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Taylor Swift brought out surprise guest (and former Eras Tour opening act) Sabrina Carpenter during the Surprise Songs portion of her New Orleans concert on Saturday night.

“I think tonight I’m going to do something different, I’m gonna sing a song that’s not mine but it’s someone that I really love so I’m going to see how loudly you can sing the song,” Swift told the audience. “It’s been stuck in my head, and it would make feel good if I knew 65,000 other people...

Taylor Swift surprised fans in London at Wembley Stadium on Saturday with a performance of “I Did Something Bad,” it was her first time playing the Reputation song during her Eras Tour run.

As fan-captured video showcased, to introduce it, she told the crowd she’s “done hundreds of songs” on this tour, but “I’ve not done one of my favorite ones ‘cause I’ve been waiting for the right crowd.” She added that she’s seen “Tony Award-winning performances in this crowd” and pointed out that it’s...

Hacks S3 EP7 brings Fatty Arbuckle to life, diving into Hollywood's scandalous past with comedy & drama. Hollywood had dreams of a Fatty Arbuckle biopic, but failed to capture his iconic legacy on screen. Despite his immense impact, Fatty Arbuckle's turbulent life and career remain largely unrecognized today.

Hacks season 3, episode 7 "The Deborah Vance Christmas Spectacular" shines a spotlight on one of Hollywood's earliest and biggest movie stars. The highly anticipated third season of the HBO original comedy series premiered on May 2, 2024, and is scheduled to conclude on May 30. Hacks stars Jean Smart as Deborah Vance, a fictitious comedy legend based in Las Vegas, and her twenty-something comedy writer protg Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder). The series also features performances from Paul W. Downs as Jimmy, Megan Stalter as Kayla, Christopher McDonald as Marty, and Kaitlin Olson as DJ Vance, Deborah's daughter.

The critically acclaimed series, which was created by Lucia Aniello,...

Sabrina Carpenter is celebrating her surprise duet with Taylor Swift!

On Friday (February 22), the 24-year-old “Feather” singer joined the 34-year-old “Karma” singer up on stage during the Eras Tour show in Sydney for a performance of “White House” and “Coney Island.”

After the show, Sabrina took to Instagram to reminisce on the big moment.

“9 year old Sabrina singing white horse would never see this s–t coming!” Sabrina wrote. “I love you so so so dearly taylor. always have always will. Thank you Sydney for making me feel so welcome!!”

After sharing the post, Sabrina‘s rumored boyfriend Barry Keoghan reacted to the duet.

Keep reading to find out more…In the comments section, Barry, 31, shared the blonde queen emoji.

Sabrina and Barry seemingly met in September 2023 when they both attended the Givenchy fashion show in Paris and they were first spotted on a date together in December.

Earlier this month,...

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter performed a surprise duet during the first Eras Tour show in Sydney!

Sabrina is serving as the opening act for Taylor‘s international shows right now, but her set at the Sydney show on Friday (February 22) was canceled due to weather. A weather delay caused the show’s start time to be pushed back and there unfortunately wasn’t enough time for both artists to perform their sets.

During the acoustic section of the show, Taylor brought out Sabrina to sit at the piano and sing a duet with her. They did a mashup of “White Horse” and “Coney Island.”

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“My incredibly talented, wonderful, gorgeous, hilarious, genius opening act Sabrina Carpenter, she heroically sacrificed her show, which I think is a crime against Sydney. And I think it needs to be fixed, so I’m going to bring her out now,...

Katy Perry was in on the joke as she supported “an old friend” on Friday.

The Teenage Dream superstar took a break from her last season on American Idol and jetted to Sydney, Australia, to watch Taylor Swift perform at the Eras Tour — and she had a silly reaction when the song Swift wrote about her came on.

After the concert, Perry shared a sweet selfie with Swift, along with several videos from the concert with the caption, “Got to see an old friend shine tonight .” In the carousel, Perry...

Taylor Swift braved a bit of rain, waited out a little lightning, and brought out Sabrina Carpenter for a special surprise song mash-up during night one of her Eras Tour run in Sydney, Australia.

