It’s been years since Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth ended their relationship after less than a year of marriage. In many ways, songs have mapped every ebb and flow of this couple’s decade-long relationship. The pair initially fell in love and grew apart between The Last Song‘s “When I Look at You” and Cyrus’ own […]
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Ira Sachs’ latest drama features steamy sex, passionate rows, and some of the best cinematic knitwear in years. We speak to the film’s costume designer to find out how the film developed its signature style. Ira Sachs is well known for telling messy, hopelessly human stories about love, marriage, addiction, and family. His latest, Passages, […]
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We all know the story of how Steven Spielberg’s 1975 box office hit Jaws was the birth of the movie blockbuster, closely followed by George Lucas’ Star Wars in 1977. This narrative is a fictionalised history, because “blockbuster” had been used as early as the 1940s to describe big-budget productions with mass appeal. Popular lore, […]
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Major spoilers for Red, White & Royal Blue below. When I first read the back cover for Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, I immediately set the book down. I mean, let’s be real, the first son of the United States falling in love with the Prince of England? Pish posh, hogwash. But […]
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R. Eric Thomas is here now. Only, he’s still sussing out what “here” means. No one can fault him: Our modern understanding of “here,” in this pandemic-hardened, hyper-digital, increasingly isolated era, leans heavily on the nebulous end of the abstraction spectrum. After the success of his bestseller Here For It, the humor writer (and former […]
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You can now be part of Ariel’s world without leaving your couch. The live-action remake of Disney’s animated classic, which swam into theaters in May, is now available to rent or purchase on VOD (video on-demand) platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and more. Starring singer and actress Halle Bailey as the iconic […]
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When Rachel Zegler was initially cast in the role of Snow White in Disney’s live action remake of the animated film, online trolls went on the attack. At the time, fellow Disney Princess Halle Bailey backed her up, and she has come to support her again. This week, after the Daily Mail shared photos taken […]
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On Friday night, Taylor Swift welcomed her former boyfriend Taylor Lautner to the stage at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City during her Eras Tour concert. The Twilight actor stars in Swift’s new music video for “I Can See You,” alongside the pop star and actresses Joey King and Presley Cash. The song is off of […]
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A deaf Kurdish boy belatedly discovers the simple joys of communication in Edward Lovelace’s moving and politically prescient documentary portrait. Retooling a template used for The Possibilities are Endless, the wonderful and affirmative 2014 portrait of Scottish new wave singer-songwriter, Edwyn Collins, filmmaker Edward Lovelace turns his camera to teenage Kurdish refugee Lawand for a […]
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Fyzal Boulifa’s second feature bears witness to the the dysfunctional bond between a mother-son duo as they drift through urban Morocco. In Vincent Sherman’s 1950 noir The Damned Don’t Cry, Joan Crawford plays a housewife trapped in a loveless marriage, when the tragic death of her young son becomes an impetus for her to claw […]
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