Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Disney, Focus Features, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Studio Canal, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, The Weinstein Company This article was originally published in 2017 and has been updated to include Cate Blanchett’s latest release, Rumours. Cate Blanchett has been a star since the very first second we …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Amelia Dimoldenberg via YouTube Well, it happened. Andrew Garfield stopped by Chicken Shop Date, Amelia Dimoldenberg’s comedy interview show on YouTube where she subjects celebrity guests to a simulacra of awkward-first-date conversation and well-performed chiding. There’s been quite a bit of lore leading up to this encounter, with Garfield and Dimoldenberg …
Photo: Bleecker Street This review was originally published on May 18, 2024 out of the Cannes Film Festival. We are recirculating it now that Rumours is in theaters. With Rumours, the legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin, working with his regular collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson, has made what might be his funniest film to …
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COURTESY OF NETFLIX Who else cried watching Alex Byrd and Tim Godbee date on Love Is Blind? In the pods, Godbee spoke at length about the untimely deaths of both of his sisters and described Byrd as an opportunity to give his parents another daughter. He even entrusted her with a bracelet that was …
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Photo: Leah Gallo/Roadshow Films/Everett Collection One would not expect Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut to be a grim serial-killer drama, but maybe that’s the point. The actress, known primarily for her lively work in comedies and musicals, also stars in the film, as aspiring performer Cheryl Bradshaw, a Columbia grad whom we first meet during …
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Photo: Michael Putland/Getty Images To be clear, the most memorable Rock & Roll Hall of Fame red-carpet moment came from a Blackpool goth, but this could’ve been a close second if the hot-blooded rumor turned out to be true. Foreigner co-founder and drummer Dennis Elliott won’t be in attendance at the band’s induction ceremony …
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Photo: Anonymous Content Brett Story and Stephen Maing like to emphasize the scale of the multinational corporation the labor organizers in Union are up against with images of the vast mechanisms that allow it to operate. In the opening shot of the documentary, which the two directed together, a container ship creeps into the …
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Photo: NEON This review was originally pubished on May 27, 2024 out of the Cannes Film Festival. We are recirculating it now that Anora is in theaters. Sean Baker’s Anora, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes on Saturday, is a movie about the way people look at each other, though it may not …
Photo: Apple TV+ Mark Twain outlived three of his four children. For the epitaph of Susy, his eldest girl who died at age 24, he cribbed from a poem by the Australian writer Robert Richardson. Adapting the final stanza of Richardson’s “Annette,” he turned a long ode into a lullaby: Warm summer sun, Shine …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (Peter Mountain/A24, Barbara Nitke/Paramount Pictures), Apple TV+ Sigh, with summer blockbusters well behind us, it’s time to reckon with the scary fall-release calendar. All these new indie films and awards contenders are intent on driving us all mad with their ever-shifting dates. What do you mean Anora is just …
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