In Episode 4 of Apple TV+’s The New Look, Lucien Lelong (played by John Malkovich), head of the eponymous couture house that ruled Parisian fashion for decades, presents one of his staff designers, Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), with a doll constructed of bent wire. “No, it’s not a joke,” Lelong asserts. “It’s the future of … Read more
Iâll admit it: After five years of watching virtually every majorâand often minorâaward show for work, Iâve gone from a starry-eyed superfan to a bit of a cynic. I still love the pageantry and red carpet silliness (and the excuse to text everyone I know about inane celebrity gossip), but after COVID-induced delays, the rise … Read more
The 18th-century court of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) provides the setting for Yorgos Lanthimos’s absurdist black comedy about power struggles and palace intrigue. Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are delicious as the two ruthless favorites of the monarch, who try to outmaneuver each other at all costs. Their days are taken up with shooting practice, … Read more
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The presence of intimacy coordinators, Katharine Hardman and Elle McAlpine, was another aid. (McAlpine also worked on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things.) “We all sat down and had a really in-depth discussion about the relationship, about what the intimacy in that relationship would look like, about how it evolves, how it differs from the intimacy in … Read more
Thanks to the popularity of TV shows and movies like The L Word, Euphoria, Happiest Season, and Sex Education, the lesbian experience has, of late, enjoyed (fairly) robust representation onscreen. Yet that wasn’t always so; for far too long, lesbians (and other members of the LGBTQ+ community) saw their identities and relationships either ignored or … Read more
Celine Song’s gentle, ruminative romance is, in many ways, the inverse of Gerwig’s no-holds-barred picaresque, but on Oscar nominations morning, their fates were partially mirrored: its sensitive screenplay was recognized alongside its best picture nod, but Song missed out on a best director slot, and the other unfairly overlooked Greta of awards season, Greta Lee, … Read more
X content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. One of the things that’s always charmed me about Kirke’s public persona is its overlap with the one maintained by her Girls character, Jessa (except I’m pretty sure Jessa wasn’t on social media, preferring instead to live in ~the moment~). Kirke … Read more
The late Hair and Everwood star, who passed away in June 2023, will be seen playing the philandering media mogul, husband of Babe Paley and former friend of Capote’s in his final TV role. In “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a character named Sidney Dillon, who closely resembled William, is depicted having a one-night stand with … Read more
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Jacob Elordi, the Internet’s boyfriend, hosted Saturday Night Live last night with musical guest Reneé Rapp, who’s been busy making her press rounds as the star of the new Mean Girls reboot. In the film, Rapp reprises the role of head mean girl Regina George, a role that was immortalized by Rachel McAdams in the … Read more
It’s TV’s biggest night, and seemingly all of Hollywood is out in force in Los Angeles to take in the 75th annual Emmy Awards. The speeches are ranging from hilarious (Matthew Macfadyen thanking Sarah Snook and his “other onscreen wife, Nicholas Braun”) to emotional (Niecy Nash-Betts speaking out for “unheard…yet overpoliced Black and Brown women”), … Read more
