After six glorious seasons and two highly nostalgic big-screen outings, the Crawleys (Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Penelope Wilton, et al) are, thankfully, coming back for yet another round of grand dinners, swoon-worthy romances, and barbed social commentary. Joining them will be their trusted employees (Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Joanne Froggatt), a handful of returning favorites (Paul Giamatti as the visiting American, Dominic West as a mustachioed pin-up), and some fresh faces (Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale) to make up for the gaping hole left by the late Maggie Smith’s razor-sharp Dowager Countess. Still, in the hands of franchise creator Julian Fellowes, set against the backdrop of the magnificent Yorkshire pile, and with the intricate costuming and enchanting music we’ve come to expect from this rarefied world, it’ll be impossible to resist.
In theaters on September 12, 2025
Marty Supreme
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You’ve surely seen the paparazzi shots of Timothée Chalamet in his oversized suits, steel-rimmed glasses, and little moustache passionately kissing an opera-robe-and-elbow-length-gloves-clad Gwyneth Paltrow, but if you’ve yet to add Josh Safdie’s off-the-wall period piece to your watchlist, you should do so now. Loosely inspired by the life of pro ping pong player Marty Reisman, who came to prominence as a Lower East Side hustler in the ’40s, competing for bets and prizes, and somehow went onto become the US men’s singles table tennis champion, it should be a heart-pumping, twisty origin story that will, no doubt, inspire another method dressing-filled press tour for the two-time Oscar nominee at its center. I can hardly wait.
