She plays a CEO well versed in the language of corporate virtue and strategic contrition. That comes into play for her when she's kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy-addled cousins (Plemons and Aidan Delbis), who believe Stone's character is a member of an alien race that has secretly been pushing Earth toward destruction. Typical of a Lanthimos movie, the narrative is both absurdly funny and darkly unsettling.
Opening with David Freyne's "Eternity," featuring Craig Brewer's "Song Sung Blue" as the Centerpiece, and closing with Rian Johnson's "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," the 28th edition of the festival will also feature gala screenings of Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia," David Michôd's "Christy," Kristen Stewart's "The Chronology of Water," Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet," Bradley Cooper's "Is This Thing On?," Noah Baumbach's "Jay Kelly,"
Welcome back, friends and fools, to year FIVE of the Vulture Movies Fantasy League. We are about to turn the corner into a fall movie season that is packed with box-office behemoths, visionary auteurs bringing their latest films into the bosom of awards season, and a whole lotta questions about whether a vampire movie about race in America can play the long game all the way to Oscar gold.
"I had no idea we were even eligible for an Emmy, quite honestly," said Steele to IndieWire over Zoom. "Depending on the mood I'm in, it was either a cherry on the top or a sad surprise," she joked, thinking back on the prospect of a second year of awards campaigning.
