Besides being an accomplished actress and liberal advocate, America Ferrera is, apparently, a badass athlete. The day before the Emmys, Ferrera competed in a triathlon. That same night she went to a pre-Emmys after-party. And then the next day she went to the Emmys. “Where does one gain such grit?” you ask. A childhood spent cleaning up for the next-door neighbor’s pet pig, of course.
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American Gigolo The Escape Wheel Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Gigolo The Escape Wheel Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week on American Gigolo, we finally got to have a little fun. A little trauma, too, and still no real nudity, but some fun nonetheless.
Early in Andrea Arnold’s terrific new road movie, American Honey, the film’s protagonist, Star, walks into a Kmart, two young half-siblings in tow. Across the checkout aisles, she spies a group of teens goofing around, locking eyes with the rattailed boy who leads them, played by Shia LaBeouf. In a moment of cinematic serendipity, as these two kids connect inside a sanctum of Midwestern capitalism, Calvin Harris’s ecstatic synths bubble up on the soundtrack, and Rihanna belts an ode to the promise they see in each other: “We found love in a hopeless place.
American Horror Stories Dollhouse Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » American Horror Stories Dollhouse Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » The American Horror Story franchise centers on a basic premise. It first poses the question, “What’s scary?” And then it gathers up all the possibilities — some for now, some for later — and comes at them from the most hilariously bizarre angles possible.
American Horror Story Chapter Eight Season 6 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » American Horror Story Chapter Eight Season 6 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Adina Porter as Lee. The best episodes of American Horror Story leave me with a handful of questions: What is going to happen next?
Even many of its admirers have brought up the G word when discussing David O. Russell’s American Hustle. That word, of course, is Goodfellas, the 1990 Martin Scorsese classic to which Russell’s film — with its multiple narrators, its probing long takes, and its lively use of pop music — clearly owes a stylistic debt. To some, Hustle pays homage to the Scorsese film; to others, it’s a rip-off of sorts.
Amy Poehler and Julie Klausner. In its third season, as is often the case in a sitcom’s third season, Difficult People is definitively more confident. It’s always been a funny show, but this year, Julie Klausner and her writing staff pushed themselves to be weirder, deeper, and after November’s election, more pointedly political. With the season kicking off earlier this month on Hulu, Vulture presented a special screening of “Strike Rat,” an episode that finds Klausner’s character simultaneously protesting and acting in a new Woody Allen movie.
It’s Friday afternoon — why not step into the weekend with a bunch of new Trainwreck jokes about giant penises, Cleveland, and horrible magazine headlines? Who knew LeBron could riff?
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BothAmy Sedaris and Will Forte stopped by Fallon last night and, during their respective interviews, had some really helpful lifestyle tips. For example, Amy demonstrates what you look like from behind when surrendering to police, while Will explains how to free up your hands to make fruit salad on the toilet. While each of their interviews need to be watched in their entirety, the highlight of the show was watching Sedaris and Forte help Jimmy jam a bunch of hot dogs on the end of a garden rake.
Holy Motors. The awards are in and Michael Haneke’s Amour deservedly took home Cannes’ Palme d’Or. But enough about the “best” films at Cannes: Let’s talk about the craziest. Despite valiant efforts from Nicole Kidman’s urine-soaked The Paperboy, nothing compared to the completely bat-shit Holy Motors, from French director Leos Carax.
Since its debut — to scattered boos, which were drowned out by rapturous cheers — this confounding French surrealist apparent rumination on acting and filmmaking and life (the director and actors refused to elaborate) was the hottest ticket in Cannes and had everybody talking … the talk being mainly, “What the hell was that?