Wedding bells are ringing in Mexico — again! Six years after meeting at Evan Bass and Carly Waddell’s wedding, Juelia Kinney and his brother Aaron Bass are gearing up to wed in Cancún.
18.05.2023 - 22:17 / variety.com
Catherine Bray Festival reviews just love to hype a breakout performance, to the extent that one worries about becoming the little critic that cried breakout. But here goes: Talia Ryder, lead actor in “The Sweet East,” is a star. There’s something of Kristen Stewart about her, not merely in terms of physical resemblance, but more in her gift for not just acting but reacting. That’s fortunate, because her character is generally surrounded by extremely chatty blowhards, most of them interested only in the role she might play for them in their own lives. She lies constantly about her identity and where she’s from, and these lies go down easy because nobody is particularly invested in who she might actually be — they’re too keen to fit her into their own mythology.
In debuting director Sean Price Williams’ picaresque road trip along the United States’ east coast, the most horribly compelling of a series of encounters with objectionable people is with Simon Rex’s creep-coded academic Lawrence, positively humming here with low-key sex-pest energy, in a completely different social register to the equally wonderful and gross sleazeball he played in “Red Rocket.” (Sean Baker is a producer on this film.) He offers Lillian a place to stay, in a home decorated almost entirely with figurative red flags, and while his name might be Lawrence, the famous banned book he most evokes is not Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” but Nabakov’s “Lolita.” Like Nabakov himself, the character has a keen interest in lepidoptery, and like Nabakov’s notorious antihero Humbert Humbert, he is queasily obsessed with Annabel Leigh/Lee, Humbert’s first obsession in “Lolita,” named for Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem, of which Lawrence is also a big fan.
Wedding bells are ringing in Mexico — again! Six years after meeting at Evan Bass and Carly Waddell’s wedding, Juelia Kinney and his brother Aaron Bass are gearing up to wed in Cancún.
Coronation Street star Andy Whyment took to Instagram to share a snap of him making the most of the warm weather with a day of golfing. He was joined by co-star Sam Aston, who plays Corrie’s Chesney Brown, and son Tom, who is the spitting image of his dad. ‘Lovely day for a round of Golf at Worsley Park,’ The Kirk Sutherland actor wrote, tagging his two golfing companions.
Daniella Westbrook has said that Robbie Williams is the "best boyfriend" that she's ever had.The former EastEnders actress played Sam Mitchell from 1993 until 2000, and then again from 2009 until 2016. She shared a photo of herself with the Take That singer when he made a cameo appearance on the soap back in 1995. During his brief appearance, he played a man using a payphone in the Queen Vic after having expressed a love for the show.
EXCLUSIVE: Ming-Na Wen yesterday received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and today she’s teamed with Compelling Pictures on a doc series about Asian-American food culture.
Camila Cabello got her sweat on at a gym in Soho on Monday. The Señorita singer, 25, wore white shorts with a drawstring waist, a cropped white tank top and black trainers. Her raven hair is swept back into a ponytail and she is wearing brown sunglasses.
With a successful career, picturesque home in the Berkshire countryside and close royal connections, James Middleton has admitted in the past that he’s led “a richly blessed and privileged life”. But things have not always been easy for the 36-year-old entrepreneur, who grew up in a happy household with older sisters Catherine, the Princess of Wales, and Pippa and their parents Carole and Michael.
As the Writers Guild of America strike continues with no end in sight, rumours are swirling that the Directors Guild of America and SAG-ACTRA will be following suit when those unions’ contracts come up within the next few weeks.
Halle Bailey is displaying some PDA! As hits theaters, the film's 23-year-old star took to TikTok to share a video of her jumping into her boyfriend, rapper DDG's, arms and giving him a kiss.Bailey set the video, which she posted in celebration of the end of her press tour, to a remixed clip of Beyoncé singing, «I am going to see my husband / I'm happy, I'm happy, to see my husband.»«On my last day of press like...» Bailey wrote alongside the clip, adding laughing and winking emojis.on my last day of press like…
Dame Esther Rantzen has admitted she's 'not good at regrets' after revealing her lung cancer has progressed to stage four. The 82-year-old broadcaster, known for presenting BBC series That’s Life! and founding charities such as Childline, confirmed in January that her lung cancer had spread.