Because of the weather delay, Carpenter was forced to forfeit her opening set to make up for lost time. As a consolation, Swift welcomed her on stage during the surprise song portion of the setlist, where they started with a duet of Swift’s early hit “White Horse” before deftly weaving it together with the Evermore favorite “Coney Island.

Taylor Swift has jumped from country to pop, and now she also has a rock hit to her name. “The Alcott,” her collaboration with The National, just debuted on the Billboard Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, marking her first appearance on the list.

“The Alcott” debuted at No. 45 on the chart with 636,000 rock radio audience impressions, Billboard reports. While it signifies Swift’s first appearance on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it’s the sixth appearance for The National, whose album First Two Pages of Frankenstein houses the song.

Swift has appeared on other rock-adjacent charts in the past. She’s been featured on Adult Alternative Airplay four times thanks to songs like “Exile,” which featured Bon Iver, “Coney Island,” another collaboration with The National, and “Snow on the Beach,” which featured vocals from Lana Del Rey.

“The Alcott” isn’t the only Swift track on the Billboard charts right now.

Emmy-winning music supervisor Robin Urdang doesn’t like saying no to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino. With the show’s music steeped in American standards, 1950s and ’60s tunes to reflect the era, Urdang found herself going down rabbit holes to find masters and license songs. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” starring Rachel Brosnahan, features a mixture of well-known and obscure songs. In turn, the show’s Season 4 soundtrack is filled with both known and rare gems. For “I’m Nobody’s Baby,” by nightclub legend Miss Beverly Shaw, Urdang searched for an heir — a quest that led her to Shaw’s relative. “We needed to master [the song], but there was no recording,” she says. “So, [her family] sent us the vinyl and we got it mastered.”

Here, Urdang shares the stories behind some of her favorite needle drops from the show.

“Coney Island” — The Barry Sisters

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Fans can't shake this theory about one of Taylor Swift's new songs. Less than a week ago on Dec. 11, the singer blessed devoted Swifties with the surprise sister album to folklore, titled evermore. Ever since dropping her ninth studio album, fans have left no lyric undissected, including what sound like very carefully chosen words for the track, "coney island." More broadly, the song juggles themes of loss, regret and nostalgia, but with a closer look—or should we say, listen—some Swifties have theorized the song references many of the star's A-list exes, from John Mayer to Calvin Harris, all within just a few verses. To start, with the...

In July Taylor Swift released a surprise album, “Folklore,” and less than five months later she has come out with a surprise companion album, “Evermore,” which dropped on December 11. Is it as good as its predecessor? Less than 12 hours after its release, music fans in our forums have already devoured it, some of them multiple times. And they have opinions. Scroll down to read some of their comments, and join the discussion here.

Swift explained the quick release of more new music on social media, saying, “We just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the ‘Folklorian’ woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in.”

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Taylor Swift surprised fans with a social media announcement this morning that she will release new album Evermore tonight at midnight Et, along with a video for new song “Willow.” Swift tweeted that she will log on to YouTube for the midnight premiere to answer questions about the album, which she described as a “sister” album to her recently released folklore.

“To put it plainly,” Swift wrote, “we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in.”

The “we” refers to Swift and her folklore collaborators: cowriters and coproducers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner of The National. The new album also includes a song with Haim called “No Body,...

Exclusive: Jds Sports has partnered with magazine-turned-media company Slam and camp business Five-Star Basketball to launch Rtg Features. The production shingle’s projects will focus exclusively on basketball.

The acronym Rtg is a nod to Slam’s original slogan, “Respect the Game.” The company will focus on original development and financing along with adapting articles from Slam’s 225-plus magazine issues into projects ranging from feature films to documentaries to podcasts.

The company has numerous projects in development with its inaugural project the Stephon Marbury documentary A Kid From Coney Island, which was executive produced by Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman and is now streaming on Netflix.

On deck for Rtg is the docuseries SLAMthology from A Kid From Coney Island filmmakers Coodie & Chike. The docuseries will highlight the most compelling stories from Slam magazine’s 26-year archives. The project is slated to be released later this year. Most titles...

