movies

Actors 4 months ago

Timothée Chalamet: the actor who refuses the trade-off

Three Oscar nominations before 30, a SAG Award and a Golden Globe in the same awards cycle, and a pipeline that includes the conclusion of Denis Villeneuve's Dune trilogy and a James Mangold action picture. Timothée Chalamet has…

Directors 4 months ago

Denis Villeneuve: the architect of silence who chose the loudest room

The French-Canadian director who trained on chamber films and Quebec restraint is now the custodian of the most…

Actors 4 months ago

Mira Sorvino and the career Harvey Weinstein couldn’t finish erasing

She won an Oscar at 28 and then watched a version of herself get buried under an open…

Actors 4 months ago

Lisa Kudrow: the comedian Phoebe Buffay couldn’t become

A comedian who built one of television's most beloved characters, then spent twenty years constructing the one designed…

Actors 4 months ago

Jennifer Lawrence: the decade she spent outgrowing her own fame

At 22, she was the world’s most bankable action heroine. A decade later, she’s the actress who took…

Directors 4 months ago

Richard Linklater took 12 years to make Boyhood. In 2025, he made two films

The Texas director who built his reputation on patient, durational cinema — filming the same child actor from…

Actors 4 months ago

Elle Fanning: the actress who made the slow career look inevitable

She started performing before kindergarten and has never quite stopped. Two decades in, an Oscar nomination for Sentimental…

Actors 4 months ago

Riley Keough and the cinema she made far from Graceland

She is the granddaughter of the most mythologized entertainer in American history, and she has spent fifteen years…

Actors 4 months ago

Samara Weaving, Hollywood’s scream queen who was afraid of horror all along

The Australian actress who made running from killers look like an art form confesses she never actually liked…

Actors 4 months ago

Curry Barker and the Problem With Getting Exactly What You Wished For

He shot a supernatural horror film in 26 days on $750,000, and it made $332 million worldwide. Curry…

Actors 4 months ago

Cate Blanchett: The Queen Who Keeps Dismantling Her Own Crown

Australian actress Cate Blanchett has won two Academy Awards across eight nominations, and universal recognition as cinema’s most…

Actors 4 months ago

Scott Eastwood: the war films behind the franchise face

He chose the name, then spent two decades navigating what that choice created. Scott Eastwood's most considered screen…

Actors 4 months ago

Michelle Buteau: when the funny friend refuses to stay in the margin

For twenty years she was the comedian the industry needed but rarely centered — the brilliant supporting presence…