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4 hours ago
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Elizabeth Olsen Navigates an Afterlife Love Triangle in ‘Eternity' Trailer
In the A24 film Eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is a woman of her word. When she married her husband Larry (Miles Teller), the phrase 'till death do us part' meant something to her. It meant something to her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), too, but his life being claimed while he was away at war assured it was a short-lived agreement. What Joan didn't anticipate, however, was that her promise to both men would extend to the afterlife. In the latest Eternity trailer, Larry arrives at the junction, essentially a train platform where souls can decide where they want to spend the rest of eternity. They have one week to make their decision. Larry is thrilled when he reunites with Joan, knowing they can make the choice together. But Luke has been waiting decades to do the same. 'I never dreamt you this clearly,' Joan tells Luke, who says she's exactly how he's dreamt her during all of their years apart. More from Rolling Stone 'Sorry, Baby' Wants to Introduce You to Eva Victor, Superstar 'Materialists': Dakota Johnson Knows You Deserve the Best Soulmate Money Can Buy 'Bring Her Back' Proves the 'Talk to Me' Guys Aren't One-Hit Wonders 'I've just been reunited with both of my dead husbands and I have to pick where to spend eternity,' Joan says, overwhelmed and torn. From there, the afterlife romance olympics begin. Luke has all of the slick one-liners and the advantage of 67 years of practice. Larry, on the other hand, has high hopes and his fingers crossed. The choice is up to Joan, but it won't be an easy one. 'It's real fun,' Olsen told Extra about the film earlier this year. 'It's a callback to Billy Wilder films. I think it's gonna be a special romantic comedy that we're all really proud of. I'm excited for it to come out this year.' Eternity is scheduled for theatrical release in November. The film written by Pat Cunnane and director David Freyne also stars Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Olga Merediz, and John Early. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Best 'Saturday Night Live' Characters of All Time Denzel Washington's Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best 70 Greatest Comedies of the 21st Century Solve the daily Crossword
Scotsman
5 hours ago
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Film reviews: Bring Her Back Late Shift
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Building on the promise of their breakthrough horror film Talk to Me, Australian directors Danny and Michael Philippou kick things up several notches with Bring Her Back, a gnarly slice of contemporary gothic horror featuring a terrifying performance by Sally Hawkins. Bring Her Back | Contributed Riffing on her normally kooky demeanour, Hawkins digs deep to play Laura, a grieving foster mother who takes in the visually impaired Piper (Sora Wong) and her older half-brother Andy (Billy Barratt) when Andy's father dies suddenly and horrifically. Laura's still raw with grief from the loss of her own blind daughter in a tragic accident, but her former job as a therapist means she's well placed to present herself as a source of salvation for Piper without raising red flags, something the Philippou brothers milk for all its worth as Andy starts to fear for the safety of both his sister and their strange new adoptive brother Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Although Oliver does wince-inducing things with cats, melons and knives, the palpable air of dread emanating from Laura as she gaslights her new charges adds a psychological dimension that's just as intense. There's an overarching mythology at play here too, one parsed out in grainy video clips of cult-like rituals that start coming together in the film's final third. But it's really Hawkins' performance that makes this so unnerving. Decked out in an array of non-threatening knitwear, Hawkins is good at making Laura seem just off-kilter enough that when the extremes of despair to which grief has driven her are finally revealed, she elicits almost as much pity as fear. Late Shift | KEYSTONE There's more nerve-wracking tension in Late Shift, a precision engineered medical procedural following a nurse over the course of a particularly trying evening shift in a Swiss hospital. Played by the brilliant German actor Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge), this is the preternaturally composed Floria who, nevertheless, finds herself stretched to breaking point on an understaffed surgical ward rapidly filling up with difficult patients. Although writer/director Petra Volpe's workplace drama is schematically designed to highlight the often thankless plight of the nursing profession, both she and Benesch imbue it with enough visual and character-driven grace notes that it avoids preachiness. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Sticking with Switzerland, animation maverick Claude Barras (My Life as a Courgette) returns with Savages, another French language stop-motion marvel dealing with tricky themes in an accessible way. Set in Borneo, it revolves around a young girl with indigenous heritage who's simultaneously awakened to the plight of her ancestors and the consequences of deforestation when she witnesses government contractors orphan a baby orangutang as they clear the land for a palm oil plantation.
