Gabriel Sierra’s creation of fictional artist Lucy Otter raises questions about privilege and the commodification of gender.
But The Substance writer / director Coralie Fargeat’s new body horror is infinitely more disturbing (a feature, not a bug) than any of its early trailers have let on. After years of hosting ...
“There exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.” Something of “The Eye” lurks in “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat’s mirror-haunted gory fable about fame, self-hatred and ...
Arriving in theaters amid the mass slimming event set off by Ozempic, “The Substance” has an ear-shattering ring of topical truth. Faded celebrity Demi Moore plays faded celebrity Elisabeth ...
“The Substance” is smart, gross, funny, brave, maddening, insightful, hard to watch, impossible to turn away from —what else do you want in a movie? Coralie Fargeat’s film — she wrote ...
Watching gruesome chiller The Substance brings to mind Madonna‘s speech at the 2016 Billboard Women In Music Awards. Outlining the sexist and regressive “rules” for women in the public eye ...
Scientists were finally able to analyze the DNA in the world’s oldest cheese, which was found two decades ago smeared on ...
Coralie Fargeat’s bold, bloody and buzzy “The Substance” has become the most successful box office release for arthouse distributor and streamer Mubi. The Demi Moore-starring body horror ...
“The Substance” blowtorches a single idea for two hours and 20 minutes, and narratively it turns to ashes by minute 40. It’s easier for a movie to become a talking point that way. Film ...
Three men in DeKalb County were arrested after deputies responded to a shots fired call in the Painter Community September 18 ...