Like any good millennial, I’m waiting patiently for the next season of And Just Like That… to drop on Max so that I can devour each episode like a five-course feast of inanity, talk about it obsessively with my coworkers on Slack, and ultimately disavow the show when anyone asks if I actually like it. … Read more
There’s a brilliant photograph of Sofia Coppola on the set of Marie Antoinette in which she appears, mid stride, amid dozens of actors dressed in 18th-century courtly attire: britches and elaborate waistcoats on the men, robes à la françaises on the women, white powdered wigs on all. Coppola, meanwhile, is dressed in a white men’s … Read more
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There are aspects of Run Lola Run that would not work now, as audiences who go to see the film in theaters will soon find out. So much of the drama depends on a world free of iPhones, Uber, and constant connection. But at the same time, the movie itself—which runs a delicious 80 minutes—feels … Read more
You’d be forgiven for finding the television landscape a little dull as of late—especially if you’re only watching scripted shows. In case you haven’t noticed, we are currently living through the Golden Era of reality TV. Unscripted television—a fixture of the American media diet for decades—has only doubled down on its dominance; and in recent … Read more
I’m curious about the physicality of it all. Had you done anything remotely near drag before? I’ve been saying that I haven’t done drag before, but it’s not actually true, because I realized that when I was in high school I did play a drag queen in a play that we wrote as teens. Of … Read more
Listen, I want my (okay, fine, Sabrina Carpenter’s) tiny, handsome boyfriend Barry Keoghan to stay booked and busy as much as the next Banshees of Inisherin stan. However, I think I have to draw a tenuous personal line in the sand at seeing him in filmmaker Sam Mendes’s series of four interconnected biopics following each … Read more
We’ve had plenty of fun speculating about Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White’s relationship (they’re just friends, you weirdos!) in the months since the Season 2 finale of The Bear aired. But now, Season 3 is officially on the way, and we have a just-released trailer to prove it. As you might recall, when we … Read more
Today in “stories I’m writing in 2024 that could also have been major celebrity gossip in 1973” news, actor Emma Corrin has sparked controversy for posing on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar with their armpit hair visible. Granted, I might feel a little bit personally attached given that a) one of the first places Corrin … Read more
“We’re all Queenie, a little bit,” says actor Dionne Brown, 28, who is about to set screens alight as the titular everywoman in Hulu’s eight-part adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’s bestselling novel. Equal parts gloriously messy, hysterically funny, and painfully relatable, Queenie—a journalist in the throes of a quarter-life crisis—wasn’t just a dream role for the … Read more
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14. Imagine if she had brought out Blackpink to perform their song “Sour Candy” together? I would have passed out. It’s interesting that Gaga didn’t bring out any special guests for this tour. Then again, does she need to? 15. She’s now performing “Telephone.” Gaga was recently asked if she would ever team up with … Read more
