Babygirl has been billed as an erotic thriller: the erotic part is accurate, but it’s hardly a thriller. All up, it’s a much ...
Writer-director Halina Reijn began as an actress, which explains why performance and theater games often make their way into her projects — especially her latest Babygirl. The film stars Nicole Kidman ...
When you sit down and watch one of Stanley Kubrick’s films, it doesn’t take long to see why he is considered a genius. The auteur’s career was packed with classic movies that challenged mainstream ...
Few directors earn as much respect as Stanley Kubrick. Often cited as one of the greatest filmmakers ever to live, Kubrick’s movies brought a new level of narrative complexity to the world of film, ...
Stanley Kubrick has been dead for more than a quarter of a century, and yet, there is still a project of his that is languishing in purgatory, neither alive nor completely buried. Throughout his ...
With antisemitism on the rise, The Braid’s founder says it’s more important than ever for Jewish people to tell their stories, and gather for a good laugh. Highly-anticipated films hitting the big ...
After being surprisingly shut out of the Academy Awards, director Halina Reijn's erotic thriller Babygirl has some reason to celebrate. The movie passed a new global box office milestone this ...
written and directed by Halina Reijn (whose English-language debut Bodies Bodies Bodies was one of the best films of 2022). The film tools along pretty well on the strength of its performances ...
"Father Figure" was written into the first draft of Babygirl's script that Currier received from writer/director Halina Reijn. "It was always in her mind," Currier told Mashable over Zoom.
It also wasn’t something that Babygirl writer and director Halina Reijn conjured out of nowhere. It actually happened to her. Reijn, who is also an actor, was in a production of Hedda Gabler at a ...
Writer/director Halina Reijn and actor Harris Dickinson discuss the layers of Babygirl, an erotic thriller that subverts genre norms. Reijn delves into the film’s metaphorical death, and how ...
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