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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA fashion parade closes the Teen Cosplay Fashion Show<\/p>\n
A fashion parade closes the Teen Cosplay Fashion Show during York County Libraries’ annual York Cosplay! Con at Martin Library in York City, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Director Paul Feig has proved himself to be the preeminent purveyor of the finest high-camp trash one can find at the movie theater these days \u2014 and that\u2019s a compliment. If Feig is serving up the trash, then call me a raccoon, because I\u2019m ready to dive in.<\/p>\n Feig\u2019s special sauce when it comes to these soapy, female-driven thrillers like \u201cA Simple Favor,\u201d and now \u201cThe Housemaid,\u201d adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine from a \u201cBookTok\u201d sensation by Freida McFadden, is clearly his comedy background. Feig understands exactly the tone and tropes to deploy here, and you can feel his knowing winks and nudges to the audience with every loaded glance, stray graze or wandering camera movement. It\u2019s as if he\u2019s saying, to us, and all the tipsy ladies in the audience, \u201ccheck this out \u2014 LOL right?\u201d LOL indeed, Mr. Feig, LOL.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d is an erotic crime thriller that plays off silly sexual stereotypes and fantasies like the naughty maid and then flips them on their head. In the opening scene, the drably dressed, bespectacled Millie (Sydney Sweeney) interviews for a live-in maid position with the warm and friendly wife and mother Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried) in her gorgeously appointed Long Island mansion designed by her wealthy husband, Andrew (Brandon Sklenar).But all is not what it seems on the surface, for either applicant or employer. Both are hiding dark secrets, but Nina hires Millie nevertheless, and Millie, without any other options, gratefully accepts.<\/p>\n When Millie moves into the maid\u2019s quarters in the attic, she discovers that the Winchester home isn\u2019t as picture-perfect as it seemed. Little things are off: she can\u2019t open her window, the groundskeeper Enzo (Michele Morrone) glowers at her constantly, items go missing, and CeCe (Indiana Elle), Nina\u2019s daughter, is exceedingly cold.<\/p>\n Then there are the big things that are off, like Nina\u2019s wild mood swings, requests that Nina then claims she never made, and the vicious gossip about her mental health among the other Stepford wives. Millie realizes she\u2019s in over her head with Mrs. Winchester, but her saving grace is the warm and handsome Mr. Winchester. Is that where this is going? Of course it is, we all happily groan together.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d is like \u201cGaslight\u201d meets \u201cJane Eyre,\u201d with a dash of \u201cRebecca,\u201d with all the various roles lightly scrambled, and a much sexier, nastier streak than any of those mannered mindbenders. Feig stylishly waltzes us through this steamy, twisty mystery with ease but not necessarily sophistication \u2014 this is the kind of frothy entertainment that you can still enjoyably comprehend after a glass or two, which in fact might enhance the experience.<\/p>\n