William Friedkin’s final film sees Jason Clarke act as a reluctant naval lawyer in a highly irregular case, attempting to prove the innocence of a sailor accused of mutiny. A title card quoting William Friedkin preceded the Venice premiere of his final film, playing just a few weeks after his passing aged 87. “All of […]
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28 Days Later, the apocalyptic zombie film which gave Cillian Murphy his breakout role, opens and closes with two near-identical scenes. Both moments find Jim, played by Murphy, scared, injured and confused, the camera pressed hard to his face as he tries to decipher the situation in which he finds himself. These bookends, while framed […]
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On Sunday, Margot Robbie walked the red carpet in Seoul to celebrate the premiere of Barbie and honor her character’s long history as a fashion icon. Specifically, she wore two Versace looks styled by Andrew Mukamal inspired by the 1985 “Day to Night” Barbie who was always ready to transition from her work life to […]
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On Saturday, Margot Robbie left Sydney to continue her promotional tour for her new movie, Barbie. The star stayed on theme by wearing bright pink for her travel outfit as she headed to South Korea via the Australian city’s airport. On top was a Gucci sweatshirt paired with matching pants, part of the brand’s collab […]
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Spoilers below. The second episode of And Just Like That… season 2 contains a lot of endings that open the way for change. To start, Carrie’s Sex and the City podcast hits a wall when her innate prudery stops her from saying the word “suppository” on air, even though this commercial for vaginal wellness seems […]
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It was in the pages of the then-young Cahiers Du Cinéma magazine that a tight-knit group of French movie dorks (Truffaut, Rivette, Godard et al) first proffered Auteur Theory, the notion that a director’s authorial stamp was surely the most vital metric in determining a film’s value. Amongst their idols, few were as imposing as […]
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After four seasons, HBO’s Emmy winning comedy Barry, has come to an end, finally answering the question that has run throughout its four seasons: Can you change your nature? Bill Hader’s answer is yes – but unfortunately Hollywood doesn’t care. Comedian and actor Hader created the show with Alec Berg (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), as […]
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Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle. In Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film Gangs of New York, America was born on the streets. In his new one, Killers of the Flower Moon, it dies a slow death out there on the prairie. With […]
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Sometimes, I wish there had been a tiny camera attached to the side of my head. If there was then I wouldn’t need to struggle with the fickle nature of memory, I could simply just scrub through all the footage, speeding through the parts that don’t matter and slowing down to one frame per second […]
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It goes without saying that Amal Clooney, a political activist, powerhouse barrister in international law, and mother—who’s married to a very famous man—is a changemaker in her own right. To quote Tina Fey’s monologue at the 2015 Golden Globes, where Amal’s husband, George Clooney, received the AFI Life Achievement Award, she’s “worked on the Enron […]
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