Metro
4 days ago
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- Metro
I physically recoiled at acclaimed horror's most stomach-churning scene
Disturbing new film Bring Her Back contains one of the most intensely grotesque and terrifying scenes I've ever seen – one that made me physically recoil – but the movie is more than just harrowing thrills. This A24 supernatural horror has had UK fans patiently waiting nearly two months longer than our US and Australian counterparts to witness its grisliness, which reportedly left some fainting in cinemas. Not only are there several truly hideous scenes in the movie, built up to by its looming sense of foreboding, but it leaps straight in with grainy footage from a cult showing people being tortured and hanged. I've now warned you what kind of film it's going to be from the very beginning, but this second feature from Australian sibling filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) goes beyond simply wince-inducing. It's also a poignant tale about the devastation of grief and boasts two-time Oscar-nominee Sally Hawkins as its stunningly effective secret weapon. Not that anyone would expect anything less than excellence from Hawkins at this stage, but she triumphs here as an exquisitely off-balance and creepy presence, elevating the distressing – if sometimes slightly thin – material. Bring Her Back opens with the trauma of step-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) finding their father dead in the shower, which leads them to be placed in the care of eccentric former counsellor Laura (Hawkins). To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Laura is cheerful to an almost manic degree, welcoming the pair into her cluttered home up in the hills, where she's also fostering a young mute boy, Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). Immediately smitten with Piper, who reminds her of her late daughter Cathy (Mischa Heywood) – who was blind and tragically drowned in the home's swimming pool – Laura is surprisingly brusque with the troubled Oliver as well as Andy, who she immediately begins to undermine with unnerving behaviour. This is all managed with icky cheeriness from Hawkins as Laura, who expertly masks her character's subtly nefarious motives with Laura's kooky disposition and professional experience handling displaced kids. But she's not the scariest presence in the film: that honour belongs to Phillips' deeply troubled Oliver, who eats flies, bangs on windows – and much worse. It's him at the centre of Bring Her Back's most stomach-churning scenes, including the worst, which may well have you gagging or at least groaning in disgust and fright as the audience in my screening did. I won't spoil the exact nature of what it entails (unless you want to know, then click here), but suffice it to say it's good old-fashioned body horror and a classic fear realised that many have nightmares about – and that's without the genuinely distressing cracking and splintering sound effects that accompany the blood onscreen. I'll never forget it. The movie's sound design by Emma Bortignon is particularly impressive, thunderous in parts and quietly foreboding in others, constantly ratcheting up the unease. It also pairs well with Cornel Wilczek's score – sometimes jangling and disorienting – to emphasise the audio overwhelm someone with compromised vision like Piper can experience. Director: Danny and Michael Philippou Writer: Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman Cast: Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, Mischa Heywood Age rating: 18 Runtime: 1hr 44 Release date: July 26, 2025 Bring Her Back's performances all around are knock-out, from Hawkins and Phillips providing the fear factor to Barratt and newcomer Wong giving the film its heart. But although it pushes further into depraved places than I expected and enjoys a fair amount of impact from that alone, the beats of the story can be a little slow and overly simplified; this goes as far as the film's title itself. As can be the case with horror movies, the revelations end up paling a little in comparison with the thrills of the journey to get there. You can guess what's behind the locked door of the shed, and the basis of the film's set-up is a little rushed and unsubstantiated, which left me feeling slightly deflated. More Trending Despite this, Bring Her Back's rawness – in more ways than one – is something seared into my memory, thanks to its twisted and extreme horror and powerful performances. Bring Her Back is in UK cinemas from today. This article was first published on July 21. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Beetlejuice 3 director wonders if he's been 'replaced' after development update MORE: 9 deliciously bleak films and where to stream them after 'soul-crushing' new horror MORE: 'Spine-chilling' horror remake with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating now streaming
RTÉ News
4 days ago
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- RTÉ News
Bring Her Back sees Sally Hawkins do horror in style
Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-shortlisted for The Shape of Water and Blue Jasmine, Sally Hawkins really rolls the dice for her latest. In Bring Her Back, she is cast against type in an Aussie horror and delivers a performance for sibling directors Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) that's up there with her most acclaimed work - menace to put the wind up even the most seasoned viewers of all things scary. Foster parent Laura (Hawkins) agrees to take in siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) when their father dies unexpectedly. Laura, who is also fostering the disturbed Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), is a bit off from the get-go, empathetic one minute and intimidating the next. What's she up to? Well, no spoilers here, but if you want a thrill ride, you need to get round to Laura's place. It's some feat when you can do deeply disturbing and darkly comic in the same movie, but the Philippou brothers pull it off, Danny Philippou's script with co-writer Bill Hinzman (they also collaborated on Talk to Me) delivering plenty of whiplash moments as the walls close in on Andy and Piper. Hawkins is in the best of on-screen company here. Barratt, an International Emmy winner at age 13 for the BBC Two film Responsible Child, deftly mixes bravery and bewilderment as Billy. Wong, who is visually impaired, had never acted before Bring Her Back, but stakes her claim to a screen career with one of this century's standout debuts. As for Phillips, well, it's incredible to see such screen presence in someone so young. Bring Her Back has plenty of blood that it doesn't need, and there are two far-fetched moments - involving a swimming pool and a freezer - even for horror, but apart from those gripes, it's another Aussie winnah.
