In the A24 film Eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is a woman of her word. When she married her husband Larry (Miles Teller), the phrase “till death do us part” meant something to her. It meant something to her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), too, but his life being claimed while …
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Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Gere, and Penélope Cruz are among the A-list actors who’ve signed an open letter criticizing Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leadership for their response to the alleged assault and arrest of Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian filmmaker who won an Oscar for co-directing No Other Land, …
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“That’s gonna be the fuckin’ headline for this piece, isn’t it?” Natasha Lyonne asks, in the most Natasha Lyonne way imaginable. “‘Natasha Lyonne Does Not Slide Into Directors’ DMs.’ Which, y’know, trust me — you’re going to get a lot of people writing in to say that isn’t true!” The …
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You may love your family, though you might not like them very much, and just because you’re kin doesn’t mean you have anything in common. Take, for example, the three grown siblings who find themselves forced to share the same air in His Three Daughters. There is Katie (Carrie Coon), …
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Why does the new HBO Max miniseries Love & Death exist? On a certain level, yes, I understand why it exists. This is prime Emmy-bait season, and the role of Candy Montgomery — a Texas housewife who, on a warm Sunday in 1980, killed her friend Betty Gore, striking her …
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