On the afternoon of March 10th, 2018, Nan Goldin walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The award-winning photographer is no stranger to these institutions; prints of her groundbreaking work documenting everything from gay subcultures to the stifling legacy of suburbia to her own domestic abuse have graced their walls …
Read More »Jean-Luc Godard Didn't Just Reinvent the Cinematic Canon — He Transformed How We Engage With Movies
The inarguably true cliché about Jean-Luc Godard was that the late filmmaker, who died this week at the age of 91, was a rule-breaker, an artist whose style changed the course of film history by revealing the medium for everything it had already been and pointing to the future of …
Read More »'I Want My Hero's Moment': Maya Hawke on the End of 'Stranger Things' and Her New Album
IF YOU WANT Stranger Things spoilers, don’t ask Maya Hawke. “I’m of no use there,” the 24-year-old confidently says on Zoom, from a house her mom, Uma Thurman, rented in Sag Harbor, New York. “My character doesn’t have a ton of spoil-y story points. I’m comic relief.” Hawke — whose …
Read More »Divorces Be Damned: Netflix's Experimental Dating Show 'Love Is Blind' Back for Season 3 in New Trailer
Netflix isn’t letting the turnout of Season Two of Love Is Blind get them down — the hit experimental dating show is back for a third season. The streaming platform released the first teaser for the upcoming season on Wednesday, introducing a new crop of singles who are eager to …
Read More »John Stamos Moved to Write New Memoir After Bob Saget's Sudden Death
John Stamos will recount his life and career in a new memoir, which he said he was inspired to write following the death of his longtime friend and Full House co-star Bob Saget. As The Associated Press reports, Stamos’ book, If You Would Have Told Me, will be published in …
Read More »John Legend Performs During Emmys in Memoriam Honoring Olivia Newton-John, Betty White, and More Stars
These stars will always be remembered. During Sunday’s broadcast of the Emmy Awards, John Legend was tasked with leading the In Memoriam segment remembering celebrities in entertainment — and ones out of it — during a moving performance of his new song “Pieces.” “It never feels like the right time …
Read More »Jean Smart Jokes Rachel Brosnahan Tried to Sabotage Her Emmys Win By Gifting Her 'Five Pound' Cookies
Rachel Brosnahan knows how to keep her friends close and her enemies even closer. In the lead-up to the 2022 Emmy Awards, the actress gifted Jean Smart a few pounds of fancy cookies (most likely New York’s famous Levain Bakery confections) as a faux-good luck charm. The pair were both …
Read More »'Squid Game' Star Lee Jung-jae Makes History With Drama Actor Win at 2022 Emmy Awards
After becoming the first non-English language series to be nominated for some of America’s top television prizes, Squid Game secured its place in Emmy history Monday, Sept. 12, when Lee Jung-jae took home the award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. The win marks the first time in Emmy …
Read More »Emmys 2022: Historic Wins, Canned Comedy, and Jennifer Coolidge's Spotlight-Stealing Speech
The Emmys always have an uphill battle: the least glamorous, the least surprising, and the least inviting of award shows. The Grammys can always claim to be Music’s Biggest Night, just because it’s on TV, and the Oscars are the Oscars — but Emmy Night is always full of TV …
Read More »Jean-Luc Godard, 'Breathless' Director and French New Wave Icon, Dead at 91
Jean-Luc Godard, the father of modern cinema whose impish, combative provocations threw down a gauntlet with which all those who came in his wake must contend, died Tuesday. He was 91. The director died at his home by assisted suicide in Rolle, Switzerland, where that practice is legal, Godard’s longtime …
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