New York's Coney Island is famous for Nathan's Hot Dogs and Stephon Marbury, a kid from the housing projects who went on to have a turbulent career in the NBA, before ultimate redemption and fame from millions of basketball-crazy fans in China.

Now Marbury is headed to movie stardom with A Kid from Coney Island, an intimate documentary about the rise and fall of a legendary pro basketball player who, as a child, dreamed of fame and fortune in the NBA, before a career rebirth in China while playing for the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons and the Beijing Ducks....

New York's Coney Island is famous for Nathan's Hot Dogs and Stephon Marbury, a kid from the housing projects who went on to have a turbulent career in the NBA, before ultimate redemption and fame from millions of basketball-crazy fans in China.

Now Marbury is headed to movie stardom with A Kid from Coney Island, an intimate documentary about the rise and fall of a legendary pro basketball player who, as a child, dreamed of fame and fortune in the NBA, before a career rebirth in China while playing for the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons and the Beijing Ducks....

A24’s “The Disaster Artist” and “Lady Bird” led the pack of specialized successes, again landing in the weekend’s Top 10 chart. Both had to hold off the usual pre-holiday dip as well as the massive draw across all audiences for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

A total of eight recent limited releases expanded this weekend –all their theaters combined add up to about the same number of theaters as “The Last Jedi,” but it grossed 22 times as much as the $10-million total of those eight films combined.

To a large extent grosses this week are gravy on top of past totals and more importantly a build-up to the most lucrative time of the year for adult moviegoing. That starts in earnest on Christmas Day. More viable titles are competing than most years, and not all will be optimally available. But distributors hope to regain their momentum with the return...

Woody Allen’s latest is a disappointment, but even a lower-drawer Woody like Wonder Wheel, which is anchored by a quartet of outstanding lead performances, is worth a look. Set around 1950, Wonder Wheel tells the story of 26-year old Carolina (Juno Temple), on the run from her mobster husband and his crew after ratting them out. She takes refuge at the home of her estranged father Humpty (Jim Belushi) and his second wife Genny (Kate Winslet). They live with Genny’s young son Richie (Jack Gore), a budding arsonist, in a cramped apartment on the grounds of the Coney Island Amusement Park that quakes beneath the titular Ferris Wheel (shades of Alvy’s childhood in Annie Hall). Carolina’s unexpected appearance could not have come at a worse time. Genny and Humpty were at one time a pair of alcoholics that found each other when they were at a low point,...

Chicago – Woody Allen emptied out his junk drawer of discarded script ideas and somehow managed to convince Kate Winslet to star in it. That’s the gist of the latest “serious Woody” entry in the Oscar winner’s long running career. Woody Allen has had some timeless triumphs, but lately he’s been more about quantity than quality.

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“Wonder Wheel” has all the hallmarks of Woody’s style over six decades in cinema… the 1950’s setting, the Tin Pan Alley jazz score, the references to theater and analysis, but in this film nothing fits. It has the aura of a man trying to keep up his one picture a year pace, but is at a loss for a real idea. Justin Timberlake is a budding playwright working as a lifeguard on Coney Island in Brooklyn. He serves as the film’s narrator, and occasionally talks directly to the camera.

In years past, Lgbt cinephiles counted themselves lucky for one decent movie with a queer storyline. Looking at the depth and breadth of Lgbt films to come out in 2017, it’s clear that “Moonlight” was just a harbinger of great things to come for queer cinema. With growing social acceptance comes increased funding for movies with queer themes, support for Lgbt-identified filmmakers, and less stigma around straight actors playing gay. This year brought a breakthrough performance from transgender actress Daniela Vega, saw A-lister Emma Stone play lesbian icon Billie Jean King, and a strong Oscar contender in Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous “Call Me By Your Name.”

Read More:‘(Bpm) Beats Per Minute’ Is the Most Authentically Queer Film of the Awards Season

If 2017 is any indication, queer cinema continues to thrive, even if the world isn’t following suit. As awards season progresses, it’s looking more and more likely...

