At a midnight screening in a Los Angeles multiplex, the atmosphere hovers somewhere between rambunctious and mildly terrifying. Whenever a framed photograph of a spoon appears on screen, which it frequently does, audience members throw fistfuls of plastic cutlery. They also perform skits, at one point gathering at the bottom right of the screen and shouting, ”Down here, Tommy!” anticipating the moment when the face of the lead actor, Tommy Wiseau, looks in their direction. Read More...
Set in a podunk Irish town in the 1930s where cow-gazing counts as a legitimate pastime, Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan is in constant danger of becoming impossibly twee. But McDonagh doesn’t just Synge for his supper. Much as he did in plays like Pillowman and films like In Bruges, he tosses narrative surprises in the path of his charmingly eccentric characters that keeps them — and us — perpetually on our toes. Read More...
Elizabeth Debicki is trading in one iconic look for another in the new season of The Crown. In Part 1 of the royal drama's sixth and final season, "swimwear are the new ballgowns," associate costume designer Sidonie Roberts recently told EW — and we bow down before that accurate assessment of the situation. The style change-up is thanks to the season's early episodes focusing on the burgeoning (and, of course, ultimately doomed) romance between Debicki's Princess Diana and Khalid Abdalla's Dodi Fayed. Read More...
