On the red carpet for A24’s metaphysical rom-com Eternity, Miles Teller brought the banter… And the heat. Speaking to The Movie Dweeb, Teller reacted to the bold claim that Eternity was the film of the year, “In your face Sinners,” I said, referencing Michael B. Jordan’s hit from earlier this year. Miles laughed, “No offense, Michael B., I love you. But his words, in your face.” When I feared retaliation, Miles didn’t miss a beat: “Well, he might. He’s very strong.”
The exchange didn’t stop there. After some talk about his creative process and working relationships with directors like Joseph Kosinski, I stupidly poked the bear again, joking that Michael B. Jordan phones it in, prompting Teller to reply, “You have a red dot on your chest.”
Miles was also reflective, saying he’s always up for reuniting with past directors but equally drawn to brand-new material that excites him. “Nobody wants to be phoning it in, man,” he added, perhaps not-so-subtly dragging a few phoned-in blockbusters along the way.
Sinners: A Vampire Blues Epic
If Eternity was Miles Teller’s whimsical take on love in the afterlife, Sinners was Michael B. Jordan’s haunting descent into the blues-soaked horrors of 1930s Mississippi. Directed by Ryan Coogler, the genre-blending film follows war-torn identical twins Elijah ‘Smoke’ and Elias ‘Stack’ Moore, both played by Jordan, as they return home to build a juke joint… Only to confront grief, segregation, and eventually, vampires.
After unknowingly summoning spirits with blues music, the brothers attract the attention of an Irish-immigrant vampire named Remmick. What follows is a blood-drenched showdown that weaves supernatural horror with historical trauma, spiritual reckoning, and a blistering commentary on race, art, and survival in the Jim Crow South.
By the time we arrive in the 1990s, the story has unfolded across generations, music styles, and moral lines. It’s no wonder Sinners became a cultural lightning rod: a movie that dared to fuse Black folklore with gothic horror, and gangster mythology with family legacy.
Hailee Steinfeld And My Firstborn Bribe
This isn’t the first time a Movie Dweeb interview went from charming to chaotic. Just a few months ago, I sat down with Sinners‘ Hailee Steinfeld, and in exchange for potential Marvel spoilers; namely, Kate Bishop’s rumoured return in Avengers: Doomsday, I offered up naming rights to my future firstborn.
Inside Eternity: Love and Loss in the Afterlife
Miles Teller’s Eternity explores a surprisingly tender question: If you could spend eternity with one person, would it be the love of your life… Or the one that got away? In the film, Teller plays Larry Cutler, a lovable curmudgeon who dies and finds himself in a whimsical afterlife crossroads known as The Junction. There, he learns his wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) must choose between him and her long-lost first love Luke (Callum Turner), who’s been waiting 67 years for her arrival.
The film is both deeply moving and visually enchanting, from its pastel-hued afterlife hotel to the chaotic expo halls offering tailor-made eternities like Surf World, Capitalist World, and Infantalization World. Director David Freyne crafts a pop-romantic playground where the dead still have big decisions to make.
Teller and Olsen bring surprisingly comedic chemistry to the long-married couple navigating posthumous heartbreak. Meanwhile, Callum Turner plays the eternal heartthrob who still looks 25 and remembers their 1950s romance like it was yesterday. It’s a three-way tug-of-war that plays out with equal parts levity and longing.
With buzzy performances, inventive world-building, and that A24 gloss, Eternity is exactly the kind of oddball original that fans have been craving. And for Miles Teller? It might just be his most heartfelt role since Whiplash, albeit with fewer cymbals to the face and more metaphysical monologues.
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