The hits keep on coming. Both “The Disaster Artist” (A24) and “The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) opened strong, despite the usual strong-fall off in post-Thanksgiving audiences. Last year the month of November saw only one specialized release, “Manchester By the Sea,” pull an opening platform per theater average over $60,000. This year has already seen five.

“The Disaster Artist” (in 11 markets) showed the best performance in New York/Los Angeles of any title this year (nearly $120,000 per theater), besting last weekend’s numbers for “Call Me By Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics). They join other Oscar-bound strong openers including “Lady Bird” (A24) and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight).

This marks unprecedented strength over such a short period, with “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards” already performing well in wider release. At some point exhibitors are going to be challenged to handle so many hits (all will not go wide...

“I suppose you get used to all this noise?” “No. I never get used to it. I hate it!” That’s not Woody Allen responding to the relentless din of the media probing into his personal life and questioning just how much of a degenerate he is. Not directly, anyhow. No, that’s Kate Winslet’s rundown character responding to what it’s like to live in an apartment directly above bustling 1950s Coney Island. All day every day, it’s an unending cacophony of roaring roller-coaster crowds, noisy kids, rides, bells, the pair of bays it straddles, and the incessant target shooting. Little does she know, in these early minutes, that she’s the bullseye. Winslet plays Ginny, a dejected waitress married to an older abusive alcoholic boor (Jim Belushi,...

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Woody Allen seems increasingly haunted by the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The basic situation of that Williams classic was reused for Allen’s “Blue Jasmine,” which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar, and it is repurposed again (but somewhat transposed) for “Wonder Wheel,” a film about a frustrated woman in 1950s Coney Island named Ginny (Kate Winslet). Allen was often at his best in earlier films when he dealt with the character of a failed creative person, like Dianne Wiest’s Holly in “Hannah and Her Sisters,” but his sympathy for people like that has dried up over time.

Plot: A Coney Island waitress (Kate Winslet), trapped in a loveless marriage to a Carousel operator (James Belushi), falls in love with a younger lifeguard (Justin Timberlake), but she has a rival in her newly arrived step-daughter (Juno Temple). Review: After his first two relatively light and frothy Amazon efforts, CAFÉ Society and the TV series “Crisis in Six Scenes”,... Read More...

Stories of actors’ challenges are a trope, whether it’s tales about the physical demands of a tough shoot, or the responsibility of playing a real-life figure. But for Kate Winslet, her latest role came with a different kind of problem: She really didn’t like her character.

“I think I had to accept quite early on, that I was going to feel profoundly irritated by Ginny, all of the time,” Winslet said. “And, also, that I had to stay the right side of the line with her.”

Set on Coney Island in the 1950’s, Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” follows Winslet’s Ginny, a perennially disappointed housewife who sees an opportunity to change her fortunes when she falls for a handsome local lifeguard (Justin Timberlake). It’s a questionable choice from the start, one made even more complicated by the sudden arrival of her stepdaughter Carolina (Juno Temple), who...

The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island

As impeccably administered as it is at times roughshod and familiar, Woody Allen returns with more scenes from a troubled marriage in his beautifully photographed Wonder Wheel, featuring an outstanding Kate Winslet in a performance managing to eclipse some of the narrative carelessness.

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Kate Winslet is on fire in Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel, playing Ginny, an unhappily married waitress living near the boardwalk on Brooklyn's Coney Island circa 1950. This broken dreamer is pushing 40 and reaching the limits of her patience with Humpty (a solidly affecting Jim Belushi), the carousel-operator she married to provide a semblance of security for her pre-teen, budding-pyromaniac son Richie (Jack Gore), a budding pyromaniac. The Wonder Wheel outside their window spins in circles – just like Ginny, who drinks too much and lashes out at anyone who doesn't like it.

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Mr. Robot‘s Elliot cleaned house this week, scrubbing away his past… and seriously questioning his future.

