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JUNE SQUIBB, 94, is driving me around the parking lot of her Sherman Oaks apartment complex on a red three-wheeled, two-person mobility scooter, her white hair fluttering in the late-May [...]

Crying has been one of the most popular activities of the past four to eight years; the ability to do it on command has been considered the apex of acting [...]

In the 20 years after their breakup, Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel didn't speak much, despite sharing a child. Then they agreed to star in a movie together again. Juliette [...]

Caroline Polachek wasn't out to scandalize the zoo. She made the three-hour journey from Los Angeles, where she was deep in final-edit mode for her new album, Desire, I Want [...]

On a chilly Monday afternoon in November, sequestered in a windowless private dining room at the American Girl Cafe in midtown, Allison Williams and I are celebrating a birthday. We [...]

The first thing I ask David Cronenberg about is the abdomens. The Canadian writer-director, who has been described as the 'Godfather of Body Horror' by some and 'beyond the bounds [...]

RECENTLY, MY PARTNER Adam's grandfather David called to let us know he was proceeding with his plan to die. He had Parkinson's, and in the past two years, as his [...]

In the days leading up to the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival, I begin to wonder: Am I willing to risk becoming grievously ill in the name of cinema? COVID-19 [...]

Joe Alwyn currently occupies one of the strangest spaces in the greater celebrity matrix. He's not yet the sort of movie star your parents would recognize at the airport and [...]

Not every great movie has a great ending. The reverse is also true: A ho-hum flick can become instantly unforgettable thanks to an awesome conclusion. The end is arguably the [...]

ALINE is in theaters April 8. THE FILM ALINE, which premiered last year at Cannes to an audience both baffled and delighted and which was deemed 'scary' by The Guardian [...]

TAYLOR SWIFT DOES NOT need to 'go out to dinner.' Civilians with expendable cash go out to dinner to break up the monotony of being alive. Celebrities go out to [...]

Best Classic Camp Text: Gal Gadot's 'Imagine' Video The first truly camp piece of quarantine art washed up on our digital shores like a bloated whale carcass in March, when [...]

> LIKE ALL GOOD things, the cinematic oeuvre of Rachel Weisz has only gotten gayer over time. Her magnificent face, visceral intelligence, and fierce self-possession meant that in her early [...]

Julia Ducournau is telling me a horror a story. A true one. The two of us are walking through MoMA on a Friday afternoon, in part because it's one of [...]

ONE MORNING LAST FALL, happily stoned and painting alone in her art studio, Alia Shawkat realized her name was trending on Twitter. Photos of the actress walking out of a [...]

Jessica Chastain reprises Liv Ullmann's part in the Ingmar Bergman classic Scenes From a Marriage. Their approaches couldn't be more different. Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann are cheerfully arguing about [...]

How do you get a film about rich white men getting scammed made in an industry run by rich white men? First step: Get J. Lo to sign on. IS [...]

NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS opens March 13. ABOUT HALFWAY through Eliza Hittman's third feature, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, comes an almost overwhelmingly intimate and excruciating scene. Autumn (newcomer Sidney Flanigan), [...]

Bottoms, Seligman's first big-studioproject, follows Josie (Edebiri) and PJ(Sennott), two libidinous lesbian teen loserswho start an after-school fight club underthe auspices of sisterhood but actually doit just so they can fuck cheerleaders. Five and six years aftertheir respective matriculations, they'vecome together to make an extremelygay, impressively bloody, simultaneouslyfun-dumb and incisively smart studiocomedy, Bottoms--directed by Seligman,co-written by Sennott and Seligman, andstarring Edebiri and Sennott. Seligman, who studied film and TVproduction and uses she/they pronouns,first met Sennott when the latter ditchedacting class to audition for Seligman'ssenior-thesis short, Shiva Baby, a darkcomedy about the central Jewish tenets ofsex and death. It's a 90-degree June evening in Manhattan,and Edebiri and Sennott, along withthe filmmaker Emma Seligman, their closefriend and a fellow NYU grad, are sweatilycrammed around a table in the back ofCafe Mogador, the first stop on a St. MarksPlace bar-and-food crawl of their erstwhilehaunts. [Extracted from the article]

IT'S DECEMBER 2002. Barely a year has passed since 9/11. George W. Bush has just given a speech about 'faith-based initiatives' at a Marriott in Philadelphia, in the same year [...]

