Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024

When Jessica Chastain first read the script for "Memory," she was struck by the flurry of unanswered questions left swirling around in her head about issues pertaining to love, sex and consent — which might be antithetical to what some audiences expect from a movie.

"Sometimes I think...

Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

Pain and trauma permeate Michel Franco's new drama " Memory, " about two lost souls who find surprising comfort in one another. Both Jessica Chastain's Sylvia and Peter Sarsgaard's Saul are hostage to their own minds, though in vastly different ways. Hers haunts her. His is failing rapidly. And...

Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2023

SAG-AFTRA held its largest and most star-studded rally yet Tuesday in Times Square in a picket sign-waving show of solidarity 12 days into the actors strike.

A day after a Variety report questioned the lack of A-listers that have hit picket lines thus far, the rally Tuesday boasted more...

Monday, Oct. 24, 2022

Charles Cullen is by some estimates the most prolific serial killer in American history. But when Krysty Wilson-Cairns began writing the script about his capture, she started not with Cullen, who was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in 2006, but outside the home of Amy Loughren, the nurse...

Friday, Sep. 16, 2022

Who does what in response to an evolving whodunit becomes the prime focus--rather than the person who did it or might have done it--in The Good Nurse (Netflix), with Jessica Chastain in the title role. It’s a case of the serial murder mystery thriller being turned on its head, centering...

Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2021

In the nearly 10 years it took for Jessica Chastain to get made a film about the Christian televangelist Tammy Faye Messner, she studied many of the kinds of things you'd expect — the hours of television footage, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's 2000 documentary. But one of the most revelatory...

Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021

Two-time Academy Award–nominated actor Jessica Chastain has been named the recipient of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Actor Award. The 2021 TIFF Tribute Awards will take place during the 46th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.

“Jessica has...

Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2019

It's a weekday morning in Los Angeles and three "losers" — Bill Hader, James Ransone and Andy Bean —are sitting around a bright juice shop with a view of the ocean discussing babies, surf lessons and trips to Hawaii over iced coffees and eggs. It is a scene that's far too idyllic and nice for...

Sunday, May. 6, 2018

The experience of watching a few dozen or more films inside two weeks at the Cannes Film Festival can be jarring, exhilarating and exhausting — even for those who live and breathe cinema.

Jessica Chastain, an actress and regular attendee of the French Riviera festival, last year reflected...

Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017

Aaron Sorkin has a knack for timing, and not just in the obvious way.

The Oscar-winning writer of "The Social Network," ''Moneyball" and other fast-talking, crackling scripts has been celebrated for his mile-a-minute wordplay. But he's also been criticized for not exactly featuring...

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