Reporting from London — In 2009, filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos was given the original script for “The Favourite.” The historical tale of a triangle among an ailing Queen Anne and two of her closest ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The British Independent Film Awards took place ...

The Favourite–nominated for 10 Oscars this year–is a wickedly dark comedy. The story is something like a meaner Mean Girls set in Restoration-era England, as it profiles two real historical figures, ...

The following essay was produced as part of the 2018 NYFF Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics that took place during the 56th edition of the New York Film Festival. Yorgos Lanthimos’ ...

Director Yorgos Lanthimos pushed his cinematographer to extremes with the use of very wide lenses, only natural light, and bold camera moves. To hear Robbie Ryan tell it, he was “a glorified camera ...

Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite. (Photo by Atsushi Nishijima) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

It's tempting to tie pretty much anything to do with women and power to #MeToo and the surge of mainstream feminism, to the point where anyone in the public pop culture eye can (and probably should) ...

'The Favourite' ain't your mother's costume drama as Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman preside over a royal spectacle of cunning ladies and dandied-up men that blows up #MeToo and gender ...