Brit Marling, known for her work in mystical sci-fi projects, is returning with a murder-mystery series called "A Murder at the End of the World." The series stars Emma Corrin as Darby Hart, a hacker and amateur sleuth who is invited to a retreat in Iceland by a tech billionaire. Marling and her longtime collaborator Zal Batmanglij aim to create compelling and entertaining content while also incorporating subversive elements. The series explores themes such as the female gaze, AI, and the climate crisis. Marling discusses the importance of community and the challenges of making art within a system run by billionaires. This is Marling's first project that she is not starring in, as she wanted to focus on directing. She and Batmanglij have a unique approach to storytelling, creating long-form narratives that are more like films or novels rather than traditional television. Marling understands her audience's desire for puzzle-solving and has incorporated tie-ins and online clues to engage fans. [Extracted from the article]

THE ACTRESS Aida Turturro studies me intently. We are looking at each other from our laptops--she in Connecticut filming a movie in which she plays a 1960s nun involved with [...]

Over four decades of filmmaking, Nancy Meyers has perfected her own cinematic world and language. Her movies are comfort incarnate. Nobody looks for love, but everyone stumbles upon it. The [...]

Stefano and Marco, two extremely buff Texans, are standing on the pool deck atop the brand-new TWA Hotel, grinning uncontrollably. Located right next to JetBlue's Terminal 5 at JFK airport, [...]

HER EARLY YEARS Ariana Grande grew up in what she has called a 'stereotypical poker-playing, loud, friendly, food-shoving, loving Italian family.' Her mother was the CEO of a company that [...]

WHEN ARIANA GRANDE recently tweeted out references to her little-known 2015 EP Christmas & Chill, which details the specific ways in which Christmas sexually arouses her, the record quickly skyrocketed [...]

HEREDITARY is in theaters June 8. IN HEREDITARY is in theaters June 8. in hereditary, Toni Collette conveys the spectrum of human emotion over two terrifying hours as a woman [...]

The article discusses a recent lawsuit involving Robert De Niro's former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, who successfully sued De Niro's company for various inappropriate behaviors. As part of the trial, Robinson's lawyer mentioned that De Niro had once asked Robinson to bring him a martini from Nobu, the restaurant he co-owns, at 11 o'clock at night. The author of the article then attempts to order a to-go martini from Nobu but is unsuccessful. The article explores the possibility of getting a to-go martini from Nobu and highlights the differences between the legal sale and delivery of to-go cocktails in New York State and Nobu's policy. [Extracted from the article]

PORT AUTHORITY, from writer-director Danielle Lessovitz, made history as the first film starring a trans woman of color to premiere at Cannes. It centers on model, voguer, and actress Leyna [...]

I was wearing these white Ray-Bansall the time that my mom had bought me at a Boy Scout tag salein Darien, and there was so much negative press around thestupid sunglasses that my publicist and my agent conferencecalledme telling me to stop wearing them. ' " --Jay McInerney, "Chloë's Scene", The New Yorker, 1994 AFTER I GRADUATED from high school, I movedto Brooklyn Heights and had five roommates,all working at the Peter Gatien clubs: Limelight,the Tunnel. The 90s You could find the "It" girls dancing at the Roxy and the Tunnel, sliding downthe slide at Club USA, trying to get into Bungalow 8and Spy Bar and Moomba to see Leo and Puffy,complaining about the cabaret laws, brunchingat Coffee Shop, hanging out in the Hamptons atConscience Point Inn, getting their frozen yogurtfrom Tasti D-Lite, working out at David Barton,reading the New York Observer and paging throughManhattan File, hanging out with the skaters inWashington Square Park and at Max Fish, buyingtheir baby tees at Liquid Sky, using theirparents' credit cards at Scoop and Calypso St. Barth. [Extracted from the article]

