Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen made a rare public appearance this Friday, attending a New York Fashion Week party thrown by W Magazine and Bloomingdale’s. When they surfaced this week, the now elusive Olsen Twins looked worlds away from their high-octane past of megawatt glamour and scandalous rumors. Having escaped the frenzied glare of the spotlight in the 2000s, the now …
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The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life, from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence. The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment. There’s a romance involved, but the film is more …
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I told myself that I wouldn’t say that “Eternity” is too long, but isn’t it always? If not the premise, that is at least the guiding principle behind David Freyne’s sincere, somewhat amusing, and sweetly overextended rom-com, which splits the difference between “After Life” and “Defending Your Life” with its story of a newly deceased woman named Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) …
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A24‘s second major rom-com of the year, after the success of (the better) Materialists, is as they say in the business “high concept.” Set in the afterlife, as many a movie has already been there-done that, Eternity from Irish director David Freyne, working with a Black List script by Patrick Cunnane and having a co-writing credit, struck me as sort …
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Elizabeth Olsen has a big decision ahead of her in the trailer for the A24 feature Eternity. Miles Teller and Callum Turner also star in the romantic comedy from director David Freyne. The movie is set to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its theatrical release in November. John Early, Olga Merediz and Oscar winner Da’Vine …
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