Metro
5 days ago
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- Metro
Danny Philippou chewed on real knives for his extreme scene
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The Philippou brothers can proudly say that they are willing to do whatever it takes to make their terrifying films – even if it means chewing knives themselves. Bring Her Back is a new twisted horror movie from Australian twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou. The brothers are the minds behind the 2022 smash hit Talk to Me, and sit down to chat about their new project, which is only the second movie they've ever made. On a Zoom call at the crack of dawn on a Tuesday, I meet the enthusiastic filmmakers for the first time and immediately complain that they gave their main villain the same name as me. They burst into laughter, setting the tone for this interview. 'You were a massive point of inspiration!' Danny says, fuelling my ego. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Without too much of a spoiler, there is one scene in the A24 supernatural horror that is so visceral, it reportedly left some fainting in cinemas. Metro's Tori Brazier even said in her review: 'I physically recoiled at Bring Her Back's most disturbing and stomach-churning scene.' So, of course, it was necessary to ask the brothers how on earth they came up with something so gory and disturbing. 'I thought of it. I'm pretty proud of myself, actually,' says Danny. 'It's always tapping into things that make you uncomfortable, make you personally cringe. And like, metal on teeth was always such a thing. And so it has always spawned from what is making me uncomfortable. And I think what also helped, in terms of the practical element, trying to pull it off practically, was the sound design of it. 'It was literally me chewing on a knife. So that's the sound that people hear, and that's why I feel it is so like, 'Oh, what the f**k'.' He added that other nauseating noises in the film were also created by him, getting creative with the sound department. 'Even with the wood chewing, like our sound designer was just recording me chewing on bench tops and things like that. That's why you can't fake the sound. 'Sometimes you have to send it.' The film stars Oscar-nominee Sally Hawkins as Laura, an eccentric foster parent who takes in step-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong), who are grieving after the death of their father. Jonah Wren Phillips also stars, playing Olly, a selectively mute little boy who is also under Laura's care, who Andy labels a 'freak' straight off the bat – and to be frank, the analysis isn't inaccurate as the child's behaviour becomes increasingly creepy. 'Casting is everything,' says Danny when discussing the incredible talent of the young actors. 'Each actor had their sort of thing; it was such a specific ask. So with Piper, we knew we wanted to authentically cast a vision-impaired person. So that was really important to her casting.' Piper's lack of vision is a key plot point and expertly portrayed by Sora Wong, a young actress who had never before appeared in a film. 'Letting the young actors know that there's no such thing as a bad take. Like, you can't let anyone down. This is a really safe space. I don't even know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing here! It's like, let's all find the film together,' says Danny. The directors admit that they had zero belief that the megastar Sally Hawkins was ever going to actually appear in their film. 'We reached out to her first and approached her first with the expectation that she'd say no, but when they reached back and they're like, 'Sally, loved the script,' our minds were blown. And she's such a beautiful human and such an incredible performer and a generous collaborator. She was the best.' They added that her performances were so powerful that she was even a little frightening on set. 'There were two or three scenes, and we were scared to approach her because she was so in the headspace, she was in a really frenzied state. That's how powerful she is. She's f**king awesome.' When it comes to scary moments, Michael shares that rain, which features heavily as a motif in the film, caused a lot of on-set chaos. 'There are some big tracking shots, stuff that goes from inside to outside in the rain, and rain is such a difficult thing to shoot with, because, with makeup, as soon as you start, it starts raining. That all washes off. Costumes get wet. Sound is hard to use, and there are so many things that have to go right. 'You're kind of holding your breath a little bit in those moments, like, 'please just let us get away with it in this moment.' Actually, I'll say the scariest thing was when we were shooting with real rain, with real rain machines and stuff. We were filming a scene, and I looked down and water was coming under the front door, like it, like, flooded the house almost. So that was a bit scary.' The directors are both quick to emphasise that with only one other film under their belts, they are still novices. 'It's so interesting, because every film or project that you do, it always feels like you're starting from scratch, and you forget everything a little bit, and it always feels like you're drowning. So even with the next movie, and having these two, I'll still not feel like I know what I'm doing. That's the honest answer,' said Danny. When it comes to looking forward at future projects, it seems prudent to ask if they have any plans to draw on their experiences as twins – a sibling relationship that frequently appears in horror movies – but rarely from twin directors with the real-life credentials themselves. More Trending 'Oh my gosh, yeah, potentially down the line,' says Danny. 'I think you write stuff that scares you, not annoys you. You just annoy me,' Michael adds jokingly to his brother. Danny adds: 'I feel like there would be no beautiful relationship between the siblings if they were twins. They'd hate each other, but maybe one day we'll bring that to screen!' Bring Her Back hits UK cinemas on Saturday, July 2 6. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Beetlejuice 3 director wonders if he's been 'replaced' after development update MORE: 9 deliciously bleak films and where to stream them after 'soul-crushing' new horror MORE: 'Spine-chilling' horror remake with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating now streaming
