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A dispatch from Los Angeles strip club Crazy Girls for the premiere of Harmony Koreine and Travis Scott's latest, AGGRO DR1FT
It's an exercise in understatement to call Andrea Riseborough's Best Actress nomination (for To Leslie, which approximately 12 people saw before all this Oscar buzz picked up) a surprise. Amid a sea of traditional awards campaigns from much-buzzed favorites like Viola Davis, Margot Robbie, and Danielle Deadwyler, Riseborough quickly rose to prominence in an Oscar campaign best described as guerrilla.
There's an almost-spiritual slant to the way rock climbers talk about their sport. You hear narratives of resilience, of finding oneself, of tapping into nature-the sort of stories that made works like Free Solo and so engaging. Climbing, to them, isn't just one hell of a physical achievement: It's an exercise in humility and camaraderie.
It's the still that launched a thousand ships: Brendan Fraser in his comeback as Charlie in Darren Aronofsky's THE WHALE. In lieu of a trailer, promotional materials, a proper poster, A24's campaign for the film hinged on... A singular still.
If you are gay and online, you know her already. She is, to evoke Wendy, an icon; she's got a point; she is the moment. A lip-sync assassin that would make even Coco Montrese tremble. She is, of course, Blumhouse's latest creation, M3GAN .
Who's most likely to come out on top in the CBS reality competition?
In his 1981 memoir SHOCK VALUE, John Waters declared that "bad taste is what entertainment is all about ... but one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste." I'm hard-pressed to find more compelling proof than Andrew Dominik's ill-advised, ill-conceived, and just generally ill Marilyn Monroe quasi-biopic-on-acid BLONDE.
For Samia Finnerty, Portland Brew is a sacred place. She's canonized it, notably, namedropping the shop in the opening line of "As You Are." When we last spoke, in March 2021 preceding Sham Jam, she had a Portland Brew drink in hand.
Festival buzz is tricky. There’s a heavy burden to bear in having the first definitive take about a thing, whether that’s overly positive or too harshly critical. Most movies, especially Sundance ones, are deeply, radically fine if we’re being honest!
In the nine years since Harmony Korine sent middle America into a tailspin with his sleazy SPRING BREAKERS, much has changed in the realm of college partying it satirizes. 2020 alone famously brought with it a pandemic that forced the entire college lifestyle into a hard reset and holding period along with an overdue nationwide reckoning on race and white supremacy.