Fans of Keanu Reeves (John Wick) and Winona Ryder (Black Swan, Experimenter) must have been saying a prayer each night, asking for a reunion of the decades-long offscreen friends who haven’t been seen together on screen since The Private Lives of Pippa Lee in 2009. Before that, they starred together in A Scanner Darkly and, quite possibly their most famous pairing, in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (way back in 1992). Fans prayers have been answered since Reeves and Ryder reunite in Destination Wedding, a romcom where they each represent very dysfunctional yet oh-so-relatable people who find themselves stuck with one another simply because neither wants to be at a destination wedding. And honestly, neither should have gone, but that’s obvious from the first act. It’s what happens after that matters.
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‘A Simple Favor’ Teams Anna Kendrick And Blake Lively In A Pulpy, Twisty Thriller
A Simple Favor is about a mommy vlogger named Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick from The Last Five Years and Into the Woods) who meets an eccentric and enigmatic woman named Emily Nelson (Blake Lively from The Shallows and All I See is You). The women’s sons are best pals, so after a couple of martinis, Stephanie and Emily become fast friends, with Stephanie vicariously relishing in the glamorous life of Emily and her author husband, Sean Townsend (Henry Golding from Crazy Rich Asians).
‘The Wife’ Lets Glenn Close Be Glenn Close
Over the years, actress Glenn Close has been nominated for six Academy Awards for her performances in everything from Fatal Attraction to The Big Chill, but she’s never won. That may change with The Wife.
The Horror Hype Train Was Right: ‘Hereditary’ Lives Up To Its Festival Buzz
A24 delivers yet another intense film with Hereditary, starring Toni Collette. And it may just keep you from sleeping.
John Krasinski’s ‘A Quiet Place’ Serves Up The Maddeningly Silent Suspense
In A Quiet Place, the quiet makes the movie ultra-suspenseful and full of tension, plus maddening Hitchcockian show-them-the-bomb suspense.