Bryce Dallas Howard

British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn’s helmed a gonzo fantasy with a cross-dressing Robert De Niro, a vigilante superhero flick with a foul-mouthed, killer kid, and a delirious spin on Bond with Colin Firth. But Argylle, his $200 million globe-trotting espionage thriller, has proven to be his most divisive film yet. The film follows Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), a novelist/homebody whose series of spy books about Aubrey Argylle (Henry Cavill) have captured the public’s imagination. One day, she encounters an…

If you’ve been to a movie theater in the past few months, odds are very high that you saw the trailer for Argylle. The latest film from director Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman, Kick-Ass) has been promoted so much, it’s become meme-worthy, especially the question of “Who is the real agent Argylle?” Well, I’m happy to report the film answers that question in a suitably enjoyable way but, in doing so, gives the audiences so much to chew on, what should be a fun, frivolous roller coaster becomes an uneven slog. Some of it’s good -…

There are few movie-marketing gimmicks more enticing than the suggestion of a secret — a twist or revelation so shocking, so earth-shaking that it changes everything you thought you knew about a film, its characters, yadda yadda yadda. The audience’s curiosity is piqued, then they become co-conspirators: Once you know, don’t ruin it for those who don’t. Hitchcock famously used this trick for the meta-trailer for Psycho, then proceeded to deliver not one but two of the most jaw-dropping turnabouts in cinema history.…

Bryce Dallas Howard appeared on The Tonight Show to promote her new film Argylle and host Jimmy Fallon took the opportunity to question her on whether Taylor Swift actually wrote the novel on which the film is based. In the movie, directed by Matthew Vaughn, Howard plays an author named Elly Conway, which is also the pen name of the book’s actual author. Many Swifties have supposed that Swift herself is Conway, pointing to a series of uncanny connections between the film and the singer. On the show, Fallon laid…

Bryce Dallas Howard, aka Elly Conway in Argylle, clears the air on Taylor Swift's involvement in the film's inspiration. "We can't pretend she was involved, but she was a great inspiration," Bryce reveals on The Graham Norton Show. FILE - Taylor Swift enters Arrowhead Stadium before the start of an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals, Dec. 31, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. David Crowe, a Seattle man who police say has been stalking and harassing Swift, was ordered held without…

The Jurassic world is coming back. Image: UniversalDespite Jurassic World Dominion being truly terrible, it did not kill the Jurassic franchise. David Koepp, the writer of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and The Lost World, is currently working on a brand new Jurassic World film that’s being referred to as the start of a “new Jurassic era.”Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the film—which apparently is so far along, a 2025 release date is not yet off…

A documentary on the making of Mandalorian season 3 is now on Disney+.Image: LucasfilmIt’s been two months since season three of The Mandalorian came to an end, and now it’s time to find out how they got there. This week, Disney+ released the latest episode of Disney Gallery: Star Wars The Mandalorian, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the popular show. The first season of Disney Gallery was exactly that, a full season. But last year, it was boiled down to two episodes and this year, it’s just one. So,…

Photo: Laurie Sparham/NetflixThird-season standout “San Junipero” delivered something most Black Mirror episodes don’t: a happy ending. When Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis) encounters Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) at a dance club, we’re so caught up in their budding romance that we almost don’t notice there’s something off about their meet-cute. Like most tales in the Black Mirror universe, there’s a darkness lurking just beneath, as we learn San Junipero is a virtual-reality environment, and the lovebirds are actually younger…

We’ve known about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew for the past year—an “Amblin-style” series about a group of space-adventuring kids (plus Jude Law) from Spider-Man director Jon Watts (and a few more friends, including Oscar-winning duo the Daniels). At today’s Star Wars Celebration, we learned even more about the Disney+ series.As io9 reported during the 2022 Star Wars Celebration, the show will explore the world of Star Wars “through the eyes of children—but, important distinction, it is not a kids’ show, even though it stars…

When two very famous celebrities show up on this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, the viewer has a choice to make. Look at the sets, the characters, the costumes, and buy into the absurdity of what’s obviously about to happen, or get angry that clearly, this latest episode is very uninterested in forwarding the story of this season. Spoilers of the Week: July 1stAt first, I was in the second group. Angry that this seemingly unrelated, glossy, over-the-top, cameo-filled story was keeping us from seeing any meaningful…