The most talked-about film thus far at the 2023 Venice Film Festival is Poor Things, the third collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone (The Favourite). A magical mélange of sci-fi, Gothic fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and Frankenstein tale, it follows Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman with child …
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On a recent day at the beach, actress Nikki Reed was basking in the California sun when a 15-year-old girl approached her. “I would love to take a picture with you!” the young fan exclaimed. Her interest in Reed, however, had nothing to do with her role as vampire Rosalie …
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“I wanted to make a movie of pleasure,” offers Ira Sachs. “For me, that means skin is revealed. Skin is part of what cinema can offer in a way that creates a kind of… horny environment for the audience and the actors.” Sachs, the veteran indie filmmaker behind intimate dramas …
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Naked is not something I want to be at work. But it happens kind of regularly at my job. So regularly that I once requested a “substitute” naked body to fill in for mine. When I had just given birth to twins. And was still breastfeeding them. ‘Cause I didn’t …
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You can find hundreds of egotistical monsters who’ve graced movie screens (don’t get us started on the ones working behind the scenes; that’s a whole other piece), but few of them can compare to Tomas Freiburg. A renowned filmmaker who’s a tyrant on set — his volatile Rainer Werner Fassbinder …
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This week’s episode of And Just Like That… picks up where we left off twenty years ago: Carrie Bradshaw and Aidan Shaw are in bed together in a fancy hotel. They can’t seem to get room service delivered, but it seems like they’re having a lot of sex. Later on, …
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“All you have to do is just lay there and let me be Prince Charming,” my partner, who regularly groomed himself like a Ken doll, said to me as he readied to take my virginity. I nodded, because all I knew of sex back then was agreement. He’d move against …
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and two films explore that abiding Robert Burns proverb this week: Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s IMAX-sized three-hour biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb,” and Barbie, a Mattel-sanctioned deconstruction of the patriarchy from the fertile mind of Greta Gerwig. Only …
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After his junior year at Kansas, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain was ready to leave college to make some money. The NBA didn’t take players who left school early, so instead of playing competitively, Wilt joined the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters on a lengthy tour of Europe. Seeing Wilt, one of the …
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It’s been more than three years since Sofia Franklyn and Alex Cooper disbanded the original iteration of the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast that appeared under Barstool Sports’ umbrella. The dramatic split between the two co-hosts, who were best friends and roommates, divided fans of the show and sparked major …
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