Nine Perfect Strangers Is Alluring But Empty

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1090 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Vacations are supposed to recharge us, to transform us from the exhausted husks who wheeled our bags into the hotel lobby into more relaxed, possibly even more enlightened human beings. That’s what the guests at Tranquillum House, the wellness resort at the center of Nine Perfect Strangers, hope will happen to them when they arrive at this seemingly idyllic luxury cure-all compound. They want to become better versions of themselves and, while skeptical, believe there’s a chance that Tranquillum’s guru, a celestial enigma of a woman named Masha (Nicole Kidman), can help them get there. [Read More]

No Hard Feelings Makes It Look Easy

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1076 words  |  Elina Uphoff

No Hard Feelings. Too earnest perhaps to qualify as a sex comedy, and not quite romantic enough to count as a romantic comedy, No Hard Feelings is a perfect example of how the best kind of onscreen chemistry is fundamentally unquantifiable. The premise is simple, raunchy, maybe even transgressive for our oh-so-prudish times: Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie Barker, a 32-year-old Montauk bartender and Uber driver who accepts a paid gig to have sex with Percy Becker (Andrew Barth Feldman), the painfully shy, Princeton-bound 19-year-old son of a wealthy couple who want him to come out of his shell and gain confidence before heading off to college. [Read More]

No One Comes Out of a Florence Welch Duet Alive

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  268 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Come on down to Florida. There aren’t many duets in Florence Welch’s discography, and I’ll tell you why: Most singers are scared to get too close to that gale-force voice. But Taylor Swift confidently stepped into the storm on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, featuring Florence + the Machine on “Florida!!!” The pairing makes sense on paper — the two have been friends for years, they share a producer in Jack Antonoff, and lately Swift has been veering into Welch’s witchy and woodsy lyrical territory. [Read More]

None of the Best Comedies on TV Would Exist Without King of the Hill

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2000 words  |  Elina Uphoff

There’s a growing trend in the comedies on television where a careful, respectful approach that caters towards character-driven comedy is exactly what people want. Series like The Good Place, Silicon Valley, or Brooklyn Nine-Nine may go to extremely crazy places, but they ultimately all come down to their characters and creating a real feeling of community with their comedy. These aren’t the only programs that take this approach, though, and it’s worth examining why this style of comedy is currently in control. [Read More]

Oh No, Dame Angela Lansbury Shared Her Thoughts on Sexual Harassment

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  226 words  |  Janel Helmers

Angela Lansbury Angela Lansbury is a veteran actress, a proud socialist, and an all-around international treasure. Alas, we regret to inform you, in a recent interview with Britain’s Radio Times, she was asked to comment on the massive wave of sexual harassment allegations brought against Hollywood figures since Harvey Weinstein’s accusers went public — and she suggested that women are partially at fault for men’s misconduct. “There are two sides to this coin. We have to own up to the fact that women, since time immemorial, have gone out of their way to make themselves attractive. [Read More]

OITNBs Yael Stone: Lorna Definitely Climaxed in That Sex Scene With Vinny During Visiting Hours

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  252 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Yael Stone. Very few of the inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary are shy about sex on Orange Is the New Black: Getting it on always requires a little creativity and zero shame. Season four is no exception, particularly for one newlywed Lorna Morello (Yael Stone) and her new husband, Vincent Muccio (John Magaro), who manage to climax in a crowded room during visiting hours. And yes, they both succeed in reaching orgasm without touching one another. [Read More]

Olivia Munn Is Doing a Rom-Com and a Thriller Because She Is Every Woman

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  202 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Olivia Munn’s range is about to be on full display, as Deadline reports that she’s been cast in two extremely different films. One is a rom-com by Dean Craig called Love, Wedding, Repeat that will feature Munn as the love interest of a man helping his sister with her wedding. It’s filming in Rome next month, so if you have any meetings with Olivia Munn, they will have to be Skypes. [Read More]

Olivia Rodrigo Studied All the Right Moves

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1187 words  |  Zora Stowers

Soon, she’ll get better. Catching feelings is a dice roll. Suddenly, someone means the world to you, and short-term happiness is contingent upon how well they handle that. Maybe you luck out and find someone kind, thoughtful, and quietly sophisticated, and you feel like you’ll never meet the day where you stop being impressed and surprised. Maybe you get led on and let down. Putting yourself out there is a gamble; sometimes love is a losing game. [Read More]

On Cinema Fans Will Get a Movie of Their Own This Fall

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  320 words  |  Zora Stowers

Tim Heidecker. Big news for fans of Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s Adult Swim series On Cinema: an actual cinematic experience is coming to your local cinema this fall. According to Variety, Magnolia has acquired the North American rights to a feature film in the On Cinema universe called Mister America, which follows Tim Heidecker’s campaign for San Bernardino district attorney last year. Eric Notarnicola — who has worked on Decker, On Cinema, and the duo’s annual Oscar specials — directed the film. [Read More]