DISPATCH FROM VENICE OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, our great mother the internethas given birth to hundreds of scathing-hot takes on thecategorically large prosthetic nose Bradley Cooper wearsto play famous Jewish conductor Leonard Bernstein in hissecond directorial effort, Maestro. In the first film Cooperdirected, 2018's A Star Is Born, he plays Jackson Maine,the heterosexual Leonard Bernstein of rock and roll, whofalls in love with burgeoning singer Ally (Lady Gaga) inlarge part owing to her schnoz. ¶ In anearly scene, Ally, who has the aquiline profile of ayoung Barbra Streisand, laments that "every single personI've come in contact with in the music industry has toldme that my nose is too big and that I won't make it."Jackson looks at her hornily. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Halloween Ends(10/14) "Evil dies tonight!" Yes, thelast one sucked, butthe one before thatwas solid. [Extracted from the article]

* Mission:Impossible--DeadReckoning, Part One(In theaters July 14)Hot off his Top Gun:Maverick return to the topof the Hollywood heap,Tom Cruise reprises his roleas superspy Ethan Hunt inthis seventh edition ofParamount's long-running,multibillion-dollar-grossingM:I series. The CULTURE PAGES MOSTANTICIPATED 39 Things We Can't Wait to Watch,Read, and Listen to in 2023 It's set to be a yearof long-awaitedfollow-ups, surprisinglyriveting detectiveshows, and maybe,just maybe, a newFrank Ocean album. [Extracted from the article]

Thingsthen took a farcical turn: The suspect, Frank James, spentthe next 30 hours doing a sort of AfterHours-meets-Midwest-mom tour of New York, visiting Dimes Square,Katz's Deli, and, inexplicably, the cursed East VillageMcDonald's. Puebla was offered a monetary reward, to be splitamong the four people who spotted James, but he told thecity he didn't want it. Wandering outside, hewas spotted by a few civilians, including Francisco Puebla,manager of my beloved corner hardware store, Saifee.A quick-thinking Puebla alerted the cops, and James wascaptured in the street, concluding the dramatic yet bumblingsaga just as Scorsese might have done. [Extracted from the article]

Glass Onion: A KnivesOut Mystery(12/23) In the first of twointended sequels to2019's smash-hit,Oscar-nominatedKnives Out, DanielCraig returns asthe tweed-clad"Gentleman Sleuth"Benoit Blanc at thescene of the crime foranother high-IQwhodunit. FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED DEC. With Greeceserving as the backdropthis time, and asprawling ensemblecast that includes KateHudson, Leslie OdomJr., Edward Norton,Dave Bautista, andJanelle Monae,expect more AgathaChristie-like intrigue. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED DEC. Viewers will beplunged back into theEdenic paradise ofPandora to follow theSully family: Jake(Sam Worthington),having given up hishuman body to inhabitthe physique of asupersize blue alien,his mystical warriorwife, Neytiri (ZoeSaldana), and theiradoptive teenagedaughter, Kiri(Sigourney Weaver),as they face as-yetunspecified "tragedies". Avatar: The Wayof Water(12/16) This long-gestatingsequel to directorJames Cameron's2009 sci-fi epic carriesan enormous pricetag-$250 million-aswell as sky-highcultural and financialexpectations as thefollow-up to the MostSuccessful Movie of AllTime. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Since then, Farrell hasemerged as one of ourmost interestingleading men andMcDonagh has gainednotice for the Oscar-anointed(and highlydivisive) ThreeBillboards OutsideEbbing, Missouri. Back then,McDonagh was aplaywright making aleap to movies andFarrell was somethingof a failed movie star. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED NOV. Black Panther:Wakanda Forever(11/11) Since titular pantherChadwick Boseman'sdeath from coloncancer in 2020,Marvel Studiospresident Kevin Feigehas remainedsteadfast in thedecision not to recasthis role as T'Challa inthis sequel. So thingspick up after thecharacter's passing,with supportingplayers from the firstfilm-includingQueen Ramonda(Angela Bassett) andShuri (LetitiaWright)-fightingto protect theirinsular nation from"interveningworld powers". [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Decision to Leave(10/14) Park Chan-wook's firstfeature since 2016'sThe Handmaidenis a Hitchcockianromantic thrillerabout a Busanpolice detective(Park Hae-il) who,while investigatinga murder, becomesobsessed with thedead man's wife (TangWei), a mysteriouswoman who's also asuspect. Whether he'smaking gothic dramasor brutal revengesagas, Park's storiesare always exquisiteconstructions. [Extracted from the article]