After a quick flashback to Elliot as a kid with his dad at the movie theater, we catch up with him three weeks after the coordinated E Corp explosions: He’s holed up in his apartment, destroying any trace of Trenton and Mobley (R.I.P.) on his hard drive. Darlene asks him to reach out to Angela, but Elliot is too busy blaming himself for the carnage — and for Mr. Robot...

Two New York City policemen have been indicted on formal rape, kidnapping and bribery charges for allegedly forcing themselves on an 18-year-old woman who was in their custody for alleged marijuana possession, People confirms.

The alleged rape occurred on Sept. 15 in a police van in Brooklyn while the teen was handcuffed, an NYPD source tells People. Both officers have insisted the sex was consensual, according to the source.

Officers Eddie Martins and Richard Hall turned themselves in for arraignment on Monday, the source confirms. A grand jury returned indictments against the men on Thursday, according to a press release from...

Alec Bojalad Oct 26, 2017

Mr Robot turns an unnecessary diversion of an episode into an excellent character study in Legacy. Spoilers ahead...

This review contains spoilers.

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3.3 Legacy

One of the best and most fascinating aspects of Mr. Robot season 2 was Tyrell Wellick’s very conspicuous absence.

The simple absence of a lead character is such an underutilised yet powerful tool in the TV showrunner’s tool belt. Our brains crave patterns and consistency and when a pattern is broken is such a severe way like a lead actor suddenly disappearing, those same brains can’t help but mistake a simple absence for importance.

Sam Esmail was so bold as to tell Martin Wallstrom, a professional actor presumably under contract, “don’t worry so much about this season.

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Wednesday’s Mr. Robot left me feeling more confused than Elliot after one of his Mr. Robot spells. Did I really just watch an hour of Tyrell Wellick growing a beard and chopping firewood?

If you were dying to know where the chilly E Corp executive disappeared to last season — and I wasn’t, really — you get your answer here, as a series of flashbacks fill in the blanks on Tyrell’s backstory. We start back on the night of the original Five/Nine hack, with Tyrell and...

dick clark productions announced today that Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet will receive the “Hollywood Actress Award” for her work in the Woody Allen film, Wonder Wheel, as a beleaguered wife to a middle-aged carousel operator in the 1950’s on Coney Island, and Oscar nominated Jake Gyllenhall will receive the “Hollywood Actor Award” for his riveting and inspiring performance as Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman in David Gordon Green’s Stronger. The 2017 “Hollywood Film Awards,” known as the official launch of the awards season®, will be hosted by actor and comedian James Corden for the third consecutive year and will take place at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, on Sunday, November 5, 2017. The ceremony, which honors the most acclaimed films and actors while previewing highly anticipated films and talent for the upcoming year, also acknowledges artists in the categories of Cinematography, Visual Effects, Film Composing, Costume Design, Editing,...

The Geffen Playhouse welcomes Arye Gross Minority Report, Castle, Geffen's Coney Island Christmas in Glen Berger's award-winning one-man play Underneath the Lintel An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences, directed by Steven Robman. Underneath the Lintel began October 10 in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, with opening night tonight, October 18. The production closes Sunday, November 19. BroadwayWorld has a look at Gross in action below...

Woody Allen's inspiration for the title of his latest film - Wonder Wheel in Coney Island Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced additional screenings of the New York Film Festival's Closing Night selection, Woody Allen's melancholic Wonder Wheel, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, James Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.

Spotlight on Documentary films: Brett Morgen's Jane; Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned; Nancy Buirski's The Rape Of Racy Taylor; Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur - Main Slate: Chloé Zhao's The Rider; Dee Rees' Mudbound; Hong Sang-soo's The Day After; Special Event: Susan Froemke's The Opera House, and Film Comment Presents: A Gentle Creature, directed by Sergei Loznitsa, are the Sunday Encore films.

Public screenings of Wonder Wheel: Saturday, October 14 at 6:00pm and 9:00pm - - Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm - Walter Reade...

