The Big Picture · Review · Interview
May 1, 2026/ 115 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean and Amanda review 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' then Sean talks to writer-director Chandler Levack about 'Mile End Kicks' and 'Roommates.'
4 films across 2 segments.
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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’the legacy sequel about a dying magazine
David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna return; Andy Sachs comes back to Runway. It's less about fashion than about the magazine business collapsing: McKinsey, page views, a Bezos-like buyer played by Justin Theroux. Watchable and well-dressed, but more melancholy and duplicative than the original, with a Miranda who spends the film scrambling instead of cutting people down.
The 2006 original they keep measuring it against: a movie about being good at your job, and the film that, through Miranda Priestly, ended up rehabilitating Anna Wintour.
Chandler Levack on her two 2026 films
Levack's autobiographical film about a young music writer in Montreal circa 2011; Barbie Ferreira plays a critic trying to write a 33⅓ on Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.' Sean, a former music journalist himself, called it uncanny.
Levack's Netflix comedy from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison, starring Sadie Sandler and Chloe East as college roommates who aren't destined to stay friends.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In the ‘Prada 2’ talk Lilo & StitchDirty HarryBarbieBlade Runner 2049Mad Max: Fury RoadFuriosa: A Mad Max SagaTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemBoyhoodMasters of the UniverseMorning GloryGuardians of the GalaxyThe Mandalorian and Grogu
In the Levack interview Almost FamousLady BirdBilly MadisonPunch-Drunk LoveI've Heard the Mermaids SingingBeing John MalkovichJurassic ParkSchindler's ListTrafficErin BrockovichToni ErdmannThe ApartmentPillionThe SouvenirThe FabelmansHereticNakedShiva BabyBottomsMean GirlsHubie HalloweenBackrooms
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