(9/23) Lena Dunham's"longtime passionproject", an adaptationof Karen Cushman's1994 YA novel. She hasdescribed the book,which is set in 1290 inEngland, thusly:Catherine "gets herperiod and her fatherbasically says, 'Well, it'stime for you to getmarried', and she's like,'Uh, no.'" Game ofThrones' petite spitfireBella Ramsey has thetitular role. FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED SEP. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED NOV. Bones and All(11/23) Having dabbled inhorror with Suspiria,Luca Guadagninoreturns to the genre- andto his Call Me byYour Name leadTimothee Chalamet.The CamilleDeAngelis novel it'sbased on is aboutteenage cannibals,so expect somegruesomenessalongside the longingas Chalamet andTaylor Russell play adrifter and an outcasttraveling across thecountry lookingfor self-acceptancewhile struggling withsome gory impulses. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED SEP. (9/23) Olivia Wilde'sfollow-up to heracclaimed directorialdebut, Booksmart, is apsychological thrillerthat appears to have atouch of sci-fi to it withFlorence Pugh andHarry Styles playing amarried couple whoare part of somethingcalled "the VictoryProject.". [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Triangfe of Sadness(10/7) Ruben Östlund's filmpremiered at Cannesto an eight-minutestanding ovation,audible audiencegagging, and,eventually, the Palmed'Or. The Swedishauteur, famous forhis satires of malediscomfort, trains hislens on the lives of therich and the beautiful:Carl (HarrisDickinson) and Yaya(Charlbi Dean), a pairof influencers-slash-modelswho landa free spot on atropical cruise full ofRussian oligarchs,trophy wives, andwealthy Europeanswith blood on theirhands. When thecruise quite literallygoes sideways, thesocial structure isupended and survivalskills become theonly capital. [Extracted from the article]

TheFabelmans is a semi-autobiographicalcoming-of-age dramaset in Arizona, whereSpielberg grew up,and is centered on akid named Sammy(Gabriel LaBelle) ashe learns about afamily secret and thepower of cinema. FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED NOV. (11/11) There comes a pointin every auteur'scareer when theirthoughts turn towardmaking a Roma, andthat time has come forSteven Spielberg. [Extracted from the article]

BanksRepeta plays Gray'savatar, Paul Graff, anangsty, artsy sixth-graderin a working-classJewish family in1980s Queensgrappling withReagan, the Cold War,and his family'scomplicatedrelationships withrace and class. FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Armageddon Time(10/28) James Gray's latestdaddy-issues dramatakes his ownchildhood asinspiration. Orbiting Paul are hisPTA-presidentmother, Esther(Anne Hathaway);his loving grandfatherAaron (AnthonyHopkins); his furiousfather, Irving(Jeremy Strong); andhis friend Johnny(Jaylin Webb), oneof the only Blackkids at Paul's schooland in his life. [Extracted from the article]

Still, the Silver LiningsPlaybook director isback with his first filmin seven years, acomedic mystery set inthe 1930s. FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Amsterdam(10/7) David O. Russell'snotorious volatilitydoesn't make him theeasiest fit for anindustry trying,however unevenly, toreckon with its ownworkplace conditions. ChristianBale, Margot Robbie,and John DavidWashington play adoctor, a nurse, and alawyer who areaccused of murder. [Extracted from the article]

FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED SEP. If Blonde's leakedscript pages are to bebelieved, viewerscan also expectmenstrual blood,graphic rape, oral sex,and a talking fetus. (9/28) Controversy hasfollowed writer-director AndrewDominik's NC-17-ratedNetflix adaptationof Joyce Carol Oates'sbio-fic novel aboutMarilyn Monroe(played here by Anade Armas) for nearlya year-not exactlydiscouraged by thefilmmaker's promisethat "there's somethingin it to offendeveryone.". [Extracted from the article]

All eyes are onthis new film, which isabout a renownedconductor andcomposer namedLydia Tar, played byCate Blanchett. FALL PREVIEW 2022 MOST ANTICIPATED OCT. Tár(10/7) Actor and filmmakerTodd Field receivedacclaim for his 2001debut, In the Bedroom,and 2006 follow-up,Little Children. Thenhe didn't makeanything for a decadeand a half, and itwasn't for lack oftrying. [Extracted from the article]