The thing about Tenet is it’s a palindrome with a twist: You can spell the title of Christopher Nolan’s latest opus the same backward and forward and you can enjoy the movie front to back and back again, too. Tenet’s science fiction of the first rate. Don’t try to understand it, one of the characters […]
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‘Greenland’ x King of Cups
Full disclosure: I had dinner “with” Gerard Butler, once upon a 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach soirée hosted by Dom Pérignon and the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer Roger Dubuis. He wore the Excalibur timepiece, in case you were wondering; and we talked about Paul Walker, who had just died in that terrible car accident, and […]
Wandering Hearts
Of all the movies that were, weren’t, still could be, won’t be in 2020, but will be in 2021, I suppose Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, is the one I’m anticipating the most. Zhao is the critical-darling director of The Rider, […]
301K
Good thing the novel coronavirus vaccine has made its way stateside. Today, nine-ish months after humanity and the world went into lockdown on account of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and as the United States of America’s death toll passed 301,000, Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, N.Y., became the first American to be […]
Looking for Mercy
Gerard Butler will not quit running. The indefatigable Fallen franchise star is headlining the upcoming On Demand title Greenland, a thrilling and dramatic actioner in which his John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison (Deadpool’s Morena Baccarin), and their kid will hit the road on a journey to the world’s largest island, seeking sanctuary from a […]
Habemus Vaccine
Oh joy. Today, five days to the day that’ll mark eight months in self-isolation on account of the COVID-19 global pandemic, elderly patients in the U.K., including a man named William Shakespeare (GTS), received the first doses of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 68 million earthlings and claimed more […]
Risky Business
One mistake can change your life, or so reads the one-sheet for Hilary’s Swank’s upcoming movie, Fatale. So it’s a something, not a femme…. Can’t it be both? Touché. And it goes a little something like this: Derrick (Michael Ealy), a successful sports agent, watches as his picture-perfect life comes undone after his sexy and […]
The Denim Diaries, 12.1.20
I’m a survivor. I did make it. I got it together. If I can do it, right…? Promise to try, everybody.
Special Delivery
Extra! Extra! Read all about it (Captain Phillips Reunion Alert!): These 2020 Christmastimes, Tom Hanks is gonna have some special News of the World. Directed by Paul Greengrass. It’s five years after the end of the Civil War; Hanks will be playing Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the film, a veteran of three wars, who […]
Pa’ Que Salgan Acicala
Les cuento que la cantante colombiana Karol G se ha juntado con Kappa, la marca italiana de sportswear, para lanzar la primera colección de su nuevo partnership, KAROL G x KAPPA, inspirada por “Bichota,” el nuevo single de la ganadora del Latin Grammy. La línea representa el mensaje empoderador de la canción y cuenta con […]
King of Cups 