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Micheal Ward, the BAFTA-winning star of “Top Boy,” “Small Axe” and “Eddington,” has been charged with rape and sexual assault. The 27-year old has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault by the Metropolitan Police, according to the BBC. Variety has reached out to Ward’s reps for comment. The alleged offenses relate to one …

British actor Micheal Ward, star of Top Boy and more recently, Ari Aster’s Cannes-debuting film Eddington, has been charged with rape. London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed on Friday that the 27-year-old actor from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault. The offences relate to one woman, the force added, and are reported …

Micheal Ward plays the sole Black character in Eddington. Of course he’s a police officer. Richard Foreman/A24 hide caption toggle caption Richard Foreman/A24 If you know nothing of Ari Aster’s Eddington going in — or of the nature of his previous films, including Hereditary and Midsommar  — the time stamp that appears on the screen within the first few minutes …

People having an awesome time. Photo: Eric Charbonneau/A24 via Getty Images Eddington sounds good on paper: a hybrid western-black comedy by Hereditary and Midsommar auteur Ari Aster about the summer of 2020, when everyone everywhere but especially in America went a particular kind of insane. With a star-studded cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, and darling of the summer …

Eddington also explores conspiracy theories and the podcasters and YouTubers who spread them online in exchange for influence and profit. Phoenix’s character will often return home to hear some disembodied voice spouting baseless claims through the speakers of an abandoned laptop. Later, his wife (Emma Stone) or mother-in-law (Deirdre O’Connell) will regurgitate those fringe theories over breakfast. Again, Aster built …

‘Eddington’ Review: Once Upon a Time in the Pandemic  The New York Times Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ takes the tension of the pandemic to a violent end  NPR Review: Doomscrolling is a disease in ‘Eddington,’ a fever dream about COVID conspiracies  Los Angeles Times Ari Aster, Hollywood’s Master of Dread, Is Afraid of Everything  The New York Times ‘Eddington’: The early days of covid seen …

MoviesMoviesIn Ari Aster’s most direct social commentary yet, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal go to battle over a small town while the world around it implodes A24/Ringer illustration By Adam NaymanJuly 17, 11:58 am UTC • 9 min “Your Being Manipulated!” a partisan bumper sticker reads in Eddington. The hapless misuse of a possessive adjective suggests that the candidate being …

Ari Aster’s “Eddington” is such a superb social satire about contemporary America that I want to bury it in the desert for 20 years. More distance will make it easier to laugh. It’s a modern western set in New Mexico — Aster’s home state — where trash blows like tumbleweeds as Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) stalks across the street …

NEW YORK (AP) — A Post-it note sat near Ari Aster while he wrote “Eddington”: “Remember the phones.” “Eddington” may be set during the pandemic, but the onset of COVID-19 isn’t its inciting incident. Outside the fictional New Mexico town, a data center is being built. Inside Eddington, its residents — their brains increasingly addled by the internet, social media, …