Feeling like a poor stage-to-screen adaptation in the lineage of Rent or The Producers — just without catchy songs to redeem it — Wonder Wheel is an undercooked offering from Woody Allen. Justin Timberlake plays Mickey Rubin, a fit lifeguard in a one-piece bathing suit. As is painfully clear in the opening scenes, if you’re going to cast one of the biggest pop stars in the world, at least use him for what he’s good at.

Timberlake begins the film with narration about his time at Nyu and burgeoning writing career. He does his best Allen impression, over-enunciating every word, but the character isn’t your typical, neurotic Allen surrogate. Allen instead writes the neurosis into Ginny, Kate Winslet’s character, a desperate housewife who is cheating on her husband, Humpty (Jim Belushi), with Mickey. Lacking the neurotic charm that made Jesse Eisenberg’s Cafe Society turn so endearing, Timberlake struggles with delivery here,...

There is much to love in Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel, from the breathtaking costumes and cinematography, to the nostalgia of Coney Island and 1950s New York, to Allen’s...

  Wonder Wheel Review Wonder Wheel (2017) Film Review from the 55th Annual New York Film Festival, a movie directed by Woody Allen, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake, Debi Mazar, Jim Belushi, Max Casella, Geneva Carr, Tony Sirico, Steve Schirripa, and Candice A. Buenrostro. When it comes to Woody Allen, it can feel [...]

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Count Kate Winslet in as an Oscar contender as once again Woody Allen delivers the goods for his Wonder Wheel leading actress. The Amazon Studios film (the first they are solely distributing themselves) closes the New York Film Festival tonight and it is the obvious choice as the 50’s set drama takes place in Coney Island. In advance of its gala Nyff screening Saturday night the film was unveiled for press this morning in both New York City and Los Angeles. Winslet plays…...

The Geffen Playhouse welcomes Arye Gross Minority Report, Castle, Geffen's Coney Island Christmas in Glen Berger's award-winning one-man play Underneath the Lintel An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences, directed by Steven Robman. Underneath the Lintel began October 10 in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, with opening night on Wednesday, October 18. The production closes Sunday, November 19. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...

Observed in a vacuum, “Wonder Wheel” is a kaleidoscope of lights and delights with best-in-class cinematography, perfect casting and impeccable period detail. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro lovingly lights actors’ faces with stained-glass-window colors. Kate Winslet has rarely been better in a part that lets her talent unfurl and bloom in new ways, and Jim Belushi is great as her character’s schlubby, unsatisfying husband. Its setting in 1950s Coney Island allows costume designer Suzy Benzinger room to play, with dresses that elicit gasps of pleasure.

Continue reading Woody Allen’s ‘Wonder Wheel’ Is Gorgeous But Problematic [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.

“Wonder Wheel” opens with Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a wannabe playwright and current Coney Island lifeguard, staring at the camera and making an excuse on Woody Allen’s behalf: “I relish melodrama and larger-than-life characters,” he says. There are a lot of those in this lush ‘50s romance, one of the more confident Allen pictures of late, but Kate Winslet looms above them all.

As Ginny, a failed actress-turned-clam-bar-waitress yearning for something more, Winslet delivers her most powerful, emotionally resonant performance in more than a decade. Though inevitable comparisons to Cate Blanchett’s fiery turn in Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” hold water, Winslet delivers a softer, melancholic woman, with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s lush, expressionistic camerawork complimenting her poetic anguish. She transforms a bumbling alcoholic caricature who exudes bleak jokes about missed opportunities, injecting her with majestic sadness.

The rest is nothing we haven’t seen before, but it’s nevertheless...

Just a few short hours ago, the New York Film Festival wrapped up its 2017 slate with the Closing Night Selection, Woody Allen’s latest film, the Coney Island set Wonder Wheel. In many ways, this is a coming home for the legendary filmmaker, while also managing to do something a bit different than usual. Eschewing his normal Cannes Film Festival bow before a summer release, Allen took this flick to Nyff, with a winter awards season release to come at the end of the year. He does have a contender on his hands, but perhaps not in the way we initially thought. Read on for more… The movie is a period piece set in Brooklyn’s historic Coney Island during the 1950’s. Lifeguard Mickey Rubin (Justin Timberlake) narrates this story of passion on the boardwalk. Carousel operator Humpy (James Belushi) and his rather beleaguered wife Ginny (Kate Winslet), eke out...

