Afraid

Image via A24 When it comes to sheer, off-the-chain creativity, you can find few better conduits of such a thing than within the ranks of A24. From White Noise to Bodies Bodies Bodies to Tusk to The Green Knight to their crown jewel of Everything Everywhere All at Once, it’s near impossible to suggest that any film studio embraces the creative spirit quite like A24 does. And few have taken advantage of such a mandate quite like Ari Aster has; with the likes of Hereditary and Midsommar having established…

via HBO Bill Hader has explained the origins of his cameo role in the Ari Aster film, Beau Is Afraid. Hader — who makes a brief cameo appearance as a UPS telephone operator in the horror-comedy — spoke of the shooting process in an interview with Deadline. The Barry actor said the role came about in a phone call with director Aster and star Joaquin Phoenix, during which Hader “tried a bunch of different stuff.” After being connected to Aster through his assistant, Hader “pick up the phone… and it’s Ari Aster…

Ari Aster Begged ‘Joker’ Joaquin Phoenix To Star In ‘Beau Is Afraid'(Photo Credit –IANS) Filmmaker Ari Aster, who sent shivers down the spine with his atmospheric horror film ‘Hereditary’, spent six months begging Joaquin Phoenix to star in ‘Beau Is Afraid’. The 36-year-old filmmaker has helmed the surrealist horror film ‘Beau Is Afraid’, and was desperate to cast the Oscar-winning actor in his movie, reports Female First UK. Discussing his first meeting with Phoenix, Ari told Variety at the movie’s Los Angeles…

Having given us two classic scary movies with Hereditary and Midsommar, film-maker Ari Aster now unfortunately beckons us down the rabbit hole for a giant and epically pointless odyssey of hipster non-horror. Running at over three hours, Beau Is Afraid is a colossal recovered memory of mock Oedipal agony which is scary, boring and sad in approximate proportions of 1 to 4 to 2. It’s a movie in which Aster has surrendered some of his own originality and distinction for an indulgent, derivative flourish that seems to…

Joaquin Phoenix Faints While Filming ‘Beau Is Afraid’, Director Recalls The Collapse Saying “I Was Very Pissed”(Photo Credit –wikimedia) Filmmaker Ari Aster pulled an April Fool’s prank on moviegoers expecting to see a screening of Midsommar but instead were treated to a screening of his newest film ‘Beau Is Afraid’ starring Joaquin Phoenix. The filmmaker and Phoenix introduced the film to the audience at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in New York. At the end of the three-hour screening, Emma Stone moderated a Q&A…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe new film from Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster has debuted.Titled Beau is Afraid, the film stars follows Joaquin Phoenix’s “paranoid” lead character as he ”embarks on an epic odyssey” to get home to his mother, who is played by Patti LuPone.Those who had bought tickets to see the director’s cut of Aster’s previous film, Midsommar, in Brooklyn, New York were surprised to…

For every one of these companies, however, I saw just as many (if not more) that employed crypto while trying very hard to avoid mentioning that fact. Two companies claimed to be building the future of social media. Dig deep enough into their websites and they both offered users crypto-based incentives, but neither chose to feature crypto or blockchain tech as a selling point.One of them, Ascend, had flyers all over the city. These made lofty—arguably impossible—promises, such as “no misinformation” (who defines what…

If you came to Sam Neill’s memoir without knowing the first thing about it, chapter one would hold a terrible shock. It begins amusingly enough: a lovely anecdote about his daughter Elena being asked at school when she was little about what her dad does for work. “My daddy sits in caravans,” she says, an answer “both perceptive and entirely accurate” writes the actor, who then goes on to describe a life spent on film sets: sitting in trailers, reading the paper, having cups of tea, waiting for the magic moment when…

Fox News is no stranger to the tactic of fearmongering as a way to stir up its base. But the media network’s latest misdirection campaign attempts to use fear to attack a surprising new target: electric bicycles. Electric bicycles are essentially normal bicycles but with the addition of a small electric helper motor and a lithium-ion battery for energy storage. They go faster than most pedal bikes while requiring less effort from the rider, which has made them a popular alternative vehicle in…

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone on the hunt for a laundromat photo opp before the Oscars this weekend.We understand some of you may be trying to catch up on a few nominees before film’s big night, and we won’t interfere, but Times TV critic Robert Lloyd also makes the case that Fox’s “Welcome to Flatch,” set in small-town Ohio, is worth your time if you’re in the market for comedy that isn’t afraid to be moving.Also in this week’s Screen Gab, we ask an “Abbott Elementary” writer about that viral moment…