[ Folks, we did it: No one cares about the age gap in The Idea of You. Perhaps if director Michael Showalter and his co-writer Jennifer Westfeldt—who adapted the 2017 book by Robinne Lee—hadn’t made the changes that they did from the source material, we’d be wading through tiresome “hot takes” about pedophilia, grooming, and … Read more
[ When we last left Mary (Julianne Moore) and George (Nicholas Galitzine) in Mary & George Episode 4 (“The Wolf & The Lamb”), everything seemed to be going pretty well for them both after a few setbacks. Mary finally managed to get John (Tom Victor) married to Frances Coke (Amelia Gething) despite Lady Hatton (Nicola … Read more
[ The Idea of You, the new Anne Hathaway romance now streaming on Prime Video, is nothing if not perfectly titled. In the movie, and presumably the novel it’s based on, the title comes from Solène (Hathaway), a 40-year-old woman expressing her doubt about a relationship with Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine) a 24-year-old pop star … Read more
[ The Idea of You will begin streaming on Amazon this week, and folks, I’m here to tell you that the latest Harry Styles fanfiction movie is good. Great, even. Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Robinne Lee, The Idea of You stars Anne Hathaway as a 40-year-old single mom who … Read more
[ The synopsis for Mary & George Episode 4 (“The Wolf & The Lamb”) promises a showdown between Mary (Julianne Moore) and Lady Hatton (Nicola Walker), and we certainly get that — but we also get a whole lot more. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves — let’s pick up where we left off. When last … Read more
[ Starz‘s Mary & George is the story of an ambitious mother, Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore), and her exceptionally charming son, George (Nicholas Galitzine). It’s also the true story of how George seduced King James I (Tony Curran), propelling his family to the top of the heap in Jacobean England, to his mother’s delight. However, … Read more
[ Mary & George Episode 3 “Not So Much as Love as by Awe” borrows its name from a letter sent between King James I (Tony Curran) and lover Robert Carr, the Earl of Somerset (Laurie Davidson) in real life. The Starz show’s creator D.C. Moore paraphrased the letter to Decider thus: “Somerset was playing … Read more
[ When last we left our dear Mary (Julianne Moore) and George (Nicholas Galitzine) in Episode 1 of Mary & George, they were scheming about how to get George back in front of (and perhaps under) King James I (Tony Curran). For Episode 2 (“The Hunt”), we start off with Mary visiting a local brothel … Read more
[ Mary & George Episode 2 “The Hunt” ends with a major moment for young George Villiers (Nicholas Galitzine) and his king, James I (Tony Curran) — and a key turning point for the Starz show. **Spoilers for Mary & George Episode 2 “The Hunt,” now streaming on Starz** After pursuing the king for a whole … Read more
[ Starz‘s scintillating new series Mary & George follows the wild true story of the ruthlessly ambitious Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore) and her incandescently charming second son, George (Nicholas Galitzine). In the 1610s, a recently widowed Mary pushed her beautiful boy into journeying to France, so he could be polished into the perfect cosmopolitan courtier. … Read more