Woody Allen reteams with Amazon Studios for his latest feature film outing, “Wonder Wheel.” Written and directed by Allen, the 1950s Coney Island-set mob drama stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet in one of the season’s buzziest roles, plus Jim Belushi, Juno Temple, and Justin Timberlake, among others. The project will hit select theaters Dec. 1. Watch the vintage-inspired trailer below. Looking to get cast yourself? Check out Backstage's casting calls!

Various Woody Allen films have placed one foot firmly in the past (Radio Days, last year's Café Society), and now Wonder Wheel takes a look back at 1950s Coney Island. The story centers on the inevitably intersecting lives of an ex-waitress turned actress named Ginny (Kate Winslet), her rough and tumble carousel operator spouse Humpty (Jim [...]...

Visit a Colorful and Vibrant Coney Island in the Wonder Wheel Trailer...

Soon to turn 82 -- 82!!! -- Woody Allen continues his annual run of films with Wonder Wheel. Ready to debut at the New York Film Festival on Saturday, October 14, Wonder Wheel's description goes like this: "On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife." A new trailer has been released and appears to reveal Jim Belushi as Humpty, the carousel operator, and Kate Winslet as Ginny, his beleaguered wife. Belushi was surprisingly bearable in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return, but the trailer makes it clear that Winslet is the star, with Juno Temple as a young woman who brings trouble, and Justin Timberlake as a lifeguard, who looks like a Justin...

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“When you’re married to a man who got rich putting people’s feet in cement, you probably never had to do a dish,” says Kate Winslet to her daughter-in-law Juno Temple in the new trailer for Woody Allen‘s latest film, “Wonder Wheel” (watch above). Winslet stars as a waitress in Coney Island in the 1950s. She’s […]...

Things take a dark turn for Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake in the first trailer for Woody Allen’s latest film, “Wonder Wheel”. Set against the backdrop of 1950s Coney Island, “Wonder Wheel” is a tale of romance and mob revenge. The new movie follows the lives of four intertwined characters: clam house waitress Ginny (Winslet) […]...

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The Wonder Wheel trailer has Kate Winslet as a 1950s Coney Island wife stuck in a bad marriage who finds herself targeted by mobsters.

This year's annual Woody Allen movie is an Amazon exclusive. Wonder Wheel showcases an intriguing mix of personnel, fielding a 1950s-era story set during the magical years of New York’s Coney Island (home to the titular iconic Ferris wheel), rife with romantic woes and familiar-faced criminal elements.

Here's the trailer for the film...

Video of Wonder Wheel – Official Trailer [HD] | Amazon Studios

The trailer shows Kate Winslet as Ginny, a 1950s housewife who’s stuck in a rut of ambivalence, married to an older husband, Coney Island carousel operator Humpty (Jim Belushi). She attracts the interest of a lifeguard, Mickey (Justin Timberlake), and then everything unravels quick when her husband’s grown daughter Carolina (Juno Temple) comes back home.

The film is set...

Kate Winslet is coming undone in 1950s Coney Island in the new trailer for Woody Allen's period-set mob drama Wonder Wheel.

It’s no secret that these days we get one new Woody Allen movie a year. The thing is, usually it’s been a summer release, piggybacking off of a debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Sometimes in this modern era, they become Oscar winners, like Blue Jasmine, Midnight in Paris, or Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Other times, they become unfairly ignored gems, like Cafe Society. Still other times, they appear like “lesser” Allen works. This year, however, things are a little bit different. This time around with Wonder Wheel, Allen and Amazon Studios skipped Cannes, will instead be the Closing Night Selection at the New York Film Festival, and will instead have a December release, right in the heart of awards season. A Trailer dropped today to showcase why Amazon is so bullish on it. You can see it below, but first…a bit of discussion. Plot wise, I’ll...