Our Final Guesses for the 2025 Oscar NominationsThis year’s Oscars class did not begin the season especially heralded, but on the precipice of the nominations, its reputation has turned around.
The Voice WhispererEric Vetro teaches the stars how to sing for their Oscars. “They don’t have a vocal-coach award, but if there was one, he’d be Meryl Streep.”
Don’t Underestimate Emilia PérezWith two weeks to go before Oscar nominations, the major threats of the 2025 awards season are making themselves known.
How the Irish Came to Rule Pop CultureArtists from the island continue to punch above their weight. Online, they’ve gained a rep as the “good Europeans.”
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How Every Oscar Movie Can Be the Anti-Trump MovieLike it or not, we’re in for yet another awards season operating in the shadow of Donald Trump. Which campaigns can take advantage of the vibe shift?
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Are Netflix Normies Ready for Emilia Pérez?An indefinable musical by a French auteur is headed for millions of streaming subscribers. Most of them will be entirely unprepared.
What Is the New Standard for American Cinema?The movies in competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival told a story of a porous U.S. film world, a washed up scene, or something in between.
How Explicit Are the Sex Scenes in Queer?Ahead of the film’s Venice premiere, Guadagnino called his new film’s sex scenes “numerous and quite scandalous,” and this was not false advertising.
There’s an A24 Easter Egg in BabygirlThe studio’s upcoming erotic drama has found a new way to signal that it’s an A24 movie: it was shot inside A24’s own New York office.
That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.The 2008 election sparked an outburst of brightness and positivity across pop culture. Now hindsight — and cringe — is setting in.
