Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Promising Young Actress

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I liked Marriage Story very much (read my review-ish thing from yesterday if you don't believe me) but I've also spent the past few weeks thinking about how I liked Paul Dano's 2018 parental split film Wildlife starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal more, and so Carey's been on my brain a lot. I mean "more" of a lot, since she's never far, given how fucking amazing she's been time and time and time again. Anyway this trailer for her new movie called Promising Young Woman really couldn't have shown up at a more apt time, is my point...

... but it still goes the extra mile just looking all sorts of amazing on its own. Written and directed by Killing Eve and The Crown writer Emerald Fennell, and co-starring an absolutely killer bunch of folks -- Molly Shannon! Allison Brie! Chris Lowell! Max Greenfield! Adam Brody! Bo Burnham! Christopher Mintz-Plasse! Alfred Molina! Jennifer Coolidge! Connie Britton! Clancy fucking Brown! -- the movie's has Carey's character getting revenge on all the douche-bros, one douche-bro at a time. Did I mention Chris Lowell?

I know I did, I just really love me some Piz. But he makes the perfect douche-bro, as do all those fellas I mentioned above. But actors aside visually it looks terrific, very Killing Eve with lots of outlandish feminine clothing being weaponized -- the Sexy Nurse's outfit is great and I might have to do a side-by-side With Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill when this sucker comes out. Here's the trailer:
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Promising Young Woman comes out in April!


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds sort of Girl Most Likely To with Channing/Asner.

Anonymous said...

Season two saw a major drop in writing quality so I'm not super excited about Emerald Fennell's ongoing work. Although maybe if she's following her own setup the plot won't lurch about like it's got incipient alcohol poisoning.