By Melissa Romualdi. Published: 1 hour ago Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is not only “a boss” onscreen while portraying Sofia in “Loot” but offscreen as well. In a new interview with Variety, the actress explains why the Apple TV+ comedy series doesn’t reveal whether her character is trans or cis. Rodriguez, who is a proud member of the […]
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Donald Glover’s Amazon Studio project Swarm released all its episodes this week on Amazon Prime. Co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers, Swarm is a horror-thriller series that stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman obsessed with a pop star named Ni’Jah. Dre’s own life is full of disconnect and abandonment, and she seems to […]
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Spoilers ahead. After tearing through Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel about the meteoric rise of a fictional ’70s band not unlike Fleetwood Mac, the biggest question on my mind was: What does this iconic band sound like? Thanks to Prime Video’s new miniseries based on the book, we now have […]
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Season 1 of A League of Their Own premiered on Prime Video on August 12, 2022, and by then, co-creator Will Graham said that the team was already writing season 2. The show is based on the film of the same name, a classic rainy day movie pick for anyone who grew up in the […]
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Prepare for more of those clicker sounds bouncing around your brain. After setting HBO viewership records, zombie apocalypse thriller The Last of Us is headed for a second season, bringing Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal back as emotionally traumatized psuedo-father-daughter duo Ellie and Joel. The HBO adaptation is the media giant’s second largest debut, falling […]
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Is the Nashville music industry still a boys’ club? My new novel, The Farewell Tour, follows a fierce, ambitious female singer-songwriter named Lillian Waters who is trying to crack the country-music establishment from the 1940s through the 1980s. Lillian balances multiple day jobs, struggles with rejection, and even into her 40s, is categorized as a […]
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For most of us, the omnipresence of social media is a fundamental part of daily life. We often debate whether its ubiquity is a net good or bad, but generalizations become difficult when there are as many ways to interact with social media as there are people with iPhones. Film has long proven to be […]
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In a new series, we’re celebrating the films we loved that aren’t likely to dominate the awards race. Over the new few weeks, our writers make passionate arguments for the performances and craft that stood out to them, from blockbusters to arthouse and everything in between. The internet is unrecognizable from how it existed at the […]
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How Lukas Dhont’s Close adopts a more enlightened and empathetic approach to depicting young people on screen. Casting an eye back over the long and storied history of cinema, it seems as if it’s only relatively recently that we’ve started to take kids seriously on screen. A film such as Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated Close, about […]
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The story of Amy Powney and her journey to create truly sustainable and ethical clothes oscillates between the fascinating and the tiresome. The world of clothes is famously cutthroat and increasingly careless – the devil could currently wear most brands quite happily, given the environmental and humanitarian cost of producing pretty much anything. In Fashion […]
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