy who can’t take one step without the world beating him down until he’s a shell of a human being in Beau Is Afraid.

3 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely |Oliver Laxe

When you hear the logline for Sirât, you can quickly conjure up a faint idea of how the film will unfold. The first half plays exactly how you expect it would, with fairly predictable beats and character quirks. A father and son looking for their daughter and sister at a rave in the middle of the Moroccan desert lead them to cross paths with a group of misfit ravers living off the grid. Unlikely friendships, exchange of perspectives, and a warm road trip adventure story unfold.