Margot Robbie Edition: Bits & Pieces

5th April 2025

Margot Robbie Edition: Bits & Pieces – Today, Apple TV+ unveiled the provocative trailer for upcoming new French-language drama “Carême,” starring César Award winner Benjamin Voisin (“Lost Illusions”), César Award nominee Jérémie Renier (“My Way”), César Award winner Lyna Khoudri (“Papicha”) and Alice Da Luz (“Hanami”). The series is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Bourboulon (“Les Trois Mousquetaires: D’Artagnan”). “Carême” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on April 30, 2025, with the first two episodes, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday through June 11, 2025.

Emma (Tilda Swinton) left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son’s friend, makes her senses kindle. Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, and BIFA nominated. From award winning Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers, Queer) I Am Love stars Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton (The End, Suspiria, We Need To Talk About Kevin), Flavio Parenti (To Rome with Love, The Space Between), Alba Rohrwacher (Maria, La Chimera) and Edoardo Gabbriellini (Hardboiled Egg, Holiday).

Director Andres Veiel’s award-winning documentary Riefenstahl is a compelling and critical portrait of the life of the infamous artist, filmmaker and propagandist. The film premiered to widespread critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, winning the Cinema & Arts Award, and has continued to screen at a variety of other international festivals, including Telluride. Riefenstahl is set to be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 9^th May.

In MISERICORDIA, the entwined ambiguities of love and death haunt the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his late mentor’s family. He lives with the kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and is stalked by the venomously jealous son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while building a strange yet meaningful friendship with a pragmatic local priest (Jacques Develay). Before long, small-town pleasantries are tangled into a web of violent criminal behavior and erotic physical desire.

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has released the brand-new trailer for Amalia Ulman’s (El Planeta) Magic Farm, released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 16 May 2025. Starring Chloë Sevigny (Monsters, Boys Don’t Cry), Alex Wolff (A Quiet Place: Day One, Oppenheimer), Joe Apollonio, Camila del Campo, Simon Rex (Red Rocket, Blink Twice) and Amalia Ulman herself, the origins of Magic Farm emerged from hipster journalism, typified in the 2010s by Vice News, where unserious, semi-gonzo film crews visited “third world” countries in search of a bizarre story and a catchy headline.

“Fountain of Youth” follows two estranged siblings (John Krasinski and Academy Award winner Natalie Portman) who partner on a global heist to find the mythological Fountain of Youth. They must use their knowledge of history to follow clues on an epic adventure that will change their lives … and possibly lead to immortality.

“I Want to Live on Mars” was inspired by Centralia, a borough and ghost town in Pennsylvania. Its population has declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2023 due to a coal mine fire that has been burning constantly beneath the borough since 1962. It is an homage to what it’s like being a teenage girl, and living in the middle of nowhere with no opportunity or real way of expressing yourself. As a filmmaker, I really wanted to explore the aspect of loneliness and emptiness in the human heart, as well as the people, and the environment in which these individuals immerse themselves. Are they going to try and break away from that, or will they let themselves sink into the abyss?

The murderous doll who captivated pop culture in 2023 is back. And this time she’s not alone. The original creative team behind that phenomenon—led by horror titans James Wan for Atomic Monster, Jason Blum for Blumhouse and director Gerard Johnstone—reboot an all-new wild chapter in A.I. mayhem with M3GAN 2.0. Two years after M3GAN, a marvel of artificial intelligence, went rogue and embarked on a murderous (and impeccably choreographed) rampage and was subsequently destroyed, M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Allison Williams) has become a high-profile author and advocate for government oversight of A.I. Meanwhile, Gemma’s niece Cady (Violet McGraw), now 14, has become a teenager, rebelling against Gemma’s overprotective rules. Unbeknownst to them, the underlying tech for M3GAN has been stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno; Ahsoka, Pacific Rim: Uprising), the ultimate killer infiltration spy. But as Amelia’s self-awareness increases, she becomes decidedly less interested in taking orders from humans. Or in keeping them around. With the future of human existence on the line, Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN (Amie Donald, voiced by Jenna Davis) and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal. As their paths collide, the original A.I bitch is about to meet her match.

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.

After saying no on her wedding day, Aya leaves the Ivory Coast for a new life in the buzzing “Chocolate City” in Guangzhou, China. In this district where the African diaspora meets the Chinese culture, she gets hired in a tea boutique owned by Cai, a Chinese man. In the secrecy of the back shop, Cai decides to initiate Aya to the tea ceremony. Through the teaching of this ancient art, their relationship slowly turns into tender love. But for their burgeoning passion to lean on trust, they must let go of their burdens and face their past.

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