I Watched Eight New Movies Directed by Actors. Are Any of Them Actually Good? Due to the strikes, the Toronto Film Festival stacked its lineup with actor-directed debuts. I watched (almost) all of them.
In Dream Scenario , Nicolas Cage Confronts the Memes At its best, Cage’s new film works as a parable for acquiescing to other people’s reality — a conceit that gets very specific when it comes to him.
How to Make a Movie Based on Extremely Recent History Dumb Money hits theaters less than three years after the GameStop short squeeze it dramatizes. Director Craig Gillespie shows us how it was done.
Can You Get It Up for Dicks: The Musical ? Sure, Venice had Yorgos and Bradley and Sofia, but it didn’t have what is basically The Parent Trap with more gay incest.
What’s at TIFF? An A24 Musical, Miyazaki, and the GameStop Movie This year’s film festival starts with a bang: Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, a “semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation.”
The Call Is Coming From Inside the Cubicle The creators of the new HBO docuseries Telemarketers started filming their own office — where they’d later learn they were part of a nationwide grift.
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How Much We Make in Hollywood As the strike stretches on, 19 writers, actors, and crew members shared their hopes, fears, frustrations — and salaries.
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Oppenheimer ? Even this most rigorous of biopics must at times employ shortcuts and shorthand.
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The Only Way to Watch Barbie and Oppenheimer You’re wrong. We’re right. Long live Barbenheimer.
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Which Supporting Characters in Oppenheimer Will Die of Radiation Poisoning? Let’s go down the 70-person cast list one by one until we find the most likely suspects.
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What If I Told You J.Law’s Naked Fight Scene Was a Bold Feminist Victory? The No Hard Feelings scene is funny in a way that only male movie stars’ nudity gets to be: goofy, un-self-conscious, and nothing to do with sex.
Dial of Destiny Gives Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt the Perfect Send-offThe new Indiana Jones film elegantly ties up the franchise’s most uncomfortable loose end.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Idol -Pilled Are you brave enough to embrace the backlash to the backlash?
See the Trailer for Ira Sachs’s Acclaimed Romance Passages A perfect date-night movie, whether you’re a long-term couple, a new throuple, or something in between.
Watch Out! It’s a Two-Part Movie. Let’s break down all different ways Hollywood sells you two tickets to one story.
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A Urologist Answers Every Question We Have About Beau Is Afraid What would be the medical consequences of not ejaculating for your entire life?
Exclusive Excerpts From The Idol ’s Vanity Fair Profile By Talia Hirsch, one of the great pop-culture writers.
Is Another Taylor Swift Backlash Brewing? If there is, she seems much less pressed about it this time.
Which Animated Voice Cast Had the Most Oscar Nominees? Across the Spider-Verse ’s voice cast is noticeably stuffed with past Oscar winners and nominees. How does it stack up against other animated films?
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Here Come Fast X , Tom Cruise, and a Summer of Big Movies But which will be the biggest? In a post-Maverick glow, anything is possible.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Is Millennial Nostalgia NowThe MCU series’ nostalgia beams are no longer locked in on Gen-X viewers. They’ve now found a new target: aging millennials.
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How to Prepare and Eat The Little Mermaid Cast These new character posters don’t look good, but with the right recipe, they have the potential to be great.
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Why Are My Secret Spotify Songs Following Me Around? At bars, with friends, on TV, I kept hearing the same music from my “Discover Weekly” rotation. So I tried to peer inside my bubble IRL.
Wait, How Much Time Has Passed on Succession ? It’s Logan’s birthday again, but how much older is he?
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Why Everything Everywhere All at Once Won Best Picture The A24 film benefited all season long from the sense that it was playing with house money.
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Vulture’s Final 2023 Oscar Predictions in Every Category How many trophies can Everything Everywhere All at Once win?
Who Are You Rooting Against at the Oscars This Year? The Whale , Elvis , and To Leslie are case studies in three different ways a film can be an Oscar villain. Will any of them come out on top?
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Can Anyone Predict Who’s Going to Win Best Supporting Actress? Breaking down the contenders in the season’s most unpredictable Oscar race.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once Is the Undeniable Oscars Front-runnerAfter its triple crown of precursor victories, the question is not whether EEAAO will win Best Picture but how many trophies it’ll nab along the way.
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A Timeline of Andrea Riseborough’s Controversial Oscar Nomination Within seven days, Andrea Riseborough’s performance in To Leslie went from obscurity to the toast of Twitter. And all it took was a few famous fans.
Dave Bautista Can Play Anything, So What Should He Play Next? How should this extremely intentional actor make use of his newfound clout? We have some suggestions.
Myles von Trapp Derbyshire Has a Story to Sell The Sound of Music scion says there will be no singing nuns in Baroness.
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The Snubs and Surprises of the 2023 Oscar Nominations Those crazy celebs actually got Andrea Riseborough an Oscar nomination.
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Oscar Futures: Our Final Predictions for the Nominees Ahead of Tuesday’s nominations, enjoy Vulture’s official predictions for the eight biggest Oscar races.
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Oscar Futures: Who Will Be Our Nomination-Morning Surprise? All Quiet on the Western Front and Paul Mescal once seemed like long shots but have proved their strength. Who can follow in their footsteps?
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Why Hollywood Gave the Golden Globes a Second Chance We asked stars on the red carpet about what brought them back to the Beverly Hilton one year after the Globes’ cancellation.
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Who’s Going to Win at the Comeback Golden Globes? This newly reformed awards show feels harder to predict than ever — not just who’s going to win but who’s going to show up.
The ‘Wrongheaded,’ ‘Galaxy-Brained’ Ending of Babylon , Explained Once again, a character is transported out of their ordinary, humdrum life through the wondrous power of cinema.
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Oscar Futures: The 12 Contenders of Christmas As the awards circus takes a midseason break, let’s zoom out to take stock of the Best Picture field.
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How a Nepo Baby Is Born Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.
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An All But Definitive Guide to the Hollywood Nepo-Verse Actors, singers, directors who just happen to be the children of actors, singers, directors.
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Oscar Futures: Can Avatar: The Way of Water Crack the Best Picture Race? The original Avatar came close to winning Best Picture. Way of Water will be a presence in the race, too.
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