Theaters Beware: ‘Wicker’ Fans Are Plotting to Steal the Wicker Husband Standee

'Wicker' Has the Internet Thirsting: These BookTok Favorites Are Just as Steamy as the New Release

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Audiences got their first look at Alexander Skarsgård playing a man made entirely of wicker, and, naturally, the internet immediately had questions. Mostly about sex. In Black Bear’s Wicker, Skarsgård plays a husband crafted from wicker after a lonely fisherwoman, played by Olivia Colman, asks a local…

Who knew a basket could be sexy? How ‘Wicker’ became fall’s surprise must-see

Moviegoers are here for the “big wick energy” from Alexander Skarsgard, who plays a sentient woven object married to a village fisherwoman yearning for love.

Movie review: 'Wicker' weaves a feisty feminist fable

It’s too bad the title “The Wicker Man” was already taken, as that’s literally what star Alexander Skarsgård is playing in “Wicker,” a randy little ditty of a film from married co-writers and co-directors Alex Houston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, who adapt the story “The Wicker Husband,” by Ursula Wills for the screen. Skarsgård, always up for any kind of particularly sexy challenge, plays the titular husband here, woven by a skilled Basket Maker (Peter Dinklage), at the behest of a lonely Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman), who lives in a terribly strange little village in a sort of vaguely medieval era.

'Wicker' Final Trailer: Olivia Colman Falls For A Wicker Alexander Skarsgård

Since it debuted at Sundance at the beginning of the year, buzz has been building around the odd romantic comedy, Wicker. It’s the rare case of a film that is steadily spoken about, but quietly, until the rash of fall season festivals turns that quiet buzz into an uproar. And that is exactly what’s happening […]

‘Wicker’ Fans Are Jokingly “Stealing” the Wicker Husband Theater Standee

Every so often, a movie’s marketing takes on a life of its own online. A cardboard cutout in a theater lobby usually goes unnoticed, but this year one of them has turned into a social media obsession. It’s tied to one of the strangest romances of the fall. ‘Wicker’ follows an ostracized fisherwoman, played by...

Theaters Beware: ‘Wicker’ Fans Are Plotting to Steal the Wicker Husband Standee

Few movies arrive in theaters with as much pre-release chatter as ‘Wicker‘. It premiered at Sundance in January to a double standing ovation, then returned to the spotlight months later when its debut trailer set social media on fire. The film is based on Ursula Wills-Jones’ short story ‘The Wicker Husband’, and it centers on...