Vogue Williams looked sensational when she arrived for the second day of The Podcast Show at London Islington's Business Design Centre this week alongside a raft of other famous faces. The model, 37, who shares Theodore, four, Gigi, two, and baby Otto with her husband, former Made In Chelsea star Spencer Matthews, looked glowy and bronzed when she rocked up to the event in a pair of leather shorts. The co-host of My Therapist Ghosted Me, which she releases weekly with her best friend comedian Joanne McNally, paired her stripped back look with a basic black T-shirt and some pointed toe leopard print flats.
Actors and podcasters Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes allowed the cameras to turn on them during their celebrity-filled North American tour — the result of which is Smartless: On The Road, a limited series currently streaming on Max.
Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, set up a hidden camera to capture their 5-year-old daughter's reaction to soon becoming a big sister, and it appears they got more than what they bargained for when she exploded with excitement!The tennis great on Tuesday posted a video on YouTube in which they sit Olympia down to relay mom's pregnancy news. But, before the big reveal, Williams shared that Olympia had a strong opinion about Mom's physical appearance changing.«Olympia does not know right now that I am pregnant, but she did call me fat and then she got really stressed out,» Serena says at the start of the video before the big reveal.
Refresh for updates…Sean Penn, asked about the current state of big wig studio chiefs and the plight of writers and directors, said today at the Black Flies presser, “The industry has been uspending the writers and directors for a long time. I fully support the situation with writers guild, of course.”
first reactions on social media were more positive. Per usual for Cannes premieres it did receive ovations, but they were reserved for Harrison Ford himself rather than the James Mangold-directed film.
A few seconds before the world premiere of Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut “The Sweet East,” the names of Josh and Benny Safdie rolled on the screen as part of the Directors’ Fortnight vignette.
Gregg Goldstein “I never really wanted to be a cinematographer,” says Sean Price Williams, who has nevertheless shot nearly 60 indie features, some 50 shorts and seven series since 1999. “I didn’t even know what that job was. I’ve always wanted to direct, but didn’t have the means to make a movie.” At age 45, the widely respected lensman is finally getting around to his solo feature directorial debut, “The Sweet East,” pictured above, premiering in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. The Match Factory is repping sales. Why the wait? “I wasn’t putting it off,” he says. “I just didn’t think anybody would ever give me money to do it.” Through his longtime collaborator and “Sweet” producer Alex Ross Perry’s agency connections, they enlisted stars like Jacob Elordi and Talia Ryder to secure financing. His adventure comedy follows a South Carolina high school senior (Ryder) who breaks away from a class trip to start her own journey. “She guides us through different scenarios that illustrate idealogues in contemporary America,” he says. “They’re representations of current beliefs and situations.” The lineup includes Elordi as a Robert Pattinson-type star trying his hand at an indie film and Simon Rex as a white supremacist college professor.
Cannes Film Festival in as many days, Catherine Corsini’s “Homecoming” is vastly more interesting than that other film maudit, “Jeanne du Barry,” though the pair make for worthy foils.While Maïwenn’s stuffy historical epic drew protests on the Croisette due to the extracurricular activities of its stars, Corsini’s windswept jaunt very nearly didn’t make the trip – the title was omitted from the competition when news of irresponsible on-set practices broke just before the selection was announced. That the lack of oversight involved a minor seemed to seal the project’s fate before a subsequent investigation and the absence of any formal complaints put the title back on track.
There is the good sister, with A grades, university prospects and a sense of decorum in company. And then there is the younger sister who can’t see a volume button without turning up the music, who is quick to complain or pick an argument, who spots someone else’s drug stash and thinks she could steal it and maybe make some pocket money selling deals on the beach, because what – what – could possibly go wrong with that plan?
It looks like Charlize Theron has a new man in her life!
Although Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro take top billing in Martin Scorsese’s harrowing drama, one might say the real star of Killers of the Flower Moon is a relative unknown: Lily Gladstone, who plays Mollie, wife to DiCaprio’s Ernest. Mollie is the film’s conscience, a rich Osage woman who is slowly being robbed of her health by a seemingly simple case of diabetes. Insulin shots only seem to make matters worse, and after losing her sisters in suspicious circumstances, Mollie insists that only her husband can administer her medicine. But is she being too trusting?